otl

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Should I move to Docker?

I’m a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I’ve kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I’ve managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked...

otl,

I think learning how to make packages for package managers is also becoming less popular :(

Even learning how to do the simplest thing possible that is easy to package by anybody - something like a tarball or zip - is becoming less popular :(

otl,

It’s really about interoperability of systems, protocols, services, and clients. Since we’re both using Lemmy I assume we both understand at least a bit about the significance of interoperability.

I think it’s a shame that effort is put in to reverse engineering.

otl,

I’ve found this feature mostly reliable. Those times where it doesn’t work, or I’m travelling, or don’t have phone reception is kinda annoying. But being able to just use my Mac is fantastic.

otl,

Cross-platform clients, yes, but that’s only a (small) part of the way there. For example, Signal is actively hostile to other client implementations just like Apple is with iMessage, unfortunately :(

otl,

I don’t think it is clear that everyone wanted to follow to Microsoft: businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want…

Using an iPad as a second monitor (wired)

I’m trying to connect a university ipad (air, usb 3 type c, not tb or lightning) to my laptop (Framework laptop, intel 12th gen) running Fedora workstation 39. On Windows, I used a nifty app called Duet Display. I just used a usb-c cable to plug the ipad into the laptop, launched the app on both devices, and windows would see...

otl,

Time to turn your laptop into a router! Let’s say you’ve got 2 network interfaces on your laptop, eth0 and wifi0. wifi0 is joined to your university WiFi as normal. Connect your iPad to your laptop via ethernet (with a USB-C adapter).


<span style="color:#323232;">iPad -> usb-c-ethernet -> eth0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wifi0 -> internet
</span>

Rather than setting up a DHCP server or IPv6 stuff, I’d just configure the wired interfaces manually. Let’s use the network 192.168.69.0/24. Laptop will be 192.168.69.1, iPad will be at 192.168.69.2. On the laptop:


<span style="color:#323232;">ip addr add 192.168.69.1/24 dev eth0
</span>

On your iPad, go to Settings -> Ethernet:

  • address: 192.168.69.2
  • subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  • router: 192.168.69.1

Curious to see if that works. We haven’t set up DNS or DHCP or done any sysctl for IP forwarding or any nftables.

How can we test if it works? We can set up a TCP listener using nc(1) on the laptop that the iPad’s web browser could hit. On the laptop:


<span style="color:#323232;">nc -l 8080
</span>

On your iPad, open Safari and browse to 192.168.69.1:8080

Curious to see if that all works!

See also:

otl,

“As part of integration planning, and following an organizational needs assessment, we identified go-forward roles that will be required within the combined company.”

Totally devoid of any humanity. Corporate jargon freaks me out. It shouldn’t, but it really gets to me.

otl,

Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.

otl,

Did you just ask a question about a question asking about asklemmy?

otl,

You may be able to run a torrent client on the NAS?

otl,

whoopsie

Some apps or sites to chat casually with people?

I have no intentions of setting up anything serious, but I would like to occasionally talk to someone random, and although so far I haven’t tried any app or website, I’m sure 99% of them will be complete garbage, full of micropayments and stupid limitations, well, practically like any app nowadays....

otl,

Some channels from a quick search:

otl,

“Reproduction of the Disney logo is clear trademark infringement. I would imagine that is why the AI might be jumbling the logo,” Andrew White, partner at IP law firm Mathys & Squire, tells The Financial Times.

Doesn’t seem clear to me.

I’m allowed to sketch out the Disney logo by hand, right? But I’m not allowed to place their trademark on any of my own products or services.

Microsoft’s tool reproduces the Disney logo. Searching “Disney logo” in Google Images also reproduces the Disney logo. I can print the logo from my shitty black and white printer to my heart’s content, right?

From Bing’s terms of use, section 7:

Use of Creations. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the Microsoft Services Agreement, and our Content Policy, you may use Creations outside of the Online Services for any legal personal, non-commercial purpose.

otl,

Nice this makes it clearer for me. Thanks for the insight and links.

otl,

Think about how and why you joined in the first place, and see if that is being fulfilled. For example, I joined because I wanted to be able to practice communicating with people in writing and to share some of my stories. Interacting on here still gives me that feeling. It’s not the same sense of community I get from the programming language community in my city. But there’s a little bit of something here that I can’t seem to find elsewhere yet.

You mentioned “isolating addiction”. If you have that feeling it’s time to take a break.

otl,

I think IRC is a bit healthier because it is a direct interaction and there is no upvotes or any fake internet points involved.

Totally see what you mean. The points and “likes” can be tiring. In a Lemmy client I made, I don’t even bother rendering the votes. This helps. But I havent implemented threaded replies (yet?).

If there was a way to interact with Lemmy more like a mailing list I’d be using that instead.

otl,

On reddit and now lemmy, I can engage with other people in both appreciation and discussion on and about things I don’t really get to otherwise, at a depth I don’t really get to otherwise.

Nicely worded. The microblog format never “clicked” for me the same way these threaded discussions do. Now I have a way to say why - thanks!

I think if I was born in a different decade I would have enjoyed Usenet or mailing lists.

otl,

Ah yeah this hits a nerve for me: the idea that some individuals are the arbiters of medical science and knowledge. Answers to questions like “why should I brush my teeth” is something to be found in a textbook, hopefully at a public library, not to be dispensed out by some individual with fat fees.

otl,

Relevant article: Tailscale have an account on hachyderm.io tailscale.com/blog/2022-11-16-fediverse/

otl,

Interesting - will look into Friendica. I just hacked up the latest stable release of Lemmy to run on OpenBSD but it’s not something I think I want to maintain long-term. Looking for something that will last a while, kinda like email but maybe not that long!

otl,

My colleagues back in the early bitcoin and cryptocurrency days were mining across any spare infra and customer servers they could get their hands on. Back when you could do it with just CPU.

otl,

I think the author themselves needs to hear it!

otl,

A few years back people who had HTC Vives and whatever else seemed pretty keen to let people have a go. Sharing interests and all that. Maybe you can ask around in your local area somehow?

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