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kwf, 26 days ago to random

In case anyone was wondering, the top three metros on my wish list for the #MicroMirror project currently are Atlanta, GA, Phoenix, AZ, and Las Vegas, NV.

So if you know of an ISP or DC in those areas who have plenty of egress bandwidth and would be willing to plug in a managed appliance to support free software/linux, let us know: mirror@fcix.net

danderson, 27 days ago to random

Hi. Quick break from the posting for a serious PSA.

Please have a bottle of aspirin in your home. Make sure the tablets can be chewed as well as just swallowed. Make sure you remove any fiddly foil seal and such. Don't use this aspirin for regular pain relief, just keep it around and know where it is.

Hopefully, you'll never need it and will just feel silly for having it. But if a bad time comes for you someday, being able to chew aspirin when emergency services tells you may save your life.

keepassxc, 28 days ago to random

Following the recent discussion around the Debian decision to ship KeePassXC without any of its optional modules, we've seen some extreme misconceptions floating around the internet regarding what the WITH_XC_NETWORKING=OFF compile flag actually does.

Let us be clear: KeePassXC does NOT "randomly" connect to the internet in the background, regardless of whether you build with the flag on or off. Claims to the contrary of KeePassXC "surfing in the background" or "calling home" are false.

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kwf, 28 days ago to linux

Manjaro shipped Plasma 6 today, so the #MicroMirror fleet is seeing a BIT of an uptick in Manjaro update traffic.

This is why we want to keep deploying Micro Mirrors until they're all only doing 10% capacity on a normal day. #Linux update mirror traffic tends to be really spiky, and with rolling distros like Manjaro the spikes are not on a regular release cadence.

If you're in the United States and have spare egress capacity laying around in a DC... we have both 1G and 10G appliances ready to ship.

bug_gwen, 30 days ago to random

great reporting on how the solar storm is affecting.. tractors. Precision, self-driving tractors are critical to modern ag https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

CaramelizedShallots, 30 days ago to random

#aurora

JamesGleick, 1 month ago to random

If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

pid_eins, 1 month ago to random

1️⃣3️⃣ Here's the 13th installment of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.

ssh is widely established as the mechanism for controlling Linux systems remotely, both interactively and with automated tools. It not only provides means for secure authentication and communication for a tty/shell, but also does this for file transfers (sftp), and IPC communication (D-Bus or Varlink).

fuzzychef, 1 month ago to H5N1

Masks also protect you from #H5N1. Just sayin'

OpenSCAD, 1 month ago to books

One of the current book bundles at HumbleBundle contains 3 books by John Horvath and Rich Cameron featuring #OpenSCAD for visualization and examples (among 15 in total with various topics on electronics and robots).

If you are looking for books about Geometry, Calculus and/or Trigonometry head over to https://www.humblebundle.com/books/electronics-and-design-for-entrepreneurs-make-books and check out the preview chapters.

Links to the associated github repos at https://openscad.org/documentation-books.html

#Books #Math #Geometry #Trigonometry

The book cover of Make: Calculus.
The book cover of Make: Geometry.

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to announcement

WIP Wednesday 8 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgbsww added some missing code (there will be more to add, it seems) and started performance testing. So far, things don't look bad at all performance-wise.

Sketcher:

PaddleStroke: added arc length to the Dimension tool and fixed the placing of the on-view parameter inputs.

maxwxyz updated the Sketcher toolbar to list and group a
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/08/wip-wednesday-8-may-2024/
#Announcement

BootsChantilly, 1 month ago to random

I lol-ed.

spot, 1 month ago to random

A little story from the "old days of open source": when I was a solutions architect for Red Hat, we visited a large telecommunications company, who wanted to consider moving their SMS infrastructure from UNIX to Linux, but they had a problem.
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Edent, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
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Scorch, 1 month ago to random

G-Code Backlash Compensation with G-Code Ripper https://www.scorchworks.com/Blog/g-code-backlash-compensation-with-g-code-ripper/

mikeolson, 1 month ago to random

@molly0xfff is one of my favorite cryptocurrency reporters -- insightful, timely and an excellent writer. Her new piece in Bloomberg is typically great:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDY2MzU0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MjY4MzQxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBNUFCQzU4QkE0OEQ0RTQwQTVFNTYyRUVFMENFQThFNiJ9.J71mUeP37p8CUytI8s_WntmxxdzdrjkId4KBPBbeG3Q

(Long URL because it's a gift link with a seven-day fuse.)

Much of it is quotable, but I'll just pull this out:

"Crypto firms and their lobbyists love to threaten that a crackdown on the industry would stifle innovation. But what innovation has the sector produced?"

Indeed.

kwf, 1 month ago to random

Just shipped out another #MicroMirror. This one is headed to New Jersey as a Dell R220 with a 2x10G port channel and a 4TB SATA SSD. Those bits are going to go brrrrr

axboe, 1 month ago to random

Mentioned this in passing, but want to publicly thank Dell for sponsoring a big test box. Tons of storage, tons of bandwidth, and now 100G connected in my little lab for great io_uring networking testing as well. They even stopped by my office for a day to rack mount it!

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to comics

#Doonesbury: “Ask yourself: If Trump were your grandfather, would you seek care for him, or would you seek to make him the leader of the free world?”

Just… go. #comics

Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/28

carnage4life, 1 month ago to random

A Tesla owner has been charged with vehicular homicide for killing a motorcyclist while browsing the web on their phone while the car was on Autopilot. According to the driver he was “putting the trust in the machine to drive for him,”

The naming of this feature kills people.

simontatham, 1 month ago to random

In bash, writing ${var?} instead of just ${var} or $var means if var isn't defined then bash will throw an error and not execute your command, instead of expanding it to "" and carrying on.

mv file1 file2 $subdir # oops, I overwrote file2
mv file1 file2 ${subdir?} # error message instead of disaster

My favourite use of this is for example commands in documentation, with placeholders for the user to fill in. Then it's OK if a user accidentally copy-pastes it without filling them in!

kjhealy, 1 month ago to random

John Adams: … to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Supreme Court: Unless the President would like to kill someone for personal gain

John Adams: Unless of course the Pr—wait what

pid_eins, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

1️⃣ So let's try something new. As we are closing in on tagging systemd v256-rc1, let's see if I manage to post a brief mastodon item about major new features of the upcoming release, every few days until the final release of v256. I figure not everyone reads NEWS files, even if curious. Hence let's start today with the 1st post: the new .v/ directories. You know those .d/ directories that are quite popular in low-level Linux packages these days? While .d/ dirs never have been formalized properly…

mattblaze, 1 month ago to random

Every time I lose my Airpods (most recently, this weekend), I imagine the person who found them frustratedly trying to figure out how to get the dental floss to dispense.

Thanks to "find my", I can now get a street view image of their house to help me visualize this.

kwf, 1 month ago to fedora

I think #Fedora 40 shipped at 6:30 AM Pacific this morning. #Linux