Penguincoder

@Penguincoder@beehaw.org

Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English and Programming ones.

Sometimes I write things about technology.

If I told you the SHA256 for this sentence starts with ‘c, 5, four, a, and a’, would you believe me?

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Penguincoder,

Information wants to be free.

Penguincoder,

Unsubstantiated name calling. There is no sufficient evidence to support the label you’re attributing to the person. It is opinionated and name calling.

A personal argument for a benefit of gaming

I grew up hearing all the talking heads (media), religious groups and parents strongly criticizing video games. You’ve, probably, heard some of this. For example, video games involving any type of violence causing people to become more violent, etc. As far as I know, the academic community has failed to produce any negative...

Penguincoder,

Ouch… I am happy you were able to share such a defining moment of happiness with your kiddo.

this game. One of his most recent meltdowns

I try to help my kids understand it’s a game for fun. If you’re no longer having fun, you stop playing.

Penguincoder,

bee cowboy emoji

Penguincoder,

how do you deal with it?

By not caring what others think. It’s become way more efficient for me to pay for certain reliable items or services rather than spending my time to learn to and do such. If a service or product saves me time and frustration, ya I’m much happier to pay someone to do it or pay for a known fix. Sometimes that results in me spouting off about how much that was worth to me, and how much I saved (if not in money, at least in sanity).

Sharing your experiences and thoughts on a commercial product doesn’t make you a shill, or a walking ad. Rather sharing your experience with friends should be seen as a trustworthy review.

Penguincoder,

Does it occur everywhere on Beehaw or a certain page? Does it happen if you are logged out?

Penguincoder,

Thanks for the example link. In that case it appears to be the image itself from citizenlab.ca and not an actual keyboard pop up for the device. Unsure why safari is loading it as a popup image and not inline though.

Penguincoder,

Congrats :) Glad to see myserv come by that metric truthfully…

Penguincoder,

Not growing anything, but wanted to say I love your post title and contributions to discussion on Beehaw. Thanks friend.

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...

Penguincoder,

An OS can be restored. Backup your data, so /home for sure and maybe any custom configs for /etc, like your wireguard configs. So anything you specifically edited/added for /etc directory.

Penguincoder,

Always has been…

Penguincoder,

at least Spotify won’t make any money from it.

And the artists still won’t. So given in either case, the artist don’t make squat; using Spotify is easier. So, use spotify.

Penguincoder,

When the suggestion is to pirate it, so spotify doesn’t get any money I don’t see how your follow-up comment matters. In either case of piracy, OR using spotify, the artist still doesn’t make money. Problem is that piracy comes with a lot more hoops and headaches.

Of course, buying the artist CD or songs directly is much preferable to either.

Penguincoder,

Epic! Thanks for sharing.

Best article about XZ backdoor?

Hey, I’ve been hearing a LOT about the xz backdoor. Crazy story, but rather than reading 10 different articles about it from 3 days ago when the story was quite new, does anybody know a high quality write-up that has all the juicy details and facts? I really like in-depth guides that cover every aspect of the story....

Penguincoder,

Recent article on the timeline - research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

minor PSA (bee-SA?): you should now be able to use the Blobbee emoji set under our emoji picker

we discovered this set the other day by olivvybee (Liv Asch), and obviously these are delightfully thematic for our instance. you should be able to find them in our emoji picker as follows. the emoji icon, at least on desktop, is the fourth from left smiley face on comment/post UI:...

Penguincoder, (edited )

bee cowboy emoji

Penguincoder,

emoji bee_happy

Penguincoder,

Hey All, we’re aware of some sizing issues with Federation in regards to these new emoji. Working on solving those, hat tip/thanks to @sunaurus for bringing this up.

Penguincoder,

I assume that was a decision for visibility and readability?

No. We want them to be proper emoji size, not gargantuan that they are. These were imported into Lemmy via the admin UI, and they appear ‘normal size’ there. Looking into the sizing issues though.

Penguincoder,

Sorry that you’re experiencing such issues with your OS choice. If you need to be told what to do and how to get it done, Windows is a good choice for you. If you want to choose what your OS does and ensure it does it, use Linux. The path of having your system do what you want, does take some stops to learn about how to do it properly.

Penguincoder,

bee_cowboy emoji

Penguincoder,

Just wanted to comment, this isn’t a Voyager issue breaking compatibility with Beehaw. They have given us a lot of warning and efforts at keeping backwards compatibility. This was Beehaws decision to not upgrade Lemmy to a version that Voyager supports.

Has Discourse been considered as a Lemmy alternative? (discourse.org)

I remember watching this project as it was getting started. It was a replacement to all those PHP forums, like PHPBB & Simple Machines BB. This claimed to have more modern features. It’s also open-source, and you can self-host or pay them for hosting. (I recommend the latter)...

Penguincoder,

That aspect hasn’t changed, in so much that we want to keep federation aspect of the community. We don’t want to deal with Lemmy, and they don’t want to deal with us. Lemmy ~= federation.

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