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railmeat

@railmeat@fosstodon.org

Software Epistemologist, aspiring star traveler, perpetual beginner. Wallowing in accidental complexity. Stumbling towards recovery. Twitter says I am a midwit.

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evan, (edited ) to random
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Which of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China do you prefer?

railmeat,
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@evan
I would choose compass, paper and printing if I could choose more than one.

malwaretech, to random

I'm living the free-market libertarian dream right now. Some random no-name ISP has negotiated an exclusive deal with my apartment complex, so they've cut off all other service and forced everyone to pay for the same garbage internet.

railmeat,
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@malwaretech
This seems to be a trend.

lauren, to random
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Unless some kind of practical endgame can be defined, my sense is that Zelensky and Ukraine are going to face a rapidly declining level of Western support, with skepticism now beginning to cut across political party lines.

railmeat,
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@lauren
I agree, people are getting tired of it.

Ukraine deserves continued support, in my opinion. Giving weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is a good use of my tax dollars.

evan, to random
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I have had 10K steps every day for the last month.

Tonight, at 11:50PM, I realized I only had 9400 steps today. So I went out and ran around the block and closed the day with 10100!

railmeat,
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@evan
Good work.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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I think between using Nextcloud for my homework, my RSS feeds, Lemmy, and mastodon like half of my internet usage is all things I self host

railmeat,
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@i_lost_my_bagel
How much work is that?

Do you host your own email?

evacide, to random
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What do we tell unrepentant rapists when they try to make a comeback? Not today. I suppose it says something that the only people who still take him seriously are this lady and Laura Logan: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelations-from-the-Snowden-archive-surface

railmeat,
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@evacide This is a long and pretty bad article.

alcinnz, (edited ) to random
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I'm curious: How much impact have Repair Cafes had in my online circles?

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railmeat,
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@alcinnz
First I have heard of repair cafes. It seems like something I would be interested in. There must be some in my area, I will have to look.

Thanks.

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    railmeat,
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    @evan
    It is all of the top three, as others have said in the thread.

    I don’t know what an IRI is.

    timbray, to photography
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    At Purebread on West Broadway

    railmeat,
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    @timbray
    My blood sugar is going up, I have to stop looking.

    danderson, to random
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    Trying out guix again for fun. This will be a (unlisted) thread of my journey of discovery.

    railmeat,
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    @danderson
    Interesting review,thanks. It sounds like Guix needs a lot of polish.

    kennwhite, to random

    Bitwarden password manager: 5+ hour service outage, web vault, login, and API because of upstream US cloud provider [narrator: it was Azure]

    “I just tried it myself on a machine completely logged out, and the login page is simply spinning.”

    https://status.bitwarden.com

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    railmeat,
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    @kennwhite
    I use Bitwarden and I have been happy with it so far. Do you think there are better options?

    railmeat,
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    @kennwhite
    Are they updating the stand alone version anymore?

    lauren, to random
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    Given the video proof, Boebert now grants that she was vaping during Beetlejuice, but says she doesn't remember doing so.

    railmeat,
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    @lauren
    It is embarrassing that these kind of people can get elected. People voted for her.

    sesivany, to fedora
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    I maintain computers with for more than 10 people (family, friends...). This is the oldest installation: ThinkPad X201, Fedora installed in 2013, it has gone through countless upgrades, always smoothly.

    railmeat,
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    @sesivany

    I don’t understand Silverblue.

    @aquarius

    georgetakei, to random

    So that shrieking windbag Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has admitted she is openly coordinating with Trump to keep an “impeachment inquiry” into Biden open for as “long and excruciatingly painful” as possible. This is the real “weaponization” of the government: going after the President with absolutely no evidence, solely for political points.

    railmeat,
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    @georgetakei Shrieking windbag is a good description. Thanks for that.

    It behooves us to remember that she was elected. A plurality of voters in her district wanted that.

    finestructure, (edited ) to random
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    Regarding “back to the office”: Why is the commute the employee’s burden anyway? Make it part of the work time and have at it requiring people to come to the office. Three hours commute? You get 5 hours in the office.

    Employees are available immediately at home but if they’ve required in the office, the clock starts when they leave home. You rent their time, your choice to spend it on travel.

    railmeat,
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    @finestructure
    The travel to work is for the benefit of the employer and at their request. So the employer should pay for it.

    annaleen, to random
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    Hey Montreal pals! I'll be at an amazing conference at McGill in October about hopeful futures in science and storytelling. I'm keynoting along with Kim Stanley Robinson. My keynote is called "Worldbuilding Is Resistance: Environmental science fiction and direct action."

    https://montreal2140.ca/

    railmeat,
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    @annaleen
    Sounds great. Do you know if any of it will be recorded.

    railmeat,
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    @annaleen
    That is great, I will look for it.

    I love your SF by the way.

    sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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    I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.

    And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of Starlink internet access to parts of the world whenever he wants to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.

    railmeat,
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    @sundogplanets I don't think governments gave him low earth orbit, I think he just took it. That is usually what these guys do.

    malwaretech, to random

    This is absolutely crazy stuff. Chinese hackers were able to get into a bunch of government email accounts by forging Microsoft access tokens, but how it happened is wild.

    Apparently an internal Microsoft system responsible for signing consumer access tokens crashed, then a bug in the crash dump generator caused the secret key to be written to the crash dump. Microsoft's secondary system for detecting sensitive data in crash dumps also failed, allowing the crash dump to be moved from an isolated network to the corporate one. The Chinese hackers compromised a Microsoft engineer's account and were able to get a hold of the crash dump. They were not only able to find the key and figure out that it's responsible for signing consumer access tokens, but were also able to exploit a software bug to use it to sign enterprise access tokens too, basically giving them the keys to the kingdom.

    So many security system had to fail for this to happen. Either the hackers were very lucky or extremely patient.

    https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

    railmeat,
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    @malwaretech
    So three defects in three different systems? Maybe more QA would have helped. I hope MS writes regression tests to cover these cases.

    textfiles, to random
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    @textfiles huge ups to Dr. Andrew Lin of Mt. Sinai Retinal Clinic who just ZAPPED THE HELL OUT OF MY EYE TO SAVE IT

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    railmeat,
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    @textfiles @textfiles
    Saving an eye sounds important. You are an archivist so you save things all the time.

    codinghorror, to random

    “...the most important question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what’s happened to you.”

    railmeat,
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    @codinghorror
    I don’t know what , if anything, happened to me. I have a pretty good idea what is wrong with me.

    i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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    hewlett packard?

    railmeat,
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    @i_lost_my_bagel
    HP used to make great equipment. Maybe they still do, but I don’t know what.

    RL_Dane, to android
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    As of a few days ago, I've been on de-googled for two years.

    It's been pretty good!

    railmeat,
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    @RL_Dane That's cool. If you have used it to two years, I assume it works reasonably well. What do you miss from Google Android?

    Edent, to random
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    Upcycled an old eReader into an art frame.
    Displays a new black & white piece of art from Flickr every few minutes.
    Full write-up this weekend, but pretty straightforward to do.

    The same frame showing a moody photograph.
    The same frame displays a black and white drawing.

    railmeat,
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    @Edent
    That looks good. I look forward to your recipe.

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