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mwl

@mwl@io.mwl.io

¹ Recent books:

tech - OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems, DNSSEC Mastery 2/e
Fantasy - Prohibition Orcs
Mystery - $ git sync murder
Collection: Apocalypse Moi

Pet rats. Martial arts. Punch Nazis & terfs. If it wasn't on Industrial Records it's not industrial music, it's just sparkling noise. He/him. Bangpath old. Gelato!

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mwl, to random
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Two days until I get the tooth that has been paining me for thirty years removed.

I declare Tuesday's full moon to be the Fang Moon.

mwl, to random
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Okay, so let's try some of this there "marketing" crap:

I am feeling aged and exhausted, so please buy my books. Thank you.

mwl, to random
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Today: investigating the Banksy exhibit in London Ontario.

Is it just me, or does such an exhibit demand artistic sabotage?

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    mwl,
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    @jpmens

    Never eat anything larger than your head.

    mwl, to writing
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    Hot take: "overnight success" is not a thing.

    Someone recently discovered my books and said "How had I never heard of you?"

    I dunno, dude. I been shouting for thirty years, where you been?

    lilithsaintcrow, to random
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    "I asked five different well-known presses of various sizes questions involving distribution, publicity, print runs, and what publishing on an independent press means for both author and publisher. The answers I got were illuminating." https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/art-over-numbers

    mwl,
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    @lilithsaintcrow :flan_ooh: NICE article, thanks for sharing.

    mwl, to Rats
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    Croghan, the Big Man, contemplating the lands beyond his empire.

    mwl, to writing
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    "The point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you."

    (Stolen from a poorly sourced screenshot.)

    mwl, to random
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    Skip the middlemen. Screw Amazon. Buy my ebooks direct from me.

    https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/

    Only in my store can you get an orcish cookbook with a side of SSH, or a haunted house to store your X.509 certificates. And what other store lets you Treat The Rats?

    mwl, to random
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    Been pondering how the fedi explains itself to the outside world, and I keep coming back to moderation.

    The most important part of the fedi experience is the moderation of your server.

    You don't want to hear from TERFs and racists? Pick an instance that blocks them.

    You don't want any US politics? There's a different instance for you.

    If you believe that the fedi should be absolutely open and welcome all viewpoints no matter how abhorrent, that's a different server. Many of us will block you, but you have the right to choose to live in a sewer.

    But we focus on instance interests first, and don't give newcomers a hint about moderation.

    I'm thinking we should structure our story as:

    1. Pick your desired moderation
    2. You are not the product, so throw a few bucks to your mods
    3. Choose an instance

    We do it backwards.

    mwl, to random
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    Me: The next time Assemblage 23 comes to town, I am absolutely going!

    Yesterday: They're playing while you're giving a talk at Penguicon. :flan_tongue:

    mwl, to FreeBSD
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    Looking for a way to run a single command as user "www" on .

    Roundcube uses doveadm to compute password hashes, but the www user defaults to the nologin shell and /nonexistent home directory. I really, REALLY don't want to change that.

    Anyone have something clever to let me run just this one command as www?

    [edit to add: Roundcube is a web app. It runs as user www. I can't have another run the command as www: www needs to execute the process. www can't run sudo or doas without the sort of something that would let www run doveadm.]

    mwl,
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    Lots of folks saying sudo, but (as root):

    su www -c "sudo /usr/local/bin/doveadm -s blf-crypt"

    This account is currently not available.

    So www can't run sudo to run the command.

    mwl,
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    @Topslakr it's not supposed to run as root, but I need a way to run a command as user www.

    Because www has no shell, and thus can't run commands.

    Which is the problem I'm trying to solve.

    mwl,
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    @Topslakr

    I'm only using su to run commands as www. The web server will be running the command, so there's no chance to add the -s /bin/sh.

    mwl,
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    @Topslakr by a PHP script.

    mwl,
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    @Topslakr I'm only using su to run a command as this shell-less user.

    I can't su to the user, because:

    su www

    This account is currently not available.

    mwl,
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    @matt_garber hmmm...

    mwl, to writing
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    Yes, yes, I've seen it. You can stop sub-tooting me now.

    mwl, to Rats
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    Yesterday was lovely. The windows were open and we got all the Smells.

    Today, it's cold and rainy and miserable.

    Surely this is the thumb-beast's fault.

    mcc, to random
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    I am so excited to see the Rat Czar. Will it get to wear a little crown

    mwl,
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    @mcc

    Did the rats have a hand in selecting this czar? I think NOT!

    Our squeaky little comrades will not accept leadership imposed by outside forces!

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    Only 2.5% of the world's population is Nigerian. 🇳🇬

    But 33% of the top 100 ranked Scrabble players are Nigerian.

    https://www.wespa.org/aardvark/html/rankings/full_rankings.html

    Only 1.3% of the US population is Indian American. 🇮🇳

    But 20 of the past 23 spelling bee champs have been South Asian.

    https://people.com/human-interest/national-spelling-bee-champions-words-they-won-with/

    British colonizers did this to themselves. 🤷🏿‍♂️

    English belongs to us now.

    mwl,
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    @mekkaokereke

    Speaking as a professional English wordsmith: is there any chance you might... you know... make English make sense?

    mwl, to random
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    Wondering why @lilithsaintcrow soft-pedaled this so much.

    https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/04/we-gotta-talk-about-publishing/

    mwl,
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    @lilithsaintcrow :flan_facepalm: Ah, sexism. Of course. How foolish of me.

    mwl,
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    @lilithsaintcrow You want to horrify a business person? Talk to them about how publishing works. Start with returns, and proceed in order of increasing cray...

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