muddybulldog

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muddybulldog ,

And plenty who don’t know you can GNU without Linux.

muddybulldog , (edited )

Lots of steps to “figure it out”. Could’ve just pinged the hostname.

Not a big secret. Pretty sure they even announced it.

muddybulldog ,

Agreed. I’ve probably got 100 keys registered with GitHub and 98 of them the private key is long destroyed due to OS reinstalls or whatnot. Format machine, new key. New machine, new key.

muddybulldog ,

I like to save them for a rainy day when I need an OCD fix.

muddybulldog ,

As you suspect, only during the sixty or so seconds that they are valid.

SMS-based codes tend to be longer lived.

They’re useless without your other authentication factors, e.g. login, password.

muddybulldog ,

Because every OS they ship with they need to support. Lenovo already has a viable, cost effective, support model for endlessos because they ship and support it for educational customers.

It’s not commercially viable for them support other OS that there is near no demand for relative to their overall sales.

muddybulldog ,

Your assertions are not supported by industry analysis.

While this years survey is closed, the results haven’t been published. In last year’s survey, MacOS slightly edged out Linux, moving to second place.

muddybulldog ,

Beauty of FOSS is anybody can just remove it.

muddybulldog ,

Funny thing being that the only reason SONY is in gaming was to screw Nintendo. They had a hardware partnership that fell apart because SONY was putting the thumbscrews to Nintendo over revenue sharing. Nintendo said, you’re not the only one who can provide what we need, and dumped them. PlayStation was the direct result.

muddybulldog ,

Aka PATA or IDE hard disks. Basically consumer grade kit.

The statement that the kernel would only ever handle IDE was basically a confession that this would never be a product suitable for enterprise or professional use where SCSI was the typical interface.

muddybulldog ,

Relative to what? Relative to LINUX on Intel? Relative to Windows on ARM?

muddybulldog ,

A key factor is LINUX has been available for ARM since nearly “the beginning”. Unlike Windows, which was basically Intel only for well over a decade, LINUX has had strong support for multiple architectures throughout its lifecycle. As a result, software that grew up within that ecosystem tended to be more agnostic in design which helps porting efforts.

muddybulldog ,

BC titles remain available through the current store.

muddybulldog ,

I use Lemmy Community Seeder. Every four hours it checks the top posts on instances you specifies and automatically subscribes you to communities that appear there but you aren’t already subscribed to. You can tweak it to ignore specific communities or instances.

muddybulldog ,

True dat. I’ve been running it about seven weeks and am pulling about 700 communities. Most have near zero traffic but the high volume ones do add up.


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Apple TV vs Firestick for pirated movies and series?

(Repost ish, from Technology), So I just bought a new telly and to my surprise, not, the OS is rather bad and has very limited amount of apps. Therefore I’ll invest further in either Apple TV or the Firestick. Anyone got any recommendations, tips or hot takes on this in terms of pirated content? Which is more accessible and I...

muddybulldog ,

AppleTV + Infuse = zero transcoding. Add that Apple will be allowing VPN on device with the release of tvOS 17 and it’s pretty much the perfect kit if you’re willing to spend the extra dollars.

muddybulldog ,

Instead of embracing open standards they made Metal.

Did DirectX become an open standard when I wasn’t paying attention?

muddybulldog ,

I can see wanting to run your own DNS to serve personal clients for privacy purposes but for self-hosting class stuff I can think of plenty of downsides and zero upsides to privatizing this.

Definitely a “yeah, you could” vs. “yeah, you should” situation.

muddybulldog ,

We’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves for that.

I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time

It’s not really a big deal, but I am currently writing this using a linux kernel I compiled from source, which certainly feels like an accomplishment. The Arch Wiki has made the process fairly easy to follow. I just took the stock Arch Linux configuration without changes for now....

muddybulldog ,

Achievement unlocked… now try this… www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

A Beautiful transcript with #ChatGPT4 about the situation/appeal/and judgement of my Forum Ban for #Diablo4 over criticisms about #RodFergusson

I was banned on the Diablo Gaming forum for the following post: [Title: Rod Fergusson ousted as Diablo 4 GM.][Text: Bye Rod, wouldn’t that be nice? Having a GM that doesn’t make weird creepy malignant tunnel jokes and actually can speak to the game?]...

muddybulldog ,

You don’t have right to free speech on the Diablo forums.

muddybulldog ,

Are you of the belief that devs get to say, “I’m poor, I can’t pay”. Can’t really understand what your comment is implying.

muddybulldog ,

That’s what I’m not understanding. Willing to pay what? They’re not paying commission because they don’t owe anything. It’s not a matter of price being high or low. Why would they pay for something that they don’t have to pay for? Their cost is zero.

muddybulldog ,

Least expensive is Virtualbox or UTM.

Simplest is Parallels.

muddybulldog ,

My personal instance that is pulling in close to the top 500 communities. Over the past week I see about 4 million requests and 17GB data served.

muddybulldog ,

RedHat is not going closed source. All the code is still open source. Nobody is getting sued for looking at it.

muddybulldog ,

I’ve seen them. I understand them. I’m correct.

Not making their sources generally available for download is NOT the same as closed source. The only ones subject to their new licensing agreements are their paying customers. They are very much pushing against the spirit of FOSS licenses but there is no potential for some Joe on the street to get sued for looking at their source code.

muddybulldog ,

You think you are talking to a very different person than you actually are.

Not making their sources generally available for download is NOT the same as closed source. The only ones subject to their new licensing agreements are their paying customers. They are very much pushing against the spirit of FOSS licenses but there is no potential for some Joe on the street to get sued for looking at their source code.

muddybulldog , (edited )

If Joe hasn’t been provided the binaries from RedHat they’re under no obligation to provide the sources.

And the true sources can easily be obtained from the upstream, same place every other distro provider get’s them.

muddybulldog ,

Not shocking. It’s not a huge market and there’s a lot more competition than there was even just a couple of years ago. Cost of entry has plummeted.

muddybulldog ,

Obviously Ubuntu wants to push Ubuntu but this is a fair take. Notably, outside of iOS/macOS development, a vast majority of enterprise developers that do use macOS are going to leverage the GNU tools, typically via Homebrew. So while they may not be using LINUX itself, the tools and user experience are all the same.

Even Apple leverages Homebrew for package management and advertises to its devs.

muddybulldog ,

My entire .dotfiles is in GitHub. Anything I want to keep common across machines is stored there and either inserted in PATH or symlinked as needed.

muddybulldog ,

Stow is good and I’d recommend it for someone starting out. By the time I found about it I had already written a silly amount of code from scratch to accomplish effectively the same thing.

muddybulldog ,

Thanks for this. Someone else has mentioned this a while back and I completely forgot what it was called. Which is ironic given what the acronym stands for. I’ll give it a second look.

muddybulldog ,

Assuming that this isn’t exclusive to the particular builds those instances are running it’s going to be a rodeo for a while. While I can see the desire to target larger instances it’s not going to be long before any instance is a target for the lulz.

muddybulldog ,

It worked!

muddybulldog ,

If you’re concerned that you VPS provider is replacing your certificates you need to find another provider.

You should also look in to certificate transparency monitoring. I get notified anytime a certificate gets issued for one of my domains.

muddybulldog ,

There’s no backfilling. You’ll only see new content.

muddybulldog ,

If you’re not going server grade I’d just throw up a 4-bay docking station like this and do ZFS or LVM. Perfectly fine for single-user or family type stuff.

muddybulldog ,

Sounds more like they’re going after Grande. Belief being the testimony would allow them to build a case that Grande incited or somehow induced privacy which would strip them from a number of legal protections that may apply to service providers.

muddybulldog ,

Who had “side with Zuckerberg” on their 2023 bingo card?

No, me neither.

muddybulldog OP ,

Good stuff. That’s my entire motivator, transparency. KBin makes it obvious that up/down isn’t anonymous, Lemmy doesn’t. Much like Reddit, Lemmy also doesn’t delete posts, they just get tagged as deleted and not shown via the interface.

When literally anybody in the world can be an admin with no vetting process and no “internal controls” that you would expect from a commercial platform, having a clear view of how things work is critical so that people can make informed decisions on how (or even if) they use the platform.

muddybulldog OP ,

That is a use case I had not considered. Excellent thinking.

muddybulldog OP ,

That’s why the topic is “You Should Know” rather than “I’ve Had A Revelation That No One Has Ever Considered”.

muddybulldog OP ,

That’s not always the case. My username has heritage dating back all the way through to Slashdot, Digg and through Reddit. While you may not know me that doesn’t mean I’m unknown or anonymous.

On Reddit I could upvote or downvote as I pleased, without exposing my POV on controversial topics to the general populace. Only commenting would actually out me. That’s not the case with Lemmy and making people aware of that is a good thing, imo.

muddybulldog OP ,

I’ll contribute that my intent with this post is not evangelism. I like the voting system and would be disappointed to see it disappear.

A vote in Reddit was, from a practical perspective, anonymous. While it was recorded in the database and admins had access to this information there were mitigations in place to deter abuse and the end result was that the person you up or down voted was not going to know that YOU, personally, downvoted them. It was also of limited value to external data sifters in creating social graphs.

Since Lemmy votes are non-anonymously propagated across the Fediverse and, literally, anyone can be an admin there are people who may want to reconsider whether they upvote or downvote a particular post or comment. The actual reasons may vary; they don’t want to be outed as sympathetic to a political view or cause, they don’t want it used a social graph for targeted advertising or even spear-phishing. In many cases there will be people who don’t care at all.

Just trying to contribute to transparency. Not everyone can read code, sift data or visualize how a social network would work behind the scenes. There’s plenty of opportunities for others to use our data, good and evil. I believe that efforts to bring to light non-obvious consequences of actions is good citizenship.

muddybulldog OP ,

Ok… have to admit that I miss one thing from Reddit… I have no awards to give.

muddybulldog OP ,

I found hosting a Lemmy instance pretty easy but I admit I have the experience to readily recognize how fucked the Lemmy docker-compose example is.

No clue whatsoever how to write a crawler.

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