Badabinski

I think you’ll enjoy this if you haven’t already seen it.

https://youtu.be/OnQNdNSgiKc

Proxmox HA cluster with a SAN. VM migrations go wheeeeeeeeee.

I’d just run HA on the mini PC. There are a boatload of add-ons that you can install which will allow you to make better use of the hardware.

As someone who somewhat recently wasted 5 hours debugging a “simple” bash script that Cursor shit out which was exploding k8s nodes—nah, I’ll pass. I rewrote the script from scratch in 45 minutes after I figured out what was wrong. You do you, but I don’t let LLMs near my software.

Page/word limits are ultimately much more difficult than minimums. Taking a concept described in 5000 words and distilling it down to 2500 is much, much harder than writing the 5000 words in the first place. It’s a good test of skill in uni.

Wireguard was written with the explicit goal of having sane, secure defaults. I totally feel you w.r.t. openvpn or ipsec, since it’s easy to do something wrong. Wireguard is much easier because it simply refuses to give you the choice to do things incorrectly.

w.r.t. the certificate thing, you could set up a reverse proxy and do HSTS to ensure nobody can load up a rogue CA on your devices. HSTS has the issue that SSH has (trust on first use or whatever it’s called), but you just need to make sure nobody is MITM you for that first connecting and then you’ll be good to go. This would let you use a self-signed certificate if you do desired.

I was concerned about what happens when someone accidentally throws away a device with a fresh battery, but this:

The BV100 harnesses energy from the radioactive decay of its nickel-63 core. The two-micron thick core, sandwiched between two 10-micron thick diamond semiconductors

makes me feel a bit better. That really isn’t much radioactive material. Still, it’d be good to see some environmental impact studies done in some worst case scenarios.

Yeah, I could see it being from an antitheist if it was more along of the lines of “fuck all gods” or something along those lines. That’s operating under the assumption that all antitheists are atheists, which may not be true.

… Someone who is a theistic antitheist sounds like an interesting person.

He boot too big for he got damn feet!

I miss /r/boottoobig. Thanks for posting some poetry here.

It’s not a VR game by default, although I think there’s a mod or a VR version or something.

I love the thing about the bees. I remember doing the exact same thing multiple times. I eventually learned that you should leave them on the catwalk on the side of the ship and then run to grab them once the ship is leaving (since you’re safe as long as you’re on the ship somewhere, you’ll just be teleported inside with whatever you’re carrying).

Also, the airhorn is great. I think I like the hairdryer even more because it’s louder, and I think it’s fun that you can recharge it to get more VRRRRRRRs out of it.

Huh, sounds like a neat twist on the accelerator driven subcritical reactor. I’ve no idea what the viability will be, but it also seems like a nice way to generate useful isotopes for nuclear medicine and shit.

EDIT: ah, it’s actually a pretty old idea, it predates the accelerator reactor concept by quite a bit.

I’m on my early thrities. I scored 1, I believe. I don’t think I’ve ever recorded music off of the radio. I had CDs as a child, and then Napster, Limewire, and Limewire’s degen cousin Bearshare came along and made recording shit off of the radio unnecessary. I’m pretty sure I’ve used a portable cassette player, although I doubt it was a Walkman. It was probably some cheap Chinese shit.

Also, this is very Facebook and I feel weird for responding. I’ll blame it on being half awake.

EDIT: oh, the rules have changed. If we’re only counting the past 12 months, then 18, I think? I own a physical dictionary and encyclopedia, although I’ve no idea where they are.

I love Lethal Company :) It’s so fun and silly, and it has ridiculously deep mechanics that keep it interesting to play for hundreds and thousands of hours. I’ve been playing it solo for a while now and it’s a really good challenge.

Briar, perhaps?

Regardless, I feel your pain about shit you’re using being co-opted by shitheads or just something undesirable.

Just default Gboard. It’s not pleasant, but it’s good enough for most of what I do.

Eh, I’m fine with man pages. I looked at tldr before, but I’ve been using the command line for many things almost exclusively for like 10+ years now. I usually just need the reference details.

Manpages are great though? They’re not the best if you need examples, but as a reference for the behavior of flags? I love’em.

I genuinely use vim inside of termux on a daily basis. I dunno if I’m sick in the head or what, but I kinda like vim on my phone.

Possibly incorrect summary: Android is moving from a bazaar development style to a cathedral development style if I understand it correctly.

This is my father. Like, I’m happy that he doesn’t hate me because I’m bi and poly. He’s pretty open about how he thinks the Republican party is cruel and shitty.

His problem is that he associates fiscally progressive policies with California’s creaking and inefficient bureaucracy. In his career, he spent a lot of time interacting with various CA governmental departments and he grew to loathe them intensely. Whenever I discuss progressive policies with him, he always relates it back to his experiences living and working in California and then just shrugs and says “I hate both parties for different reasons.”

It’s funny, because like, shit man, I kinda agree with him on a superficial level. California’s state and local governments sucks at their jobs in a lot of ways (see the notorious San Francisco public bathroom). I agree that unions (of which there are many in California) can sometimes impede quick and efficient work (although I don’t fucking care, I just chill out and am patient with folks and the shit gets done eventually. The process would be more efficient if the company tried to have a more harmonious relationship with the union).

He just doesn’t seem to understand that as far as progressive polities go, California is a terrible example. There are plenty of places around the world that that have implemented progressive and socialist policies while still preserving the things he cares about (efficiency and relative frugality), but he’s never been to those places. He hasn’t engaged with those governments. All he can think of is the “progressive” state that caused him so much anger.

So basically, I think most people like this are fundamentally nice and decent, but they’re ignorant and are blind to the underlying dissonance between their social and fiscal philosophies. My dad has never voted for Trump (he wrote in a friend’s name which was basically a vote for Trump, but fuck man, it’s at least a little better), but I don’t believe he’ll ever accept that voting according to his fiscal philosophy directly contradicts his social philosophy.

EDIT: apologies if this is rambling or poorly written. I’m sleep deprived and distracted and very stressed, and I probably shouldn’t have commented at all.