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vwbusguy

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online

Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/vwbusguy
Firefish: https://easymode.im/@vwbusguy

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foone, to random
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I had a weird realization today:
You know how I make terrible keyboards? It turns out I can also made good keyboards!

Well, kinda. I had this silly gamer keyboard I kept around because it was small and I used it when I needed a random USB keyboard, but it was horrible to use. No contrast on the key labels...

but wait I have a bunch of keycaps since I'm a keyboard-making punk. what if I just put some onto it... and now it's readable! and looks snappy!

mttaggart, to random

Blue team, if your daily operational time is spent more on satisfying internal objectives than addressing yourself to your adversary, you are doing exactly what they want.

collinsworth, to random
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I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

toor, to random
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Satire is dead. with an article stating that died behind paywalls. That article is - behind a .

almalinux, (edited ) to random
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With AlmaLinux 9.4 we're bringing back support for some older hardware by re-enabling PCI IDs. Take a look at the list and let us know if they help, or if we're missing any for you! https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-support-for-older-hardware/3851

bagder, (edited ) to cisco
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I was reminded of the great security fix of 2019

hollie, to random
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A post just went by dealing with world geographical details and as I was hitting "page down" all I saw fly past was a colorful graph and then what I thought was the phrase:

"HOBBITABLE LAND."

And there is nothing remotely rational about this but my heart still flipped over really fast, this micro-second of hope that someone with means had the brilliant idea of turning some huge swath of land into burrow houses and and bare-footed farms with giant pumpkins, and here was their prospectus.

fedora, to fedora
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ALL CLEAR for Fedora Rawhide and Fedora 40 Beta builds regarding the xz exploit. 👍

Things had stabilized soon after the initial security advisory, but we're now confirming that you can use Rawhide and Fedora 40 Beta safely as long as you have the latest updates or reinstall (which is not a bad idea to be safe).

Fedora 38 and 39 were never affected.

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/cve-2024-3094-all-clear/

grimalkina, to random
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It is IMPOSSIBLE to answer many of the things that the general public puts in front of social scientists and demands that we solve. Particularly when you work on social topics, people will ask you questions like: why is my boss mean, why doesn't government work, why am I sad.

When you build foundational theory it's too broad. When you do specific investigations it's too narrow. When you take some breather to talk technical shop you're accused of only talking to scientists and being unfeeling.

grimalkina,
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The anxious desire to have access to unquestionable authority makes even some of our allies -- who want to move the world towards real evidence and accurate knowledge of itself -- ignore the humanity of scientists in favor of a transactional relationship with us. This is one of the hardest lessons. Sometimes we get harangued for admitting an inch of doubt on society's most complicated social topics as if that makes us weak instead of careful. We need to center science as a process over findings.

mikael, to wireguard
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does it right: I configured hosted on my for my and my laptops, and it supports and out of the box without issues.

https://oxcrag.net/blog/2024/04/14/Connecting-to-Home-From-Abroad.html

eb, to internet
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TRUTH SOCIAL SENT ME THEIR SOURCE CODE: https://boehs.org/node/truth-social

Fedi takes another huge win. I wonder what we'll find.

dgar, to random
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Lawyer: I refuse to start without my lawyer present!

Judge: You are the lawyer here!

Lawyer: Exactly! Now where’s my present?

major, to random
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And @ThomasCameron512 is up next with a primer on on bare metal.

Thomas is one of my favorite speakers!

major,
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Kudos to @ThomasCameron512 for plugging https://stopdisablingselinux.com/ during his talk. 😂

foone, to random
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People are always telling me I'm "basic" but they won't clarify if they mean like qbasic or visual basic or one of the 8bit micro basics?

stevewfolds,
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1st Basic was 1967, school had a phone line to Dartmouth

UniversalBlue, to fedora
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@fatherlinux wrote a great article about how Bluefin is showing the world a new way we can build and use the Linux desktop. Has great examples of the different use cases and benefits where an atomic OS can shine!
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714923/project-bluefin-and-the-future-of-operating-systems.html

limebar, to mastodon
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Do any apps allow you to login to multiple accounts and view all of the timelines combined? ?

That is, merge , , etc. Homes into a single Home... Same for notifications, local feeds, global feeds etc? For extra credit, boost across multiple accounts.

mcc, to random
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    amigalove, to programming
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    Won’t this be fun?

    (Back in the day I was desperate enough to try…)

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    vwbusguy, to random
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    My first family computer was an Osborne One. Now, let me hear about yours.

    peter,
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    @vwbusguy my first was the TI99/4A.

    This one wasn't the original, but the one I recently got running with the PEB underneath it - something I would have loved to have back in the day.

    eeeps, to random
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    h/t @Meyerweb

    A TikTok reaction video that has had some text overlayed. A person (labelled "me watching React devs") watches someone else's hand put a series of shaped blocks into shaped holes. The holes and shapes are all basic and recognizable: square, triangle, circle, etc. The holes are labelled after HTML elements: "div", "button", "li", "table", "input" and "a". The hand takes a square block, which is labelled "generic block content"; The person excitedly says "square hole" (which is labelled "div") and is excited when that's where it goes. The hand then picks up a longer square block (labelled "element group"); the person also gets this one correct (also goes in the div hole), and is excited. The hand then picks up "tabular data"; the person wants it to go in the "table" hole, but no, the hand says it goes in the "div" hole as well. Person gets increasingly upset as blocks labelled "list item", "perform an action", "user input", and ultimately, "a hyperlink" all go in the "div" hole, and not the more appropriately shaped holes/elements that they are correctly calling out, each time, at the end – when "a hyperlink" goes into the "div" hole instead of into the "a" hole – almost though tears.

    flathub, to GNOME
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    Thanks to all you developers out there adding brand colors to your apps over the past months we're almost ready to launch featured banners ✨

    If you're an app maintainer and haven't done this yet for your app, here are the docs: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/quality-guidelines

    To make it more interesting we're setting a deadline! We will be launching the new banners on April 20th, so for the possibility to be featured during the first week, update your apps today :)

    olivvybee, to random
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    Compliments over TCP sound perfect tbh

    A: I am about to compliment you.
    B: I am ready to receive a compliment.
    A: Here comes the compliment.
    A: (compliment)
    B: The compliment was received.
    B: Thank you for the compliment.
    A: I am now done complimenting you.
    B: I am no longer expecting compliments.

    linux_mclinuxface, to random
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    Off to Austin for @TexasLinuxFest!

    I’ve got two (very different) talks:

    The first ever conference talk on and one about container Linux (featuring and several other great distros).

    After Austin I fly directly to Seattle for where I’ll be at the Valkey booth Tuesday to Thursday next week.

    If you’re around at either event let’s connect!

    fatherlinux, to linux
    @fatherlinux@noc.social avatar

    I envision an image-based workflow, similar to Project Bluefin, as the future of operating systems https://bit.ly/49wy4dG

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