Posts by kazriko@alcatir.com
(DIR) Post #AYigYVRDNn4qwvteuu by kazriko@alcatir.com
2023-08-14T00:32:35.283946Z
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@Johncdvorak Some of those items don't lead to $20 being equivalent to $1, but more like $5-10. The 18 eggs for example, I just paid around $5 for 18 eggs yesterday, and sometimes in the past 4 years I've picked 30 up for $7.50. Canned corn is similar, frozen green beans as well. The steak is a counterexample though, since it's around $25 if you go to Texas Roadhouse. So inflation is variable for different items. In the last 4 years the 3 gallons of gas has been between $6 and $15 depending on the market that week. $12 right now. Chocolate bars, $10 or so. The calculation that would really go against that would be the one for what fraction of a TV you could buy for $1, and how much for the same fraction now.
(DIR) Post #AYlsvyqCiQyWrmXcTA by kazriko@alcatir.com
2023-08-15T20:20:39.937838Z
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@union I haven't been watching US media closely, but my alternate news sources at least are showing the flooding in China.
(DIR) Post #AkKdLXAcehdV57K1AW by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-07-26T06:23:13.712368Z
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@pro Heh. Python is probably Java's equal as well, as long as you properly test your code. They're even similar in execution speed these days. You can add datatype enforcement with python. I'd say the main reason for going to Rust rather than Java or Python is if you want your executables to be a file, rather than a folder full of garbage with a script to launch it, and you want a bit more speed and low level access. For the embedded low level development I do, the single executable, speed, and low level access is a benefit. I'm often running my code on single core 500mhz systems, shared with a half dozen other apps, and being able to just stop the service, scp a single file in, and start it is often a very nice thing compared to shoving a tarball through and extracting it.(Though, you can make Python be a single file if you use the system environment rather than a bespoke python environment just for the application.)
(DIR) Post #AkNZIYsE38QD9XvKsq by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-07-27T01:13:41.433451Z
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@pro Hey, had a thought on the issue with not wanting to set monitors up to test computers. Have you ever heard of PiKVM? It's not the cheapest thing ever, but it works really well as a way to just plug a computer into the network, and then do all of the setup from a laptop, you can even remotely plug in USB drive images to it, and if you want to really make it nice, you can add a card blank with a board in that lets you press the power and reset buttons and see the LED statuses.
(DIR) Post #AlkFhrUOUVgBTs9o8G by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-09-07T01:36:09.879585Z
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@pro I think someone did some testing with various languages, and the two that had the fastest results were C and Rust, with C++ coming in 33% slower than both of those in the tests they did, and Go being worse than C++, so it's more a combination of memory safety and not impacting speed significantly. As far as development, if you can figure out how to work with the borrow checker, then Rust code does make the development easier than C, and much closer to Python in capabilities.
(DIR) Post #AmyvIv0WBqa7cvC6Nc by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-10-13T22:59:50.772312Z
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@zaitcev Once they have this thing fully debugged, they're going to also be launching these from Florida.
(DIR) Post #AnBgCodhypQJskdUzQ by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-10-20T05:02:21.207858Z
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@zaitcev There's a place here that's basically a gas station convenience store, but with no gas pumps. It manages to survive year after year because of its rather central location at least. We have a few other gas stations that I will go to even if I don't need gas just to get their snacks and coffee.
(DIR) Post #AnBgcMgIYCgEhU1vwO by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-10-20T05:12:51.481699Z
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@zaitcev I wouldn't buy groceries from it unless I had to, but the grocery store closes at 11pm and the convenience store is 24/7, so in a pinch I'll get cat food or milk from there. Usually I'm just buying drinks, candy, and snacks instead, things that are at the grocery store, but cost almost the same in individual units, and you only get a price break there at higher unit counts. (the gas station has Monster energy for $5 for 2, but 2 at the grocery store is $6, or $8 for 4.)
(DIR) Post #AnOr9oDtHTRHLXGbFQ by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-10-26T13:42:50.074765Z
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@pro @phnt @zaitcev @get Eh, I still enjoy using it, FreeBSD makes a much better file server than Linux. Linux, you never know if ZFS will be working after an update, since the devs of the kernel are fairly hostile to zfs. They keep failing whenever they try to make a zfs replacement too. bcachefs and btrfs are both garbage.
(DIR) Post #AnRO9juYztUkmFilTk by kazriko@alcatir.com
2024-10-26T13:52:50.854528Z
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@pro @phnt @zaitcev @get I have to wonder though, if it's only because of the license, then why doesn't Illumos do better? It has a much more restrictive, GPL-ish license, it does allow one company to use it like BSD, but everyone else is stuck. It also has a much more mature OS base than FreeBSD and includes ZFS, yet its drivers are much worse and it doesn't nearly have the same level of support as the BSDs and Linux.
(DIR) Post #AqBSVa76JG4gTwqJ7Y by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-01-17T04:55:50.087891Z
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As long as ISPs are reasonable, they'll be giving /56's to those who need more than one network, and that gives you 256 subnets to screw with without nat. there's enough address space to give every current ipv4 internet address 2^24 of these 256 subnets. A lot of ISPs just let you request a /56 no questions asked.
(DIR) Post #AqDeSXMJgM38puC6i0 by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-01-18T07:57:41.882113Z
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@pro What do you need long ones for? My three wifi access points, I have one named after Golden Sun II characters, one after Persona 3 characters, and one after Disgaea 6 characters, mostly range from 4 to 8 chars long.You could call it AlbaCity though, after a location in Cowboy Bebop and Carole and Tuesday.
(DIR) Post #ArBSYbNb4vv9T6yGfo by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-02-16T15:19:37.759360Z
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@pro Have you put a tiny nginx server on the router, only on the internal interface?
(DIR) Post #ArfcSEA4lPtnUzcwpU by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-03-03T07:09:56.337019Z
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Well, Librewolf was OK, but it's kind of basic. I've swapped over to Floorp and am trying it out as my second browser now. It's a lot like Vivaldi, but based on Firefox ESR, rather than Chromium.
(DIR) Post #ArlZkptg4KJmpdtklE by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-03-02T23:31:35.840878Z
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@requiem I wouldn't say to go all the way up there to a 9mm like the other poster says, and 38ACP firearms are often smaller and lighter than most .22's you see. In an emergency, I'd take a Ruger LCP over my .22 any day.
(DIR) Post #AsHXqsQV7ArFmfwUlc by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-03-21T02:33:26.006110Z
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Upgrading to Pleroma 2.9.1 was harrowing. So many yaks to shave...
(DIR) Post #AsIFByMeWqaIJJRqe8 by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-03-21T14:57:05.256302Z
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@pro I was running the source code version on Debian, first the 2.9.1 needed Elixir 1.14, and Debian Bullseye didn't have it, so I had to move to that. Then I had to drop the apt sources list I was using for elixir before, then reinstall a bunch of packages that it dropped when moving from one source to another. Migrate the database from postgres 13 to 15. The debian upgrade broke my ethernet config, so I had to go OOB console and fix that. Then reinstall more missing packages that were causing compile errors. it took a couple of hours to get everything back up. Also, since I wasn't using Git, there were leftover cruft files from the sshd bbs functionality that was apparently removed and causing elixir compile issues, and I had to delete the files from my tree.
(DIR) Post #AsIFByyEH8dsBr1rDU by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-03-21T14:59:31.477558Z
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@pro So it really wasn't any Pleroma issues, just a lot of upgrades that pleroma required to the system, and issues with my older style of installation, that took a lot of busywork to sort out.
(DIR) Post #AtnmsvGLnAGvVShC08 by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-05-06T00:37:18.553397Z
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@zaitcev I've used it before, you're right about it being barely passable. If you look at the native closed caption that it auto-generates you mostly know why though. If the voice transcription was more accurate it might deliver better results on the translation. The worst part is that they sometimes shadow-ban videos based on AI-misheard closed captioning results.
(DIR) Post #AvrtB89kBcMiME5hM8 by kazriko@alcatir.com
2025-07-06T20:28:27.433725Z
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@pro It is configurable, unlike Gnome. I'm using Hyprland now though. :D