they're for the SFP and QSFP ports, you can get them in copper or fiber

oh i think i've seen those

I use the copper ones at work for our switch stack

makes sense

we have a stack of 10 GbE switches with QSFP ports of some variety that can do 100 GbE. We have dual cables between them because that's the minimum requirement for stacking

gotcha

We're getting a new datacenter at work and we're going to end up with a ton of that stuff for all the switches we're planning to do

any of the existing stuff being retired where you might get a free upgrade for home?

Not for at least another 3 years, but we don't use ubiquiti at work

heh yeah, i'm locked in to ubiquiti too, although those mesh kits are pretty amazing... but I'm probably going to run cable.. so 🤷

I'm at the point that I'm considering moving to a Dream Machine or Dream Machine Pro so I can ditch the VM to run the controller

oh you just reminded me.. i need to buy a network coupler for a patch job 😄

yeah, becasue you can slap hard drives in it and use it as an nvr for ubiquiti cameras too

well i'm already using frigate, and i only have one unifi camera, so that's not a big deal for me

right...and you're already using a non-pro dream machine aren't you?

no no dream machine

oh, why did I think you had the "basic" dream machine?

no idea 😉

so you're using the old USG as your router too?

yeah

I'm wondering how long before they drop support for that, they haven't pushed a firmware update for it in a LONG time

yeah

at least 515 days, my last USG reboot was the last firmware update

mine is at 22 days.. i think that's when the psu died, but that seems too recent

That's what I'm on too

apparently my controller has an update

The udm pro also has 2 10GbE SFP ports doesn't it?

yeah

Everything with more than 1GbE is stupid expensive

and poe+ which i don't know the specifics of

Poe+ is I think 30W per device. Standard Poe is 15W per device

cool, figured it was something like that 😄

Poe++ is 60W per device

of course there's a ++... what does PoE# support?

Lmao, I don't think there is one yet

yet

And poe++ is not an official name

ah

missed one..

lol

hah well i wanted to use jiggawatts..

fair

but yeah 1337 JW would have been better

I swear the YouTube recommendations algorithm has been replaced with multiple hallucinating "AI's"

Yeah it keeps replaying videos for me too..

oh, that's not what has me thinking

Wow mine hasn't been that weird

Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR): https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-07-31a 😁

i think the more important gonna be the unsafe audits for those rust projects

https://clownstrike.lol/

this is a bit of a random question, but is there a way on linux to take an image of ONLY the allocated partition space on an SD card? use case is I have an sd card that I've just made that has a 512 MB vfat partition and a 5 GB ext4 partition and I want the image to start at the mbr/partition table and go until the end of the 5 GB partition, but I don't want to have to sit down and figure out exactly what incantation to feed to dd to get the desired result. On Windows, I could use win32diskimager and check the box to image only allocated partitions and it will do the job.

I tried the conv=sparse argument and that seems not to work because the card is not all zeroes after the end of the second partition

looks like the most reasonable option is to fdisk -l and find the block size and the ending block number of the last partition and feed those to dd like so: dd if=/dev/sdh of=arpwatch_20240725.img bs=512 count=11536383 status=progress

github be like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLSg8Kqxak

yeah that's the only way i know how to do it, but it seems like someone would have written a script to do this already..

or something similar to win32diskimager that just wraps around the tools and makes it easy

there is gparted or parted magic or whatever it is

about time... > As of OpenSSH 9.8p1, DSA keys are no longer supported even with the > above configuration options. If you have a device that you can only > connect to using DSA, then you can use the ssh1 command provided by the > openssh-client-ssh1 package to do so.

....that hadn't already been done?

just got it in apt-changelog..

Enterprise software...ugh...

Bing get wrecked https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/s/LhT1r3PMHJ

I think it was okayish before the AI stuff.

Brave search still clean with AI search, just slower. Tho main issue with brace search is lack of content but what is there is good

Wtf I just got an email from a recruiter noting my as400 and rpg experience... I've never touched anything like that ..

https://blog.cloudflare.com/upcoming-lets-encrypt-certificate-chain-change-and-impact-for-cloudflare-customers

didn't this happen years ago/

I think it was the addition

...also enterprise software: "We need Java but don't want to use Oracle Java. Let's vendor openjdk and never update it!"

There is Amazon's coretto (spelling?) now too...

fair point but still, the never update part still applies

Yeah, but enterprises dont and update anything until they have too.. which reminds me I need to find time to update our k8s cluster at work before September where AWS will automatically update it for us ..

sounds like an ice cream brand

That could be intentional?

Oh yeah maybe. Wasn't there a JRE called "icedtea"?

yeah i recall that name but none of the specifics

oh nice. windows having another moment. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-update-downgrade-attack-unpatches-fully-updated-systems/

interesting. Phishing scams from HR is the most provokative ones. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240807446875/en/KnowBe4-Releases-Q2-Quarterly-Phishing-Test-Results

That's not at all surprising to me, as someone who works in IT and sees some of that stuff.

yey... for defcon.... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/sinclose-vulnerability-affects-hundreds-of-millions-of-amd-processors-enables-data-theft-amd-begins-patching-issue-in-critical-chip-lines-more-to-follow

at some point we need to cut off legacy support...

lmao

I have a somewhat dumb question but feel it's likely possible. Traditionally I have restarted a pc when there is a new kernel. Is that still needed in this day and age? Can you init a new kernel without restarting?

There is livepatch as you mentioned, but that's not always an option

There's kexec too but that's traditionally been meant for servers to limit down time.

ahh yeah kexec.

huh, random reference: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.html#ptrace-scope

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i'd like to collect these random references and put them somewhere, but not sure what to call it...

so according to facebook, i learned about !! in bash 12 years ago today

Haha nice, it was a game changes vor me when I learned !! and !$

!$ is second argument to the end right?

Last Argument. I always do commit -m "v1.2.3" and then tag !$

I am fuming right now. I worked form home today so I could get a package from FedEx that's signature-required. I needed to go to other branches today too. FedEx still has not delivered my package, despite giving me a 0930-1330 timeframe and later a 0930-1130 timeframe for delivery.

Also. Nice for python sth_annoying_to_autoxonplete.py and then vi !$

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fedex is garbage, avoid at all costs...

if I had known they STILL wouldn't be here at 1730, I'd have gone to the branches instead of working from home.

i know that doesn't help now and you probably didn't have a choice, but that's my stance

I didn't get a choice in carriers :/

when i get packages from fedex, ground in particular, but air as well, they're usually covered in dirt..

I'm sure it's ground, there's a lithium (but not lithium ion) battery in there, so it wouldn't have been shipped air

also one time i fedex overnighted from stickers from chicago, a 2 hour drive... they flew them to tennessee on accident and i got the stickers in 3 days and couldn't get a refund on shipping..

(stupid FAA being too stupid to know the difference between lithium coin cell and lithium ion batteries)

ah, I use Alt+. for that; it puts the last argument in there, so I can see it or edit it

oh, or there's the time fedex lost my package in their local warehouse... I went to pick it up and they told me to come back the next day because they couldn't find it...

back when I used newegg for stuff, FedEx was actually reasonable...but that's 20 years ago now

fedex's newest fuckery is delivering all my stuff to my neighbor's house..

ouch

as you can see, my fedex complaints are chronic..

Ah that's your terminal doing it?

I've been monitoring the tracking all day. It claims the package has been on a truck since 0727 and out for delivery since 0901.

it'd have to be the shell, the terminal shouldn't be monitoring input like that

I think Alt . is a bash thing

it could be a readline thing

I apologize, I'm new here, is there a room here to ask about fixing a problem with Pidgin?

# support is likely the best place

Thank you

And it's now 8:15. No FedEx. Tracking now says today by end of day. I have a feeling I'm going to have to go hunt my package down.

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Yeesh... Also a suggested mitigation is disabled ipv6.. this is why it'll always be a second class citizen ... https://cybersecuritynews.com/0-click-rce-windows-tcp-ip/amp/

So the psus for the build agents that were supposed to get here yesterday and now going to get here tomorrow. Apparently the shipper messed up my address somehow...

hey, look at that, a mitigation I already have deployed in my environment by default

nice

I feel like I need to sleep for like 2 months solid

yeah same

i have the same but different

Did anyone ever do a minidump analysis on windows? One of our build agents gets a BSOD with code 0x 21a and fails to boot. I was able to get it started with driver verification disabled but now I'm trying to find out what's failing the verification and causing the bsod. We don't have a working ansible workflow otherwise I'd just kill it - its been a while since we set it up. There was no chocolatey or winget back then. I always wanted to try building a delpoy based on that. But imo customizing windows is way to much powershell and regedit bs...

If you have the dmp file you can use windbg in the store to read the dump.

I did that but it just showed me what I already knew that winlogon could not be started. The process showed was ntoskrnl.exe which is also not very helpful... Maybe it's not an actually driver causing this and deactivating the verification has other (beneficial) side effects?

if you're doing a minidmp, you could try doing a full dump.

Okay, I'll try that next

Yay still getting random freezes in Linux 6.10 on my machine...

and chrome just crashed on 6.9... well time to move back to unstable i guess

would appreciate everyone's input https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/poll-irc-ctcp-requests/187

and chrome crashed again and took the rest of the machien with it this time..

i know this is anecdotal, but damn firefox feels sooo much faster.

youtube will be back next stream

and obs just crashed when idling again.. trying to stream like this is going to be fun!

It's not still in your apt cache to pull it that way?

Oh maybe, didn't think of that

YouTube recommendations have officially lost it ..

Heh that ship sailed a WHILE ago

well i mean, that looks korean.. (i think) and i for sure don't know korean...

why does ARM as an architecture have to be such a piece of shit when it comes to installing OSes? Why can't I just have a damn installer instead of having to flash preconfigured images?

yeah no idea..

also, fuck microhdmi, and fuck raspberry pi trading, ltd. for manufacturing producs using that trash

did something break?

almost

ah.. i just swapped in an ssd in one of the mac mini's last night, so yeah i'm still trying to make sure i didn't break anything

also, the UK keyboard layout can die in a fire too

you hate that enter key that much?

no, I hate that " is on shift+2

also we were just looking at this on stream because i ran across GDK_KEY_ISO_Return and was like "wtf is this?"

needless to say I password failed about 15 times before I realized that was the problem

and now we know your password has a @ in it

about the only thing raspberry pi os does out of the box that I like is making the interface names make sense

what if i told you that the enp#s% was logical... the # is the pci bus, and the % is the interface number on that bus

yes, I know that, but it's actually trivial for that to be changed on reboots too, despite the bullshit claims to the contrary

there's also the f0, f1, etc. at the end for multiport cards...which I get it, but ugh.

yeah

but on a raspberry pi, having it be anything other than eth0 would just be criminally stupid

at least they're not tying device names to mac addresses anymore

oh, wait, on the pi 5 eth0 actually IS a pcie device

ah yeah

which is partly because the SoC's root hub on the pi 3 and older is only 2 ports, and the ethernet controller is actually a hub plus ethernet

also, 24 hours later, firefox still seems waaay faster than chrome

strange, I found the opposite last time I tried to daily drive firefox

ah this is under x

yeah, I'm still using X myself

and i dunno, chrome kept crashing, so between that and the impending ad blocker block I figured it's time

but it's been probably 18 months since I tried to convert to firefox the last time, and I was using xfce back then, so X for sure

wait you moved from xfce?

yeah, I'm running kde plasma, have been for a while

huh I didn't realize that, perhaps I forgot

although I don't use the desktop that much, I spend more time on my macbook because I have been spending all my time on the couch

heh nice

...I've been using Linux and UNIX systems for 23+ years at this point and I STILL have to google permissions for .ssh and .ssh/authorized_keys to get it right

heh

I didn't know that existed

obviously that doesn't work if you're only allowing key auth,but yeah

TIL

been around for awhile, i forget how i stumbled across it

I wouldn't have had AS much trouble with this if I had used raspberry pi imager to flash this SD card.

ah yeah, that thing is nice too