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dansup, to random
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Name a beatles song in the comments 😉

thor,
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@dansup Yellow Submarine

gabrielesvelto, to amiga
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LOL, I just found an Italian company with a logo that is an obvious ripoff of the checkmark logo.

Their webpage looks straight out of the '90s so I guess it's OK? 🤪

Check for yourselves: http://www.telnet.it/it/home/index.html

thor,
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@gabrielesvelto literally a logo rip-off.

gsuberland, to random
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this looks cool. send notifications to your phone using a very simple REST API. easy to integrate into shell scripts or anything else. it's essentially MQTT but for phone notifications.

they offer a hosted version with a subscription, but it's open source and you can host your own instance.

H/T to @sqshr for pointing me to it.

https://ntfy.sh/

thor,
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@gsuberland @sqshr

Thanks! I'm going to find use for this at least in 2 places :D

thor, to random Icelandic
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I really want to know what HP uses to solder their hardware because when I decommission something I like to desolder the paert to keep abd reuse , but even with a broad tip at 520°C I simply cannot for the life of me desolder a single part from the HP XL170Rgen9 Like WTF?

@gsuberland

Sorry if typing sucks, 2 stouts in 1 hour...

thor,
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@gsuberland thanks for the pointers - but that's the thing, I've tried all from 320, lots of flux and lots of patience to blasting it with my hot air at max temp. I have not even once managed to get their solder to flow. Every other device I scrap is a non-issue. I'm starting to think they're doing it deliberately to reduce the recycling value or something, because it most certainly isn't to improve their already lacking quality...

thor,
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@gsuberland so I tried - used a file to clean the surface of the solder I wanted to mess with. No change.

But the experimentation too ke furhter - so I noticed one strange property - all new solder seemed to harden almost immediately after coming into contact with original solder. I made a small experiment - two strands of fresh solder, one on a pad where there was already solder and one in an "empty space" (between solder pads on the PCB). The former melted and hardened while the latter melted

thor,
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@gsuberland and stayed molten (I poked it with my pliers) until it got in contact with the HP solder - then it hardened.
(I was using my hot air gun on those two)

Also, even just running my soldering iron over a solder pad trying to add some fresh solder to it made the iron stick like it was losing its temperature really fast.

There's some effing magic going on there I which don't properly understand :|

thor,
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@gsuberland no, but now I'll have to get some :)

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I’m running a experiment. Please boost for reach.

When I say VS Code, what is the first word that comes to mind?

Please reply, but don’t peek at other people’s responses until you’ve done yours.

thor,
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@khalidabuhakmeh editor

dansup, to random
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Pixelfed is built using some of the oldest open source projects (php, mysql, redis, bootstrap)

It's often joked about, but boring old tech has a tendency to just work

Have you seen a @pixelfed instance with database problems, ever?

Just goes to show that it's not what you use, but how you use it

thor,
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@dansup @pixelfed Didn't get far enough to have database problems as I have login screen problems that are showstopping my ise of pixelfed (self-hosted)

thor, to random Icelandic
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Spelling in Windows Server 2022

I shouldn't have to be doing this... English is my third language and I should be worrying about Icelandic in Windows...

@shanselman @JenMsft

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poppastring, to random
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Did not know sending DVDs was still a thing! 🤔

"Netflix is sending its DVD subscribers up to 10 extra discs for the service’s last hurrah"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/17/23835731/netflix-dvd-customers-10-extra-discs

thor,
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@poppastring If they're sending DVDs, shouldn't the service be called Mailflix?

thor, to random Icelandic
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Looked up Yak Shaving on Wikipedia and found illustration by @davidrevoy - was not disappointed :)

gsuberland, to random
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won't have time to cook tomorrow, so time to make my favourite beef & roast veg stew.

A chopping board covered in chopped potatoes, carrots, and parsnips.
A bowl of par-cooked potatoes shaken to roughen the outside.

thor,
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@gsuberland that looks yummy :)

Sominemo, to random
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And I caught Microsoft at doing this nasty thing again.

First time I noticed Microsoft doing this on Microsoft Designer website: https://collar.place/@Sominemo/110275107838229822

"We'll be as evil as your local laws allow us"

thor,
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@Sominemo that just comes down to what privacy laws says companies must do. Companies want opt-out (and at least until recently it was the default for most - even though it's been illegal in some countries (like Iceland) for decades. So it's refreshing to see that they actually take a moment to abide by the opt-in laws of countries and territories of the world and don't pretend that "rest of world" only includes Canada and Mexico.

geerlingguy, to RedHat
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"It feels wrong to speak positively about an Oracle product, but Oracle Linux is actually a good option worthy of our consideration." https://unix.foo/posts/enterprise-linux/

Before 's most recent RHEL source code changes, none of us could've ever dreamt of a world where someone saying that wouldn't be laughed off the Internet immediately.

thor,
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@geerlingguy I have too many years on my back with a shitty taste of Larry Ellison's products and byproducts to ever consider Oracle as an option. From 1994 with Oracle and Oracle Forms and onwards until 2022 with Oracle and Java. I'd be blessed if I never have to see their garbage again. (Of course I'm wrong since I still use Android)

thor,
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@geerlingguy @aohorodnyk But not entirely possible for everyone. HP favors Enterprise Linux players (RedHat and SUSE) more than others in the HPC arena. Also with clusters and enterprise stuff - you do want the glacial movement of Enterprise Linux, not the whirlwind movement of the SOHO distributions (Ubuntu, Debian and friends)

changelog, to linux
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🕺 New Changelog & Friends!

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it 🥊

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as @geerlingguy, so we invited him on the show to discuss 💬

🎧 https://changelog.com/friends/7

thor,
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@jonathanspw @changelog @geerlingguy "Now that we will no longer be holding ourselves to being a 1:1 Red Hat downstream rebuild"

That sounds awfully much like "We are going to be a fork of the current state with our own flaky future until we deviate so much from upstream that we can't bother anymore".

The places I manage have been using CentOS for clusters - and I'm moving them to openSuSE. I'm done with IBM - they kill everything good they touch. IBM really is an acronym for "I Be Moron".

gsuberland, to random
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ukgov are cowards. they pushed brexit through to "control our own laws" or whatever but they didn't even have the balls to replace our stuffy old currency with quatloos.

thor,
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@gsuberland I think the UK has proven equally as well as Iceland that the general population is completely inept, the government officials are corrupt and the country would do well to be 100% managed by a larger body like the EU parliament.

geerlingguy, to random
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🧵s https://www.threads.net/@geerlingguy

thor,
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@geerlingguy In reply to one of your posts on threads - to follow a person on Mastodon I literally click the profile and click "follow". I cannot see how that is more complex than you clicking a profile and clicking "follow" on Threads.

Also, Mastodon would never pull this kind of a-holery:

geerlingguy, to random
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I love freeloaders. So freeload my book, please! No, seriously, grab a free copy and learn to automate with Ansible! https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/CTVMPCbEeXd3

The book's text is even open source (CC BY-SA), so if you wanna republish it and make money on it, be my guest!

thor,
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@geerlingguy Question is though - if Ansible belongs to RedHat^H^H^H^H^H^HIBM then what is to prevent that Ansible also disappears behind a paywall - or even gets a toxic license change that nobody notices until it's too late?

The lack of trust in North-American companies is quickly growing.

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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speculating here, but making it so you have to sign in to see anything on twitter is either a deathknell or a major (and deeply precarious) funding strategy pivot.

so many orgs kept posting and advertising there because the content was globally accessible. unlike FB, which had aggressive sign-in nags, people would actually click through to announcements and promo tweets from an external link.

if they're walling off to control the content as a commercial ML dataset, that's super risky.

thor,
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@gsuberland there's also the case of too much data (leaving the model biased) so the value probably plummets on first delivery

gsuberland, to random
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fuckin' YouTube joining the idiot brigade with anti-adblocker shite.

why is every company intent on pissing their market segment away?

thor,
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@gsuberland I know it's a rhetorical - but still, because every company (and individual) that fights adblock is a greedy drooling moron (paron my French).

pixelfed, to Pixelfed
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⚡ Transparency is important

When you browse feeds on our app, you can tap the 3 dot menu and tap the "Why you're seeing this post" to learn more about the context.

We call these System Cards, and they help explain why you're seeing a particular post.

This will become more important soon as we release custom algorithmic feeds, don't worry though, chronological feeds will remain the default 😉

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thor,
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@pixelfed ok... playing Devil's advocate here...

How is it going to differentiate Pixelfed from InstaMeta once you've added "algorithms" ?

Because ultimately, any algorithm that chooses for the end user what he's going to see will be abused to the point where your product will become the same cesspool as Meta and that Critter. And that's not a good thing (unless the Devil ordered it).

Also "...your activity on Pixelfed and accounts you follow" - that's a recipe for an echo-chamber. Bad. Bad.

gsuberland, to random
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stayed with the NOVA beach crew until nearly 5am and now my feet feel like they were mauled by Thor's hammer

thor,
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@gsuberland *Mjöllnir

Regards,
Thor

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