@lucas@fitt.au
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lucas

@lucas@fitt.au

Just a bloke.
Here for the memes and the generalised nerdiness.
And Fractals.

Oh, and let's not forget the decentralisation of social media. I'm fully on board with that!

#Debian user, small-time #SysAdmin, #HomeLab warrior, terrible #Programmer, #HomeAutomation tragic, from #Australia and #MostlyHarmless

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lucas, to random
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In important reminder to myself on the front of the work machine.

tweedge, to random
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Now that my class is wrapping up, time to try out some Seagate MACH.2 (read: dual actuator!) HDDs. The performance from these has been crazy - over 500 MB/s sustained sequential reads per drive. Comes with more power consumption, heat, and I assume failure rate... But looking forward to seeing how these perform in the real world.

lucas,
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@tweedge finally, someone's having a real swing at HDD speeds! I'd be interested the see if random I/O has improved.

lucas,
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@warm @Dragxito they saw the race to the bottom was on, and decided they didn't want to go out like that

lucas, to random
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Advertisements are basically Dick Pics from Corporations.

lucas, to random
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/privacy-and-protections

You have to pay microsoft to make CoPilot forget your query history.

I have opinions, they're mostly swear words and [autistic screeching]

lucas,
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@realitista @andrew_bidlaw they're really not good in loud places like a plane (for you) in my experience the person you're on a call with will hear you just fine, but being open-ear designs they just can't compete with jets.

They are very good for having background music going in offices and such - you can hear it, but you can have conversations over it without any trouble

lucas,
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@wjrii @JohnnyCanuck Way Back When(TM) I worked at a telco, we had a customer go over seas on a sales trip, used his phone like normal, and then came home to a phone bill up around $35k.

I don't know how much he made while overseas, but he wasn't that upset about the phone bill, outside of him kicking himself for forgetting to get a data pack.

lucas,
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@tigerjerusalem @boem the same level of integration they're showing off on youtube can be achieved with off-the-shelf eye trackers, soo.... maybe not?

lucas, to debian
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Either has forgotten how to write a boot record, or is eating them.

Either way, this machine was installed from a minimal .iso, booted from disk1, logged into, software installed (vim, curl), and on reboot apparently now has no boot records on any of it's disks.

I umm..

I Don't Know.

Maybe it's not Ghosts.

lucas,
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@tripplehelix I've actually manged to chain together a reliable series of events that cause it, and it's unfortunately "software bug", and not "ghosts"

Hypervisor: Nutanix/AHV
Guest: Debian 12.5 netinst

If I install uefi/secure boot in Nutanix, and shut down the the machine, the boot records disappear. you can install a fresh system and reboot many times without being affected. as soon as you shut down though, poof gone.

If I used bios/legacy mode, the boot loader persists, as you'd expect

lucas,
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@tripplehelix It's a tickbvox at VM creation, I'm not changing it on the fly at all. And now that I've gone and taken a screenshot, I see that I can't change it.

So far I've installed (and lost the ability to boot) three VMs as UEFI un nutanix, and one as BIOS that's not affected.

and it's only on power-off, not on reboot. the first time I found this, it was VM that had been up for 2 months, i turned it off to noodle with the NICs and (this)

lucas, to TeslaMotors
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Hello drivers in

There is a petition to make Electric chargers accept "normal" payments (just credit card) instead of requiring an app.

It seems like a great idea, if you think so too, you should sign it.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6056

RickiTarr, to random
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No comment.

lucas,
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@RickiTarr

(X) I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

lucas,
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@Veedem I still have 23Gb free. Time for more tabs!

freemo, to random
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What is the name for a person (me) who gets all his pens sent to a special pen "smith" who customizes and grinds down the tip to make it soft and flexible for spencarian writing...

I feel like "nerd" doesnt quite fit.. its something on another level and I dont know what to call it.

lucas,
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@freemo "pen geek" 😃

lucas,
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@freemo why not both? English will let you string things together almost infinitely if you get the order right!

"pompas ass pen geek" almost makes sense, and almost alliterates. 😂

lucas,
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@freemo "pompas pen proficianado" does alliterate!

That's my final offer for name-calling on the internet haha

lucas, to random
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One thing that LLMS have taught me:

Copyright only matters if you matter.

Specifically, "You matter" by the capitalism definition:

  1. You can afford better lawyers than the other guys.

Someone makes an emulator, and it allows someone to not pay Nintendo their due? STRIKE IT FROM THE INTERNET!

Someone consumes the sum total of all words on the internet and uses it to build a word-guesser?
I'MMA JUST GIVE YOU MY CHEQUE BOOK AND SHOW YOU HOW TO DO MY SIGNATURE!

lucas, to PostgreSQL
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with streaming replication to a pair of synchronous NFS shares that are backed by spinning rust arrays is a fairly large performance downgrade from a singe instance running on gen4 NVMEs, with all the dials flipped from "safety" to "yee-haw!"

Tune in for next week's episode of - Fire: Is it really hot?

ianRobinson, to random
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The YouTube algorithm is putting a lot of Dune related videos in my recommendations. I’m using the “Don’t recommend channel” and “Not interested” options to get it to stop.

For obvious reasons given my view on the new film.

lucas,
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@ianRobinson it's trying to tempt me, it keeps dangling a "bad lip reading of dune" video in my reccomends.

I just know as soon as I click it I'm being boarded onto the YouTube Dune Hype Train 2024

preslavrachev, (edited ) to Java
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Probably, an unpopular opinion, but hear me out: Java needs developer tools that are lightweight and built with native performance in mind. The existing ecosystem is solid, but slow and inefficient.

We can start with a simple formatter built in Rust, which takes nanoseconds to format your codebase, and does it relentlessly, without relying on you giving it any configuration options at all. Think, gofmt, rustfmt, Ruff’s Black-compatible formatter, etc.

Is this … ?

lucas,
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@preslavrachev would this tool also transpose the java code in to rust code?

if so, i'm on board with that! 🤣

IMNSHO: the quality of dev tools reflect the quality of the language. I don't think I've ever used a java dev tool and thought "wow, this is nice!"

Jakra, to australia
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    lucas,
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    @Jakra way over here in the pointy state we have the "VicEmergency" app which does push notifications - maybe your state has similar?

    lucas, to sysadmin
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    Hello and people.

    Have any of you heard of / used / know anything about ?

    The business manager has arranged a demo unit to show up, and step one of installation is "send all of your traffic to some black box appliance on the network" and then "AI Will keep you safe"

    Literally, that's all I've been told. "Give us your network traffic, AI will keep you safe"

    Obviously, I'm building up some anxiety about this. Nobody has even given us a price yet(!)

    ianRobinson, to scifi
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    3 Body Problem | Official Trailer | Netflix

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogSbMD6EcY

    lucas,
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    @ianRobinson this looks interesting.

    my only question - "from the creators of game of thrones" - the ones that listened to the author and told a story half the planet was invested in - or - the yahoos that ruined a great show in one short season?

    lucas,
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    @ianRobinson In hindsight, that was a good choice by you haha GoT Season 1 was as close to a 1:1 recreation from the books as they could probably do.

    By the final seasons, it was more like "GoT Characters in a terrible fanfic"

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