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@jimhalpert there's nothing important about using gpu/cpu/asic to solve sudoku puzzles to buy heroin on darknet.
@screem @prologic

new gig must be going well. id ask what sort of salary they provide but instead im curious how many iphones per hour you can buy

cc @ullarah
@screem @prologic

wow thats an amazing...


keyboard. 75%?
@prologic no issues here. been online the last 4 hours.

keep this bookmarked. https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/

good place to start
@prologic what is gonix
@prologic @movq @lyse

they are right in one sense but wrong in their delivery.

if a pod had a pv attached on storage plane and the pod does something (could be anything) to corrupt the pv, the scheduler will continue to kill the pod since its pvc pointing to pv cannot be fulfilled.

there is no proper time for pod death. kubernetes will kill pods for whatever reason it deems necessary at any given time. its purpose is to ensure declared state is met at all times.

now all that being said ext4 corruption can and does happen on the underlying storage that supports your storage plane (ceph+took, talos, nfs, iscsi, etc) but a pod cannot directly cause this.

if the csi driver/storage plane had some bug or takes a flaming shit sure it can corrupt the blob storage but not a pod.

basically it means they gave you the right answer to the wrong question.

if you need help im happy to discuss.
@prologic im theorizing we've got another 10 years as a species. we've gone and fucked everything up. nature is furious. rightfully so.

one could ponder the idea that if we weren't so population-dense life could be more sustainable.

but like you said. humans are stupid and selfish. im not excluded from that blanket statement.
@abucci not sure what part of the us you live in. but when antifa starts destroying property that is not theirs to destroy or people are cancelled because they have a viewpoint or opinion the mob doesn't agree with that's just as fucked as the people they claim are nazis.

send me the list of hundreds of nazi instances, would you? ill see if I can compile this against a list of known instances across the fediverse and visualize it. ill even write it in go.
@prologic then you deal with the privacy concerns of contact tracing.
@prologic ice blocks in hell before i deny anyone a feeling regardless of how delusional i may perceive it.

but how does one logically chastise another human being for being human? we all carry pathogens and microbes. evolution has given us the ability to adapt over time. without it you'd drop dead from a mild cold.
@prologic


what does becoming sick have to do with selfishness or stupidity?

you have an immune system for a reason. when you isolate like you do your immune system weakens. after a lack of exposure to community pathogens your immune system falls back to your tuned antibody instructions (basic immune response vs targeted response from learned immunity) this ultimately makes it tougher to fight off whatever comes your way.

increase your intake of zinc, c, and d3/k2. increase your hydration.

unless you plan on living by yourself for your life in a cave in guatemala or some shit you're going to need to expose yourself to microbes so when you do catch a bug your immune system is better equipped.

before you say it, no im not an internet doctor. years of medical training and saving lives on the ground during and prior to wuhan.
@prologic 100%. doing what you (or previously myself) do in the cloud would bankrupt us in a new york minute.
@prologic

build your own world. that's my goal.
@mckinley t430 is one of the best t series there is
@prologic @carsten


this is wise carsten. one way communication can really help tune out the noise.

also ive seen a lot of conspiracy theorists. but that's the internet. happens on all platforms. so many people these days can't think for themselves. they become slaves to delusion and consensus bias.

the plague and countless other trigger points have encouraged a global war amongst humans. most don't know what they're angry about anymore.

they're desperate to be heard, get attention, and seek a neurotic level of approval from their networks.

at one point we as a species had integrity. now we'll whore out for a like.

really strange world we live in.
@carsten @prologic it costs money to keep the lights on and profit. apple and the rest are not a public benefit corporation. $10 for 2tb of online storage is pretty cheap. especially with all the convenience features apple provides like scanning your files for you and providing a nice interface to law enforcement.

seems like a hell of a deal to me.
@novaburst at least they use misskey which is a nice ui for activitypub.

i still rss a few timelines from technical people but lost interest in dealing with warped individuals.

many are deluded into thinking they're a japanese anime character or a woman while wearing a beard who are so far gone if you disagree with their rhetoric you're magically labeled a fascist.

maybe im old and based. but I've yet to find any meaning in any of this. it feels like a mass psychosis experiment.
@carsten an afterthought. it reminds me of people saying "guns are dangerous". they are not dangerous by themselves. it takes a human who is dangerous to make them so. social media platforms count on the weakness in human beings and their ability to be weaponized rather easily.
@carsten i don't think it's clear if he quit fediverse or not. but it's comical that he has to mention neo-nazis. i've been in and out of the fediverse since the beginning and the % of neo-nazis is small. there's 1-2 extremely shithole instances harboring them, but most instances have defederated them. but then again anyone the radical left doesn't like is a default neo-nazi.

@novaburst you've mentioned this before. are you still plugged into an instance?
@screem i think it depends on what your goals are. my own was to have a hardened phone that i can control. pixel serves that purpose for me with grapheneos.
@movq of course i was joking. i'm sure gentoo is a fine distribution or was when i tried it when it first released.

i recently rebuilt and included pipewire. my hesitation was that implementation a while back when they tried to layer pipewire on top of pulseaudio in one of the arch variants. multiple times a day i had to disconnect my speakers and reconnect. miserable existence.
@movq you'll be fine. if you were using pipewire and gentoo i'd recommend protective gear
@carsten @prologic

the architecture reminds me of iceland.

wherever you are. enjoy it.
@prologic


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@prologic will have a look
@prologic ill reach out when i can locate your number.
@prologic

this sounds like a work ask...
@screem

have you considered a pixel 6/pro? may want to have a look at grapheneos as well.
@prologic


- screen smashed, didn't trust the repair guy so wiped everything so he could test the repair. will figure out how to get your number and everyone else's.

- terraform can do this either with kubernetes or helm provider. i may have something in my toolbag that comes close.

- strikes me funny you're asking about this. never thought id hear you mutter the word.
@mckinley @prologic win2k professional was stable. although it looked like a one night stand between novell and os2 warp.
@screem

let's hope the subscription is ad-free.

@prologic (#x3kam3q)

never am i to be nostradamus, but would not surprise me if we hit total collapse in the near-term.

i collect rain and dehumidifier water for the garden i planted. on humid days 4-6l i store into my tank.

if it becomes illegal or already is my response is, come and take it
@screem @prologic

you will own nothing and enjoy it.
@off_grid_living that's about what i pay in the states. im at ~50% solar. hvac is the culprit.~
@lyse the tooling has changed over the years but the practise itself is ~8yr.

i intentionally delete systems and/or data to verify things are working.~
@prologic the math is as mind-blogging as 6-minute iphones.
@prologic proof positive greed is universal regardless of which direction your toilet flushes.
@darren

solve the problem by making them do the yard work if they want to eat said meats.
@prologic if they don't have infrastructure already buried they have to trench and blow from the nearest ring or hut. if they are able to guarantee subscriber density > 50% sometimes they will absorb the cost. otherwise the 80$usd/mo is a diminishing return.

true cost of the pull and installation is 11kusd for the record. rest is hand-rubbing profit.
@movq @novaburst @carsten @lyse

i have an interesting approach which i'm planning to write about on blog/gemini.

it's fairly elaborate, but here's highlight:
- don't rely on sms or mobile device for anything
- main .dotphilez and other non-secret configs are encrypted and routed to five remote locations every 15 minutes to s3 endpoints (minio)
- media replicates to 3 external drives, 3 external locations
- every system or service has no less than 3 hardware tokens strategically placed in places that aren't ~/
- bailout codes (glass-breakers) are individually secured and sharded. these live somewhere on the internet as fragments

~8y running this setup, haven't lost anything. have had drives, keys, media fail but there's always a way~
@ocdtrekkie the twtxt spec is public, nothing stopping you from writing your own for ios.
@ocdtrekkie @mckinley primarily audio and visual issues. like the instance isp had issues at the time but could have been my link. have since moved can't say connectivity has improved here.
@mckinley are you still using peercalls? the last couple of times i used it the experience was flaky. the last call you and i had along with @prologic was tough to get through due to connectivity issues and what not. curious to know if you did jitsi last night
@carsten moving here i never thought i would see something like this happen. i appreciate the ability to carry weapons as it's a dangerous world and a dangerous country to which i feel people should be able to arm themselves to defend their home and family.

what i never expected in a country that claims such freedom is that a government would come down and tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies.

this indeed is a sad state of affairs, and i don't see things ever getting better in this country. one could consider moving, but the ripple effect from their decisions do have global impact.

i've always dreamed of a better world. it appears i need to keep dreaming.
@ullarah well played
@prologic @ullarah doves > sneakers.
@slashdot @prologic to be fair you use signal. will you leave it? legit curious.
@prologic if it's too expensive to change companies won't do it. looking at bancs
@movq good idea. also 3-4l of h2o. add .25gm of salt/litre
@screem no worries. i've enough unique systems to know your concerns.
@prologic @ocdtrekkie @ullarah @darch @lyse @mckinley

third week in a row i missed it. when it's not work it's sleep. will make a point to join next one. hope you guys had fun.
@movq jfc. reminds me of the heatwave in the states.
@prologic @screem now that i think of it throw it on oracle/was/gcp free tier.

there's no such thing as privacy with any provider that controls the traffic path and the metal in the dc.

didn't we get it running on-prem last month? or am i inhaling petrol and suffering memory lapse?
@prologic

you won't allow me to forget.

by the by. when are we dropping yarn on linode?
@novaburst you might be able to find a chassis on ebay which you could transplant the pi
@prologic that works. i'll have my people call your people using an iphone derived from 11 minutes of labour :-)
@mckinley this sir, is a thing of nightmares :-)
@prologic grab a drink and a peercall and we'll discuss.

i took a look at box and think it's a good path forward. it's like a docker-lite from what i gather. this is an area of research for me, so if you'd like to collaborate, i'm interested.
@prologic here's my take on kubernetes.

it's simple in principle and architecture. but the infinite abstractions and constant tool-shifting makes it a schizophrenic erector set for angry adults.

next time we session let me show you a couple of ideas on how to make it simple and keep it that way.

and yes, i still rock swarm as the main dc.
@prologic @screem

- racknerd
- frantech
- netcup
- hetzner

all inexpensive. i have a couple of prepaid vps im not using you can have one.
@prologic sounds like you need an operator who can wrench this for you.
@xuu of course, mfa goes without saying. passphrase+mfa wins every time. i was delving more into the cryptography and mathematics behind it coming from a lot of research in this area. but point well received.
@eaplmx indeed and thank you for unpacking further. your use of mnemonics is a good substitute for complex long passwords (still better than dog1234).

and if you have issues with typing, some form of password manager is helpful. unless of course it's your luks partition or something else then you should burn this into the cortex.
@prologic tls-intercept would be considered bad if you were doing it to someone else. feel free to break your own proxies.

in the interim, have a look at how dnsmasq. it can be used to rewrite hostnames at the os-layer or you can package in container for further network-wide shenanigans.
@carsten manchmal ist es schwierig, zwischen dem web und einem terminal zu wechseln. wenn sie sich jemals dafür entscheiden, wird es hilfreich sein, einen guten workflow zu finden.
a yeti drove a truck through a pi shop
@prologic

passwords for the most part are dead. high-entropy bit mnemonics are the way.

have a look at the bip-39 spec. theoretically unbreakable given a proper implementation. the caveat is many services don't allow for a charset > 50 which forces the consumer to reduce entropy bits by way of varchar constraints.

while a passphrase or mnemonic with a length of 8 words ie: red glue seven wifi belief bacon zebra pipe is rather strong, it's also the sequence of the words that contribute to the breakage. if you were to set prologic builds software that needs some maintainers today this would be simpler in theory to crack since the progression of words forms a common speech pattern which can be brute forced easier.

this would make a good friday call
@prologic time to package it up and setup an endpoint.
@mckinley

> For a lot of folks, it’s 100% social media. If they don’t see it there, they don’t see it. They only see what their preferred social media services want them to see.

this is discouraging for current and future generations. i don't participate in social beyond what you see here, but it's got to be a rough existence being spoonfed whatever a machine decides.
@darch i had no idea this was a thing, thank you!
@movq i received the point of the article loud and clear. there's plenty of young people who have become frustrated and sought out ways to aggregate. of course mass re-adoption is futile, but putting the information out there in a way that makes things simple for others is likely a good plan. meanwhile i'll go back to baking a docker container that can aggregate nearly anything you throw at it
@lyse same here. solves the same problem with a toothpick vs a javelin
@movq @carsten

i don't think rss has gone anywhere. it's likely obfuscated by all of these apps and services that aggregate for you. my reader is full of blogs and videos. also @mckinley work on watching videos from the terminal and aggregating via rss. it's a great workflow
@darren welcome. you'll have a good time here.

@ullarah @prologic

sounds like we need a stay peercall and adequate amounts of booze sprinkled with iphone finance math
@novaburst it's time to golang a d20
@prologic sounds like a fitting description for me.

based and backed by a text file :-)
@lyse gui interface programming is my kryptonite as well. i know my limits, and my limits are text. :-)
@tkanos how are you running the image?

- compute engine
- anthos
- cloud run
- gke

each one will have a slightly different approach.

if you're running from the terminal docker run -e DOMAIN='toxik.com' -rm myimage where -e is how you pass the the environment variables at execution time. if you need multiples you can do -e DOMAIN='toxik.com' -e TZ='UTC' and so on
@prologic

- api
- controller manager
- etcd
- scheduler

simple component architecture. it's the 9th circle of hell level abstractions that really cause the scientist to become a farmer.
@lyse perhaps i should have said parallel dimension or planet? although the architecture at its core is very simple

@movq unlikely. but i'm sure there's a helm chart for big foot
in a hidden lab somewhere on the planet, a scientist is uncovering the true simplicity of kubernetes
@marado are you using gnunet? it's been a long time since i have. have put this on my list of things to do.
@off_grid_living are you looking to dual-boot? but yes, you can burn a mint image to a flash drive by downloading balena etcher for windows. it works well

@mckinley very uncommon for desktop or in general? from research it seems *nix is one of the most common server operating systems on the planet.*
@lyse likewise, friend. sometimes you have to chase your own ghosts....
@darch any updates on this?
@movq one of the reasons i kept pulse in the mix. multiple audio interfaces while creating or performing via alsa can be difficult.
@prologic are you on the new gear? curious to see if it stabilises the situation at all or if you have to hire professionals to go about in the muck and pull 1960's copper out of the ground with a dowsing rod.
@novaburst

may your star burn bright for the next xxi


@prologic go ahead, i'll take the blame
@prologic you bring up a good point, but as you know with many things there's many sides of the coin, as it were.

take aws. no really, take it. get it away from me. expensive as all get out. but with that expense comes the calculation of the costs associated to run such a behemoth.

- electricity multi-homed
- multiple generator backups
- hyperscalar metal / tier1 infrastructure
- people ready to respond 24/7 if shtf
- the lovely apis we all know and adore


i think also it pays to keep in mind that a the term datacentre is subjective. you and i run them. so does aws. we can barely guarantee .5 x 9 even with redundant systems and hypertension. meanwhile aws or some other paas provider or a metal datacentre can 4 x 9 all day long and 5 x 9 for their .gov regions.

give a man infinite piles of money, he will draw 9's. give a man a stack of metal, let's hope he doesn't cut himself in the process :-)
@prologic pass it on to the customers as typical sop. i've worked in that ecosystem in the past. it's interesting but can become expensive fast. speaking of expensive, openshift. the hardware costs to do it right are immense.
@retrocrash back is in question, but present absolut! currently working on many projects now that i have some forced free time and have been getting the pod ready. been writing a lot and working with music and visuals somewhat in the realm of what @darch enjoys
@darch it looks just fine to me. i don't see anything out of alignment. i chose the dark theme and i really do prefer the colour choices you made.
@lyse consider this..

software can and often does go through several iterations until the desired state is reached. humans are no different. we evolve in regards to interests, tastes, and who we want to be in the world.

the last couple of weeks have been deeply reflective and there was a point of realisation to which it was decided that society's fragile rules no longer apply.

let's catch up soon.
@novaburst first doom runs on a pregnancy-test, now this. colour me impressed.
@darch is it ui problem or storage issue?
@prologic :-)
@prologic scribe shows you how to intercept the medium call and redirect. you can do this with an extension, however there's likely some other ways to skin the cat
@prologic domain-driven design?
if you fall fast enough, your screams are muteed by gravity