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gigatexal

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check out my blog for longer form takes on things relating to work, life, data-engineering and more: https://gigatexal.blog

I'm a tech guy trying != a tech bro

Data Engineer and Twitter refugee (not laid off or an employee just a power user), love: Unix/Linux, programming, and cool people. He/Him. #beto2022

Check out my youtube channel for all things tech, linux, career, etc: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7yfCrEEhZt9aoolhS5S_g

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gigatexal,
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@gregorum @jjlinux newer packages and it wasn’t arch. Plus I like dnf.

The future of desktop Linux might be like OpenSUSE Kalpa/Aeon

I’ve been running Tumbleweed for a few years now. It’s great, but it’s not 100% autopilot, updates often require manual intervention (resolving small problems) or updates try to add 50 packages I don’t need (recommends) all the time despite them not being in a pattern. I’ve been looking for a distro on which I could...

gigatexal,
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@boredsquirrel @swooosh not having to reboot would make this finally useable to me!

Sheril, to food
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This photo was sent my way by someone who knows I work in security. I don’t know where it was taken or who deserves credit. (The tickets appear to name a pub).

But I’d sure love to see this kindness replicated. Widely. It’s critically needed & warms my heart. ❤️

gigatexal,
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@Sheril I love this. I love this so much.

gigatexal,
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@exanime @boredsquirrel ehh macOS has really polished software. It can also run a lot of the open source software Linux gets. Media seems better on it. Rogue Amoeba makes some legit stuff. But it’s more or less tied to the hardware. If it were open I’d run Linux on it and im hoping Asahi gets us there. macOS also a bit more user friendly focused. 🤷🏾‍♂️

gigatexal,
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@pukeko that’s wonderful to hear. I got an M3 max (a huge stupid purchase I agonized about for a month before convincing myself I earned it lol) coming in just 10 or so days. But M3 support is behind M2 for now. And I don’t fault them for it. I’ll wait patiently for it to work.

My dream would be a finger print reading immutable Fedora running Sway with full disk ZFS encryption.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

gigatexal,
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@RickiTarr found this thread.

I was one of only a handful of brown kids in a super wealthy, white, liberal but somehow also not suburb outside of Portland. Ostensibly religious and pious even though I had ample opportunities to experiment. I didn’t. I wish I had. Was basically friends with everyone though nobody really knew me. Skipped all of the latter half of senior year and nobody knew I wasn’t there. Was a bit sad about it. Didn’t date. Didn’t really fit in. Par for the course

campuscodi, to random
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A Russian court has sentenced an FSB officer to nine years in a maximum security penal colony.

Russian authorities say Grigory Tsaregorodtsev took a bribe of $1.7 million from the Infraud cybercrime group.

The bribe was to arrange the group's release from prison and dismissal of their criminal case.

The court also fined Tsaregorodtsev with double the bribe he took.

The Russian state will also confiscate his gold bars, real estate, and expensive cars.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6649351

gigatexal,
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@campuscodi so will the state charge Putin for corruption or any Oligarch? Or only the ones that suck at being criminals?

GottaLaff, to Wisconsin
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🤦🏻‍♀️” Supreme Court liberal won’t run again, shaking up race for control
The retirement of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley improves conservatives’ chances of retaking the majority after losing it last year in the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/11/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-reelection/

gigatexal,
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@GottaLaff Shame. Fair courts that fight against the tyranny of the minority and the radical right are the only thing that are functioning these days.

gigatexal,
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@lemmyreader @barbara it’s a bit annoying but I kinda like that I have to manually link it a bit. So I create sh scripts in the usr/local/bin that just execute the flatpak run command

What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)

Hi! A friend just recommended the backup tool that comes with Ubuntu. I took a look at it and was wondering what you guys include and exclude from the backups. I just installed wire guard VPN and but the config file in the etc/wireguard folder, where it belongs. I would have to include this folder as well if I want to keep my...

gigatexal,
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@Tick_Dracy @WbrJr ZFS snapshots and boot environments could probably do this. Not sure about the usb thing though. @allanjude (tagging Allan so I don’t besmirch ZFS too much).

mikecarter, to random
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Don't Sell Yourself Short; Your Worth is a Premium Commodity, and the World Should Pay Accordingly.

gigatexal,
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@mikecarter this is sooooo good!

shoq, to random
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Okay, so TRUMP says he’s going to raise $50 million tonight. @msnbc and most of the media keeps repeating it. It’s astonishing, because the entire story is based on nothing but hot air coming from the Trump campaign.

gigatexal,
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@shoq @msnbc they’re damned if they cover him and damned if they don’t. What do you expect them to do?

gigatexal,
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@shoq @msnbc they are “damned” if they do by reporting on him at all. All he does is make outlandish claims. Then they report on it. Even if they say look he’s insane and here’s what he said and why it’s insane it’s press and his supporters will just call it “fake news” and the conversation will continue and he wins. He’s also the leading challenger to POTUS. Whatever he does is news. Unfortunately so.

atomicpoet, to random
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Just a reminder that nothing lasts forever, and no company—not matter how powerful and profitable—stays that way forever.

If you looked at the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) list of companies that were there 100 years ago, almost none of them are on there now.

For a a long time, the one exception was General Electric (GE) but this is no longer the case. After more than 100 years, GE lost its space on the DJIA.

In fact, the original GE no longer exists. General Electric has just split itself intro three separate companies—becoming a shadow of its former self.

GE Aerospace still trades under GE, but GE’s health and energy divisions are now separate entities entirely.

It’s the end of an era. I’m sure Thomas Edison and Jack Welch are spinning in their graves.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/article-ge-completes-three-way-split-breaking-off-from-its-storied-past/

gigatexal,
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@atomicpoet this is why buying the index and investing over time wins.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediverse
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President Joe Biden’s Threads account @potus is federating on the Fediverse!

And I’m following him from atomicpoet.org!

Wow! This is as monumental as Barack Obama joining Twitter! A truly historic day for the !

@fediversenews

gigatexal,
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@atomicpoet @potus if Biden wins then yay but if that handle is a Trump handle nope nope nope. I’ll buy or run my own node and defederate everything and anyone connected to his lying Putin loving ass

shoq, to random
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Next up, Nick Fuentes chairs UN forum on antisemitism in developed countries.

In reply to…
https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/112185424391660542

gigatexal,
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@shoq it’s insane that the western world papers over all the despotic and shit things MBS did and is doing and his predecessors have done — the 9/11 attackers were Saudis iirc — and not to mention the killing of Kashoggi who was a US citizen and a journalist — oh but he’s making reforms and VCs and tech bros can get cheap capital … get fucked with that noise. They might be an ally but that government is playing the US and everyone else for fools

GottaLaff, to random
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As if we needed yet another reason to

Via RonFilipkowski:

Mike Johnson says if wins and Republicans expand their House majority and take the Senate, he has already spoken with Trump about making “big radical changes,”“aggressive changes” to the govt in first 100 days.

gigatexal,
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@GottaLaff we need to convince our friends and associates and strangers to vote Biden. His campaign can’t do it all and Trump winning would be terrible. Every time I think about Trump presidency it gives me existential dread.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all this is the inside of a pinecone! I don't know what I expected, but not this.

gigatexal,
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@RickiTarr that gives me the heebie jeeebies

gigatexal, to random
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shoutout to @pid_eins for creating systemd -- systemd timers are 100x better than cron. Saved me a whole lot of time futzting with cron.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Looks like he's pursuing the exact strategy I talked about yesterday on @poweruserpod!! Take a listen where we break down the Huberman backlash and how he will likely play things: https://open.spotify.com/episode/219EKphXddO6PLFyTDiIGz

gigatexal,
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@taylorlorenz I don’t understand the story? Influencer doesn’t live up to his image and cheats on his gf with 5 other women and is full of STDs. What am I missing? Aren’t most if not all influencers full of shit?

GottaLaff, to random
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Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4560409-judge-rules-john-eastman-should-be-disbarred-over-efforts-to-overturn-2020-election/

gigatexal,
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@GottaLaff good. Everyone in Trump’s orbit gets burned. It’s as if he’s the ring from LOTR: he just corrupts you and uses you and should be thrown into a volcano.

RAID setup for Ubuntu media server

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively....

gigatexal,
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@originalucifer @blackstampede if you can just do software raid and if possible get the disks to look like JBOD (just a bunch of disks) CPUs are so much faster these days software raid even ZFS offers so much more than hardware raid.

gigatexal,
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@originalucifer @blackstampede I’d rather ZFS for the data integrity stuff than anything else.

gigatexal,
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@mjpc13 @cyclohexane that’s impressive. Would mean the laptops should also be supported ? Was it hard to do?

gigatexal,
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@mjpc13 this would be an amazing blog if you wrote it up. Front page HN content right here. Very cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.

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