MystikIncarnate

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

It's such a shame about their eyesight.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Sounds to me like the pastor got that message. Nobody in the city's government cares about that, but he got it.

Good on the pastor for doing what he did. Anyone who speaks out about it, or endorses the charges laid against him should be ashamed. Honestly, you're going to condemn someone to die because of what? Because they're poor? Homeless? Does that mean we should treat them like they're not worthy of life?

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. (Not you OP, I'm sure you're cool)

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Sisko would probably have a fit.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, let's put a noose around the neck of someone who is essentially a god.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

IMO, income and having a stable place to live shouldn't be so volatile that we need such assurances from the healthcare system.

Affordable housing, and UBI can easily make up the difference.

IMO, affordable housing should be a given, and UBI could simplify and reduce the overhead in many of our systems, such as unemployment insurance, welfare, disability, etc. The money saved in administrating all of those systems and replacing them with UBI could go towards making our healthcare suck a lot less.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would think it's for high-speed caching or something, like for disk cache or video editing. NVMe is used for direct access to the memory from the CPU, speeding it up even further. Most likely it's for an older system before SSDs were cheap. That also means it's likely SLC instead of the MLC or 3D architecture we're mainly using now. That would translate to much faster relative speed (compared to similar generations of similar storage), and very good write endurance.... Again, compared to other examples of the same kind of storage from a similar generation.

There's a lot of good reasons to use small fast drives like this.

Back in the day, I took two very fast HDDs and put them in RAID 0, and attached it to my system as my application storage. I was on windows 2000 or Windows XP at the time and I had to drop to safe mode to move the contents of the "program files" folder onto the array, and remount the RAID as the folder in question. Took my a few tries to get it right, but application listing times were very fast after that.

In the early days of SSDs, I set up a small SSD for my OS and main Windows apps, and redirected my user files to a classic hard drive, since I don't generally need high-speed access to my music and videos and such. Windows has a faculty for this where you can redirect your user folder to another location in its entirety, so my entire local user folder was on that drive, while everything else was on the SSD. I also pointed my steam games to the HDD so I didn't have any issues with the size of game downloads.

Now that SSDs are fairly inexpensive, I've rebuilt my system on all flash, so I don't need any weird disk configurations any longer.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Wait, back up.

Did you wash your hands, or did you just stand there like a creep, watching your hands wash eachother?

Weirdo.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Easy, since it's open source, anyone could, if they're inclined, edit the code to do something just differently enough to cause a problem, or unlock features they're not supposed to have access to, or spoof something that they shouldn't be able to spoof.

This was a big argument against Windows getting a full Unix style socket in Windows 10, I believe. MS did it anyway and basically nothing changed. The blunt realty is that if an attacker is so inclined, they will find a way. Whether anyone wants them to or not. In the case of Unix style sockets, simply pushing the attack onto a Linux VM running on the windows system is usually enough, at most, moving the attack to a Linux or Unix system is also pretty easy but requires additional hardware (even a raspberry Pi) to complete.

As simply as I can, there's enough software defined radios out there that you can hack to accurately spoof a genuine (closed source) device with enough effort, that this argument dies on the table to anyone with the technical knowledge to know what it actually means. It's the same argument as outlawing guns. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns; which is also total horseshit in it's own right, but makes a point. They're making it hard for people (the non-malicious public) to get access to services in the way they want on the basis that it would "make it easier" for hackers to do the illegal. While it may be true that hackers will be able to do some things easier, by not requiring specialized hardware to do whatever malicious thing they want, they're effectively punishing thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who are not malicious and want open source by prohibiting it, just to make the small number of hackers work harder to do things.

Fact is, if they allow it, they need to invest time and effort into implementing safeguards to ensure that any abuse is caught and stopped. They don't want to put in that effort. The idiotic thing is that they need to put in those safeguards anyways because other tools exist that can still attack in the same manner. So they've saved themselves nothing in the prohibition, made the job of malicious hackers "harder", and punished a large percentage of their client base for no good reason.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

If such a thing exists (DIY paper printers), I would like to know more, because the level of frustration I have with all the major printer mfrs I've used, is too damn high.

Bonus points if it's a laser printer, extra bonus points if the components for the printer can be 3D printed (with obvious exceptions).

I just want a good, wired, network printer for everyday crap that I can use once in a blue moon for stupid documents that someone wants me to print, sign, scan and send back to them because they haven't figured out how to do e-signatures yet.... And the odd extra thing I need to print. Every time I print it seems like I need to reinstall the printer or update something to make it work. I buy laser printers so the ink doesn't dry out before I can use it. The whole thing is so damned frustrating. Also, bluntly, unless you're doing photo work, never buy an inkjet. They're cheap, and there's a reason they're cheap. Inkjet has better color representation, so photo printers should probably be inkjet, for everything else, do yourself a favor and buy a laser printer. Toner lasts much, much, longer.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

LEAVE NOTEPAD ALONE!

seriously though. I can't imagine anything I'd rather have be more basic than notepad. It's entire literal existence is to open, edit and save basic text files. There's zero need for additional features or updates.

I mean, I don't even see their precious AI in office yet, and they're getting hard over adding it to fucking notepad? I expected an AI powered clippy to return to office before this shit.

Throws table

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

I'm a network guy, so everything in my labs use SNMP because it works with everything. Things that don't support SNMP are usually replaced and yeeted off the nearest bridge.

For that I use librenms. Simple, open source, and I find it easy to use, for the most part. I put it on a different system than what I'm monitoring because if it shares fate with everything else, it's not going to be very useful or give me any alerts if there's a full outage of my main homelab cluster.

Of course, access from the internet to it, is forbidden, and any SNMP is filtered by my firewall. Nothing really gets through for it, so I'm unconcerned about it becoming a target. For the rest of my systems security is mostly reliant on a small set of reverse proxies and firewall rules to keep everything secure.

I use a couple of VPN systems to access the servers remotely, all running on odd ports (if they need port forwards at all). I have multiple to provide redundancy to my remote access, so if one VPN isn't working due to a crash or something, I have others that should get me some measure of access.

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