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matthew

@matthew@social.retroedge.tech

Work: computer repair, refurbished computer sales, sysadmin
Interests: many

#sysadmin #linux #bsd #netbsd #debian #devuan #lua #neovim

#voluntaryism #agorism #distributism

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matthew, to random
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"Jimmy, only dumb people ask questions"

video/mp4

matthew, to random
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The State of Surveillance

arturo182, to random
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I'm really surprised I haven't seen any pro free Paliestine stickers or posters at , this is the exact place that I would expect lots of supporters to show up. Is Germany really that pro-Israel?

matthew,
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Germany sends some people who are not pro-Isreal to prison, even elderly women.

Hardly an environment that encourages free speech on the topic.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-93-year-old-holocaust-denier-sent-back-to-jail/a-61336650

matthew,
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> she's being sent to jail for continuing to claim the Holocaust did not happen

A lot of people say things that are not correct and actively promote them. Judging between opposing opinions is difficult. Sending someone to prison for that, despite (of because of) the politics, seems harsh.

It is also similar to the conflict in question by the original post: a time of war and differing opinions based on which ethnic side of the conflict is supported ( Israel / Palestine ).

Calling someone a Nazi and trying to social shame is shortcut thinking, not coming to terms with the underlying issue, which is

matthew, to wordpress
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I'll be moving a site (older version of Wordpress) from shared hosting to a VPS. I haven't done that before.

Any people with Wordpress experience have any tips or links to share?

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matthew, to debian
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Experimenting with web server things today.

Successfully set up a test WordPress website on a ProxMox VM with , , , and

It was a good learning experience and we may use this soon for a client. We may be transferring an older version of a Wordpress website on another host to a ProxMox VM. I haven't done a migration like that before, so we'll see how it goes.

I'm not a big fan of now, but I did use it quite a bit over ten years ago. It's changed a lot since then!

matthew, to random
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Focusing on web and web server stuff today instead of hardware repair.

Mindset shift between them is sometimes jarring.

matthew, to random
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A Handful of Companies Rule the Internet with DDoS Mitigation

https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/a-handful-of-companies-rule-the-internet

via @lsn

matthew, to linux
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For today, one of the projects is upgrading a MacBook Pro A1278. It's one of the early models with a Core 2 Duo P7550 2.26Ghz processor.

Right now it only has a 160GB hard disk drive and 2GB of memory. I'll attempt to upgrade it with a 128GB Samsung SSD and 8GB memory.

I'll be installing on it, probably Edition.

It does have the nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics, which will probably be handled just fine by the installer since it is so old, we'll see.

Now, I usually do not work on Apple products, but this is a classic and it is for a friend. The MacBook A1278 is my favorite MacBook model. It was a long running series, so there are quite a few variants and not all their parts are compatible with each other.

Since it is long out of support by Apple, this is probably already considered "retro".

While having a repair shop open, we made quite a bit of money with the "caddy fix" as these A1278 models had frequent failures of the SATA connection to the SATA storage drive. The solution was to take out the optical DVD drive and replace it with a caddy that would hold a 2.5 inch SATA drive and put the storage drive there.

So far, this particular MacBook does not need that, as the hard drive is recognized.

matthew, to random
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Every dollar you spend is a vote for the kind of world you want to live in.

-- Anne L

matthew, to programming
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"Last year I switched to something new. This is the Lua programming language. It's implemented in just 12k LoC, it's extremely easy to build from source and it's quite fast. It's not as popular as Javascript or Python. As a result, it doesn't tend to get used in products of conquest that try to be all things to all people."

-- @akkartik

http://akkartik.name/freewheeling/

matthew, to random
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Using to clone to an SSD for an upgrade to an older Dell desktop.

The SSD is so much faster than the hard drive!

matthew, to random
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I got a lot done today.

matthew, to windows
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I'm torrenting Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. Never thought I'd be doing that. I need it for a client who wants to keep spare computers to run an old critical business application.

https://archive.org/details/win-2000-sp-3-dell-rec-media

I plan on installing on an older Dell Optiplex.

Anyone know if Windows 2000 plays okay with SSDs?

matthew,
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As I understand it, XP was the continuation of the foundation that was built with Windows 2000.

Some Windows XP drivers work fine in Windows 2000, for example. Kind of like most Windows 10 drivers will work fine in Windows 11.

The client specifically requested Windows 2000, but I am not sure it would make a difference for their use case whether they have XP or 2000.

matthew, to fediverse
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I do like for sharing videos. I host a server at video.retroedge.tech

... but don't discount

There's more than just one way to share videos.

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