Kangie

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Kangie,

Sync didn’t like the link.

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Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source (www.nature.com)

Can I ask how everyone personally feels about using nuclear material for space exploration? For the rovers heating elements it will be just a couple of grams but for generating electricity via a RTG a spacecraft would require several kilograms of radioactive material.

Kangie,

Don’t worry too much about it: it’s not the 80s and we’re not the Soviets.

Once it’s in orbit it doesn’t matter and if there’s issues during ascent the source will be hardened to prevent catastrophic release.

Realistically though, just send it up on a falcon 9, the track record on those things is _ astounding_.

Kangie,

It depends. I’m glad that we have tools like proton, but when this was an explicit stretch goal that was met during funding it’s a bit different.

I’m disappointed in Nightdive. Not just because they cancelled the port, but because they made a promise and they broke it, and they just remained silent about it instead of being transparent about any challenges that they were facing over the preceding years.

Kangie,

Contrast that with CLI where if you forgot or don’t know any command there is little help or indicator of what’s available and what can be done without external help.

man would like to have words with your strawman.

Kangie,

No, this is egregious, even for Dan. Don’t feel bad. I called him out on the forums/article comments.

Kangie,

I’m looking at bringing Dillo back into Gentoo atm. I had to read 15k lines of code, and that’s just what’s different since the last release…

Kangie,

I’m a huge proponent of Gentoo Linux as a learning experience. It’s a great way to learn how the components of a system work together and the distro enables an amazing amount of configurability for your system.

Even following a handbook install in a VM can be a good experience if you’re interested.

Kangie,

I may be a touch biased, but I feel like you might enjoy trying Gentoo one day, especially with the recent official binary package host.

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

Kangie,

I once spent a month automating the production of repositories for each kernel version supported on our HPC and rested every step exhaustively in isolation.

When I was satisfied I ran it with root permissions and hosed the VMs it was running on because a recursive chmod evaluated to /.

Oops.

InfinityBook Pro 16 - Gen8 restarting out of nowere

I’ve recently bought my first Tuxedo laptop, an InfinityBook Pro 16 - Gen8 and after having some minor issues with Fedora on it (mainly with the Tuxedo Control Center) I moved to PopOS! and since then it worked flawlessly. Or at least, it used to work flawlessly until last week, when the laptop started to reboot at...

Kangie,

Write out syslogs to disk or better yet mirror to grayling or something, there might be valuable information right before the reboot.

I’ve also had weirdness where the CPU/iGPU was just faulty and the IME would halt the system. That took weeks to diagnose.

Definitely reach out to support!

Kangie,

Pipewire is great .

Kangie,

You don’t have to!

If a downstream distribution wants your software they will build and package it themselves and maintain that infrastructure.

You could provide an example rpm spec (etc) to make their lives easier but it’s not on you to provide a binary package that works everywhere; you released the source code so any given user / distro can compile it for themselves.

Just make sure that your build infrastructure and docs are up to speed, and ideally implement some CI/CD and testing to catch any breaking changes.

BitWarden's "Lack" Of Self Hosted Site Support

BitWarden is my password manager of choice, I use it a lot. But one thing I find frustrating and honestly, nonsensical, is why it doesn’t support ports out of the box? I have a bunch of services on different ports and would hope BitWarden would recognise that, but it doesn’t? It’s not a huge thing as I can always search,...

Kangie,

What? Bitwarden doesn’t give a shit about non standard ports on services you’re accessing. They’re a valid part of the URI string.

Try changing your match detection settings in the add-on.

If you’re talking about bitwarden not supporting being run from container on a non standard port, we’ll, you’re doing it wrong. Expose whatever port on the container then Add a proper reverse proxy / edge router like traefik, then set up some DNS and Let’s encrypt and only use 80 and 443 for all of your services.

Kangie,

It should work with ‘host’ match detection. If it isn’t working check your URIs.

Or do the sane thing and run everything on a different DNS and share 80/443.

Kangie,

Could you elaborate?

Kangie,

You don’t think that by just putting the name of a license in some prose that LLM companies will ignore it and not use it in training data, right?

They most certainly will not. For all they know you’re just helpfully linking to the creative commons.

I don’t think your plan is workable, but if you’re going to persist at least add some boilerplate: “the above content of this comment is licensed under…”

ELI5: The Linux xz backdoor situation

PLEASE. I keep seeing it in memes. As I understand it the latest version of the xz package (present in rolling release distros like Arch and SUSE Tumbleweed) has “a backdoor”, but I have no earthly clue what can be done by malicious folks with access to that backdoor or if I should be afraid or how to check if my distro is...

Kangie,

TL;DR don’t worry (for now) - it only impacts rpm and deb builds and impacted releases only really made it into OpenSuSe tumbleweed - if you’re running bleeding edge maybe you need to worry a little.

A laymans explanation about what happens is that the malicious package uses an indirect linkage (via systemd) to openssh and overrides a crypto function which either:

  • allows access to the system to a particular key
  • allows remote code execution with a particular key

Or both!

I have secondhand info that privately the reverse engineering is more advanced, but nobody wants to lead with bad info.

As for what you should do? Unless you’re running an rpm or deb based distro and you have version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 of xz-utils installed, not much. If you are, well, that comes down to your threat model and paranoia level: either upgrade (downgrade) the package to a non-vulnerable version or dust off and nuke the site from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.

Kangie,

Wow. What fucking garbage.

Kangie,

Exactly the same as it sounds to you. It’s just that we don’t think our accent is unusual and you don’t think yours is unusual.

Kangie,

Sanctions. Russia is still short critical materiel.

Kangie,

Fascinating take on Mongolian basket weaving! Though I’m not sure how it relates to the price of tea in China…

Kangie,

I can still Gentoo Linux as an alternative if you’re willing to take a step towards better package management but don’t want to deal with all of the NixOS baggage.

Kangie,

I’m sorry, but no. PluralKit only really impacts a tiny minority of the userbase to begin with. It isn’t enough to cause people outside that group to choose the platform, nor is it enough for people outside of that minority to avoid moving to whatever the next big thing is.

Kangie,

I use Traefik for all of my containerised services. It’s fantastic.

Kangie,

At least weekly.

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