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fedops

@fedops@fosstodon.org

Self-confessed hermit misanthrope. #childfree, #foss, #privacy, #selfhosting, #hiking, #gardening, #nature #conservancy, #EV. My background is 30 years of Unix and Linux sysadmin, 10 in industrial OT security. I'm also a forest smallholder.

Fuck Putin and fuck all fascists.

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thelinuxcast, to random
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I'm trying to decide whether or not to stick with my current rsync based backup strategy now that I have a home lab or if I should use something like borg.

On one hand I know how to use rsync locally. On the other, I could do both my remote and my local backup with borg and just use one tool.

fedops,
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@thelinuxcast I recently moved from rsync-with-hardlinks to borg. It's faster and handles its own encryption so can use an untrusted remote filesystem.

My initial reservation was against extra backup software that might not be available to restore after a disaster, but borg and borgmatic are included in the standard Fedora repos now.

fedops, to random
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I actually had to follow a youtube link to see what all the kerfuffle is about with the new iPad commercial.

Quite happy with how little of this stuff gets through my media channels.

RL_Dane, (edited ) to amiga
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Hey awesome and helpful friends,

Continuing my alternate history exploration, I've settled on the hardware I would've gotten for Christmas 1989 (A500, basic monitor, some kind of HDD, Workbench 1.3), but now I'm trying to find fairly equivalent software to what I used on the classic mac to round out the experience.

Any recommendations for Amiga equivalents truly appreciated:

...

Update: Thanks so much for all of the helpful pointers so far. I will be going over the options tonight. <3

fedops,
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@RL_Dane I had that setup in late 87, replacing the C128. Eventually adding a second aftermarket floppy drive.

As for software I was using Aztec C, and of course Deluxe Paint. For Shareware you couldn't beat the Fred Fish disks, and also the Tampa Bay Amiga Group had their Tbag disks. Those are still available on archive.org.

thelinuxcast, to random
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If I wanted to start a blog, but had no interest in managing the software of it, which platform should I choose? Honestly been out of the blogging space for so long, I have no idea what the options are outside of managed wordpress.

fedops,
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@thelinuxcast look at Codeberg pages.
@RL_Dane

Neblib, to stackoverflow
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For Europeans wanting to remove their data from #stackoverflow, wouldn't a GDPR deletion request do the trick? I wish we had real data privacy laws in my country.

#AskFedi #asklaw #asklegalfedi

fedops,
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@Neblib only your account data. The answers you voluntarily contributed are not covered.

thelinuxcast, to random
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Anyone know if there's a good alternative for Flameshot that works well with Wayland?

fedops,
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@thelinuxcast never got flameshot to work either, and I've spent hours. 😤

Spectacle has really nice annotation features (including the numbering) so it's worth having to have the KDE dependencies IMHO.
@alemm

RL_Dane, to random
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Ooo, found a new-to-me fediverse software in < 15k SLOC of C: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

$ cloc snac2

Language code

C 11441
C/C++ Header 3351
...

SUM: 15533

cc: @amin

fedops,
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@RL_Dane 185 THOUSAND lines of YAML? What?
@amin

array, to random
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The ETA just for setting up the development environment in $newJob is no less than 2 weeks, but it's no problem if it's two months. I know many of you are used to this kind of scale in dev work places, but I'm kind of terrified (that, plus the ~300 person IT workforce all in the same place, the git repo with more than 100 repos -and this is, apparently, just the tip of the iceberg-), the commits in 1000+ LOC files made in the past century... This will be fun, fortunately. And sadly. :P

fedops,
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@array sounds cool! 👍 Plus you're the only person who I've ever heard say they like Java 😂😂 so that's great.

fedops,
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@array @tulpa oh yeah, no comparison to JS and other languages from hell.

Java basically survived due to Moore's Law. When it came out in the 1990s it was so comically slow we referred to Java/Corba/XML as the Tranquilizer Trio. These days it can be really fast even on a phone.

fedops,
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@array good strategy! 😀
@tulpa

btp, to random
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I know it's probably petty and stupid, but I find it annoying and kind of insulting that my employer doesn't allow me (a technical employee) to manage my own work machine updates.

fedops,
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@btp same. Or change the home page of the browser. Because clearly the GPO doubleclickers in the basement know better.

hl, to random
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At work we have to register being off ill via a 'bot'. It asks for your date of birth in the format: "DD.MM.YY" When it asks for your presumed last day of sickness, it wants the date in the format "DDMMYYYY".

I think this is a cunning trick to see how ill you really are, as to put up with that nonsense you must be feeling really low.

#ShouldHaveBeenAForm

fedops,
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@hl we have to type that into an SAP webweaver form. And lemme tell ya, that's quite an accomplishment even on a good day.

RL_Dane, to amiga
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I find myself missing the #Amiga's "bring up" / "push down" window stacking buttons all of a sudden.

fedops,
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@RL_Dane I always loved them. The Amiga UI was really nice, also to program.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Or, as Americans are so fond of saying: "Yippie Kay Yay, Motherfckrs!"

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque @fitheach i also like "discombobulated" and "flabbergasted". 😀

slothrop, to random
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Our hotel for the night 🤩

fedops,
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@slothrop schweet! Going sailing tomorrow?

mikestone, to random

First run.

fedops,
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@mikestone very nice! If only Bambu weren't so anti-foss. 🤔

ChrisWere, to random
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The more heavy-handed legislation on IMs comes down, the more sensible P2P IM apps become. If you take out the server - per se - everyone becomes responsible for their own data. There's no 'service' to fine, or penalise.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/eu-csam-scanning-council-proposal-flaws/

fedops,
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@ChrisWere this is the reason I don't really care what legislation they put in.

If anything it will only accelerate the move to true P2P messengers, and that's a good thing. Things like SimpleX are already every bit as useable as e.g. Signal.

btp, to random
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My boss told me that ARM chips are for toys and children and only real machines run x86. I'm still dumbfounded.

fedops,
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@joel @btp lol.

fedops, to random
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Shoutout to lightningmaps.org for a really neat visualization of what's going on. 👍

fedops,
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@proactiveservices yeah absolutely. This week's been a real roller coaster...
@troublewithwords

simon_brooke, to random
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Blessings of Beltane to you all. The Sun returns; the Earth greens and gives forth abundance. Be grateful, and hopeful. There is grace in this day.

fedops,
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@simon_brooke and to you. There will be food and drink offered to The Fair Folk tonight.

fedops, to random
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I have an opening for an OT security person in the Cologne/Düsseldorf region of Germany.

You must be a FOSS aficionado who is willing to work on pushing a windows-based environment towards something from this millenium. Challenges are internal friction on the dev side and lack of knowledge of non-IT people.

You must be enthusiastic about industrial environments and heavy machinery.

EU citizen/work permit preferred, hybrid office/wfh. Relocation assistance. DM for details.

thewk, to random
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finally found a coral ai accelerator in stock. Should arrive sometime next week....
It's for a fun new idea to keep cat poop out of my garden.
Utilizing camera feeds and a watering system attached to my home assistant....

fedops,
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@thewk oh dear. 😄 Does the plan include explosives or missiles as well?

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Finally... The weekend!

If only it had not taken a 4 hours meeting to end the week...

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque eleven (11) meetings today. Personal high score. For small values of high.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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"Design by committee" is alive and well.

Alas.

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque another day full of long meetings?

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