r/datahoarder just crashed
several keybase users left after the zoom acquisition. i no longer use it but tombstoned my account.
there was a time in my life where i was obsessed with high-density/high-performance computing. having command of hyperscalar clusters and workstations that could scorch the earth was a deeply embedded part of my work and research years ago.
over the years i realised that i didn't require access to these sort of things to conduct research and work. in fact it became quite the antithesis to my philosophical belief system. in the past my work focused on space-time complexity and performance measured in sub-ms. when i look back at how much energy was consumed to experiment, my head falls low.
in addition, by becoming dependent on this tier of machinery i created multiple fail points in my toolchain since we designed systems that had an inherent requirement for massive power and scale.
in the end, it felt like having a raptor system to open chrome.
these days i'm quite pleased with my thin/low-power thinkpad i procured for nearly nothing. funny how things work out as you grow older
interesting exercise. even more interesting timeline.
- labour
- cleaning
- unplugging
- writing
what about you?
cisco -> mikrotik they pack more bang for the buck and off a less-esoteric configuration system than cisco. the cost of course is a nice outcome. before i became involved with opnsense project i spent many years in mikrotik world. i quite enjoyed it.cisco is mostly trash these days as their focus is a lot of consumer-grade gear which really is not amazing. they tried to do the whole cloud/sdn thing with meraki but it (much like ubiquiti) is firmware hell and full of exploits that take forever to get patched.
if your group cycles through more gear i'd suggest juniper. and yes, they can be affordable.
go run main.go -T "stuff" -e "google" -t "es" -f "en" does indeed spit out a response from the api, but you'll likely need to build a struct to map the return values to just what you want (ie the text translation for instance). you'll likely need to unmarshall the response to pluck out what you need into a string format and return only that.
had a similar problem many years ago. some lovely individual decided to create a bunch of trunk ports which had no primary vlid they had also created multiple isolated vlans with no routing between subnets.
im convinced cisco was created by sadist
every step begins with a
jmp
by this reasoning, you could indeed stockpile 52 base model 12's in one year, export them to the middle-east and quintuple your money.
that will be 4% financial advisor fees. i'll have my accountant send someone an invoice you don't have to pay.
28h32mdivide by your day wage and determine how many iphones you can buy.
:thinking
@prologic the solar part is proven, but unsure if you can float a bunch of batteries in an ice chest :-)
comedy/tragedy and what not
- build a community, not userbase
- bots cannot predict human folly
- you don't need 42u of metal to serve a website
- communities grow best slow and organically
-
quality > quantity- automate as much as possible
- have your system(s) tell you what's
up || down- add service(s) slowly, understand attack surface(s)
-
sandbox || isolate pids and services when you can- when
stress > fun, revisit self-hosting
- build a community, not userbase
- bots cannot predict human folly
- you don't need 42u of metal to serve a website
- communities grow best slow and organically
-
quality > quantity- automate as much as possible
- have your system(s) tell you what's
up || down- add service(s) slowly, understand attack surface(s)
-
sandbox || isolate pids and services when you can- when this stops becoming fun, revisit
self-hosting
okay, work 4x12hrs/week :-)
time to build an application system.
- solve a turing test blindfolded
- play a game of speedchess
- send a session message to a bot who provides a code
- email it to a mod
solid write-up. interested in the mfa chat. sat this one out as i fell asleep on my office floor after too many labour hours.
@prologic the techs that were out last night must have been the culprit :-) sent you a link
@off_grid_living people fear what they don't understand it seems. when they cannot unpack it, they ban it and toss the keys.
@novaburst indeed it was.
if you like youtube or other video content but don't want to fuss with a browser and want to minimise tracking definitely give it a read. i'm adding some bits to my own workflow based on his work. really love where this is going.
inbox
> The atmosphere is warming but and we’re going to see this get worse and worse as the atmosphere continues to hold more moisture.
agnostic of what someone's stance on climate issues are, indeed we are globally seeing warming trends and this is causing shifts all over the globe and it's my personal belief that it's too late to do anything significant about it that would stabilise what we perceive as normal weather conditions. perhaps i'm a fatalist, who knows. but i've lived in multiple regions of the world and if i look back several decades we had shifts in patterns but nothing as wild as this.
welcome
i had hoped for 2.4 to be included as well, but they aren't incorrect with the packaging comment. unless they pulled an unstable version which might work but have never seen that happen on tails or qubes for that matter.
excited to know that it's been rebuilt off of bullseye which brings the distribution in parity with debian 11 stable.
experience seems to be better so far.
cc: @mckinley
@mckinley indeed i just finished reading it when it popped into my feed. clever trick with the nohup/detached mpv proc. adding this to my bag o' tricks
no, it's written in java. just to make your skin crawl :-)
kidding aside, yes it will be in go. i started yesterday. need to find someone to mob/ping-pong with.
need to spike a new feature to somehow schedule the banner. time to go to work
:chefs_kisstrick with vultr is you have to request outbound email port be opened and justify it. linode and digitalocean no issues.
as well, nicety is when your backend mail server is down the first-tier swarm node can spool until your backend comes up.
i really need to blog this mess out.
sounds like we have a proper topic for the chat today.
looks for banner
i'm building a small tool that lets you do
vpn up --region lon --proto wg which will then hit an api and bootstrap the entire thing and bring up the interface automatically. when you're done, vpn down all of them play off of human paranoia and security theatre. if you want a vpn, roll your own. you may pay more for your vps or server but at least you know what's coming in and out of your endpoint.
i can relate. many years ago i had a cavity i let get out of control. nothing like eating at a vietnamese restaurant after a long saturday night and breaking your molar in two. first appointment was a monday at 07:30. good times
.dotfiles to make the process a little smoother. work in progress like most things
@mckinley if you're open to creating the identity as a test in the browser at
https://salty.mills.io would be a good test to see if the behaviour is isolated to the cli only. soon i'll be putting up a permanent and public salty endpoint for anyone to use for testing or whatever.
https://mckinley.cc/.well-known/salty/01G268YYHWGNYT9M1M9760KP83.json currently those paths are 404+403
-i and -u on the cli to get it working properly if running only salty binary versus saltyd@mckinley @eaplmx would you mind opening up an issue on this for follow-up? i use mostly
cli so can likely assist and work through things async with you. irc is also option
its every saturday at 05:00 utc.
topics for next week:
- cleaning your shoes with ketchup
- the mystery of the 20 year old edible burger
- the angry guy at sun microsystems
- yet another chat about browsers
- the shady business of trading mini-horses
- patents and spoons with noodles falling through
- clumsy math and the iphone per minute wage system
- embracing bots, as long as they have solid ai and good jokes
- running
insert os here in javascript- testing yarn social on
netscape navigator- ordinances to promote wine on the beach
- building a browser with
bash, curl, and jq- ecuadorian haircuts, cambodian donuts, and ye olde bartering system
good catching up @ullarah @prologic