The_Pete

@The_Pete@lemmy.world
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Huh, isn't that how the Holocaust started?

I wonder what the final solution will be?

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Lol, he wants it to be wechat but forgets that everyone uses it because its a government sanctioned monopoly.

No one wants a dating/chat/payment/microbloging/uber app.

Link your ride data to your dating profile? What could go wrong you fucking donkey.

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Because even for me, a full time systems coder, just figuring out what server to join was a pain, I had to try 3/4 time before I felt like I had enough info to make the correct choice, and then finding other users from my previous twitter gang was a pain, the barrier to entry is much higher than some other options.

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Heh, imagine the US giving out 6 months for campaign finance impropriety. Lol, about to take a hard pass on straight sedition.

Kinda I guess, he's said he would hold back one part of a single shipment, but that is the absolute bare minimum

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Um, before that, they tried to exile them to Europe and north America. What we are seeing is actually a compression of the previous timeline.

I was already full Linux, but gnome is the reason I stopped messing with window managers and maybe large 4k monitors.

It finally hit enough of 'just works' and customizability to use my standard workflow.

The only thing I want that I don't have right now is horizontal monitor splits for vertical monitors.

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Check if your motherboard has a watchdog function. If the OS can't ping the watchdog every 5 min or whatever you set it to, the board resets.

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I def can. No one is hiring this is a layoff. If you're a recruiter and still there you're keeping your mouth shut, pretending to work in something and showing up threevdays a week

I ask before I take the interview. Location, salary range, linux laptop are prerequisites to me working for anyone. If they punt on the laptop question it means no and they are hoping you'll want the job even without. I can promise you I won't, and if you view that as a red flag I can promise I don't want to work there so I don't care.

If its a hard requirement for you just say that and say that's for workflow and you don't want to waste anyone's time

Wonder how much of them not just killing the servers is to avoid a monopoly lawsuit/perception.

I'd assume if they (Twitter) were a normal non-social advertising company they'd just cut them off and be done. Granted it's hard to know how long they haven't paid, but my guess is basically since Elon took over.

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There's a vast majority of the population that doesn't care.

Maybe, the problem with old reddit is that it's as much about the comments as it is the content. Comments are hard to advertise on. Where card style scrolling content is great for advertising. Scroll a couple cards with a 20-60 second engagement, look at an ad, scroll a little more. . ..

However, I don't see this as being a great way to farm content for language models, the content engagement tends to drop significantly with the endless scrolling so my guess is that it's a short term play to prove they can sell ads before the IPO.

Absolutely, it seems to me that a larger than normal portion of the IT industry is full of people with ADHD. Especially systems, networking and security type jobs where knowing a little about everything and then being willing to dive deep on something is extremely helpful.

Large complex systems require large complex knowledge bases to run, and curious people that tend to learn everything about something that catches their attention instead of shrug and walk away as soon as its working endup having diverse skillsets.

Obviously, you'll still have to learn to moderate it if you want to be employable. But, there's defiantly a world out there where curious people that love to learn a stack of assorted skills and are quick pattern matchers can excell.

Even better, go find yourself a poorly maintained and managed stack where everything is a fire drill and all the sudden you're in focus mode all the time. Your work queue is just a stack of the most pressing issues and your brain is wired to be energized by the new, unknown and urgent.

Some people fatigue from being presented a giant unknown issue while someone is standing behind them with a stop watch or, more likely a lost revenue counter. Not you, buddy, that's you're home turf. 'Mean time to recovery' of complex systems that you've never even heard of isajist the score on your favorite game.

Now, here's a big big caveat. You can't live your life in a healthy way running under stress 100% of the time. And you can't deliver longer term system improvements that solve the stress problem by just banking on stress to fix your executive function. So at a certain point, it starts to be career limiting.

You'll go from the tech that can figure anything out to the engineer that knows the whole system but can't drive meaningful process improvements and keeps the stack in the same disarray. Your job as you advance is to make to make your massive systems look less like your brain over time.

And here's the good news. You have a deep catalogue of failure modes in your head. And your gut instinct is going to be right a lot of times as you start to build or replace systems.

The catch, at this stage is that you'll need to learn how to articulate your years of high pressure undocumented fixes (instincts) into guiding principles you can show to people and explaine why its better.

You'll have yo learn how to timebox deep exploration, how to finish your full tasks, how to plan and predict the amount of time it takes you to get things done.

I should do a more detailed writeup at some point. But, let's be honest. . .

I expect there are many trades like this, some where you can just live in that world where work comes out of a queue and you work until its not an emergency. I bet being an EMT or other type of first responder, would be a good ffromnt I assume a lot of kitchen staff in fast paced restaurants all have it.

I worked as a tech for years in factories with large machine and convayence systems, more mechanical than computer, same deal.

I've been a Machinery operator, and that was great, I could hyperfocuse and deliver, good with the machines because your predicting how your actions will affect the thing the machine is operating on. And, if you're interested in the struggle for perfect efficiency with your machine, you can play the game where you try to cut every available motion to only essentials. Did you know if you're loading a truck far away, its still (almost always) faster to return to your pile backwards than to turn twice? You'll know that because you've got the brain capacity to excel at your job while tracking patterns and doing side quests.

Did you know that roughly 10-15% of the wear that is put on the skid skidsteer tires is unnecessary? That's right, I ran a machine with bike tire odometers on all for tires. If you lift the front tires with the bucket whenever its empty and you turn you can save a considerable amount of rotations on your tires. But do note, that the optimal tire savings is inversely proportional to the replacement time on the front bucket edge, so factor in the surface you're turning on, can this turn be moved from the street to the lawn without slowing total round trip? You'd want a stop watch in your cab for that shit. Can I make a single wide turn instead of a tank to save rubber without slowing down my total speed? Which also brings us back to, can I keep time and just go backwards one way so I never have to turn at all? Hey its 5pm . . .

ADHD is kinda cool in some ways. No one thinks about that shit the same way you will. What really sucks is the start of your life is the school part, and that is hard all the way around, but when you get out into the real world, there's all sorts of things you can do and probably do better than other people, but you have to learn to work within the constraints your mind gives you.

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Heh, if I'm Google I'm just calling it. They have nothing to lose, a single Twitter team is a drop in the bucket for them.

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Its all I'm leaving my kids

Most of the desktop marketiss work machines, most people just us a phone now.

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Yes, this is called split horizon dns, basically, you have to control the DNS servers.

First, make a forwarding/resolver/cache, tell it to forward all requests for your_domain to your internal authoritative DNS server, it will return your internal IPs, externally though, when that domain is looked up, it will return the public ips of that host.

So they can read your code and use it for copilot

But it would also be replaces by something else equily as shitty. The federal government doesn't move fast enough to block stuff like this by name.

I has to be something broad, and enforceable. Tic tok has already been doing its thing for like 5 years.

Because, they don't care about reddit, they just want to cash out and make it someone else's problem to fix.

They don't care, they (lawmakers) don't have their fortunes tied to Florida, but they do have their fortunes tied to Florida electorate voting D

No, he always wanted it to be wechat but misses the fact that its basically required for Chinese citizens to use.

Second, I run a fleet of kobos for the family, they alsonwork pretty well with the libraries around the area which the kids love.

I'm running a 7a, would have liked to go to an 8a (or something with a headphone jack) but my company will drop me from email/work apps after end of security updates.

I went with 7a because it runs grapheneeOS without issue and allows my to sandbox play services a little which I need for work but don't want to just let them run wild.

So far so good.

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The answer is that it depends what you're doing. You can have an extremely efficient dev env CLI. You can kinda brows the web cli. You probably don't want to edit videos and pictures in the CLI.

Because a lot of foss has replaceable building blocks, you're not going to find a 'this is how you do things course'. You're much more likely to find, 'this is how you use a certain text editor in the CLI'.

So, first, I guess, figure out or articulate what you want to do in the CLI. From reading and sending mail to writing code and building a dev environment to just basic scripting to maintain your install.

After that step, you'll want to try a couple of the building blocks that do that.

Once you find one that kinda clicks, then you can go become proficient and start to put together the pieces of your workflow.

I run arch/Ubuntu and gnome. I spend about 50-70% of my time every day in a terminal. I spend the rest in a browser. Sometimes I use files, libre office calc, gimp or the calculator app, but even combined their usage is probably a rounding error.

I run gnome term (used to do a lot of urxvt but gnome term seems to work fine these days)

From there, I start tmux. Inside of tmux, I run a few windows. One has email, a couple shells, chat and system monitoring.

The next window has my core dev env, I run nvim with a server so I can upen tabs in nvim from different terminals, in nvim I run the lsp servers for linting and code completion. I use ranger as a file browser/previewer and that's hooked to nvim so when I select a file there it will open as a tab in nvim, additionally I can run that file in the debug pane in the bottom of the window.

Then I just have windows that I drop into to do additional tasks, ops work on multiple servers at once, a second dev env to make a quick change in a different package, or a new window to scrape up a one line script to parse a log file or data dump for processing else where.

All of this takes time, for me about 15 years probably to say 'ok, I want(need) to do this thing in the terminal, now what's the best way to get that done . . .'

And then, you just kinda build it.

Honestly, while I agree, I'd assume that the people with enough money to sue IBM also have enough money to just buy license. Seems like a no win for us.

This is crazy to me because a refurb unit is tested every time.

The don't test every device off the line, but when someone hands them a watch and says,' I broke this'. They actually go through a whole test suite to validate that it's been fixed and works properly.

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As a note, when you can't find a package, go find the source, you can usually build and install in a couple commands. Its nice to use the package management of the distro, but most of the time, you could just install the deps and compile and be done with it.

I hear it's completely ready but they only built an ipv6 stack so as soon as everything finishes the quick migration to ipv6 we can all switch to it.

Lol, this is peak selfhosted. The obvious solution is to get a router/DHCP server that is normal enough to push out two DNS servers.

The selfhosted way is to set of keep alived or a load balancer, because why the fuck not.

Additionally, they have to release sources for the projects but not necessarily for things like the spec files or the rpms.

Here's the source for the kernel . . . .

Thanks I can get that from kernel.org

It's the part that's not GPL that's the value add here.

I've built a place I find comfortable, took a couple tries. But I have found decent content, found some of my friends from twitter, found replication bots for people I used to follow but not really interact with.

It's not twitter, but it took me 5+ years to build out my twitter. I think over time, enough people will join defederated social media that it can be a pretty good experience if a little too much work for many. But it will take a little time.

Yeah, kbin seems to be a php8 service vs a compiled rust service from some lite poking.

To be fair, every part of it is a small binary that generally does a single thing. You don't have to run them all or even install them but they bring a lot of necessary functionality around base host bootstrapping that everyone used to write in shell for every distro.

I find it nice as an operators of multiple infrastructures to be able to log into a Linux system and have all the hosts bootstrapped in a relatively similar fashion with common tools.

Sysv kinda sucked because everyone had to do it all themselves. Then we got sysv, openrc, upstart and then systems and there was a while there where you never knew what you'd get if you logged into a box. And oh look, I gotta remember 10 different config file locations and syntaxes to assign an IP. Different syntaxes to start a daemon. Do I need to install a supervisor or does that come with the init.

People are doing a lot of really cool stuff with Linux OSs assigning IP addresses in 10 different ways or starting programs was never one of them.

Its also not that systemd has a monopoly, there are other init systems out there, but all the big distros, RH, Debian, ubuntu, arch . . . all came to the same decision that it was the best available init and adopted it. There are other options and any one of those projects is big enough to maintain its own init, but no one really finds the value in dedicating reaources, so they haven't.

Myrecommendations is probably to host a next cloud instance. Does all the standard 'cloud stuff'. File, contact, calendar sync, plus a bunch if other stuff if you want to add it via plugins. If you're patient, and a single use you can host it on basically anything. If you decide you want to add users or have a faster site, you can go down the route of sorting out faster hardware or better specs and suck.

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And were still paying for it. So did Regan, and Nixon. Its just a pattern at this point

Lol, redhat is just butt hurt they lost the NASA Linux contract to rocky

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Lol probably? It has a negative PE and they make 8.5 precent of the cars in the market but has a market cap that's still larger than the last 5 last time I checked.

Here's the kicker. They only make 20% of electric vehicles so they aren't cornering that market either. Self driving? Nope not winning there either.

The whole thig is propped up by hopuum.

Been having good luck with graphineos but you really need a pixel since they don't really support anything else.