My 3 year old kid has a 1 string guitar to learn to make sound, To protect his fingers I handed him a guitar pick. He yelled "Can I open it!" and started trying to find a seam to shove the pick in to spudge the guitar.
@silverwizard White Australian classic dancer, registered for the 2024-created breakdance discipline, practiced her choreography 47 minutes (of her own admission), made a fool of herself during the competition, became an instant Internet sensation for all the wrong reasons.
Not currently supported, as far as I’m aware. The closest you can get is to pass through a whole USB host adapter PCI device to the guest, then all devices connected to its ports will end up in the (same) VM. Proper USB passthrough isn’t ridiculously difficult to implement by any stretch, but I guess nobody’s got around to it yet.
The Bhyve FreeBSD hypervisor (called/spelled ‘beehive’ usually) was created almost 10 years ago. Right now it offers speed and features that other similar solutions provide – such…
This battle was lost a long time ago. There is no going back to sane defaults. Data collection is now the primary goal of paid and free products. You don’t own anything, and you will be happy. Of course, you can still use privacy-enabled products at home, but those options are limited, and not all your apps will be available. bsky.app/profile/ahhmandah.bsk…
've seen so many hearing aids on kids this week, often low profile, some very large, all taking wild abuse, like a child spraying his repeatedly with a water jet in a splash park
and - I feel so good about this - this is the core of accessibility - you didn't see a lot of deaf kids before because they were isolated! and now they're not!
Phillips Hue keeps threatening me they're going to shut down everything. I put their app on a side device that wont download things and I don't update it, and I put their bridge on a no-internet-access VLAN - but I'd like to just not deal with their shit.
Is there a bulb that doesn't deal with their shit?
the Humble Bundle copy of Gratuitous Space Battles I bought years ago is causing OpenAL issues every time it makes a sound and seems to have no mute option.
Last night I had a dream that I was (kinda accidentally) elected UK Prime Minister, and I was confused as hell because I was a tourist and didn't know any of the ritual.
And I think that it's telling about the UK that my brain can find no holes in the theory that this is plausible
They also tell me to use the IP address on eth1 and the server *is FreeBSD*.
It's 11.4 so it's not dire - but it looks like they haven't updated it ever. I tried a poke at pkg and they don't have their own repo so the repo is just gone. And yes, the SSH is 8.4 from 2022.
Talking to coworkers "Remember, your laptop is 4-10x as powerful as one of the servers, your laptop has to run Slack and none of the servers take that kind of abuse"
The company I work for is really great, but the CEO is toxic as hell
Just completely and impossibly.
We had an outage and he joined the technical call, and started throwing out ideas and forced the response team to *stop* discussing the issue and *instead* explain why he was wrong.
@Hypolite Petovan I am a ginger lover, it's not popular, but it's mine
Seamus (my son) will eat candied ginger because it has the word candy in it (and I love it) then put on a giant fake smile, say "I love it", while spitting it out
@þēodrīċ I mean, probably do a very strong tea, as strong as I can get it, and then add a sugar, the problem is finding a good sugar for the yeasts to not sour, while also leaving the flavour dry
The problem with my current employer isn't the lack of technical sophistication, it's that everyone outside of the dev org thinks my skillset is fungible with every other person inside the dev org.
Despite me being hired explicitly outside the dev org's purview because it *isn't*
@Alex P. 👹 I was hired by someone who knew what they were doing and given Infrastructure and Security as purview, and now everyone says "this person does DevOps" which... hurts every time
@Alex P. 👹 the real problem is when people 1) tell the dev lead about like, DNS changes or whatever, and then they don't tell me "but it's all engineering" 2) asking me to deal with frontend JS or python code that just... I don't know
After the giant DDoS on DynDNS I started multi-hosting my domains and almost everything else. But no one will pay for multi-cloud. And I don't get why we never learned this lesson?
Banks are screwing my wife around. Her mom put some money in an account years ago for her, and she's pulling it out to put it somewhere more reliable, but the cheque was listed in both names, and so banks are refusing to deposit it because it's in the name of two people. So she tried to go into the bank with both of them and endorse the cheque in front of bank employees, which even then they are being a pain in the ass about. This is stupid.
I was caught in the middle of an OS update (Windows) I looked 'round and I knew there was no turning back (Windows) My mind raced and I thought, what could I do? (Windows) And I knew there was no help, no help from you (Windows) Sound of the drums beating in my heart The thunder of BSOD tore me apart
Ug, I should have paid @404 Media long ago, they are the best reporting I've seen.
But at least I paid them Wednesday and I assume that my subscription will be spent on the spirits needed to get through their next few calls to CrowdStrike.
N95s are a working surface of the whole and function by grace of a LOT of industrial design. I would avoid customizing one if I needed it to work.
Respirators, well, docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… has some material information and you could go from that to paint compatibility.
(My gut-level flinch response is that the fate that finds you for altering safety equipment will be strange to mercy. This is plausibly excessive and as specific consequence of my misspent youth.)
I'd second Graydon's take on n95s: just don't. The electrostatic properties that make it effective are tricky, the entire surface is filter, the straps are delicate...
Starting with an elasto & gluing wispy weightless trim on... maybe. On a practical note, the only thing I've found sticks to silicone is silicone caulking.
Start with a full-face elasto and it's *much* more forgiving about hanging decor off of it, thanks to the multi-strap head harness holding things in place. Of course, whatever you make out of it has to work with the fact that there's a full-on gas mask under there. (And they ain't cheap.)
I can highly recommend magnets and lacey fabrics as good ways to decorate or customize respirators, specifically the disposables.
The Dräger 1950 N95 is arguably the best on the US market right now, and it has the most robust structure to handle added decoration without collapsing. The plastic anchors for the headband on each side also allow for hanging/mounting decorations.
For magnets, there are lapel pins and needle minders, but to customize/add on to, look at hijab magnets.
I have done this several times as a fancy “Don’t waste my motherfucking time” especially when someone wants to block out seven people for one hour to decide whether to let me do two hours of work
I like meetings that are timely, informative, and brief. I only get 35 hours a week to get shit done, tops, so anyone trying to block out two hours to honk their own horn in my face sure feels like an assault on my livelihood
@flyingsaceur I also like the “anyone can ignore any meeting request without an agenda included.” (No, I don’t owe it to you to decline a request or let you know I won’t be there if you haven’t bothered to tell me what needs to be discussed and achieved.)
I'll never begrudge someone spending their free time on something they enjoy. At the same time, for *me*, some things became better to buy vs build, for my own valuation of my free time. But that's a me decision, not something I expect others to adhere to, like building a NAS or something.
not criticizing if they wanna go through the legwork. For *me*, at my point in life, I'd rather just buy a Synology with decent hw/sw tradeoffs than comb through hundreds of specs on individual hardware choices.
I sell products ready-assembled, and do-it-yourself kits for building the same products. Some of my customers buy the kits because they really like building kits, and that's great.
But others buy the kits because they think they're entitled to the finished product at a lower price, and they begrudge every second of effort they must put into building the kit. Those people really exist and they are the market for tools that purport to save "the value of your time."
@Matthew Skala Yeah, that's valid. If you're doing it to save money - that's fine.
But this is a criticism of the *argument*, not the sale. People can and should sell preassembled things, kits, and more! Not everyone wants to build! But if someone is building on purpose, don't tell them to value their time.
@The Psychotic Network Ferret So I think you're 100% correct. And I think most fights about houseruling and ignoring rules is when those things cross modular barriers (you can add/remove modules, but ignoring part can be a problem), but D&D doesn't really acknowledge its own modularity
@The Psychotic Network Ferret I am far from a D&D player - but I tend to be very into the story and how we tell stories, and very into game rules. I think good games tell good stories with good rules. But yeah - I agree about the Say Yes Or Roll The Dice thing.
I checked lambdaguard and komiser and cloudwatch and cloudtrail - I see no suspicious logins, no resources in strange places, our IDS didn't pick up anything, and all the APAC regions are disabled, and there's nothing in them. So it's not like we were suddenly hacked as far as I can tell.
@j_angliss So they've done three in simplified Chinese so far, all with an English translation. They're about changes to Lambda in various APAC regions.
I don't know why as we have those regions disabled and nothing in use in them - but I definitely freaked the hell out.
@Hypolite Petovan The normalization is mostly a matter of fighting the process of seeing security as a cost center and underfunding it.
So - the core thing is complexities around risk and access. Part of corporate culture is risk appetite. Corporate culture loves accepting risk, and so security teams kinda don't have a lot of leverage. And that's where the problem is, ya know. I don't know how to fix that.
Google Docs has been randomly deciding to not let me copy/paste. I use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and it pops up the popup that tells me I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste.
This feels like another anti-competitive thing against firefox.
> Google Docs has been [...] not letting me copy/paste. I use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and it [...] tells me I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
I've been getting that for months. My solution is to switch to @nextcloud with @collabora as soon as this organization acquires another #SelfHosted server.
@Jonathan Lamothe it doesn't matter if the execution is out of order - the problem is that when you've got a CPU pegged, the second idle CPU doesn't help.
out of order operation isn't just about changing the order of the operations. It lets you (sometimes) pre-compute the result of future instructions as long as they're not based on the output of the previous ones enabling you to parallelize what would otherwise be a single execution thread. I imagine there's a point of diminishing returns though. youtube.com/watch?v=jNC9LPc3BI…
@Jonathan Lamothe Yes, it's theoretically possible for there to be value. But it's not going to affect on the scale of "our system is constantly pegged"
all the out-of-order execution occurs inside a single CPU adding more CPUs won't help speed up a single-threaded program
picture a call center an attendant is like a CPU the attendant can pay attention to one customer at a time. the customer may issue multiple requests/instructions, and an attendant with out-of-order operation may be able to look into and satisfy some of the requests before other earlier ones however, adding more attendants wouldn't help this one customer get faster service, unless the customer started multiple calls (threads or processes), or the attendants could pass customer requests and context on to each other (that's not permitted by the call center design; they can only transfer entire calls)
The Corodon
in reply to silverwizard • • •Which is something it would be better if viewers appreciated.
silverwizard likes this.
silverwizard
in reply to The Corodon • •@The Corodon That's totally valid, and true.
I was mostly thinking of races and things. But yeah - maybe use a crash test dummy sometimes.
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to silverwizard • • •silverwizard
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •Hypolite Petovan likes this.
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to silverwizard • • •silverwizard likes this.
silverwizard
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •Hypolite Petovan
in reply to silverwizard • • •silverwizard
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •Hypolite Petovan likes this.