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Politically obsessed street photographer. Director of Enterprise Architecture, wine enthusiast, novice chess player trying to get better. Linux nerd, Linux gamer, prolific self-hoster, science advocate, Sorkin/Starmerite. Disgraced former scientist and perpetual critic of nonsense and folly.

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GottaLaff , to random
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Personal note: Still dealing with a lot of anxiety so I’m not reading/replying for awhile, just posting alerts.

Kthxbye 💖

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@GottaLaff 🫂

rhys ,
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@Moneo @SigHunter Networking came to be when there were lots of different implementations of a 'byte'. The PDP-10 was prevalent at the time the internet was being developed for example, which supported variable byte lengths of up to 36-bits per byte.

Network protocols had to support every device regardless of its byte size, so protocol specifications settled on bits as the lowest common unit size, while referring to 8-bit fields as 'octets' before 8-bit became the de facto standard byte length.

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Labour lead at 25% in latest YouGov poll for The Times. Conservatives only 4% ahead of Reform UK

Con: 19% (-1 from 12-13 Mar)
Lab: 44% (=)
Reform UK: 15% (+1)
Lib Dem: 9% (=)
Green: 8% (+1)
SNP: 3% (=)

Fieldwork - 19-20 March

If this continues until the autumn a real wipeout (Tories at sub 120 seats?) seems increasingly possible

#uk #UKPolitics #UKPol #UKPolling #UKElection

rhys ,
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@Natasha_Jay Electoral Calculus has the LibDems as His Majesty's Loyal Opposition on these numbers. It also has the threshold at which Reform would gain its first seat during these trends as being 18%.

(Usual caveats against non-MRP seat projections apply.)

otl , to Selfhosted
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Another successful OpenBSD setup

I've been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.

@selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhosted #openbsd #runbsd

rhys ,
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@madcaesar @otl It's a small server running OpenBSD, configured to operate as a router and/or firewall.

Linux and the *BSDs can operate as very good routers and firewalls, usually being much more configurable and enabling you to do more complex than off-the-shelf consumer-level hardware routers. Using them on a small form factor computer with a cheap switch in front of them can give you a better performing and nicer to use alternative.

GottaLaff , to random
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I don’t usually post screen grabs from the hellsite, but this was too long to simply quote.

Via Lawrence Tribe.

Laurence Tribe: A brilliant retired lawyer, Albert T. Goins, has given me permission to quote excerpt from observations about Trump’s willingness to to give aid & support to those who would attack our allies: “Perhaps, Mr. Trump forgot (if he ever knew) that our internat obligations & treaties—such as those we undertook as members of NATO—are themselves supreme law of the land as recog at Article VI of our Constit. As so-called supremacy clause states in relevant part: “This Constitution, & the laws of US which shall be made in pursuance thereof; & all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of US, shall be supreme law of the land...” Article VI, Clause 2 of the Constit. Now Trump’s inane remarks are likely well w zone of protected polit speech under our 1A rights, but his S Carolina statement evinces Trump’s fundamental unfitness to serve as Pres—& reveals his willingness to turn our treaty obligations into a seamy political ‘protection racket. &, Trump’s claims that he would encourage an adversary to attack an ally based on his personal view that they were ‘delinquent’ in making financial contributions to that alliance raise more serious concerns. Trump’s statements in S Carolina may not themselves rise to the level of an insurrection, but they clearly reveal the fact that if he regains office Trump is poised to unravel the binding obligations which the Constitution has imposed upon every president from Washington to Biden.”
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    @GottaLaff That's interesting. Does that mean that the US can never renege on a treaty obligation?

    That very much appeals to me after Tory disdain for our treaty obligations here in the wake of Brexit and the ECHR.

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    Totally forgot!! #WOMPWOMP #WOMPAGE in all caps!

    ‼️#BREAKING! 🔥 1/…

    Via Anna Bower:

    BREAKING: DC Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Donald #Trump is NOT IMMUNE from prosecution. #legal

    UNANIMOUS!!!

    10:02 w T E < 8 W & - Notice of Docket Activity The following transaction was entered on 02/06/2024 at 9:58:54 AM Eastern Standard Time and filed on 02/06/2024 Case Name: USA v. Donald Trump Case Number: 23-3228 Document(s): Document(s) Docket Text: PER CURIAM JUDGMENT [2038999] filed that the order of the District Court appealed from in this cause be affirmed, for the reasons in the accompanying opinion . The Clerk is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate through February 12, 2024. If, within that period, Appellant notifies the Clerk in writing that he has filed an application with the Supreme Court for a stay of the mandate pending the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari, the Clerk is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate pending the Supreme Court's final disposition of the application. The filing of a petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc will not result in any withholding of the mandate, although the grant of rehearing or rehearing en banc would result in a recall of the mandate if the mandate has already issued. See D.C. Cir. R. 41(a)(4). Before Judges: Henderson, Childs and Pan. [23-3228] Notice will be electronically mailed to: Mr. Richard D. Bernstein: rbernsteinlaw@gmail.com Mr. Emil Bove: emil.bove@blanchelaw.com 2 B CH
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    @GottaLaff 🥳

    Somewhat unsurprising — it would have been a bizarre innovation if the ruling had gone the other way — but I think we can still be happy at this.

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    @rutrum @jntesteves I have that controller. It's the best controller I've used — I greatly prefer it to my Series X controller.

    The back paddle buttons don't work for me with SteamInput in XInput mode though. Reading around, I think that's independent of Linux and a limitation of the firmware on them though.

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    @unhinge I run a simple 48TiB zpool, and I found it easier to set up than many suggest and trivial to work with. I don't do anything funky with it though, outside of some playing with snapshots and send/receive when I first built it.

    I think I recall reading about some nuance around using LUKS vs ZFS's own encryption back then. Might be worth having a read around comparing them for your use case.

    rhys ,
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    @ShaunaTheDead @CowsLookLikeMaps The ProtonVPN app is native. It's basically a frontend to NetworkManager.

    What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

    Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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    @fl42v I have thousands from my early days, but my only recent-ish one was pretty funny.

    On an Arch install that hadn't been updated for a while, in a rush, had an app that needed OpenSSL 3. Instead of updating the whole system, I just updated the openssl package.

    Everything broke immediately. Turns out a lot of stuff depends on openssl. Who knew?

    To fix, booted to the arch installer, chrooted into my env, and reverted to the previous version of the package — then updated properly.

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    @jordanlund @fl42v I think this one could be recoverable if they had a terminal still active by using the dynamic loader to call chmod — or by booting from a liveCD and chmodding from there.

    That'd likely get you to a 'working' state quickly, but it'd take forever to get back to a 'sane' state with correct permissions on everything.

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