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urusan, 3 days ago to random

File transfer on open source:

• rsync over SSH, it's fast, efficient, secure, unlimited, and you can transfer anywhere you have a user account available
• If it's text, you can also use git and get even more efficiency and detailed historical tracking and restore

File transfer on proprietary systems:

• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

urusan, 13 days ago to random

I want my cool ranch flavored chips NOT to taste like real ranch flavor.

urusan, 23 days ago to random

Do we know how water freezes?
https://youtu.be/24TB1vPuzIU

urusan, 28 days ago to random

Me: Doesn't like beans, cilantro, or spicy food, so pretty much all of Chipotle's menu, but my wife loves it
COVID: Begins
Supply Chains: Falls apart
Me: Wow, when did Chipotle start tasting good?
Eventually...
Supply Chains: I'm back!
Me: Oh, this is Cilantro rice! Now chipotle tastes like soap again...

urusan, 1 month ago to random

Someone posted a FOSS/Linux Laptop Alignment chart a while back, does anyone have that?

urusan, 1 month ago to random

Is there a good, relatively high end ARM or RISC-V laptop available that I could install Linux on?

I'm thinking about something along the lines of the recent ARM-based MacBooks, but not Apple.

urusan, 1 month ago to random

Creativity isn't about the skill, it's about effectively harnessing chaos.

The skill component isn't really any different from any other skill.

urusan, 2 months ago to random

What is good, open source video editing software in Linux?

urusan, 2 months ago to random

I've found that the best indicator of whether someone is an engineer is if you can give them a page of details and they'll actually read it.

If you have to read it to them in a meeting, then they probably aren't an engineer.

urusan, 3 months ago to random

Man, now I'm really starting to consider NixOS
https://youtu.be/CwfKlX3rA6E

urusan, 3 months ago to random

Tell us about that one time that a slowly worsening issue vanished because you moved to a different home.

urusan, 3 months ago to random

Wife: Just got home from a yoga class I need to lift weights for my upper body strength.
Me: What for?
Wife: To get up the pole more easily in pole class. It's like trying to climb a fireman's pole, have you ever tried that?
Me: Oh yeah, it's basically impossible.
Wife: No it's not, I see other ladies in my class do it all the time.
Me: So, you'd say this is #polegoals
Wife: Yes

...Later...
Me: So apparently #polegoals is not a thing on Mastodon...YET

urusan, 3 months ago to random

This is a very interesting use case for Nix:
https://youtu.be/0ulldVwZiKA

urusan, 3 months ago to random

Yesterday I heard about a sysadmin on Fedi who got hit by over a TB of data scraping.

Last night and into today I've been getting a lot of automated spam and hearing admins talking about the spam wave.

Conclusion: that must have been THE SCRAPENING

urusan, 3 months ago to random

Kid: Can you bring me my table?
Me: What?
Kid: Put it here points in front of his chair
Wife: We are not rearranging our furniture. Provides a lengthy list of reasons why this particular rearranging of the furniture is absolutely terrible
Me: Yeah, those are all good points.
Kid: Ok, so can you bring me my table?

urusan, 3 months ago to random

What little things do you do for quality of life that you are pretty sure many other people are not doing?

The example that got me thinking of this is that I go out of my way to name directories, functions, and commands so they have little to no overlapping prefix, so I can autocomplete with minimal typing: instead of "downloads" and "documents" I might go for "downloads" and "files". That way instead of "dowTAB" and "docTAB", they're just "dTAB" and "fTAB".

urusan, 4 months ago to random

Me: Realizes that a live event is coming to town that my son would love
Me: Goes online to buy tickets
Me: Discovers that buying tickets for live events has become a dystopian gamified nightmare
Me: :-(

urusan, 4 months ago to random

Ok, this is a very clever idea
https://youtube.com/shorts/lBr8ZU3rJBM

They made a temporary rocket stove out of snow.

urusan, 4 months ago to random

Kid: What colors make white?

urusan, 4 months ago to random

Post one or more old blog posts (or other articles) that have had a lasting impact on your thinking. (At least about one thing.)

urusan, 4 months ago to random

Happy New Year everyone!

urusan, 4 months ago to random

While I feel like Sabine misses some of the finer points about complexity in computer science (which is reasonable for a physicist), I overall agree with her point here:
https://youtu.be/KPUZiWMNe-g

She brings up the really interesting idea that, from a certain physics perspective, you and a rock are equivalent.

If you were going to run a perfect, unoptimized simulation of two equivalent scale systems, they would take the same resources regardless of their complexity.

urusan, 5 months ago to random

APIs are basically the set of paper forms you use to talk to a bureaucratic organization, except it's for computer programs.

urusan, 5 months ago to random

Kid: Can I check your bones daddy?

urusan, 5 months ago to random

As a father of a newborn, I haven't been so much getting "breaks" as "pauses to get other essential work done".