Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain't the way to have fun.
Eh, it looks like ARM laptops are coming along. I give it a year or so for the process to be smooth.
For servers, AWS Graviton seems to be pretty solid. I honestly don't need top performance and could probably get away with a Quartz64 SBC, I just don't want to worry about RAM and would really like 16GB. I just need to server a dozen or so docker containers with really low load, and I want to do that with as little power as I can get away with for minimum noise. It doesn't need to transcode or anything.
It's absolutely racist, and it was at the time. That doesn't mean it's not worth watching, it's fantastic as a window into the culture of the time. It was super popular (among white people), and it helps to understand segregation and racial conflict. It's one of the most important films of all time. What it portrays is absolutely disgusting, but that doesn't change the importance of the film.
Eh, I think the point is to eat marketshare from the App store. They can always pull their games from alternative stores later, right now they just want anything to chip away at Apple's dominance.
Linux works great on ARM, I just want something similar to most mini-ITX boards (4x SATA, 2x mini-PCIe, and RAM slots), and I'll convert my DIY NAS to ARM. But there just isn't anything between RAM-limited SBCs and datacenter ARM boards.
If there were decent homelab ARM CPUs, I'd be all over that. But everything is either memory limited (e.g. max 8GB) or datacenter grade (so $$$$). I want something like a Snapdragon with 4x SATA, 2x m.2, 2+ USB-C, and support for 16GB+ RAM in a mini-ITX form factor. Give it to me for $200-400, and I'll buy it if it can beat my current NAS in power efficiency (not hard, it's a Ryzen 1700).
Nope. I'm over 30 and it's like a light switch. 😜
Jk, no issues whatsoever with my sphincter.
I wish we had something like on Reddit where if you delete a post and it doesn't have any replies (and perhaps in the first 30s or so), it just disappears.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
I'm saying that in production, the screens and whatnot probably aren't fetching that file on boot, they're probably pulling from some central server. So in the case of an airport, each of those screens is probably pulling images from a local server over PXE, and the server pulls the updates from CrowdStrike. So once you get the server and images patched, you just power cycle all of the devices on the network and they're fixed.
So the impact would be a handful of servers in a local server rack, and then remote power cycle. If they're using POE kiosks (which they should be using), it's just a simple call to each of the switches to force them to re-PXE boot and pull down a new image. So you won't see IT people running around the airport, they'll be in the server room cycling servers and then sending power-cycle commands to each region of the airport.
Yeah, kinda dumb. But they do have a relatively popular workaround: the x-system. So forĝejo becomes forgxejo (x = diacritic for the prev letter).
Yup. I'm thinking of making a blog series or something about my setup. It's a little complex, but the individual pieces are pretty simple, so anyone with time and interest could totally replicate it. Mine would focus on Linux, but since everything is in containers, it could easily be replicated on Windows as well.
Oh, and I'm working from the worst possible setup, I'm behind CGNAT, so I have to go through an outside server to make my internal stuff public. A lot of people can just use their router IP instead, which eliminates the VPN entirely (just port forwards from your router).
The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge had its slowest annual increase in more than three years, likely getting policy makers closer to the conviction needed to ease monetary policy.
Looks like inflation is around 2.6% and holding steady/falling slowly.
This is good news for the stock market and could impact elections in November since we'll likely see a rally if rates do get cut in Sept.
You're assuming proper design. I've worked on systems where filtering was done client-side (and fixed that), it's stupid, but it's what happens when a FE is assigned a task and uses the tools at their disposal. In fact, I think Lemmy used to filter deleted comments clientside a few versions ago.
As a software engineer, the trick is to never tell them it takes four weeks, you promise 5 weeks, procrastinate for 4, and do it in 2, blaming the extra on software being hard. Most execs understand that, and only being a week late is pretty good (my boss adds 2 weeks to all my estimates for his own reporting).
It's a subtle art that most contractors have perfected. Some even deliver on-time, but that's dangerous because the exec might catch on (software is never on-time).
Can confirm, am professional and am procrastinating. I know I can bang my work out in like 2-4 hours, so why should I spend all week doing it?
I try to alternate:
- peanut butter
- banana
- nuts
- cheese
I'm basically a gatherer.
The L.P. presidential candidate clarifies his views, amid criticisms that he is too "woke."SubscribeYouTube: http://youtube.com/reasontvApple: https://podcas...
This interview mostly goes over social policy, so I hope there's a follow-up with fiscal policy as well.
Here's an AI-generated transcript, which has some mistakes but hopefully is helpful. I tried copying it here, but it was too long.
Some interesting tidbits I liked:
- Liz challenged Chase on gender affirming care - his response was "no to surgery before 18, yes to medication if parents and doctors agree"
- open borders - wants an "Ellis Island"-style system where you register and then get to work, while still maintaining a strong police presence to keep out criminals
- courting those on the right of the LP - wants to work together on common causes, but will disagree on social issues
- vaccine mandates - no mandates from the government, but private businesses absolutely can; he thinks businesses requiring masks/vaccines is stupid because it limits customers
The whole discussion was pretty interesting, and I think it's interesting that Liz Wolfe came out as more conservative than Zach (apparently, Zach rarely discusses personal opinions).
So far I'm pretty happy with Chase as the candidate because:
- he's pretty well-spoken - reminds me a bit of Gary Johnson with less "aloof"-ness
- he appears confident and seems to do a good job justifying his positions on core libertarian principles
- very different from both Trump and Biden, so he should contrast well
- going after young voters - he's young, and he's highlighting issues that young people seem to care about, so I'm hopeful that'll resonate with young voters
I certainly disagree with him on some issues, but I think he'll be a good voice for the party. I would like to see more discussion on economic policy though.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? Are you excited for a Chase Oliver campaign, or do you think the Libertarian Party should have made a different choice?
IRS opening free online tax filing program to all states
This is exciting for me because:
- I model ny taxes in my spreadsheet anyway, so I'm likely to notice a mistake
- I usually use FreeTaxUSA to file for free, and this means there's one less party to share my personal information with
- my state's taxes are pretty simple, so I don't need state-specific tax software
I hope this helps simplify things for some people and save a bit of money as well. I'm going to try it out next year.
Do any of you estimate your taxes? Are you interested in trying out this service?
Contributors developing the Aeon Desktop are happy to announce a major milestone with the launch of Release Candidate 2 (RC2) images. Within the last 24 hour...
Looks like most of the improvements have nothing to do with GNOME, so they should also probably impact Kalpa (the KDE MicroOS distro).
I'm particularly interested in these developments because I'm going to upgrade the CPU on my NAS (old Phenom II -> Ryzen 1700), and I'm considering reinstalling w/ MicroOS. It's currently running on an old SATA SSD, but NVMe drives are getting so cheap that it's probably worth an upgrade.
Chase Oliver of Georgia won the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination in dramatic fashion on Sunday night.
> Oliver's victory on Sunday night was a blow to the Mises Caucus, the right-leaning faction that took control of the Libertarian Party at the 2022 convention and that had orchestrated Trump's appearance at the convention. That faction's preferred candidate was Rectenwald.
I'm not a fan of the Mises Caucus, so I think this is hilarious.
> There was widespread media attention in recent weeks fixated on whether the Libertarian Party would nominate a prominent non-Libertarian like Kennedy or even Trump. > > Neither got anywhere close to winning. Kennedy was eliminated after the first round of balloting, while Trump did not even qualify for the first round and received just six write-in votes.
Good on you LP.
Now, I know next to nothing about Chase Oliver, but being gay and young will certainly set him apart from the old men he's competing against. I hope he'll get a good amount of media attention to spread the libertarian message.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? Did the convention make the right call? Would one of the other candidates have been better? Would you prefer no candidate?
Bill Perkins, author of Die with Zero, joins Chris Hutchins on the All the Hacks podcast to discuss memory dividends and how to spend money!
I haven't finished listening to this, and unfortunately there isn't a transcript. According to the comments, the transcript exists on Spotify (I don't have a subscription, sorry), so that can be an option.
Anyway, I'm well on my way to my number, so I've been thinking about maximizing my time while I wait for the market to do its thing.
I've been listening to a lot of The Money Guy show recently, which has a lot of overlap with the FI mentality, and the recording theme is to optimize for enjoyment. I think that's something I've been forgetting recently, so I'm glad I found this podcast to help keep me grounded.
Anyway, thoughts? How are you spending you time now? How to you expect that to change when you're FI? Are there changes you'd like to make to optimize things today?
While focused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and Intel Innovator, it was frustrating for me to see that openVINO did not have sup...
> OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep learning models from cloud to edge. It accelerates deep learning inference across various use cases, such as generative AI, video, audio, and language with models from popular frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and more. Convert and optimize models, and deploy across a mix of Intel® hardware and environments, on-premises and on-device, in the browser or in the cloud.
Average Retirement Savings Balance by Age
Here are just the number for all of you degenerates who just want some milestones for your spreadsheets.
Average total retirement savings by age:
- <35 - $49,130
- 35-44 - $141,520
- 45-54 - $313,220
- 55-64 - $537,560
- 65-74 - $609,230
- >=75 - $462,410
Average 401k balance by age:
- <25 - $5,236
- 25-34 - $30,017
- 35-44 - $76,354
- 45-54 - $142,069
- 55-64 - $207,874
- 65 and older - $232,710
And retirement savings targets from various advisors:
Fidelity:
- 1x by 30
- 3x by 40
- 6x by 50
- 8x by 60
- 10x by 67
Rowley:
- 1x by 35
- 5x by 50
- 7x by 70
Anyway, do you like metrics like these?
openSUSE.Asia Summit will come back to Tokyo, Japan The openSUSE Project is exciting to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 is going to be held in Tokyo,...
Important dates:
- expected summit date is Nov. 2 and 3 soon after Open Source Summit Japan
- call for speakers is going to end around the end of July
There will be another announcement in a couple weeks.
The openSUSE will undergo a critical update with the migration of Weblate to a hosted solution. Shifting to a hosted solution for the web-based localization ...
May 10, 2024 (text in body)
> For crying out loud, Jonah! Three days late, covered with slime, and smelling like fish! … And what story have I got to swallow this time?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
> You know what I’m sayin’? … Me, for example. I couldn’t work in some stuffy little office. … The outdoors just calls to me.
May 10 2024 (text in body)
> Look! Look, gentlemen! Purple mountains! Spacious skies! Fruited plains! … Is someone writing this down?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
> Sure, I’m a creature—and I can accept that … but lately it seems I’ve been turning into a miserable creature.
openSUSE Leap 15.6 exited Beta and entered its Release Candidate phase with build 669.1 last week. You can get Leap 15.6 RC install images from get.opensuse....
Looks like Leap 15.6 will ship with Cockpit, which looks pretty cool.
I just set up a new VPS w/ Leap 15.5, so I'm thinking about giving this a try. I'm not a fan of YaST on the CLI, and I'm not going to install a GUI on my VPS, so being able to just SSH tunnel to the admin panel sounds really nice.
Has anyone tried Cockpit (project link for the lazy)? It seems like it can manage most popular distros, so that's a pretty big value prop over YaST, which is pretty much only for SUSE. It looks like it's a RedHat project, but it's cool that openSUSE is pulling it in for 15.6.
In March, the configuration for building openSUSE Factory was changed to be bit-by-bit reproducible (except for the embedded signature). Following this, the ...
Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
It has been a while since the last one. So...
Tell us what game you are currently, or recently played, greater than 6+ months old.
If the game happens to be on sale, a link would be a plus.
I'm working on a P2P Reddit/Lemmy alternative using Iroh. Any interest? Thoughts?
This is still very much early-days, but I’m thinking about building a distributed link aggregator. Some notes: - no servers (all P2P) except to connect peers - no “instances” so everything is in one namespace (so like reddit /r/community, not lemmy instance/c/community) - everyone is a moderator - m...
The link goes to a related post on another community so I don't have to duplicate it here.
Basically, I'd like to discuss tech options for a Reddit/Lemmy alternative. Here's what I've found:
- Iroh - early days alternative to IPFS promising improved performance and application control
- Appleseed - old-ish proposal for a distributed trust system - I'm thinking of using it for moderation (i.e. if you block/report similarly to someone else, that will get automated; you could also explicitly trust someone else [e.g. a CP-detector bot])
- TrustNet - builds on Appleseed - still reading through the paper to know what it adds over Appleseed, if anything
Goals:
- distributed storage - worried the fediverse will scale poorly (become too expensive)
- distributed moderation - power-hungry mods suck
- local-first - cache/host stuff you care about, reserve some space for preservation
Non-goals:
- make money - it's a hobby for now, everything would be FOSS
- image/video hosting - legal issues if you get random CP or something
- preserve all data - I'd rather sacrifice older/less popular content than lose users - community can run caching servers
- fediverse compat - P2P makes that difficult, but a bridge should be feasible
Thoughts? What am I missing?
Also, would anyone like me to post updates? It'll mostly be stuff from my research, if I post code, it won't be for a while (I have limited time).
Anyone interested in discussing a Lemmy/Reddit alternative?
This is still very much early-days, but I'm thinking about building a distributed link aggregator. Some notes:
- no servers (all P2P) except to connect peers
- no "instances" so everything is in one namespace (so like reddit /r/community, not lemmy instance/c/community)
- everyone is a moderator - moderation based on a web of trust type system
- desktop first, mobile/web later - web would require servers, mobile may have platform-specific issues
- no plans to integrate with fediverse, but could be possible
- initial intent is to be text-only - file storage could be supported later in an opt-in basis (for now, just link to an external img host), but I'm worried about disk storage since there's no central data lake and everyone needs to chip in some storage space
Some technical details:
- written in Rust and ReactJS - Tauri-based
- uses Iroh for data synchronization
- looking into Appleseed and maybe TrustNet for moderation
Current status:
- rewrote Appleseed and part of TrustNet to Rust for perf testing last weekend (Rust is waaay faster) - will probably rewrite again once I finish reading the paper (current code is a direct port)
- have basic Tauri+Iroh app, but it's a glorified chat app w/ no syncing between peers (a peer can join a chat, but will lose access if the host goes down)
- reading source code for SimpleX (re-learning Haskell too) - could be interesting for DMs or something
I'm not sure how long I'll work on this, but I'll probably release some libraries under a relatively liberal license, so something like LGPL at the most stringent, but probably Apache/MIT (depends on if I need to clean-room the appleseed implementation).
So, if there's interest here, I'm happy to post updates for discussion periodically.