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yakkoj

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what does it look like to work in dysfunctional IT? How about retrocomputing or video games?

also offering up some hot takes on programming despite discovering decades ago that being a programmer is best left to others.

liberal user of CWs; trying to atone for over a decade of Twitter ruin.

The country flags above show which countries in the world I've been to.

NO LONGER yakkoj on Twitter.

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yakkoj, to random
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It's web scale. Gotta shard them all!

https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/112408635374275809

yakkoj, to random
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Also TIL cats can be grumpy before breakfast just like people

yakkoj, to random
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TIL Gradius 3 SNES has secret bonus levels (completing most of these skips the level boss)

Also TIL most of the bosses are on a timer, so you can "beat" a boss by just surviving until the time's up! >:o(

Fortunately it's more fun fighting the bosses legit. Unfortunately, there's no cheater bar for Lousy Level 7 (the <reverb>AUTO-SCROLL LEVEL FROM HELL</reverb>)

yakkoj, to random
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aaaand we're at the part of the year where EVERYTHING that might be "cold" sweats profusely

yakkoj, to random
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Oh... I'll hasten to add re this "streaming bundle" stuff that cable companies are so absolutely HATED that we're taking this shit from content providers and calling it ice cream

yakkoj, to random
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I'm seeing these 2-wheel scooter things that are somehow KEEPING UP WITH CAR TRAFFIC

In USA, these "slow" vehicles have a 25mph cap on their speed, but it's clear that some modify their e-scooter things to go much faster

And of course they wear absolutely no helmet or proper clothing, so they'll be street pizza after they invariably make a mistake

yakkoj, to random
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And oh...

>article about the new iPad Pro.
>"Yeah, it's really thin."

Meaning if I sneeze wrong, it'll break into unrepairable bits that I didn't even own to begin with.

yakkoj, to random
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>Disney/Hulu/Max bundle.
>no mention of cost.

$79.95/mo probably.

yakkoj, to random
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oh come on you stupid update... MOVE IT

(updating a device42 VM to prepare for their transition to Rocky Linux.)

yakkoj, to random
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>RFK Jr. claims a worm ate part of his brain.

This is why bingo cards have FREE SPACE. Because weird-ass shit like this is NEVER on the bingo card!

yakkoj, to random
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No surprises here...

My MeLe fanless mini PC (this thing is IMPOSSIBLY tiny with 16GB RAM and N100 CPU and can pretty much do what any standard OA PC can even if it's hobbled with Windows 11) is STONE-cold when running LMDE, which I installed on the NVME drive that was shipped as a "New volume"

It's too hot to touch when it runs Windows 11, which shipped on the eMMC.

yakkoj, to random
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>Broadcom restricts security ADVISORIES for VMware (not updates -- ADVISORIES) to paying customers only.

Look you stupid bastard... if you're going to make the product pay-only, just MAKE the thing pay-only and let people replace VMware with Proxmox with confidence.

yakkoj, to random
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questions:

  • do I get access to my encrypted drives, or is the unlock key even a secret from me?

  • it encrypts even partitions UNKNOWN to the system? So my LUKS drive with Linux will be encrypted twice?

https://fosstodon.org/@OpenSauce/112406983357882635

brooke, to random
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I've found that I just don't use my iPad anymore except as a Flight Simulator accessory.

I don't take it on trips, because my MacBook Air is light enough and waaaaay more functional.

The only thing I miss from it is the built-in cellular connectivity, which Apple doesn't put in the laptops still (this is widely rumored to be because Qualcomm would charge them more for the modems on a laptop form factor)

yakkoj,
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@brooke If Macbook Air had cellular, I'd just buy one of those instead of iPad. It comes with a KEYBOARD and a WORKING trackpad (instead of a palm detector, like most other laptops)

yakkoj,
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@brooke that worked for my 2012 Macbook Air. Runs Debian 12 great even though it has 4GB RAM.

yakkoj, to random
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>knock at door.

Look if you're going to ignore the button to ring the doorbell (and that button is LIT and I know the light works!), then pardon me if I don't bother answering the door.

(it's probably pest control anyway)

yakkoj,
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oh and also don't forget I don't answer the door in my underwear

(and yes, it was pest control; I can tell by the noises going on outside now ;o)

yakkoj, to random
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no thanks... give me last year's iPad with M1 and cellular connectivity. I'll be right.

yakkoj, to random
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Wow, that I can run this video at 3x and STILL understand it is amazing

(it's a "talking head" kind of video, so doing the speedrunning of it is a perfect use of speed up)

yakkoj, to random
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Look Akamai... if you refuse to let me reboot my Linode via the API (the "proper" way to reboot a Linode without it squawking at me), I'm just going to use "reboot"

(OK, they were having problems with API access; I was getting the 502 and just needed my machine restarted ;o)

yakkoj,
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it definitely did not help that my lish access was unavailable. I usually console in and run the shell script to update the API thing and then call it to reboot

yakkoj, to random
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Wow... "cashless tolling" is going to go really well.

I have email from KTAG going on about how image-based transactions will be charged more than transponder transactions

So those who don't have a compatible transponder will roll through and have to pay twice what I do JUST because they paid on-road before now. :o(

https://www.ksturnpike.com/how-it-works

yakkoj, to random
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Got NextDNS working via Unbound on OPNsense (DoT).

This is progress. I won't need to use dnscrypt-proxy going forward.

It raises the question, though: what about internal hosts? Until now, those were going to be handled by dnsmasq and /etc/hosts, but I had to disable dnsmasq to make Unbound talk...

Pretty sure there's some way to get Unbound to both be the nameserver for all external hosts while serving up an internal zone...

yakkoj,
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I really like NextDNS, btw. Up until now, I was using NextDNS just for its DoH function.

I tried setting up a new pi-hole yesterday, but it wouldn't answer any of the queries that came through it! It was receiving them from VLANs, but NO answer.

So now it's time to test NextDNS's pi-hole-like function.

yakkoj,
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The pi-hole problem was because it's configured to only respond to "local" networks by default, and how DARE I have VLANs

So after changing it to only bind to eth0, the queries started getting answers back!

Still going to try using NextDNS, though; still want the crypted DNS

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