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bamboombibbitybop

@bamboombibbitybop@mastodon.social

-Internet communist (open source enthusiast / occasional contributor)
-Aspiring jazz musician
-Privacy nut
-Linux stan
-Professional software engineer
-Amateur network admin
-Pivoting to Infosec

https://justmytoots.com/@bamboombibbitybop@mastodon.social

#OpenSource
#FOSS
#Linux
#Vim
#Emacs
#Privacy
#FuckGoogle
#FuckMicrosoft
#LinuxGaming
#ProjectDiablo2

he/him

Profile picture is some kind of tropical bird smoking a cigarette that I found laying around somewhere.
Not a furry.

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gutenberg_org, (edited ) to ComputerScience
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English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing died #OTD in 1954.

During World War II, he played a crucial role in deciphering the Enigma code used by the German military, significantly contributing to the Allied war effort. In his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," he proposed the famous Turing Test as a criterion for determining whether a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

#computerscience #lgbtq

bamboombibbitybop,
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@gutenberg_org Don't let anyone ever erase his queerness or whitewash the torture his own government put him through for it.

mcc, to random
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A THING I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ERROR MESSAGES

Language: NullReferenceException, the object was null on line 37

Me: Which object?

Language: The one on line 37

Me: Yes, but which of the objects on line 37?

Language [patronizingly]: It was null

bamboombibbitybop,
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@mcc At my last Javascript nightmare job, almost every stack trace was about 40% calls to "Anonymous"

skykiss, (edited ) to random
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Update: Florida was one of four states with a lifetime ban, the others being Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia. On November 6, 2018, 65% of Florida voters approved Amendment 4, which automatically restores the voting rights of people convicted of a felony—except murder or sexual offenses—after the completion of their sentences.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@skykiss can't vote, but can run and get elected. makes perfect sense, no notes

1g0r, to random
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@mntmn: MNT Pocket Reform arrived - connected to 9front via drawterm:

• http://9lab.org/plan9/mnt-pocket-reform-arrived/

…no native 9front install yet; hopefully 'soon'…

bamboombibbitybop,
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@1g0r @mntmn How big is this thing? Does it comfortably fit in any pockets, even larger-than-average ones?

marcoarment, to random
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My favorite thing about tethering is

nothing

nothing is my favorite thing about tethering

Please, cellular Macs already!

(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)

bamboombibbitybop,
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@marcoarment (assuming you're doing wifi hotspot with mobile data) On some cell carriers, you can massively increase the speed by increasing the TTL on the network packets coming from your laptop by 1 -- they throttle by inspecting the TTL. Assume TTL=64 for your phone and your laptop, when packets from your phone hit the satellite, TTL=63, no throttle. Laptop, TTL=62. Increase the TTL to 65 on laptop and bypass the throttle. No idea if Mac lets you do this. Trivial on Linux and even Windows.

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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I decided to check if gaming distros gave you an edge in terms of performance, compared to something based, and of a specific gaming distro would perform better than another.

Since I had a @tuxedocomputers mini ITX desktop on hand to review, I decided to combine the two, so I checked whether gaming distros are better for gaming, with 4 game benchmarks I ran on the Atlas S:

https://youtu.be/Wu6uNmyXRHA

bamboombibbitybop,
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@thelinuxEXP @tuxedocomputers did you perform the tests with and without using gamemoderun %COMMAND% in the steam launch options? gamemode gave me a significant performance bump

flexghost, to random
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We live in a timeline where Libertarians have more sense than the alt-left

Here’s Trump getting booed…

Trump being rotund asking for votes. This is the Same timeline as Libertarians having more sense than students getting their DoorDash sent to their hunger strike before receiving a degree in imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens

bamboombibbitybop,
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@flexghost

"booooooooo"

"Uh, you all want to vote for me -- most of you will"

booing intensifies

It's like he's trying to gaslight them before the fact to induce some form of mass hypnosis or Jedi mind trick or something

robsonfletcher, to microsoft
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So ... any suggestions on getting started with a Linux machine?

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

bamboombibbitybop,
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@robsonfletcher Pop_OS! is solid and offers good NVIDIA compatibility.

You'll need to download the .iso, available here (if you have an NVIDIA card, select the NVIDIA one): https://pop.system76.com/

After that, you'll need to flash it to a USB stick. You can do this with RUFUS, available here: https://rufus.ie/en/

Then, you'll have to boot your computer with the stick. Usually when you first turn it on, it says "press [key] to view startup options" -- depends on hw. Boot the stick + install

ghorwood, to random
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"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@ghorwood What Linux is missing for everyday folks to adopt it is normal people don't want to install an OS. If you could go into Best Buy and buy a laptop that had Fedora with KDE pre-installed and configured, people would quickly realize that it's actually very solid and usable for non-tech people.

"It's simple -- just download the .iso of your favorite distro (oh, also, pick one), boot into your BIOS, partition your disks, pick a DE, click install"

No, it's not. That's too much for most.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@meejah @ghorwood which laptop(s) do you recommend to people?

anderseknert, to random
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When you talk to people about JIRA, many will say something like "it'd be an awesome tool if it just got rid of all the annoying features and focused on the most important ones". Which is probably true! The curse of JIRA is of course that no one seems to agree on which features are important vs. which ones are annoying. So you end up with all of them anyway.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@anderseknert https://ifuckinghatejira.com

faraiwe, to Russia
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"Hi, I am [ ], I lve in warm waters oblast in Amerika. I am Amerikan voter. I will not be voting for Biden"

bamboombibbitybop,
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@faraiwe HELLO I AM SEXY BOOB LADY I LIVE IN ONE OF THE US STATES AND I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR ALEXEI NAVALNY I MEAN JOE BIDEN

QasimRashid, to random
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BREAKING: House passes bill to criminalize criticism of Israel — a bill opposed by numerous Jewish groups, numerous Jewish members of Congress, and the ACLU.

My latest: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/breaking-house-passes-bill-to-criminalize

bamboombibbitybop,
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@QasimRashid I'm sure our very reasonable and non-problematic supreme court will properly recognize this as an unenforceable first amendment violation when they hear a case about it /:

mcc, to random
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Anyway since waking up I have successfully written a Rust program that parses an mp3 and prints to the terminal the waveform (or rather signal power over time of the whole file) as ASCII art. It works great. There is only one problem: This is not something I need

bamboombibbitybop,
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@mcc Somebody could make some cool album art with this!

GrapheneOS, to random
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One of our community members has been doing testing of Android VPN apps to check for leaks. They've found and reported 2 issues where leak blocking functionality doesn't appear to work as intended: one occurs with local network multicast and the other with DNS while VPN is down.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@GrapheneOS Which VPN apps are affected?

bamboombibbitybop,
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@z7z @GrapheneOS I don't think it's the protocol, I think they're talking about the Android apps -- like NordVPN, TunnelBear, etc

_Davidsmith, to random
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While the App Store is far from perfect, seeing Delta sustain its position at the top of the App Store is a lovely reminder of its best feature.

That an indie developer can dedicate years honing their craft and then create something so compelling that it beats out apps from trillion-dollar companies, enriching the lives of millions of people along the way.

That’s beautiful. That’s inspiring. And just plain awesome.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have my career at a time when that is possible.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@_Davidsmith Also speaks volumes about the state of mobile gaming. Emulating quality games from 30+ years ago > all of the ad-ridden bitcoin-mining tapvomit P2W slop from the trash heap of churn-and-burn whale-seeking mobile game publishers

bamboombibbitybop,
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@_Davidsmith Also, Temu being number 2 is incredibly depressing.

gvwilson, to random
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As someone who has taught Git to (literally) several thousand people over 15 years, most of them without CS backgrounds, I am deeply grateful to @b0rk and others for producing cheat sheets and being honest up front about how bad its ergonomics are. It is the opposite of gatekeeping: it tells newcomers who are unsure of themselves that it's not their fault when things go wrong (as they invariably do with Git because of the aforementioned ergonomics).

bamboombibbitybop,
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@gvwilson @b0rk Two things can be true at the same time.

  1. Git is a big, complicated, and confusing system with some questionable naming decisions and sprawling documentation.

  2. Git is probably the best VCS anyone's cooked up so far, and it's an extremely valuable skill to learn.

I liken it to Awk, Vim, Emacs, or a lot of other old-school Unix tools. Steep learning curve, huge payoff.

GossiTheDog, to random
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AI Tech Bros are VERY UPSET that reviewers are REVIEWING PRODUCTS

bamboombibbitybop,
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@GossiTheDog "First, do no harm"

lmfao okay dude

bamboombibbitybop, to random
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I'm currently working a dev job that I hate. I'm making good money, but for a lot of different reasons, I cannot stand the work.

I've reached a breaking point with this current role where I have decided to quit in July no matter what.

Is this stupid? I am well aware of the market and the risks, but my sanity is waning and I need out.

My plan is to get my life back in order re: fitness, diet, sleep, etc while aggressively applying and pursuing IT certs. This feels right, but am I being naive?

thelinuxEXP, to random
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After I realized I didn’t use my SteamOS console all that much, because most PC games I’m currently playing are more keyboard and mouse than controller (which is annoying to do on my couch in front of my TV), and after a failed upgrade to the immutable version of HoloISO, I decided to repatriate this desktop in the office and use it as a gaming PC (keyboard / mouse instead of controller), and installed Nobara.

It’s been great so far!

bamboombibbitybop,
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@thelinuxEXP I gave Nobara a whirl, but I found the update mechanism to be annoying and ended up just going back to EndeavourOS. I just can't give up the Pacman+AUR+Arch wiki ecosystem.

bamboombibbitybop,
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@thelinuxEXP I'm not particularly concerned about it, I mostly just want to do "yay discord" and "yay spotify" and not have to fiddle around with flatpak or what have you.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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GNU + Linux 🔥

bamboombibbitybop,
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@itsfoss Pink Floyd did it first

Green_Footballs, to random
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Who could ever have predicted he’d do something this awful?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-posts-pics-of-judges-daughter/

bamboombibbitybop,
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@Green_Footballs

"gag order debate"

Since when is there a debate? it's a fucking gag order. The judge ordered it. End of discussion. He continues to flippantly violate it. Imprison him.

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