highspire

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A tale of a new Lemmy instance, a bot infestation, the fallout, and how we dealt with it in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] highspire@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to say that I saw a post at some point about one of the popular instances (was it beehaw or lemmy.world?) not requiring users to answer a challenge question during signup. Does it seem like email verification is sufficient to mitigate bots or does a challenge question help too, do you think? Sopuli required both. Unverified users can apparently post?

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NixOS in production? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Hey all, I'm wondering about giving NixOS a try. It seems like it's mostly marketed for development environments and CI, but I haven't seen much of anything about it being used on production servers. Right now I manage Alma 8 servers with Salt, and bootstrap Salt with a modified version of the ISO. NixOS seems like it could help streamline how I do things. Does anyone use it and have thoughts one way or another?

Refurbishing an old ThinkPad for a friend -- Debian, Fedora or something else? in c/linux@sopuli.xyz
[โ€“] highspire@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

openSUSE is more my thing, but ElementaryOS might be a nice one. I believe it's a Debian fork. When I started, I used Ubuntu MATE and found it fairly intuitive, but it depends on for friend. Ironically, I've had more issues with Fedora breaking itself than Arch or Tumbleweed, so I don't recommend or use it myself. That said, it's pretty popular anyway, so I'm probably just special

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Tachometer on Rebel 500? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I wish the 2023 (well, every) Honda Rebel 500 had a tachometer. I understand it's a cruiser and not for racing, but I still want to know where I'm at without finding out the hard way (accidentally bouncing off the rev limiter and damaging something). Is there a cheap aftermarket tach that can be added for this?