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virtuous_sloth

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca

Married to a wonderful wife with with two adult sons, living in Calgary. I like getting out on my bike. I care about social justice.

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Binder, to random
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They're called HR Departments because they provide Harm Reduction for corporations.

PS: you're the harm they're mitigating. Good luck.

virtuous_sloth,
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@Binder They are like the immune system for the body corporate and as long as you understand that they view an employee with a problem to be a potential cancer cell, you'll understand your relationship with them.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you see a crowd of 100 people:

  • In Atlanta? You can expect ~47 of them are Black. 👍🏿

  • In San Francisco? About 5 are Black. 😑

  • In Palo Alto? About 2 are Black. 😮

There are more students at Gunn High school in Palo Alto, than there are Black people living in Palo Alto.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @mekkaokereke Interesting that East Palo Alto is north of Palo Alto.

Not to distract too much from ubiquitous separation and segregation of a racialized patriarchy.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Has the Trump campaign coordinated with the Netanyahu government to keep the war in Gaza going because it hurts President Biden's re-election prospects?

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan Qualified no because this would be news to me.

evan, to random
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virtuous_sloth,
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@evan I got into hard-mode hell...all the missed letters are unique

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glennf, to random
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Reject authority except mine

virtuous_sloth,
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@glennf You must be practising to be a conservative.

popey, to random
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Just realised, it's been a couple of weeks and I haven't run "Hugo's Random Benchmark" on this M3 MacBook Pro yet!

2.6s - not bad. Can you do better?

/cc @darkling
https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/counting-to-100-million/

virtuous_sloth,
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@popey @darkling

Very marginally:

evanprodromou, to random

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a Summer of Protocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for ActivityPub, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/sop-2024-pig-and-pog-grantees/1270

virtuous_sloth, (edited )
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@evan @evanprodromou

Even I failed to notice that I saw your Threads post and responded to it and not the cosocial.ca one. It wasn't until later that I saw your cosocial one and went to read other responses to your post and didn't see mine that I twigged onto it. Sigh.

timbray, to random
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🧵 To anyone interested in large low-latency distributed systems: From @marcbrooker, see https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html - overview of a paper on AWS’s MemoryDB, which is essentially Redis, only with highly durable storage at a remarkably small performance penalty.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray I'd be curious as to whether/how it would survive a jepson testing https://jepsen.io/consistency

robpike, to random
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A nice talk by my ex-colleagues Eve Martin-Jones and Josie Anugerah about the misperceptions many have about dependency resolution. It's not nearly as simple a problem as the tool builders would have you believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-niBbN-ufYo&list=PLbzoR-pLrL6p2qBhq7OHXDzCTfIZuzCma&index=9

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @robpike
Within a single language Unison (https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/) takes an interesting approach of normalizing all source code into it's ASN and using a hash as the function reference. It's like the ultimate durable name mangling.

If you change the code of a function it is a new function and all previously-written callers still use the old definition unless they choose to use the changed function.

GottaLaff, to comics
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: “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.

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

virtuous_sloth,
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@GottaLaff I hope BOOM and BING are not code names for nuclear attacks.

timbray, to random
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Dear LazyWeb, Bit of a long shot here. I'm replacing a bog-standard 5T disk in my bog-standard Synology DS416j and seem to have lost the package of screws that came with the thing. Having trouble figuring out exactly what the right kind of replacement screws is required to fasten the disk in the tray. Thought I had, but it's not really locked down, and vibrates. Anyone know the right answer?

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray #6-32 screws.

I shut down and opened my DS-1520+ to validate and discovered I never screwed mine to the trays. I checked and the #6-32 x 4mm in my PC screw kit fit the HDD screw holes but are too short to span the rubber grommet in the tray, but just barely I think.

So I'm pretty sure #6-32 x 6mm would work.

conansysadmin, to linux
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Read this book of powerful conjuring spells, if you dare. https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/virtualization.html?s=mc

virtuous_sloth,
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@conansysadmin

Fantastic survey of containers/virt. I wish I had this 3 years ago.

Would you consider adding Incus to this page?

I had worked at Canonical for a brief time and met Stéphane Graber there and when Canonical decided to take LXD away from linuxcontainers.org (home of lxc-utils) Stéphane took the principled stand to leave Canonical. Another fellow forked LXD into Incus and the linuxcontainers.org team, including Stéphane, has been developing it ever since.

RickiTarr, to random
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https://youtube.com/shorts/2jajLTrjIsg?si=IbJgabbMLqMCjFZN

OMG, my husband does this, but he just sits in silence!

virtuous_sloth,
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@RickiTarr This is me and my wife said "This explains a lot" when I showed it to her. Mind you, I also explained it in much the same way 20 years ago...when I bacame conscious of the understanding popping into my head a second or two after the sound.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Who is your favourite out of these four Beatles?

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan After watching The Beatles: Get Back I had to respect Paul's creativity and drive.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Of these time zones, which is the best?

virtuous_sloth,
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@aeva @evan

Either I do not understand time zones or I do not understand what you mean, since the other zones are later. Even trying in terms of a European or Oceana time zone I cannot make sense of Eastern allowing you to sleep in later.

patrickworld, to random
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You know one of the many things I’ve never understood about this whole maga thingy is that she’s been pretty consistently great for some time 🤷🏾‍♂️

virtuous_sloth,
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@patrickworld I'm ashamed to admit that it took me a good 15 seconds.

GottaLaff, to random
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About to leave Sacramento for home, the longest and most utterly boring part of our trips. (I5– Grapevine) Harris Ranch does have great bathrooms though. 🤭

Our realtor timed it out so we’d be driving home during an Open House today instead of kicking us/Hammy out for 3 hours tomorrow. Pays off to have our neighbor/friend in that role.

As always, posting & replying may be spotty.

virtuous_sloth,
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@GottaLaff @davidbraze

Imagine if all 3 options were available as train rides, with one of them being high-speed rail.

The leisurely options (with food and beverage service) might then also work for a commute since it would be possible to occupy yourself the whole way of the longer trip with a nice ambience to boot!

virtuous_sloth,
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@GottaLaff @davidbraze

P.S. I know you are coming all the way back from your trip to Canada, Laffy, so you probably just want to get home.

RickiTarr, to random
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FFS 3 Body Problem, SCIENCE CAN'T BE BROKEN, it's not static, it's observation.

virtuous_sloth,
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@RickiTarr

But what if an intelligence could rewrite everything you see, hear, taste, smell, feel in real time?

What would reality be then?

LeftistLawyer, (edited ) to climate
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Can someone please explain why, on a planet with 5 billion too many people and , declining birthrates are a problem?

I'm at a loss.

virtuous_sloth,
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@LeftistLawyer Capitalism only knows how to reward growth.

timbray, to random
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Is there a product which will sniff one's home network (Eero mesh in our case) and report, in human-comprehensible terms, which apps on which devices are phoning home? I use Sniffnet on my Mac and it’s not terrible but extremely local.

virtuous_sloth, (edited )
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@timbray

My immediate reaction is to question whether you can monitor even source and destination IP addresses without port-mirroring the Ethernet connection to your router or having something like tcpdump on the router directly, since wifi encrypts the layer 2 payload which would include the IP headers and everything inside that.

Unless Eero includes some capture facility I think you'd have to intervene like above.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Yesterday was a hard day. Got cheered up a bit today by getting a free bike off one of those Buy Nothing groups on Facebook.

When last I visited my family I rode a pushbike for the first time in over twenty years and I'd forgotten how much fun they were, how light, how without the context of being on top of an engine you look behind yourself and go "Wow, I went FAR!" and I said "Haha yeah I'm gonna get a bike when I get back to America." My brother said, as many people in my life have always said, "Dan, never buy a pushbike, people throw or give them away them all the time" and everyone's right of course, they do.

This thing's got two problems, slow leaks in the tyres and not changing gears properly. I've never fiddled with a derailleur before but eh, it's not rocket science, it just goes in and out on a cable; got the derailleur all cleaned off and adjusted up and still no dice so I took apart the shifter mech that lives on the yoke. Symptom was it wouldn't shift down more than a couple of clicks, this is the style where you've got two levers, one has a positive snap and one feels like a ratchet, the ratchetty one weren't ratchetting so I figured its ratchet must be stuck open and aye, its ratchet were stuck open.

Now if only I'd known this thing came apart on a left-hand thread, I might not have stripped that one bolt and be waiting on parts, but in the meantime I worked it a bit and gave it a drop of oil and now the ratchet bit works if you press up as well as in lol, just kinda hold it together with a squeeze whenever you change gears, it's fine

Tyres can wait til the weekend, I'll just pump it up now and then

Also this thing is so high. It's SO. HIGH. I'm 185cm and when I went to see to the bloke giving it away I craned my neck right back to say hello, dude could've been 2m tall. The seat's already down as far as it'll go and I'm 41 so I don't think I'm likely to grow into it. Getting real Penny Farthing feeling tryna ride the thing. Good fun though, and littleun actually managed to Properly Ride her bike today for a few metres, pedalling and everything, so tomorrow's gonna be a dad-and-daughter-and-bike day

virtuous_sloth,
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@ifixcoinops

Twinsies!

My wife's bike is identical.

She's just getting back into riding now that I added a mid-drive pedal assist. We live in hilly Calgary and she grew up riding in prairie-flat Regina.

virtuous_sloth,
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@ifixcoinops

It was surprisingly easy. There's this bike mechanic with a YouTube channel (JohnnyNerdout) that sells parts and kits.

He seems genuine, has some good videos that help you understand what you are getting into, and seems to give fairly honest advice. He's not an engineer but he seems to know what he's talking about.

I bought the kit from him, picked up a couple specialized bike tools (like for removing the bottom bracket), and muddled my way through it.

virtuous_sloth,
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@ifixcoinops
This is kit I got. https://www.johnnynerdout.com/product-page/complete-kit-tongsheng-torque-sensing-48v-10-4ah-battery

virtuous_sloth,
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@ifixcoinops (my price of $704 was from March 8, 2023 cf $750 today).

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