mozz

mozz, 4 months ago

I think this is specific to your network. The only time I’ve seen a difference between them it’s been the other way around, and IPv6 has been around for long enough that I think breakage related to IPv4 hackery will be more common than early-adopter IPv6 breakage.

Random question: You’re not on Verizon by any chance, are you?

mozz, 4 months ago

Yes, I understand that you're having issues with IPv6. You're not on Verizon by any chance, are you?

mozz, 4 months ago

Hm, I only ask because I observed Verizon playing games with degrading Youtube service apparently on purpose in the past.

shrug

Glad you got it sorted out, in any case.

mozz, 4 months ago

I knew a woman who used an iPhone 6 up until I think 2022.

Her secret was she never did updates. And lo and behold, the phone kept working fine and she never felt any need to get a new one. By the end, the battery lasted about 15-20 minutes.

mozz, 4 months ago

I don’t disagree - I should make clear; I’m not saying this as an example of a good thing you should do (hence why I posted it in this thread), more as a data point about how happy Apple is to break their stuff for old hardware holders and to give some perspective on how they use software updates to encourage hardware purchases.

mozz, 4 months ago

Strategic bombing was a game changer in WW2.

I'm not saying this by any means as good thing: I think we're watching the refinement of the new face of war in the era of dirt-cheap drones. With every passing year more and more it's that nowhere is safe.

mozz, 4 months ago

Go to the doctor, get it looked at and get crutches

mozz, 4 months ago

Oof

You got my sympathy my guy. I went through one version of that not that long ago. There's nothing good about it.

Also, go to the fucking hospital. Your kids won't be in a good spot if your ankle's ruined from an untreated fracture.

mozz, 4 months ago

What a bunch of assholes

mozz, 4 months ago

I gave ChatGPT my resumé, and in among a bunch of excellent advice, it told me that I needed more recent engineering experience, and invented a job for me that it added to my resumé, along with some accomplishments at that job. See?, it said. Much better.

mozz, 4 months ago

https://envs.net

mozz, 4 months ago

It is.

mozz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Welcome to tech subs on lemmy.world, glad to have you with us. 🙂 I have given up on trying to interact with people here who are trying to educate the world but are misunderstanding something themselves; it is like holding back the ocean. I figured you deserved an answer though.

mozz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Every single thing in the world is covered in a thin film of bacteria

Not only that but the bacteria are constantly pooping on you

Also there are mites having sex on your face and burrowing into your hair follicles to hang out down there with their back ends sticking up into the air

They look like this

Edit: They wait until you sleep to come out and have their fuck-parties

mozz, 4 months ago

He brought you a flower tho

mozz, 4 months ago

The very first time I got internet, it was by hooking my BBS up to an internet provider in Colorado. Every night my computer would do a dial-up connection and exchange email and Usenet via UUCP. I was the only BBS that was connected to the for-real internet that I know of. Probably the very first things I accessed as I was getting the account set up were Usenet and poking around on anonymous FTP sites for major universities. They had all kinds of random nonsense there.

I moved away from home for the last two years of high school, so I had no internet, but we got email through the high school in my senior year. It was a big deal; among other things it meant I could exchange email with a girl I knew who lived far away instead of sending letters. It was her dad's email account though. She had no email of her own. You kids have no idea how lucky y'all are.

The first time I messed around with the web was at a summer programming job; it was very rudimentary at that time. We basically didn't use it; the day to day job was effectively disconnected from anything aside from the work we were doing locally on the machine. Pretty much the only thing I remember from the one machine in the office that was hooked up to the web was the Rome Lab Snoball Cam.

In college first first couple of years I used an extremely rudimentary DSL-type system for accessing email and things from off campus. Text only. Computers on campus were web-aware; mostly Unix machines with Netscape. It was as I was going through school that things like the web started to become really ubiquitous on all PCs, and by the time I'd graduated it was everywhere, mostly the modern version, and all computers were assumed to be hooked up to it.

mozz, 4 months ago

In addition to AUI, a virtual meeting on 11 January about proposals for the management contract was attended by Paragon Systems, a private security firm based in Herndon, Virginia, which declined to comment.

https://xkcd.com/1387/

mozz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I'm extremely in favor of being able to interact with both Lemmy people and Mastodon people, and I wanted to switch to kbin because it seems like one of a very few solutions that can do that.

Initially I was pretty skeptical of mbin, because as a general rule the "screw the existing maintainers let's fork" people are usually mistaken about some things, but I have to say having installed and worked with both, I like mbin significantly better. My experience is minimal, and the fork was pretty recent, but mbin fixes some specific things that I had trouble with or that irked me during the short time I was working with kbin. Some significant instances also seem like they've switched over to mbin. Having kbin's "flagship" instance down for like a week didn't really help either. As I understand it, the mbin philosophy is "let's fix up the backend and get federation more solid before we do much more in terms of big new features" which I can get behind.

They're both very rough and early pieces of software, honestly as is the entire Lemmy side of things it seems to me. If you're interested because you don't want things like the 0.19 federation breakage, then I am sad to report that you might find broken stuff in kbin / mbin as well.

I honestly have no idea about the drama side of things. I wish all good things for Ernest and I'm happy with the software he 99% created. kbin has some things (e.g. combined Lemmy+Mastodon posts all in one home screen) which mbin doesn't have, which makes it kind of a shame that they're being developed apparently irrevocably separately at this point. IDK. Like I say I have no idea about that side of things.

Just my 2c as a person that installed mbin recently and likes it

(Edit: To answer the specific question, it seems like they're completely separate at this point. They split in early October with no synchronization in the separate paths of development since then, it looks like to me.)

mozz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

You’re making me wonder now what weird shit I’ve wandered my way into

Edit: Welp, I looked into the drama; not enough to really understand it but enough to get a general idea. All I can really say is I want no part of it.

mozz, 4 months ago

“I did the same thing that you’re doing now for 10 years. I protected Mr. Trump for 10 years. The more people that follow Mr. Trump, as I did blindly, are going to follow the same consequences that I’m suffering.” -Michael Cohen

mozz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I mean, yeah, at this point letting it finish regardless seems like the right play. You could Ctrl-Z and then do little experiments and then resume it if you feel confident mucking around with that and you’re curious.

You can estimate the current speed pretty accurately with something like “df; sleep 30; df” and then do the math.

It’s useful to mess around with tar, because it will try to saturate its pipes without waiting, so even if that saturation on its own doesn’t fix anything, you can start to eliminate possibilities for where the issue might be. You know for sure it won’t wait for anything from the other end before continuing to do its reads. “time dd if=/dev/zero of=file” or similar commands can also determine the speed of individual parts of the pipeline.

(Edit: If you’re doing the dd test make sure you write or read a ton of data, to make sure you’re dealing with the physical disk and not the memory cache)

Best of luck

mozz, 4 months ago

Hey it's all good. In seriousness I am glad we came to a point of understanding now.

And yeah, my API token I generated for the command line, I keep stored in my OSX keychain. It's all set at this point. I'm just irritated that I had to go through all that bollocks in the first place, and for no increase in security but actually a slight reduction, since my github password is not in the OSX keychain, but in a much-more-secure password manager and in my memory. And, that from time to time the whole issue rears its head again like it did yesterday.

Actually, holy shit - you just made me realize, as I was thinking on that "slight reduction in security" statement, that the pass"phrase" for my OSX keychain is one that I reused in other places on the internet, not one that I treat as "holy shit needs to be super-secure" like for my other password manager. Brb I am changing that right now.