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silverwizard

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A nerd yelling about sysadminning, role playing, social justice, and terrible ideas. Somehow a dad. Opinions obviously belong to an undisclosed third party He/Him

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silverwizard

4 days ago

silverwizard
4 days ago

Ug, I love writing software and software tools to support RPGs

I wish there was a way to support people in that action without money changing hands, and without weirdness

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2022-05-18 16:34:12

The boring things are what will save your bacon: password managers, physical security keys for 2FA, choosing to ignore SMS messages + random emails that seem a little off, verifying information out of band, building a security plan to protect important assets

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6 days ago •

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6 days ago •

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6 days ago •

I have a list of actions to do and dumped them all in a file and am just repeatedly running `head -1 list ` and this feels like I'm either being smart or dumb

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sequethin

6 days ago •

as long as you also `pwd` and `ls` a few times every few minutes, you know, just to be sure of things, then it's totally normal lol

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silverwizard

6 days ago

To be clear this is me running "head -1 list" inside backticks to just run whatever is the first item in the list, not doing markdown

But yeah, ls is obviously needed sometimes

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sequethin

6 days ago •

`ls` every few min is "the clack tongs together every few min" of CLI work

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silverwizard

6 days ago

If you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going!

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Figuring out how to not be helpful is one of the weirdest parts of being a lead.

I can't just help everyone immediately, I need to figure out how to help people by connecting them to the right people. I just want to do it!

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7 days ago •

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7 days ago •

Someone just asked me if I could do something "in code", and after confusion I found out that I they meant *VSCode*

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Dave :arch: :fedora: :garuda:

1 week ago •

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1 week ago •

Tech support for a program we use at work said that "There will be quite a few warnings saying tables already exist" after making the change they recommended.

This was an understatement. I've been clicking "okay" almost continuously for 20 + minutes by now...

Ugh.

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1 week ago

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1 week ago

is there a finite number of inifinities?

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2 weeks ago from Twitter Web App

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2 weeks ago from Twitter Web App

Today is the first day in my adult life I've had air conditioning (it was installed friday but we didn't use it until today), and damn does it feel weird

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2 weeks ago from Twitter Web App •

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

I had to learn how to do JOINs in mysql today

Can I never learn any more MySQL?

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2 weeks ago •

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2 weeks ago •

Brand new pinephone OS just dropped

A pinephone with keyboard case running Windows 3.1 in dosbox

A pinephone with keyboard case installing Windows 3.1 in dosbox

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Jonathan Lamothe (he/him)

7 days ago •

Side note: it's weird seeing a Windows 3.1 interface with "ALSA" in the background.

silverwizard

7 days ago

Yeah, it's very off and I love it

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silverwizard

2 weeks ago •

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2 weeks ago •

So
Uh

Has anyone gotten #zoom working on #openbsd ?

#zoom

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Jonathan Lamothe (he/him)

2 weeks ago •

@silverwizard I haven't even gotten it running on Linux.

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silverwizard

2 weeks ago

Really? I find it really simple in the in-browser version? For some reason it seems to fair a bunch of dwm?

Jonathan Lamothe (he/him)

2 weeks ago •

To be fair, I really haven't tried. My daily driver doesn't have a webcam, and I just use it on my phone when necessary.

silverwizard

2 weeks ago

I am exclusively running it on work machines - though I think I've tried it on my currently-stock macbook

fuomag9🥝

2 weeks ago •

try with the flatpak version, works great (I hate zoom tho)

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

Breaking my own rules by wrapping a script whose args I always forget in a second script that handles the args for me.

I feel like this is gonna cause me *more* problems in the future

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

Oh...

I guess my Mac has decided to not read USB devices today

No, I didn't want to read my calendar, or contacts. Definitely didn't wanna use an external mouse.

silverwizard

2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

As a dad my irony poisoning means I say things like, "There's an old saying, bear is driving, how can this be?"

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3 weeks ago from Twitter Web App

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3 weeks ago from Twitter Web App

I love how removing one line from a given JSON file can, but necessarily, render it invalid

silverwizard

3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

Setting up a tablet for a 3 year old

I feel like he deserves to have access to technology (and he's alone and inside a lot due to pandemics)

And - holy shit - technology for kids is a horrorscape wasteland

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Irrelephant

3 weeks ago •

I have been wondering about this (as a grandparent of a nearly-two.) I give nothing but clothes, books, and physical toys (wood blocks and - oddly - canvas bags to store toys in have been hits.)

The kid avoids triggering the higher-tech toys which make noises, but loves the blinking lights. Books, which give control of a consenting adult, are huge hits. And computers/tablets in video calls are popular too.

By far the favourite thing is a cell phone, the least-safe tech thing.

silverwizard

3 weeks ago

Yeah, that's kinda the things. Grownups around my kids all have cellphones and use them. Both my wife and I use a phone as an extension of our brain, so it probably feels weird to my kid to not have one.

We are pretty good with books (have dozens), and avoid toys which make noise, but aren't sticklers about it. So far our best toy has been a 5ft geodesic dome in the backyard and a sandbox.

But we also got a https://jooki.com/ for Christmas for our 2 year old, and that's definitely well liked, but has kinda turned into a bedtime toy. Now that he's turning three though we're talking about tablets. I feel like before he was very close to three he could play Balloon Pop and other really minimal games on a phone, but not really engage with them. And I think he was mostly ok with this. As he gets closer to three, video is more exciting to him, and that worries me, I hate passive entertainment like TV, but with a recent bout of bad weather he was inside bored a lot.

LeapFrog makes a fairly major tablet, but I really distrust their privacy model as explained.
Amazon makes one too - but no.
There's a few other ruggedized kids tablets, but I dislike them.
Soon-to-be-three year old has also just begun to figure out the Nintendo Switch, but isn't super understanding.
VTech's Innotab seems to be at least better (assuming you avoid KidConnect which I cannot find usefully laid out privacy info about), though I might DNS blackhole a few domains just in case, and it's primary method of getting games is cartridges, which is a nice to have (no internet needed to install a game). So I'm giving him an Innotab Sunday - my review is only based on what I've read, not first hand experience.

All in all - I'm not an anti-screentime dad, I'm an anti-passive dad, I want my kid imagining and engaging as the first and foremost. And I see a tablet, well used, as a vehicle to do that. I also think that he's gonna need tech to exist in the world we have, so let's figure it out.

Definitely avoiding cellphones without maximal supervision, even though it is a pinephone, which is in theory safer.

Ji Fu

3 weeks ago •

Having given a tablet to my oldest when she was very young, we plan on putting it off as long as possible with the new one. The only thing I can recommend for your own sanity, block YouTube.

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silverwizard

3 weeks ago

yeah, no youtube capabilities was a requirement!

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

Ug - the last hour basically unfucked my day. Social Media is super important to me in the sense of "I like these people", and the fediverse is the place where I am actually happy.

And I was trying to setup some cloud inventory stuff for a few days - and that was gargage.

So now I got both fixed within an hour.

What a weird day.

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silverwizard

3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

Well.

that was DB surgery.

Uh...

oops

my whole VPS just fucked it's DB...

I think I'm back - let me know if I seem broken or if I unfollowed you please!