qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Duh, just read it back from /dev/random

You will recover the data, you just need to wait long enough.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps microwaving for significantly longer, at a low power level, would be safer and result in higher success/yield?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

I think it has a lot to do with disposition and convenience. I'm lazy, and I don't like to drive if I can help it. But I live near enough to public transportation that we'll spontaneously decide to hop on the subway and grab dinner on the waterfront.

It's not the money that's preventing us from hopping in the car to go to some new beach for dinner, it's the convenience.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean...it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I'm working on. I don't try to hide this from my manager.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you'll be fine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

That's how I started using Linux


big book with CD, I think it was "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.4" or something. 2.0 or 2.2 kernel.

Honestly, it was fantastic. And almost all of it is still relevant today. (Some of the stuff on xfree86 and the chap/pap stuff not so much.)

But it gave a really solid (IMHO) intro to a Linux/*NIX system, a solid overview of coreutils, etc. And while LILO has been long replaced, and afaik /sys didn't exist at the time, it formed a good foundation.

I'll refrain from commenting on any init system changes that have taken place since then.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

Just use your $200+ Fluke to check the batteries, problem solved.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Handy back-of-the-envelope is that a year is about pi*10^7 seconds.

Also...hate to be the guy to mention leap years but...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 50 points 6 months ago (14 children)

I think an issue here is that taxonomic and colloquial definitions don't always agree.

Spiders are colloquially bugs, but they're not taxonomically "true bugs" (which is itself a colloquialism for Hemiptera). Tomatos are colloquially vegetables but taxonomically fruits...but afaik vegetable is a purely colloquial term anyway.

And as someone else in the thread mentioned, colloquial berries are not always taxonomic berries.

So...colloquially, "plants" sorta means, "macroscopic multicellular living non-animal thing," but taxonomically it's something else.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 35 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't be surprised if he thinks the bad guys won the American Civil War, too...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

If you have a TV, you likely already have the receiving device. Antenna can cost, or you can play around with wire length and orientation.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

It's mostly so that I can have SSL handled by nginx (and not per-service), and also for ease of hosting multiple services accessible via subdomains. So every service is its own subdomain.

Additionally, my internal network (as in, my physical LAN) does not have any port forwarding enabled


everything is over WireGuard to my VPS.

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