The human incarnation of the term chaos engineering. German. Ex-TUDO. Server-toucher. Banking IT. Pro-🏳️🌈. Pro-🏳️⚧️.
Not a fan of computers.
Not a techbro.
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It used to just be some Stadler train npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I wish I could ask Fedi what kind of train carriage I’m sitting in npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Does anyone know whether the AI scrapers scrape Gopher, Gemini and/or Tor? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin with self-hosted gitlab you still need to pay for the storage :( better stick with github npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin okay since gitlab has a "generic" package repository I'm sure I can put whole OS images in there npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin what do the cool kids use today instead of a makefile? I could hammer out a build.zig file but that looks overkill tbh. not a zig project btw npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin just learned that my colleagues rotate VS Code by 1 degree when you leave your laptop unattended npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin My New Year’s resolution is to spend more time at the computer npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Marvel is the Taylor Swift of movies send post npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin You have to admit. SCO had style. Naming an OS UnixWare is cool af and setting their brand colors as the default CDE theme is cool af too. And it looks nice. npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin > Nano Banana Pro in Google Antigravity npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin With all the new browser based Linux installers, while they look sleek, creating a non-default partitioning scheme is a real pain npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin more protocols should be "over TLS" instead of cramming themselves into HTTPS npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Cloudflare error page generator https://virt.moe/cferr/editor/ npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin New (European) Let’s Encrypt alternative just dropped!! https://european-alternatives.eu/product/actalis-ssl npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin huh, keychron is producing a mouse similar to the MX Master 3 npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I just hate computers at this point npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin this is the exact one I got https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/4postrack12u? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Rack needs to be filled and I need to add two Ethernet outlets but I think this is a nice location for the homelab npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Thank god npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Fuck npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin also the usual nice stuff like snapshots, compression, raw volumes, deduplication, easy transfer via ssh npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin RAID but without the bad parts but you need to throw a lot of memory at it npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin it is cool, couldn't live without it npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I still have an open bug in whatever Perl is current where even the devs in the Perl IRC were like "we don’t have a clue how you got there". npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin At the current rate we’re gonna need at least one *We didn’t start the fire* per year npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin i do have another idea but that would require me to learn how to program npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin yeah seems like that idea isnt anything new, scratch that npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin there doesn't seem to be a limit on the length of a .gif so I can just make the entirety of some TV show my 88x31 npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin The cool thing about modern Linux is that you get to wrangle like 3 package managers at the same time depending on the distro npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Yeah back to gnome npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I can just haul those to e waste right? Not worth selling anything under 1gbps npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Cleaning up and old 19" switches just keep spawning npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin You wouldn’t believe how efficient my todo list of "grepping my Fedi for the string todo" is npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I was not prepared for stiflers mom to fuck a villager npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Just got out of the Minecraft movie. Nothing, and I mean nothing clould have prepared me… npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Is it feasible to get one of those RSA TOTP tamagotchis as a layperson? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin will this be appropriate to run a single chromium tab with Akkoma?? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Thanks to @npub1kgc…u7cj I want to outsource my browser (the difference being domi using a semi sane approach while I want to set up a Windows Server Terminal Server or Citrix system) npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Counter argument: one big sticker/wrap under all the other stickers first :neocat_approve: npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Kernel 5.10, with whatever Debian does in its default config (spoiler: a lot) on 8 logical cores. so far half an hour, maybe more npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I forgot how long compiling Linux takes... npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin do you get paid for posting? can you convince my employer to pay my for posting? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin today I was in an elevator with an "Activate Windows" message in the floor screen thing npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Caffeinated milk npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin someone should make a LetsEncrypt alternative that works npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin why is BuyPass so unrealiable :neocat_googly_shocked: :neocat_googly_shocked: npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Also bring back Presto. Bring back EdgeHTML. npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin The yascast is just growing longer, still awaiting a 24 hour episode npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Fedi server but the frontend is IMAP npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin postmarketOS-powered Kubernetes cluster npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Watch me rebase the entire homelab onto UnixWare npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin I need a PSP and a PS Vita npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Some people are complaining about a lack of discoverability on fedi. In my opinion, this isn’t really a problem. We have a cool solution for that, it’s called a [@yassie_j](https://labyrinth.zone/users/yassie_j ) , and they just know everybody on here. Just ask if you need to discover new people /hj npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Want to improve your multitasking? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Has any entity actively tried to set up an alternative Bsky relay for production usage? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin the best thing about IRC are the reverse DNS hostnames npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin yeah, tried it from some server, gotta wait I assume npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin either media.ccc.de fell over or the hotel wifi did npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin quick peek at my new homepage npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin THe fucking IBIS Budget hotel doesn't do #IPv6 npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin why do stuff the proper way when you can hardcode an HTTP server in python npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin The train literally waited long enough at Düsseldorf Airport for the two people next to us to fall in love with each other npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Can we bet on what CEO is next? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin most of you folks npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Hosting a bluesky relay costs a few hundred dollars a month. Bet you I can do it on the shitbox server under my desk npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Has it become feasible to self-host Bluesky or is it still "yes you can in theory but actually no"? npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin fedi server but every post is a new git commit npub13f8eks0pj7ya3smmemmcp35t64vfvdqhtnlrj39f8qphxy2nnc3qd0js2c Merlin Anybody tried using CDE as a daily driver?
