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_hic_haec_hoc

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Nulla crux, nulla corona

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lauren, to random
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Earth's sun does not have enough mass to nova. But if it did nova right as I'm typing this now, we wouldn't know it for a bit over eight minutes.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@lauren that was the plot of a "The Outer Limits" episode iirc

mike, to random
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The last couple days I've had a very weird headache. Most of the time it feels fine, but then I'll get these sudden spikes. They only last a second or two and I'm back to fine.

I blame The Silence. I'm sure it's their fault.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@mike did you check your blood pressure?

gfxstrand, to random
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I really hate the new energy requirements that require desktops to auto-suspend.

My main test machine just suspended in the middle of trying to move a 2 TiB partition. Pretty sure my whole install is hosed now.

Not because moving partitions is unsafe but because Linux suspend isn't aware of other forms of activity besides moving a mouse on a screen.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@gfxstrand @aeva but it must certainly be possible to disable that behaviour, right? Right? 👀

pid_eins, to random
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Woohoo, we just released systemd v255-rc1:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v255-rc1

What an awesome release!

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@pid_eins you are planning to codename the next release "Integer Overflow", right? The world wonders

kernellogger, to linux
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made it and was finally merged for 6.7: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/9e87705289667a6c5185c619ea32f3d39314eb1b

223 files changed, 95037 insertions, 56 deletions

For a feature overview and other details about this new filesystem see: https://bcachefs.org/

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@kernellogger I was going to say that the encryption featureset seems subpar in comparison to what ZFS provides and BTRFS plans to offer (at least from what I can glean from the several mailing list threads on the subject) but I suppose it must be what @mxk meant.

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@mxk @kernellogger I think the idea for BTRFS was to implement subvolume-level encryption too, which for example could allow to have part of the filesystem (the "system" part) encrypted with a key stored on TPM and user data encrypted with a key tied to the user credentials, or even do something like taking advantage of COW to have a common encrypted or cleartext base and encrypting only the differences with per-user keys. I don't know how much will actually be implemented though.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@mxk @kernellogger Fedora was/is working on this https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/blob/master/f/notes/encryption.md

jerry, to random

I am going to start moving Infosec.exchange behind Fastly. If it goes well, no one will notice. If I screw up, you’ll notice.

My money is on screwing up.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@jerry always the safe bet, the safer the longer you spent planning 🤣

flameeyes, to random
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Bloody Venetian service provider that only allows Italian IBANs for SEPA DD (against the directive.)

And the way they do it, is with stupid JavaScript validations with regexes that hardcore the IT at the beginning and don't even bother to check the checksum number.

I'm fuming by the stupid I have to deal with.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@flameeyes I hate them. When I changed bank a few years ago they ignored my new bank's request to transfer the DD, tried to get money from an account that was now closed, didn't tell me anything even if I had registered on their website and they had my phone number and email, and I only learned about the problem when I got a paper mail telling me to pay before a certain date TEN DAYS after said date. And they even made me pay a fine for their own fuckup.

flameeyes, to gentoo
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Oh hey it's now 14 years since my second most controversial decisions in : using as default editor (for sudo and others)

https://flameeyes.blog/2009/10/07/more-explanations-why-nano-is-gentoo-s-default-editor/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@flameeyes it was and would still be the correct decision, for what it's worth

arstechnica, to random
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There’s more evidence that people walked at White Sands 23,000 years ago

That means people must have been in the Americas even longer than we thought.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/theres-more-evidence-that-people-walked-at-white-sands-23000-years-ago/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@jilleduffy @arstechnica genetic data show that the earliest waves of what we now call Native Americans descend from the later admixture of an extinct population of Siberia (Ancient North Eurasians, related to modern West Eurasians too) and another related to the ancestors of modern East Asians. The people who left these footprints are more likely to be the mysterious "population Y" who causes some isolated Amazonian groups to display faint genetic links to Australian Aboriginals and Melanesians

flameeyes, to random
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I'd not thought until today how different Italian staplers are, and how confusing "desktop staplers" have been for me until I saw one the first time.

https://www.zenith.it/

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@flameeyes I've always thought they look like a sperm whale 🐋

danderson, to random
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I just had this moment of deep nostalgia.

Remember Beagle? The "Spotlight for linux" desktop search engine? Remember when you owned data and needed to search through it? And you could do that, with format awareness, without asking google and getting back fifteen "tutorial" SEO spam networks?

I've realized that I kinda want local search back. Sure the web is nice and sometimes useful, but... how much could I simply not with great local search where I can add things I care about?

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@danderson I've been mourning that same sense of optimism for more than ten years :( there's a character in Rainbows End, a retired CS professor who refuses to use the new hyper-commercialised and hyper-controlled wearable computers and AR overlays because he doesn't trust them and lugs around an old laptop he's been nursing for decades. At the time I laughed, now I realise I'm him (and I'm decades away from retirement age)

mjg59, to random
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I've been spending about half my time this summer with a 500MBit symmetric link, and the other half at about 20MBit. It's genuinely kind of surprising how little difference this has ended up making.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@mjg59 during the pandemic I found myself using X11 forwarding (don't ask) over a VPN over a 70/20 Mbit FTTC link and it worked surprisingly well (even for Chromium!). It definitely made me reevaluate what kind of connection one truly needs...

briankrebs, to random

Has anyone here done a poll recently on how many people scroll up their timelines vs. down? i.e. how many start from oldest first, and vice-versa? I'm a top down guy myself, apparently.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@briankrebs bottom up, things make no sense otherwise

simon, (edited ) to random
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

Read this book while on holiday and it transported me to another world. It's quite a long book (i didn't realise, since i was reading an ebook) but i was engrossed the whole way in this story about magicians seeking to bring magic back to England. Best book i've read for quite a while. Fantastic writing.

A masterpiece.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@bookstodon

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@simon @bookstodon I loved the footnotes so much, at first they seemed only a nice touch of worldbuilding, in tone with the Regency atmosphere of the book, and then little by little they got enmeshed with the main plot (or vice versa).

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@simon @bookstodon I should definitely read it again, it's been so long. Her newest novel, Piranesi, is very good too (and shorter 😅).

mjg59, to random
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Oh good lord finally figured out why Hulu wasn't working for me over Wireguard and apparently Fastly just ignores PMTU packets so the moment I get a packet that's larger than Wireguard's MTU of 1420 bytes the connection stalls with Fastly just retransmitting the over large packet until everything times out. Using iptables to modify the MSS makes everything work but urrrrrrrgh

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@mjg59 had the same problem, and came to the same solution, last spring, but not before spending way too much of my time trying to figure out why some random websites weren't working while others had no problems :/

mairin, to random

I got an email warning from this server - after posting in Irish a number of times over the lifetime of my account here and other folks telling me that it is welcome - that my posts in Irish are NOT welcome on Fosstodon.

Irish is a minority language not heard often, it is extremely important to me, and so this decision means this server is not a place for me. Sadly, despite my long career in FOSS.

I might abandon this account and use mastodon.ie. TBD

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@kev wow. That's really not a good look, to use an euphemism @mairin @victorvicpal

MishaalRahman, to random
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Google is working on a new developer option in Android that will swap out your device's Linux kernel with one that uses a 16K page size.

Compiling the kernel to use 16K pages could provide a significant performance improvement but also break many apps.

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_hic_haec_hoc,
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@MishaalRahman @never_released the transition will be extremely complicated, and even more so on servers and desktops. The patches in https://lwn.net/Articles/937239/ seem promising (they're at v5 now), and if the initial results ( https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230626171430.3167004-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/ ) are confirmed they could bring most of the performance with a lot less headaches

rgarver, to random

IPv6 Is A Disaster (but we can fix it) https://matduggan.com/ipv6-is-a-disaster-and-its-our-fault/

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@flameeyes @rgarver a couple of years ago I took the (surprisingly good) RIPE free IPv6 courses (https://academy.ripe.net/) and started enthusiastically planning how to deploy IPv6 as soon as possible, at least on the internet-facing side, but the more I researched it the less convinced I was. I still can't find a compelling reason to do all the work that would be needed for the scant benefits it would bring, especially in my country where 95% of users are still on IPv4 :/

Migueldeicaza, to random
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Ffmpeg options is the poster child for why you should spend time, effort and money on design.

And I am a fan of ffmpeg.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@Migueldeicaza and it was worse before they switched to the new avconv-style flags

danderson, (edited ) to random
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I have just discovered that a popular brand of washer/dryer has a diagnostic function that is literally you hold your phone up to the washer and the machine screams AFSK tones down the phone to the support person, and I'm sorely tempted to buy one just to support the chaotic design choice of shipping an acoustic coupler in consumer hardware in 2023.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@danderson is it an LG? my washer has that function but I've never needed to use it in 8 years. Still better than requiring an always-on internet connection, in my book 😅

mjg59, to random
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Discovering that most of my students never experienced Windows ME is probably the thing that has made me feel oldest

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@mjg59 I didn't either, I went straight from Windows 95 to Windows XP. My hardware replacement cycle was never the faster

karolherbst, to random
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Code review, but instead of Mailing Lists or Gitlab or whatever, people just revert each others changes until it looks good.

_hic_haec_hoc,
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@ljrk @karolherbst edit warring your code to perfection

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