vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

I am a #computer. My company is known more for video games. My American counterpart was only for video games, but I got a special floppy disk system and could run #BASIC programs from a keyboard and could even do financial services through my modem. What am I?

vwbusguy, 11 months ago to linux

Sorry, neither #Linux nor #Firefox are supported by this provider if you want to see your psychiatrist via telehealth. Luckily, my doctor was willing to use an alternative encrypted chat platform. #ADHD

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to VintageOSes

Decisions were made.

#CPM #BASIC #programming

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to UX

This kind of pedantry we would all do better without. #ux

vwbusguy, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

As a further note re: "English-only", I grew up in Southern Indiana with a half-Kentuckian family. The English I grew up with is not considered "proper" English, but Appalachian dialect preserves an earlier "proper" English and present culture. I code switch in California and Mastodon, but talk very differently around some family. English dialects such as Ebonics, Afro-Carribean, creole, pidgin, etc should also be respected, even if they don't have translation services to the "Queen's English".

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to Kubernetes

Basically what I learned last week is that #Rancher #RKE2 is #k3s on steroids and that is awesome. It also means if you're a hobbyist learning #Kubernetes in a self-hosted #homelab, much of the concepts carry over in a familiar way to the bigger "enterprise" product (which is also FOSS).

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to RedHat

I have to admit that whenever I have weird server problems on #CentOS Stream, there's always a question of whether or not it's Stream or something else and that lack of certainty usually is just enough that I often might not file an issue for Stream, but also just enough that I second guess running CentOS Stream over #AlmaLinux in cases where I don't want/need full on #RHEL. When stuff breaks on AlmaLinux, I'm less likely to question the distro (even though bugs happen everywhere).

vwbusguy, 1 month ago to random

I asked ChatGPT and another AI to generate qbsh scripts and even gave it commands like CALC and PIP to incorporate. It clearly had bash in the crunchbang. When I suggested it wasn't qbsh, it apologized, removed that line and told me it was more using correct syntax and not "bash built-ins" and hallucinated qbsh commands that don't exist like GREP. It was pretty hilarious.

vwbusguy, 1 month ago to random

I have the real way to prevent #openssh backdoors. Never enable sshd on a system and instead go back to the old tried and true method of communicating remotely over physical RS-232 instead.

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to NintendoSwitch

Got the #Atari 2600+ set up this morning. My son is in the living room playing Adventure on it right now on the included cartridge and joystick. It feels very faithful - like having a brand new 2600. So far my only complaint is that they included a USB-C to USB-A cable with no brick in lieu of a charger. Luckily, it seems to have no problem getting power from the #NintendoSwitch dock.

There are no instructions/manuals included which is likely going to cause a bit of confusion for newbies.

vwbusguy, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to python

Here's a #Python pop-quiz for you.

Without testing/looking it up - What does this result in?

'300%i%%' % 3

#programming

vwbusguy, 11 months ago to random

If you're trying to do work over ssh but have an unstable network connection, #tmux can save a whole lot of frustration

vwbusguy, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Ansible

My #Ansible playbook failed because an otherwise legitimate variable input broke the lineinfile regex parser and I couldn't report about it in the PR review, since it broke some kind of validation for issue comments in #Forgejo. #regex is hilarious.

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to Kubernetes

Achievement unlocked: Hit the pull rate limit from #Docker Hub. And I was logged into our paid account. 🤦‍♂️

#Kubernetes is not happy about it.

vwbusguy, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Upgrading this raspberry pi to bookworm has been one of the worst Linux upgrades I've done yet other than the fact that it still, miraculously somehow, booted. Apparently, the bookworm keys weren't trusted by buster and somehow it "upgraded" a bunch of stuff to armhpf (32-bit) instead of arm64, resulting in some not fun broken dependencies. It was quite the foot-shoot over all.

vwbusguy, 3 months ago to Kubernetes

If you run #LetsEncrypt certs, you should probably be paying attention to this. cert-manager is impacted.

https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration

https://cert-manager.io/docs/releases/release-notes/release-notes-1.14/#known-issues

#Kubernetes #Infosec #SysAdmin #Linux

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to linux

I'm tired of arguing about RHEL stuff for now. There isn't anything left to be said that hasn't been said at this point. Whether or not anyone is listening to what has been said isn't up to me. I'm moving on to using #Linux to do cool stuff again. Please don't read any further #SUSE posting as Red Hat commentary. For now, I'm done comparing company policies on this and that and just want to build stuff that enables others to do cool things, which is what I love most about #opensource.

vwbusguy, 1 month ago to GNOME

Is there a way in #Gnome to make the right Super (aka "Windows") key behave like the left one? It would be nice to be able to lock the screen with one hand. Besides, I have zero idea what the "right Super" is even supposed to do on Gnome, because it doesn't obviously do anything except not act like a Super key.

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to guitar

My PRS #guitar baby just came out of a successful little surgery with locking tuners and strap locks, and a fresh set of 10-gauge strings. I'm not sure why PRS pushes 9-gauge, but I definitely prefer the 10-gauge on it!

Side view of a PRS Custom 24-08 with a Schaller strap lock.

vwbusguy, 11 months ago to random

I don't believe IBM directly directed Red Hat to do this with RHEL. There's no evidence of that. However, when IBM bought Red Hat, there was some hope that IBM would culturally become more like Red Hat, but instead the opposite appears to be happening. Red Hat appears to rather be culturally embracing the slowly dying star of IBM, mostly of its own volition.

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to Kubernetes

"Baremetal #Kubernetes is such a pain! Why don't you just run it all on a cloud service?"

We have been and I'm trying to get less emails like this:

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to random

If I'm out driving my 41 year old, naturally aspirated diesel, I can assure you that no matter how fast your BMW or Tesla can accelerate, my Mercedes is probably floored right now and you tailing me won't make it go any faster.

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to fountainpens

I have way more #fountainpens than I reasonably need and will regularly use. I'd like to sell them, but would like to do it without going through the whole entire hassle of ebay and shipping things. Any ideas on how I might be able to do this?

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to programming

When I say #BASIC, I mean anything from Dartmouth up to and including Q/uickBASIC. I do not consider VisualBasic, VB.net, etc, to be BASIC any more than I consider Javascript to be Java. Newer ones in the same spirit - FreeBASIC and qb64, do count, however.

This is my personal opinion and I'm sure many draw the line somewhere else, but when I use that word, it's somewhere in that range (including Atari, Commodore, CP/M, Altair, etc flavors). #programming

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to android

TIL that you can just hold down the square button on #Android to do a screenshot?! I've been holding down power and volume down together to do it this whole time!