@Uselessgeneration@repaircafe Not sure I've even encountered a mention... To me that's either a socket or a bayonet (if I feel fancy), but that may well be something that is only right within my own weird brain :-D
@Wohlfahrt_P Wenn sich Volt nicht dauernd wie der Teenie-Abklatsch der FDP anfuehlen wuerde... Unternehmenssteuersaetze senken, Digitalisierung a la Estland (und Bedenken second, ja?), etc. Der Wahl-o-Mat ist eben nicht alles...
@Wohlfahrt_Pchuckle Quod erat demonstrandum. Ich habe das Programm gelesen und es wirktexakt so "Bedenken second" wie bei der FDP: Hurra, Hurra, Digital macht alles besser und gut fuer die wirtschaft ist es auch. Sorry, nee.
@mizah Given how many excellent tech posts I regularly see coming (tag-subscriptions are really helpful) from lgbtqia+, fur, hornyonmain, poly, and lewd (and a whole slew of other things I just forgot to mention) instances and accounts, I'd say: Go for it =^_^=
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
@molly0xfff I mostly miss two things: The pre-#EternalSeptember#Usenet where many people gave polite, well-considered long-form answers (Some of that still exists in some groups, but most are dead, which is at least better than riddled with shit, as they were until Google Groups defederated) and the trolls were easily plonked. The #Fediverse is as close to that as you can get nowadays, though it still feels very rushed. 1/3
@molly0xfff The other is websites that focused on content, not "page impressions" and "retention". Today even most special interest/hobby sites are keen to cram "metrics/tracking" down your throat and are designed to be slick as fuck and try to grab your attention/iritation by the throat, but with, comparatively, little substance. The closest analogue to that is #Gemini, but sooo many people abandon their capsules after a short stint. 2/3
@molly0xfff In short: I prefer a tech/science-content-oriented, slow-paced, low-hype/drama #smolweb, though definitelywith the societal changes in the importance of diversity, representation, etc. Usenet was, I think, relatively good for its time, but in retrospect one can't help but recognize it for the mostly-white, male, academic, elitist club that it obviously was by extension of being very much a university thing... 3/3
@Cyberagenturprust Treffender haette selbst der Postillion den Zustand deutscher Vorstellunge von Technik nicht persiflieren koennen... Um Himmels willen, ich bin auf Chat-Servern unterwegs deren Captchas mehr Hirn erfordern... Wie waer's denn mit z.B. mit https://www.cryptopals.com/ oder https://mysterytwister.org/ ? Dann koennte man sich den Job wenigstens mal ansehen
@Cyberagentur Das sind halt elementarste Grundlagen... Ok, hier ist der Deal: Ich habe eine Nachricht mit dem besten bekannten Verfahren ueberhaupt verschluesselt, dem One-Time-Pad, hier ist sie (hex-codierte bytes): 0c10304452142a043d4f051a50495d061e4a035118190b0d191109181846071e53 Und, weil OTPs so fundamental grossartig sind gleich eine zweite: 1b1a3d45525d090f271839014149591c184a115b090248001c0a094b2f6e454453 Bitte, bitte, demonstrieren Sie, dass Sie Zugang zu Experten haben
Wish there was a decent "kickstarter* / #groupbuy for getting one of the many truly libre #riscv cores made by a #fab. Ideally one that is as much "general purpose cpu" as possible, though I can certainly do without out of order, speculative, and all the other fancy common sources of cpu vulnerabilities. It doesn't need to win speed records, just being really rock-solid would be awesome sigh
@SynAck Terraform already has a viable fork in OpenTofu, Vagrant is increasingly irrelevant anyway, Vault would be easy enough to clean-room reimplement from scratch if need be, and Ansible would absolutely be forked should IBM change their tune. And while they certainly aren't knights in shining armor their overall open source behaviour has been comparatively decent (I actually expect them to return Terraform to its old license); Could've been much worse.
If I had more energy I'd be tempted to write a snarky, satirical, 21st century Jetson's style short story set in a future where all the dot-com 1.0-3.0 hype turned out to be true and faithful predictions of our lives in 2025. Just so I could explore the unanticipated drawbacks ("oops, the Amazon drone delivering your neighbour's new dishwasher just fell through your roof; meanwhile trades.com only shows you roofers who live in Boston, England, not Boston, MA"). https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112317411058906212
@soupglasses I have worked with professional, smart developers, born in the 90's, at FAANG-level corps, who, with a straight face and very earnestly, have told me that "no license means everyone can use it". They have literally never lived in a world where that was true...
I'm thinking about setting up a #udev rule that triggers some actions when a given device is removed. For that I'd like a minimal #usb device/token, think "only vendorid and productid", no actual functionality (which could fail and cause issues, etc.). Does anyone have a source for something like that? It's obviously ridiculously niche and not at all cost-effective to manufacture...
@feld I know that can :-D The question is about making sure nothing automagic can try to load or even access any kernel module, e.g. it should not identify as a HID or storage, etc. For that it should ideally have a VID/PID combo that is reserved for that use (Essentially a Null-Implementation). I'm just curious whether someone actually makes such a thing, e.g. as a dongle, or has figured out a microcontroller with the absolute minimum of intelligence for it and published that finding.
@feld Exactly why I'm asking. As far as I understand the spec (not my field of expertise) it should be sufficient to perform the initial handshake (e.g. provide VID/PID and device class) and then do nothing else. That should not even require a full-blown microcontroller, but could be done with an ASIC or even discretely. Unless it's for my exact use-case manufacturing that is obviously not economical; with microcontrollers costing mere cents. But there's always the chance that someone had the same thing tickle their brain-case before and they've made it available (for example with incredibly niche things like https://onerng.info/)
Considering to change my #backup solution from #duplicity to #restic (Not sure yet, I like having #pgp keys for encryption, but it's not like a long password stored in #PasswordStore wouldn't cut it). Since restic supports Windows I might try moving a couple relatives onto it; Makes helping them easier if I know the software. For them however, a #GUI is likely a MUST, but what I've found so far is not too encouraging: restatic (dead), npbackup ("metrics" and other assorted niggles), resticguigx (Electron), backrest (browser-based, which makes my skin crawl for security tooling)... Does anyone know other options I missed? Or has some compelling arguments for those I mentioned?
@ascherbaum Yeah. My main issue is that duplicity feels very hacky in an "old unix grognard" kind of way (Not that I ain't one of those, but still). Been hearing good things about restic for a while now (out of the CCC universe), but looking at things like https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/187 (asymmetric encryption) being open since 2015, with quotes like "restic currently requires delete privileges for normal backup operation" (in 2021) make me somewhat hesitant... Especially given the claim that it "does backups right". The biggest draw for me really is not having to fiddle with some arcane Windows-only solution when asked for help...
