pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. ex-FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

@malwaretech and soldiers shooting up the rest of the world.

caterpillar

seat-safety-switch:

This might surprise you, but | do volunteer at a local daycare. It part of my work-release program, negotiated by my shark of a lawyer, Max. Turns out that all the other criminals had been accused of some kind of crime that directly disqualified them from working with children, but “doing burnouts for seven straight minutes in front of the police station until the tires exploded” is not one of those. 

As any parent knows, children are hard on toys. Anyway, one morning, the daycare supervisor presented me with a broken front-end-loader.  Someone at the toy company decided the best way to add verisimilitude to the tiny plastic construction equipment was to call up Caterpillar and give them some money in order to use their logo. Just to be an asshole about it, | decided to also call up Caterpillar and ask if | could get a service tech to come out and fix it.

Here’s the thing about Caterpillar: if you tell them that you have a service contract, and then kind of mumble a bunch of numbers into the phone when asked about it, they send someone out to fix it. The next morning, a full-ton Ram showed up, towing a flatbed trailer. On that flatbed trailer? One single two-inch plastic tire, ratchet strapped down for safety. That technician did a pretty good job, although he got alittle shirty with me when | pointed out that he didn't bother to use a torque wrench on the lttle fake lugnuts.

C’mon, man, there are kids watching. You gotta set a good example.

At the dog park
I took my chihuahua and a friend's husky to the dog park. There was a woman who had just arrived at the park who was staring at me with big eyes and a wide open mouth as I walked towards her and the garbage can carrying my chihuahua on one side and on the other side holding a doggy sac filled with a pile of 💩 larger than my dog's head. The lady finally blurts out "You've got to be kidding me!". It then dawns on me that she doesn't realise I've been cleaning up after the husky who has long since run off to play 🤣 😂 🤣

The US of A just gets insaner and insaner.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/richneck-elementary-school-shooting-newport-news-virginia/

6 years old.

'not an accidental shooting'

W. T. F.

@xahteiwi difficult to say. It was a very small one, and what it added to my monthly bill didn't really rise above the normal monthly noise in price fluctuations.

I can say though that after correcting for the difference between my expected and actual monthly traffic, the outcome of the Amazon cost calculator (link in the blog post) was pretty much on point. I don't expect it will be more than my projections.

@xahteiwi also, I have a lot of experience with bacula from my previous consulting, and I have done a full restore of customer data once or twice with it. I have no reason to doubt its ability to work well.

@xahteiwi not a full one, because of the expected cost of that, but I have done a partial one and that worked perfectly.

@xahteiwi I run bacula to an Amazon storage gateway VM, which provides a virtual tape library that I can write to. It ends up putting the virtual tapes in Amazon Glacier deep archive. Monthly cost for about 3T of raw data is less than 0.5USD; typical monthly cost is about 3-5USD (traffic is the main cost)

I calculated that an actual full recovery would cost me about 400-500 USD, which is significant but acceptable as a last resort scenario

Full story on https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Backing_up_my_home_server_with_Bacula_and_Amazon_Storage_Gateway/ and https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Different_types_of_Backups/

@grigs it probably means they can send push notifications more easily, which means you would interact with them more, which means they get more money out of you. So it is in fact better, it's just that it's better for *them*, not for you...

@vincentvdk haven't noticed that. What are you seeing?

@bikejourno only if they exist in isolation. If they are part of a larger effort of making cycling safe (e.g., dedicated and segregated bike lanes, absolute priority for bikes at crossings, etc etc) then it can be a good part of the strategy.

#TFW you wrote this and someone sends you a link to the gitlab CI tutorial with a "you should use this, it's amazing" 😃 like, I know dude.
Photo of part of a gitlab CI pipeline, showing 47 jobs with more invisible

@zhenech you mean like USB on the go?

@purpleidea
Well, except if the service is a password vault, in which case they should encrypt the plain text password to the user's key and store the encrypted password 😉
@mark

@bagder
Whoops, yes, missed that 😳 sorry

@bagder note it's WWW::Curl (double colon, seems like your slide has that wrong -- but I could be mistaken).

And there's also Net::Curl, which is a more modern set of perl bindings than WWW::Curl (and which is a bit easier to use from perl IMO)

@bagder @jpmens Reminds me of Pitr's "MovieOS"...

@scalzi
How long did you work on it?

@stefketels @stroobl Pretty much elke USB kaartlezer, en zelfs de ingebouwde modellen, die in de laatste 10-15 jaar uitgekomen zijn, spreekt het gestandaardiseerde CCID-protocol en is daarmee plug-and-play onder Linux.

De ACR38u chipset is ouder dan CCID en heeft daarom dan ook specifieke drivers nodig.

@stefketels

@stroobl

... en dan zie ik dat ik de vraag verkeerd gelezen heb 😂

Er is geen aangepaste .so nodig. Voor een acr38u heb je wel extra drivers nodig (package libacsccid1) die voor andere lezers niet relevant is. Persoonlijke mening is dat de acr38u een hoop miserie veroorzaakt en dat de prijs van een modernere lezer nu ook weer niet zo overdreven hoog is...

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