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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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Advertisements are basically Dick Pics from Corporations.

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, 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

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

lucas,
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@Thekingoflorda @gedaliyah seems to be, yeah

lucas,
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@puppy @Wanderer Greed?

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

lucas, to infosec
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or people I have a question.

If someone is failing exchange logins repeatedly from Microsoft's 40.99.0.0/16 subnet, are they a) legitimate user failing auth or b) someone else using azure to do credential stuffing?

More importantly, how do I find out myself? Whois says "that's microsoft" reverse DNS says "ask the azure DNS servers" and nmap said (for the host i was interested in) "that server isn't up" - but there it is, in my logs, failing auth for one person over and over.

lucas, to random
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I just heard a song I haven't heard in a long time: Tenacious D, Fuck Her Gently.

Just as funny now as it was when I was a teenager.

Either it's a good song, or I haven't grown up. I'm fine with either.

lucas, to australia
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In honor of I present: A mossy rock with small ferns and a dead leaf at the Crystal Cascades,

The whole time I'm walking around with a camera, muttering "Mosstodon" to myself and shooting random things with Moss on them.

lucas, to HashtagGames
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Airplane Landing Gear


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 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

mikemathia, to random
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#Imagine

lucas,
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@mikemathia You can say what you like about man-buns - and I often do - but if you see one behind a coffee machine in a shitty little cafe somewhere, that's the man you want making your coffee.

lucas,
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@USSEthernet @Murdoc why we used to ask them if one was blinking fast or slow, it made them actually look at the modem

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 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,
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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

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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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@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,
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@twei @Boozilla You're in luck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

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 "pompas pen proficianado" does alliterate!

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

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

sysop408, (edited ) to random
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Every now and then, I like to hand off my camera to someone who looks like they could handle a full sized camera with a large lens and a speedlight.

Usually the results aren't very good, but I picked the right person the other day for this assisted self portrait.

lucas,
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@sysop408 I made the mistake of remapping my focus button to a random one that's near my thumb.

I don't think I've had a stranger successfully take a photo of me with my camera yet.

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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@Fubarberry @Buffalox "Smarter Every Day" on Youtube did a talk pointing out the issues with artemis, to a room full of stakeholders.

it was glorious.

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