I got off my ass and set up a vhost on a different webserver for the (bare) practicalzfs.com. It just redirects to discourse.practicalzfs.com for the moment, but that's enough to give it its own SSL certificate so nobody who types in the barename gets a cert mismatch error.
The really "fun" thing about getting one of your sites false-positive detected as a malware site is that pretty much all of the engines use EACH OTHER as data points, so once one of them flags you, all the others immediately follow suit... but they generally DON'T follow one another in terms of REMOVING false positive detection results.
So if eg Kaspersky sneezes, you have ten or more badly documented and completely different removal request procedures to follow.
Y'all ever get a fractal question? One that seems simple at first glance, but the more you pay attention, the deeper the layers you've got to address actually go?
This morning at Practical ZFS--if you'll pardon a car analogy--essentially, a Proxmox user wanted to know "how can I wash my car?" and I discovered that I first needed to walk them through every stage of Johnny Cash's Cadillac, THEN we could talk about the carwash:
I also get those "fractal requests" at work. Recently I got a request to change a server name in an automated file transfer. Simple enough, It was literally an increment of the old file name, so one character different in the name server2.client.com instead of server1.client.com. Then it turns out they're using a nonstandard port, which requires a firewall change, which requires a request and approval from NetSec, which takes over a week. For 1 number.
I think AI music generation has reached a similar level as AI image generation. Behold, "sad girl on piano sings the MIT license" as generated by suno dot ai:
I notoriously disapproved of #BG3 during Early Access, but #Larian fixed every complaint I had--the final release is IMO the best licensed D&D CRPG of all time.
I respect the integrity it took to step away, and I can't wait for their next project.
I was having some shower thoughts this morning, and it occurred to me that stimming is likely essentially the same neural impulse as instinctive dancing to music is in neurotypicals.
Like, sure, we have plenty of DELIBERATE dancing in neurotypical society, and it serves any number of purposes, but I'm talking about the automatic, unforced impulse to nod your head, tap your toes, shake your ass to a beat.
My shower thought is, whether it's an NT dancing to a beat or an ND stimming to an exciting video, in either case, it's essentially a pleasurably overwhelming flood of information.
In either case, we enjoy it more if we engage in repetitive movement while taking in the data.
But I'm not #actuallyautistic myself, so I'm really wondering if anybody who does experience stimming can chime in about this.
I am now downloading and installing Firefox on my $1,000 server OS ahead of time, so that I will be able to then uninstall Edge without fearing that I then have no way to download and install a browser.
Boy, I sure am glad Windows is so "easy and forgiving..."
@jimsalter I had an ansible playbook for setting up CI agents. I hadn't looked at it in awhile and decided to run the agent as an admin user so that tailscale would work and forgot to check the user creation task. That task set the groups for the CI agent user and replaced any existing ones. Administrator was not in that group list and I lost admin access to the machine. I had to reinstall windows to get it back.
People are so quick to be like "don't hoard your health potions and scrolls, use them, it's what they're there for!" And yeah, admittedly, I frequently finish an RPG with 100+ unused health potions alone.
HOWEVER.
I am a child of the 80s, goddammit, and I grew up with two different types of RPG: the kind where you could always grind to get more loot, and the kind where there were only so many monsters in each area.
You ever gotten to the end of a game with NO consumables at ALL?
There's certainly more than one reason I strongly prefer free and open source operating systems and other software. But this ONE would frankly be enough, all on its own.
@jimsalter This is insane. 🤯
I've been hearing reports like this that made me wary of upgrading my work machine from Win 10 to 11, but this is way worse than I thought.
I'm hoping that every single decision they take along this trajectory looses them more and more customers. Or consumers? It's no longer really clear what the Hell's going on.
But sadly it seems like people just increase their tolerance against annoyment. They've long since reached my threshold. 😩
Both 2.5admins.com and practicalzfs.com are currently offline, due to their entire datacenter also being offline, possibly due to extreme inclement weather.
We have full backups, and are monitoring the situation at the datacenter to determine if/when we give up on them and spin up a new host elsewhere.
I don't think I realized how easy it was to block entire Masto instances as a user--not just as an instance admin--until today. It's literally two clicks and done.
So there's DEFINITELY no need for anyone to lose their mind over commercial ventures offering Fediverse integration. If #Bluesky or #Threads or whatever shows up in your timeline and you don't like it, just find any post from any user on that platform, click the hamburger menu, and click block domain: DONE.
You can give a Microsoft person a main ballroom to speak in, and they can give an excellent talk on #WSL... But you can't get many of the Linux conference attendees to show up for it. ☹️
@jpmens you're not wrong. I'm guessing some bigwig couldn't stand the idea of Linux "coming first" ahead of Windows in the name, and stubborned up until he got his way. 😂
Confession: I still browse r/zfs on Reddit every few days. I try never to respond there anymore, because principles are principles, but it's HARD seeing people's questions go either unanswered or--worse, and all too frequently--very, very badly mis-answered.
It feels like extremely bad form to continue to advertise Practical ZFS there on Reddit, but please... if you have ZFS questions, go to https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/ for answers. Reddit is a festering corpse.
I bought a 200W charger last week which puts my Galaxy tablet in "Super Fast Charging" mode when plugged in... which, I discovered, has a different sound effect.
"Super Fast" charging mode has essentially the same sound effect as regular charging, but with a ton of lilting reverb added. It makes the tablet sound excited to get plugged in, which is a little weird.
Ars Technica's Ron Amadeo reports in depth on the bug we brought up in this week's @25admins : people with multiple user profiles on Android 14 devices are being locked out of their main profile.