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furicle

@furicle@mastodon.social

typical SMB sysadmin geek, father of three, husband of one, he/him

#sysadmin #linux #windows #bash #powershell #python #jackOfAllTrades
#curling #canoeing #motorcycles

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koalie, to california
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10 years ago

Desert trip in the Death Valley with a Mustang.

A dilapidated two-story wooden building in a desert with mountains in the background and a car parked to the right.
Bad Water. A shallow body of water with salt deposits around it, set against a backdrop of barren, rocky mountains under a clear blue sky.
A blooming cactus with a bright pink flower against a desert background with dry soil and sparse vegetation.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@koalie did it have a name?

furicle, to random
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

This is horrible!

OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-25-elevate-supports-centos-6-to-centos-7/

Don't make it easy for me to bring that crap forward instead of starting clean and making it better.... C'mon, quit helping me out like that...

</End silly complaint :-) >

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

You know "Discourse"? The forum software? There's a thing that really bugs me about it, which is when you're signing up for a Discourse forum it requires email but says "your email will NOT be disclosed except to the admins". And then right after doing this, it by default uses Gravatar to grab your avatar.

So imagine there's some opsec reason you might not want to post under your real name on some forum. You create a pseudonym… and then there's your Gravatar, which in my case is my face.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@mcc so an opt out before it links it, right? Speaking as someone using the same avatar everywhere, that seems like a good change....

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@mcc yes, exactly. , that's what I was trying to say. Ask before they turn it on.

CakesOfPan, to random
@CakesOfPan@mastodon.social avatar

Coworkers and I were cracking up over how we hate certain email closings like "Best" and "Warmly," so we tested out some alternatives:
"Moistly"
"Indifferently"
"Relentlessly"
"With gravest concern"
I know there are some brilliant ones out there. Tell me your best ones.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@CakesOfPan
mercifully completed,

Gratuitously effusively concluding,

Dearly departing,

Done desparingly,

C U

NickEast, to scifi
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I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing


furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@cstross @alexf24 @NickEast @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing caused by a volcano in Indonesia! Such a group of events...

tilde, to random
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I know that those little "library" take-a-book/leave-a-book hutches on people's porches in bougie neighborhoods like mine turn out to be a bit of a moral hazard because they create the impression of library availability without materially supporting the fundamental mission of libraries (and therefore sap actual libraries of support). But I'm a sucker, I love the æsthetic, and they're a lot of fun to browse when I'm out and about. Plus, I try to pre-order new books to support my favorite authors, but I don't really want a ton of paper books in my house — a few, yes, but I mostly prefer audiobooks and ebooks. Those "library" boxes are an easy way to give away those pre-ordered books which don't deserve a permanent place on my shelves once the electronic & audio editions are available.

I have a lot of public-domain books, audiobooks, and other media that I love to share with my housemates, neighbors, and friends. I think it would be really neat to have a sign out front which sort of looks like one of those library boxes, but actually tells people how to access my virtual library either locally on their phones or later on their computers at home.

The number one way I've tried to share things so far has been a shared folder on a NAS which I make available via Tailscale. Which absolutely works for the total nerds who comprise a large fraction of my friends, but not so much for the people who'd have a harder time locating their own copies. (To be clear: I have spent a lot of time searching for copies of esoteric documents, cleaning up bad formatting and metadata, and generally managing my personal media archive. There isn't an online directory which reasonably matches mine.) And it absolutely doesn't work for anonymous access by any neighbor who wanders by and sees a QR code or types in a link.

I'd like to share things in a straightforward way which is more accessible to less-technical folks. I would prefer not to use a commercial hosting service because I don't want to deal with them being pro-active copyright overzealots — I have absolutely zero confidence in their ability to understand that some books are actually in the public domain or appropriately-licensed, and I have no interest in spending time arguing with their support people. And besides, I have wonderful gigabit fiber at home, so why not be the archivist I want to see in the world and share things from a box of hard-drives in the basement? Plus, local copies make it easier to share with anyone walking past, regardless of their cellular connection.

I am sure that I am not the first person to want to host a collection of books and so on which they make available to others? What tools should I look at for sharing things locally on my network, remotely to friends, and easily to any anonymous person who walks by?

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@tilde library thing is probably waaaay overkill

Calibre on an isolated wifi network? Qr code to join the wifi?
Then it's actually local, not available on the internet, if that's a plus?

spacerog, to scifi
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Author of “True Names”, arguably the first cyberspace story, Vernor Vinge, has passed.

https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

“True Names” is on my short list of must read hacker fiction. If you haven’t read it you should.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@spacerog one of my all time favorites
:-(

RickiTarr, to random
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Trans people are "forever patients"?

So is literally everyone!

Fuck off.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@RickiTarr please don't tell me we're limited to just one?

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

PM: How long is this going to take you?
Me: No idea, I've never done it before.
PM: Well what's your estimate?
Me: Any estimate would be useless because I've no idea what difficulties I'll encounter.
PM: But I need to put a number on the plan. How about 15 days?
Me: Sure, why not? Let's also estimate I'll grow wings and complete this project while flying.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft it's a simple formula... Days to retirement + 1

ramsey, to random
@ramsey@phpc.social avatar

Does anyone know if purchasing an “eTextbook” from gives you a downloadable ePub version of the book, or do you have to use their app to read it? Their website does not answer this question. I’ve already looked.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@ramsey some are through the website only I believe....

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@ramsey they do rentals too

vwbusguy, to devops
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

Spent my morning fixing:

  • Time-zone inconsistency between systems that broke another team's automations
  • Debugging and fixing CFLAGS and FORTRAN compiler environment include paths for a container image base

Often means fixing the same decades-old problems with newer, shinier tools.

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@vwbusguy and sometimes it's fixing new shiny stuff with old scuffed up and been around the block software :-)

furicle, to HashtagGames
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Peaceful Monday - Bangles
or is that
Monday Peaceful Monday - U2

Ugly Monday - Daniel Boone


itsfoss, to random
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Sudo on Windows..wait, what!?

https://news.itsfoss.com/sudo-on-windows/

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@itsfoss gsudo works for me on windows right now. Not built in, but should be :-)

vwbusguy, to random
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

Fun fact: Gasoline and Diesel are denser when it's cold out and since they're sold by volume, that means that you generally get more bang for your buck when you fill up in *colder weather.

  • Colder by relative weather, not colder by altitude.

https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/yes-electric-vehicles-lose-range-in-cold-weather/536-e96ca40b-dd96-4723-b705-75c3b00b48d9

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@vwbusguy but the pumps are calibrated for colder than average temps - so you lose

jacqueline, (edited ) to random
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suppose you're given access to some kind of dedicated workspace. what kind of thing are you calling it?

(more options in reply)

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@jacqueline mine?

furicle, to vim
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

Does anybody have info on code completion/auto linting in for ?

Looking at youcompleteme and coc.vim I don't powershell listed at all

I prefer editing in Vim, but hate to give up on the linting/fix suggestions I get in vscode, so I tend to edit in Vim, then check in vscode, which is annoying and inefficient.

Vim mode in VSCode is too half baked for me - I never know what will work and what won't.

Suggestions?

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@scy Oh that's interesting - they link to https://github.com/coc-extensions/coc-powershell which links back to coc.nvim

I couldn't find a link going the other way.

I've never set up coc.nvim but this would make that worthwhile assuming it's not too miserable to do.

Thanks for the pointer!

MLE_online, to random
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A couple of interesting swap meet things

image/jpeg

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@c0dec0dec0de @MLE_online I miss my Fiero some days too, but I don't miss cranking the damned headlights up and down every time they broke (which was often)

webology, to random
@webology@mastodon.social avatar

📶 After a week of unexplainable upstairs wifi issues, I stumbled on a forum post that recommended turning the Mac Mini Pro 90 degrees onto its side if your USB-C/Lightning ports are full.

🤷 That immediately fixed all issues.

So, while I'm happy, I now have a workaround... what a frustrating problem for a setup that changed in 3 or 4 months. 😮‍💨

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@webology so you were holding it wrong?

mo8it, to linux
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systemd haters… Just stop trolling everything related to systemd.

https://www.reddit.com/r/podman/comments/18xlu5g/comment/kg6xxl8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@mo8it thanks for that blog post ! Helps demystify things!
https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/

I was avoiding stuff because I thought it was a whole new thing to learn, but really it just seems like learning to write a service file.

I wasn't so attached/well versed in either compose or the old run plus generate file process, so I might as well just jump to the new hotness.

furicle, to random
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I keep seeing comments about managers that want employees in office just aren't good managers, but I never see any advise on managing remote employees?

Not picking on any particular poster, but would be nice if those in the know could contribute more information than the put down.


danirabbit, to random
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I’m so fucking tired of people messaging me upset that I post things on my social media accounts that aren’t Linux related. I’m allowed to have hobbies and community that aren’t interesting to you. If you don’t like that, fuck all the way off.

furicle,
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@danirabbit Offer them a only feed for $10 a month...

They won't pay, but you might lose some to an aneurism and at least reduce the issue for ecosystem at large...

foone, to random
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my damn test monitor has only one input button and way too many inputs, plus the input button is right next to the power button AND it takes 10 seconds to switch inputs.

so if it ever gets pressed by accident, you have to step through
RCA 1, RCA 2, S-VIDEO, COMPONENT, VGA, ANT, CABLE

furicle,
@furicle@mastodon.social avatar

@foone So it tests your patience too? Multi function!

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