the notes at the bottom pretty much say it only affects the RHEL 9 pacakge

ah cool

i just had a dumb idea, maybe someone knows if something like this exists? basically i'm looking for a http proxy that given a compressed url, will decompress it and cache/stream the results to me... so say I request something like foo.img.xz, it'll send me the decompressed foo.img instead.

i swear there's patterns in these things... 304034

well this is going to get interesting...

so the republican national convention is in milwaukee next week (for some effing reason..) and they just announced the detours for the bus system... The red area is the "secure zone" where you have to go through security driving/walking whatever to proceed

I’m stunned every time I see American busses because the windows are so old

Are you affected by the red area?

Nope. Like most residents I'll be avoiding the area like it's a plague

Huh.. well no one said we're great at public transport 😄

damn good thing...

for public transport? yeah, but that's not saying much

my european mind can't comprehend things like this lol. It's as if there's no city architect who had a say as in other places. So you need a car basically. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1dpg5r0/example_of_how_american_suburbs_are_designed_to/

walking isn't exploitable to create profits, so why bother, let the people keep their quiet neighborhood that's impossible to get in and out of in any sane manner...

City architect? What is this that you speak of?

Chicago is a nice orderly grid, but it took burning the entire city to the ground to do it. 🙂

Milwaukee is a grid with a few angle streets to help get out of downtown

finally done with most of my bs tonight... although I still have laundry in the drier..

having driven in Chicago, it feels like a clusterfuck and I hate it.

I drove this in Amsterdam, it’s a very different clusterfuck since its car hostile city. Hell of an experience lol

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@grim will libpurple v2 be backported in pidgin 3 or will i need to make changes to my codebase ?

pidgin3 will only use libpurple3

totally new api ?

yes but via different means, i dont think we've replaced the messages ones yet though

Let me know if I can help with anything!

we do have a donation page https://imfreedom.org/donate/

oh!

as of 2.14.8 or something it's help -> donate in the application as well

oh wait, im blind

you mean like this big donate button?

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You should make a payment wall

yeah im blind

we don't do crypto, we can't afford an accountant to make accepting crypto worth it

Zenledger accounting is good

we're not adding a paywall.. that's a great way to make people angry

i mean something like https://coingate.com/

again... > imfreedom, is a registered non-profit. if the foundation is going to accept crypto, we want/need a dedicated accountant

Right! Sorry

Cooool

accepting crypto properly is a ton of work and keeps changing, if we try to do it ourselves we're going to mess it up and we'll be on the hook for it financially... paying someone to do it avoids our risks

Can I try and set you guys up on zenledger ?

no, this is something that would be decided by the board. instant messaging freedom is a company as it needs to be to remain a government registered non-profit

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Got it

for what?

XMR -> Paypal

paypal information is on the donation page

https://magnatus.com/reg.php?lang2=english

the paypal link takes you to paypal, i have no idea what email address is setup there. also we're registered as a charity in paypal, so that might have something to do with it too

Well I am going to try and contact the support directly

@grim can you just send me your XMR, ill send you a donation directly

I don't do crypto anymore

how is this "Responsible use"

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darn 😦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95j7PtnSC5k

that broke my youtube somehow..

funny i didn't realize how gray linus has gotten

well he's been working on the kernel for what, 30+ years at this point?

pulling his hair out reading stupid PRs

Yeah I just haven't seen him in a while and didn't really recognize him at first

holy crap, wikipedia added a dark mode

Ahaha, maybe they finally going to stop asking for donations? ))

for me it only shows "text-size" and container/full-width

Weird it did a popup for me and let me change it.

No daily show for me... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-daily-show-cancels-planned-milwaukee-shows-trump-assassination-attempt-1235948382/

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forgot to mention this earlier, but no stream today, i've have to do some maintenance stuff at work on off peak hours 😕

first upgrade done, doing the next one now

k8s upgrades done

omg the eks upgrade setup is tedious..

man amazon available zones and ebs volumes are stupid..

The fedora council has posted a survey about adding AI to fedora. I know there's not a lot of fedora users here, but figured I'd share it. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-ai-ml-survey-is-live-until-july-31st/126022

I feel like I’m becoming keyboard obsessed. Has a box with 10 vintage ones, then like 5 modern ones I don’t use, then I also have 3 model M

hah

I do not see the obsession with Model M's

For some perhaps nostalgia? I learned to type on one but there are other keyboards I much prefer these days.

This cucumber is fuzzy and stabby... (zoom in)

Just took them like what 15+ years? https://x.com/tekbog/status/1813743879897903603

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THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP LINUX EVERYTHING LETS GO

Twitter • 07/17/2024 20:13:33 CDT

I'll believe it when I see it in Debian proper with no "drag" in the package name

it's just shifting more and more of their proprietary bullshit into a binary blob that they're splitting hairs to say isn't part of the kernel

yeah, hence my dfsg comment, although I should have said it's in debian/main with no dfsg... because we all know it's going to be in non-free or non-free-firmware 🙂

so i'm at the car dealership getting some stuff done to my air and unsurprisingly the wifi sucks.. i keep losing connection like every 10 minutes except it's a silent failure. wifi says it's connected but nothing works until i reconnect..

i barely never use public wifi

well the cell reception in here is abysmal too

Ouch.

I'm not paying that.. this is a 2008...

Another one for the Google coffin..

Looks like 2 nails..

https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1814224234656518335

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Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Eight hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself. I am going now home. I feel something really good is coming my way tomorrow morning at work 🥰🧑🏻‍💻

Twitter • 07/19/2024 04:02:18 CDT

It’s funny, Linux is trending on Twitter today

So glad I don't have any Azure or CrowdStrike bullshit to deal with

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this is the saddest https://x.com/yifever/status/1814238372417708375

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a moment of silence for all those affected by today's tragedy

Twitter • 07/19/2024 04:58:29 CDT

there's no need for a vending machine to be that over the top computerized

junior: "check what I did with rpi" senior: "rpi/tiny arm microcontroller isn't serious, how are you gonna scale" implementation: senior picked windows because they are fimilar with it.

ofc it's memory. https://fxtwitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1814343502886477857 (ä

Guess I missed something here...

There was an outage in Azure US Central overnight, and CrowdStrike pushed a malformed update that was causing windows machines to bluescreen

Oh fun. I saw something about azure but didn't really look into it.

the crowdstrike thing has had huge impacts, it took down at least 3 airlines, a bunch of banks, etc.

Well I can't get Wendy's for lunch because their credit cards are down.. I'm hoping something around here can still take cards..

there were some starbucks locations that instead of closing were literally giving everything away

oh wow... wendys was like "cash only"

wow... https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

Somehow that doesn't surprise me

tbh i didn't realize southwest the company was that old..

We all still use ntfs

I don't use ntfs at all ..

I mean we all who still have to use a windows computer

well either way, ntfs was created for nt 3.5 and afaik was never available in the 16 bit versions, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, and me

If I hadn't already built a bare metal k8s cluster these would be high on the list .. https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/07/19/radxa-x4-low-cost-credit-card-sized-intel-n100-sbc-raspberry-pi-5-alternative

The N100. One of my personal gripes with these mini PCs. Same with the J4125 Intel cpu. Every one we had at work gets hot and throttle under load. Partly due to stock is no active cooling.

yes 3x is a "bit" of a price difference

with the heatsink/fan case to mount the thing in, 4-6 of those things with 8 GB RAM would be a pretty nice home server cluster for things that don't need storage

I know some people here aren't fans of Dave Plummer, but he did a video yesterday explaining the CrowdStrike clusterfuck, including why Windows (or really any modern operating system, including Linux or macOS) couldn't have been more resilient against the problem: https://youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?si=VyDIO8eiYCftsW6s

Not going to happen. MS said it only impacted like 2% of all windows machines. I've seen a reply similar to "it's like saying it only impacted 2% of all internal combustion engines when it was 99% of all airplanes." More technical details from CS itself, the content update was related to monitoring Win named pipes: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/ CS was already working on remediating a breakage they did a month ago where an agent update would take 100% of a CPU core. The fix for that was a reboot and then an agent update. BUT, there were companies who couldn't reboot, so they were working on a hotfix that would free that cpu core without a reboot. This new breakage may have been related to it. Won't know until the full RCA is published, probably this week. We are down to 14 systems to remediate out of 500ish. Long week. 🙂

Makes me exceptionally glad they're so expensive my company refused to even consider them

"Reassuringly expensive" 😄 When it's not breaking stuff, it's really good at protecting/notifying/logging/remediating though. Much prefer it over say ||Traps/||CortexXDR or ||Bit9/||CarbonBlack which I used to admin at previous jobs.

we didn't consider any of those either because they were similarly expensive

That's no good, making promises when they just had hopes. We had prod back online in under 12 hours (per the now 8 page timeline I had to write), which is great for such a small team, manually touching servers and end user's boxen as well as the app teams validating overnight batch processing was run correctly or restarted.

That's pretty damn good.

omg why are the docs for pythons pathlib.Path so horrible..

I'm still using os.path - I still don't get why something so complicated is needed just for paths. The operator overloading is also sth I'm not a huge fan of.

overloading / for joining paths in fine, meson does the same thing

https://discuss.python.org/t/add-floordiv-to-pathlib-path-for-strict-append/1077/4 Last encounter with Pathlib was reading this with some very wild ideas like // or abs(...). Luckily no PEP for that so far...

that's a little weird but i dunno..

Never touched salt. I know some of those words though 🤣 XD

basically i need to get tls certs out to the fleet of machines we're managing. salt is agent based, so it can query the central server to get data, but since you don't want your machines just accessing any files on the central server it's sand boxed. to work around that sand box, i'm writing a custom salt "pillar" (external data that the server provides) to look up the certs on disk and farm them out that way

so here's an example. I'm on the managed machine manually asking salt for all certificates 🙂

that context can be replaced by file_entry.read_text()

oh sweet

even better

dang accidentally 4 hour naps...

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so do i stream for an hour or two or not..

well, anyone should be aware of SoftwareOnline.com, Inc. story

Newer version of the CS linux agent are user mode (using eBPF)

has anyone done much using generated python swagger clients? I have some questions about token auth..

there's a 9 AM!??!?!

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always has been

not for me!

u know what's the funniest thing. Criowdstrike sent out 10 dollar voucher codes as a "gift"

All of CrowdStrike's competitors should be trying to take advantage of the publicity to sell themselves

Yeah I saw this and was like "sounds like intel to me..."

Yeah, pretty much.

oh for sure