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gerowen

@gerowen@mastodon.social

Husband, father, US Army veteran, IT specialist, school bus driver, diesel mechanic, tech, security, Linux and free software enthusiast, gamer, dog lover.

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dimillian, (edited ) to random
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I think that any instance defederating Threads instance when it'll actually be compatible is just wrong. If it happens to big servers, Mastodon will just become yet another echo chambers that I'll have to leave.

gerowen,
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@dimillian I think the concern is that the fediverse will get flooded with garbage that Meta will fail to moderate. There's also privacy concerns. Meta's whole business model is the collection and sale of personal data. We already know they collect info on people without Facebook accounts. What happens when they connect to the fediverse, which is all public? They collect all that data and then sell it to advertising agencies who will spread unmoderated garbage to the fediverse via Threads.

gerowen, to gaming
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So I upgraded the hole in front of my door in / to be 2x3 instead of just 1 block, so that spiders will fit. I also replaced the trap doors with sticky pistons because since trap doors sort of work like ladders, mobs would be pushed right up against my door and then even when I opened the trap doors, they would just sit there bouncing up and down using the trap door itself as a ledge/ladder to stand on, instead of falling into the hole.

A video showing the upgraded version of my trap door system. A zombie runs up to my door, I flip a lever that pulls the ground out from under him, dropping him 30 blocks onto a collection of hoppers that feed his loot into a chest for me to collect.

gerowen, to linux
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Ever forgotten what number means what in terms of permissions? Here's a little note I keep on hand.

CHMOD By the Numbers

0 = No permissions
1 = x
2 = w
3 = wx
4 = r
5 = rx
6 = rw
7 = rwx

gerowen,
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@raptor85 @jc Oh I know, I just wanted to share that little note I keep on hand.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    gerowen,
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    @GossiTheDog That's all Microsoft does any more; miss opportunities, kill projects, buy the competition and repackage other people's work. They haven't made anything really "original" in a very long time.

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    gerowen,
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    @GossiTheDog They know, but it would involve paying a billion dollar Google cloud bill to fix it, so instead they're placing artificial limits on tweeting, reading, etc. to try to keep the site operational.

    amydentata, to random

    Saying that ChatGPT "can't yet provide reliably correct answers to questions" is like saying your cat can't yet provide reliable services as a paralegal. You can't solve that task mismatch with a better cat

    gerowen,
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    @amydentata I hate how our culture is so enamored with the science fiction of killer robots that they'll mislabel machine learning as "AI". They're ascribing a certain sentience, autonomy and intent to things like ChatGPT that just isn't there. It's not "intelligent" any more than your cell phone is; it's just really good at guessing what the next logical word in a sentence should be based on your input and context clues in the conversation, and sometimes those words are total bullshit.

    EposVox, to random
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    It’s honestly amazing how, as I’ve aged, I’ve gone from pirating out of necessity/rebellion to trying to not pirate unless I absolutely had to, to thinking it’s the only ethical answer. :/

    https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/disney-plus-mercilessly-wipes-a-50-million-sci-fi-blockbuster-from-existence-just-7-weeks-after-it-premiered/

    gerowen,
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    @EposVox I think we have all gone through those stages. As a kid I pirated music with WinMX and Kazaa because it was the only way I could access music. Then when I started building my Plex server I spent obscene amounts of money on DVDs and Blu-rays to avoid piracy at all costs. Now though, that's the only option for a lot of things. I've bought several physical copies of old shows that, once they arrived, were obviously counterfeit and garbage quality. They're not leaving us many options.

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    gerowen,
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    @valkyrie I love those movies. When playing Breath of the Wild, I named my big white horse (Zelda's horse, or its descendant) Artax, in honor of the horse in the movie, 🙂

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    gerowen,
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    @valkyrie Watch for leeches and mosquitoes, 😛

    gerowen, to reddit
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    The moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781306/reddit-moderators-iama-celebrity-ama

    gerowen, to random
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    My wife caught this pretty cool photo of one of the I was setting off this evening.

    gerowen, to random
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    Picked up some to set off early since the 4th falls on a weekday. Our local city is setting off their own fireworks and having a parade tomorrow, so I decided to go ahead and set ours off tonight.

    A video of me setting off one of our "mortar" type fireworks.

    gerowen, to kentucky
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    It's gonna be another scorcher tomorrow here in eastern , and it's supposed to break 100 the day after. Plus, the smoke from those Canadian wildfires is pretty thick.

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    @gmate8 I had never heard of it before but it came pre-installed with CalyxOS and it's actually really nice.

    nateb, to random

    How to use Bitcoin privately/anonymously in three easy steps:

    1. Buy Bitcoin
    2. Convert it to Monero
    3. use Monero
    gerowen,
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    @nateb Exactly. No matter how many other Bitcoin wallets you try to shuffle your money through, it's all completely public and traceable. Monero fixes Bitcoin's privacy flaws.

    gerowen,
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    @gmate8 @nateb Well last I heard the IRS's bounty on it was still unclaimed, so that's good, at least for now.

    joinjabber, to random

    There are some posts lately how is dead or was killed by Facebook.

    This seems like a classic case of:

    "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"😉

    gerowen,
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    @joinjabber I use XMPP on a daily basis. Contains(.)im is the primary messenger I use to talk to my wife and kids when I'm out and about because it seems a bit more reliable than Signal.

    TechConnectify, to random
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    I know I shouldn't be surprised by the reaction here of all places, but my word.

    You know, if your computer is doing some background task and it's being kind of slow, you have the option to walk away from it and do other things.

    It's yet another discrepancy on how we value time. My computer rendering the video is like my dishwasher washing dishes. Not time I'm spending, and toots about puzzling or humourous behavior ain't a cry for help

    gerowen,
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    @TechConnectify I've got a computer whose whole job is rendering stuff. Its whole purpose in life is that one CPU intensive job. That way when it's working, I can still play games on my Steam Deck or use all my other devices to do other things or, gasp, go outside, 😛

    Looking forward to whatever your next video is about.

    gerowen,
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    @TechConnectify If what you use works for you, then more power to you. You're gonna find extremists wherever you go; Linux evangelists who insist that anything proprietary is equivalent to worshiping the NSA, and Windows evangelists who see open source as a bunch of commie nonsense.

    "I" prefer Linux and run it on every computer in the house, including my kids' laptops. But, I understand that my approach is not best for everybody, especially those already invested in an ecosystem.

    mattblaze, to random
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    "Catastrophic implosion" sounds like it was probably a quick way to go, at least.

    gerowen,
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    @mattblaze At the 5,000-6,000 psi it was experiencing, yeah, there was no hope of survival for an unprotected human. They wouldn't have even had time to struggle once that pressure hit them.

    thenewoil, to random
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    Russian APT28 hackers breach Ukrainian govt email servers

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-apt28-hackers-breach-ukrainian-govt-email-servers/

    gerowen,
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    @thenewoil Why were government email servers internet accessible?

    gerowen,
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    @thenewoil In the military our email was all totally self hosted and classified information pertaining to troop movements was on a completely separate intranet network with no civilian internet connectivity. Putting this kind of info on a network that foreign adversaries can access through civilian networks like the internet is just begging for trouble.

    gerowen,
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    @thenewoil The "entry points", if you want to call them that, are managed by physical encryption devices with keys stored on physical devices that are changed on a regular basis. Those devices, and any devices on the network, must be stored inside physically secure locations such as a walk-in vault. In terms of "logical" connections where traffic transverses between SIPR or TSIPR networks and the public internet or unclassified NIPR, there is none, or somebody would have a very bad day.

    gerowen,
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    @thenewoil The "entry points", if you want to call them that, are managed by physical encryption devices with keys stored on physical devices that are changed on a regular basis. Those devices, and any devices on the network, must be stored inside physically secure locations such as a walk-in vault. In terms of "logical" connections where traffic transverses between classified networks and the public internet or unclassified NIPR, there is none, or somebody would have a very bad day.

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