[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Because half the country votes for a party that explicitly says this is a good way to run things, and the other half votes for a party that says it isn't great, but we shouldn't really do anything meaningful about it.

Until there is mass "you are all assholes and we demand a more representative electoral system" demonstrations, nothing will change.

Readers may note that this applies to basically every problem in the US right now

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Debian. When I have time to mess about with server stuff, I want to be doing the thing I want to do rather than fixing whatever broke in the most recent set of updates

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Ikr? I'm an atheist and I know that this is probably heretical

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah - the dose is the poison (if you drink enough water it becomes toxic), so if you are talking precisely you need to describe the concentration of a substance in which it is likely lethal to a person, and that's typically expressed as mass of a substance per mass of bodyweight. A lot of the time you will also see this expressed as an "LD50" value; the dose at which you'd expect 50% of people to die. This accounts for the fact that people's metabolisms vary quite widely.

~1ng/kg ~= 0.08ug for a typical (~80kg) person, which is a very tiny amount - whatever you are talking about is incredibly toxic.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Being frustrated sure, but being angry at someone because they just don't have a functional mental model of how the internet works is kinda pointless

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Because fundamentally DRM doesn't work. It's effectively impossible to stop a determined attacker from gaining access to the information while also making it easy and convenient for the general public to access.

The point of pay walls is to be just annoying enough that 90% of the public go "screw it, have a few dollars", not to stop the 10% of people who were never going to pay you regardless.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Tangent, but I get irrationally angry when people do "go to site X and search for blah and it's the 3rd result down" when trying to convey the location of some information on the internet rather than just sharing the goddam URL.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Neurosyphilis

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I've not heard any out-and-out horror stories, but I've got no first hand experience.

I'm planning on picking up 3x manufacturer recertified 18TB drives from SPD when money allows, but for now I'm running 6x ancient (minimum 4 years old) 3TB WD Reds in RAID 6. I keep a close eye on SMART stats, and can pick up a replacement within a day if something starts to look iffy. My plan is to treat the 18TBs the same; hard drives are consumables, they wear out over time, and you have to be ready to replace them when they do

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Sounds like a great idea - I suspect the biggest obstacle will be finding someone at the home who is confident enough in what to do with it to be willing to accept it.

I've run into similar issues with schools where they are hesitant to accept donations of things like that because they don't want to be saddled with equipment they don't know how to use and maintain. Maybe worth seeing if you can raise a bit of money for a second hand Xbox or something?

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 278 points 1 month ago

At some point every professional computer person - programmer, sysadmin, whatever - will seriously consider piling all their computers into a big pile, lighting them on fire, and moving to the country to start a new life making things with their hands

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The KDE 6 announcement says that

On prior versions you chose between either password or fingerprint authentication for the lockscreen. In Plasma 6, both are supported at the same time.

I've updated my Neon install, what do I need to do to enable this? I've set up a fingerprint through the user settings, but when the screen is locked I still have to use my password to unlock - there isn't a prompt, and touching the reader doesn't seem to do anything

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I'm trying to find a thing, and I'm not turning up anything in my web searches so I figure I'd ask the cool people for help.

I've got several projects, tracked in Git, that rely on having a set of command line tools installed to work on locally - as an example, one requires Helm, Helmfile, sops, several Helm plugins, Pluto, Kubeval and the Kubernetes CLI. Because I don't hate future me, I want to ensure that I'm installing specific versions of these tools rather than just grabbing whatever happens to be the latest version. I also want to ensure that my CI runner grabs the same versions, so I can be reasonably sure that what I've tried locally will actually work when I go to deploy it.

My current solution to this is a big ol' Bash script, which works, but is kind of a pain to maintain. What I'm trying to find is a tool where I:

  • Can write a definition, ideally somewhere shared between projects, of what it means to "install tool X"
  • Include a file in my project that lists the tools and versions I want
  • Run the tool on my machine and let it go grab the platform- and architecture- specific binaries from wherever, and install them somewhere that I can add to my $PATH for this specific project
  • Run the tool in CI and do the same - if it can cache stuff then awesome

Linux support is a must, other platforms would be nice as well.

Basically I'm looking for Pythons' pip + virtualenv workflow, but for prebuilt tools like helm, terraform, sops, etc. Anyone know of anything? I've looked at homebrew (seems to want to install system-wide), and VSCode dev containers (doesn't solve the CI need, and I'd still need to solve installing the tools myself)

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 312 points 6 months ago

tl;dw - ed25519 keys are now the default

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