Posts by mjd@hackers.town
(DIR) Post #A68dRtmHDdmUtmM0P3 by mjd@hackers.town
2021-04-11T13:36:42Z
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@Clifford I was actually referring to the packer program itself - something that builds in a similar way.And yes, I'd be using KVM / QEMU to make the underlying image.None of the distros I prefer are derivatives of Debian (except Devuan) or RHEL. For customer use, I'll probably go with Devuan if I have to maintain it, if they are maintaining it, it's likely RHEL/Debian. I also want BSD support, and plan 9. So the answer is "All of them."I'd prefer NOT rolling my own, which I have been doing for some time. Was sort of hoping packer was a bit more than automated install (such as with a preseed file for cent(dead)OS or debian's preseed; and I CANNOT remember the debian 'make initial os' thing, which someone expanded in a xentools thing ... used long ago...)Basically: just looking to see if anyone knows of a 'packer' tool that is not Hashicorp, and is maintained.(I'd also probably use ansible, tho it's redhat now... ): But salt was bought too. I DON'T do Ruby.)
(DIR) Post #A68hQhpYYIaLN9Zgxs by mjd@hackers.town
2021-04-11T13:37:42Z
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@Clifford Shorter answer:I'm worried about locking myself into the Hashicorp infrastructure, and looking to see if anything exists that is not heavily roll-your-own.
(DIR) Post #A6Tf7yQKQ7vKUbsvui by mjd@hackers.town
2021-04-21T17:04:34Z
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@alrs American-Finn here, as you know, so... Tea is fine (:(You can also blame it on not having enough rye in your bread.)
(DIR) Post #A6Tgaayykjl48xIvtg by mjd@hackers.town
2021-04-21T17:20:57Z
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@alrs I switched from coffee to tea a... while ago. Because of the issues with my stomach (and the amount I was drinking.)#tea is a good hashtag here.I am a fan of Pu-Ehr, but also Oolong. That said, the various green teas from Japan brew at lower temperatures and are ... remarkably green.Mind you, I buy tea from tea shops - not from grocery stores - so I get full leaves for many of them.There's so much tea, and not all has caffiene, and I just... basically am not drinking sugary things anymore. I don't need to.And peppermint and lavendar and camomille help with stress.But yes. It can get... to be a bit of a problem. I probably have 200 Euros worth of tea that I can't put into canisters because I have a full shelf of cannisters already...
(DIR) Post #A7QStQLaaF1dd2bF5s by mjd@hackers.town
2021-05-19T23:44:17Z
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and that's 100% of my stuff off freenode, various things are on libera, a few on ostc, one on esper, and one on geeknode.I forgot.Hackers don't do "get trapped in lockdown."We do "be like water, my friend."
(DIR) Post #A8RkDX6EfXEoU9Zmvw by mjd@hackers.town
2021-06-19T13:37:32Z
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I'm concerned about a few things with modern development, and this is why my languages of choice right now are lua, python, and C; with Forth and Lisp in the "would like to use more ideas from" area:Vendor lock-in, and Vendor "OURS. NOT YOURS. YOU MAY NOT USE ANY LONGER. ALSO: NO LONGER SUPPORTED" things. Java, Go, and Rust are all encumbered by being non-free (no, really, they aren't. They're OWNED by a vendor. You can use the language, but it's not OPEN. It's "free and open" the Ajit Pai way: "lie about it.")Then Javascript is being absorbed by Microsoft; so it's out of the question also... better said here: https://clarity.kleydints.com/a-post-mortem-in-5-acts-of-how-microsoft-privatized-open-source-killing-javascript-in-the-process-62ee5fc77d9e?%20gi=2c12df284732&gi=413aed166008 )Ability to be used in smaller environments: Yes, I know, 32GB is the minimum acceptable thing today. That's insane and "what if someone can't afford that?" The poor exist. They should have the same abilities people with some money do. And we ALL should have the same amount of access/abilities as those who make a billion dollars by sitting on their ass and doing nothing while the financial systems give them bonuses for being at the top of the mountain.But I like my older machines, and there's nothing inherently WRONG with them. The whole "buy a new thing because the old things are useless!" attitude feeds into the whole "crush right to repair" thing, at least I see similarities. Sure, new is neat, but when new becomes old, tossing it makes... environmental waste...And things like Javascript cross-platform "applications" (which are just Chrome instances in a "sandbox" - but is it a good sandbox? I somehow doubt it, given the vendors... ) and on top of that, the memory footprint... and yes, I've done things like this as well in python, where I'm using the memory that I have to solve an issue, rather than using something less memory intensive... but then I'm doing that to solve an immediate problem, and not releasing that code for others. I.e. I'm "coding for the device I have" not "coding for a wide variety of different devices."I'm seeing far too many things being developed in the vendor locked languages, and there aren't alternatives.I'm concerned that at some point we'll lose those tools, or we'll be in a situation where we'll have to deal with NOT having those tools until they're rewritten in another language.I'd very much like a truely "owned by the people" language that doesn't have the problems of C pointers, which would be able to be used on processors that aren't from this age. i.e. if it works on 6502,z80, and 68000: I'd be happier. And yes, that means no mmu things. "MMU if you have it, this extension if you do not" would be ok. After all, if you don't HAVE an MMU, you probably aren't looking at needing to manage memory automatically...Anyway just thoughts, based on seeing yet another project written in JS, Go, or Rust, with no "backwards compatible" vision. I'm worried those will suddenly be removed from us by a hostile vendor.Because all vendors are hostile.
(DIR) Post #A8SYmxgWoQyCmXdgQq by mjd@hackers.town
2021-06-19T22:40:19Z
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@Seirdy Hmm, that's ... "somewhat" positive. But it's buried in a horrid implementation - but then, with enough effort, it could be removed from that and made... less crap. Which I guess is maybe what Kotlin is trying to do? And some others? Unsure. I don't care for Java enough to find out.And yes, I'd prefer if Go were Bell Labs. We can hope it goes that way. And yes, it SHOULD be able to be made into a public thing... and Google do what they want with THEIR version. It's a language. But, I'm afraid ... that isn't what happens.And yes, Rust... may APPEAR more open than the others, but from what I can tell, it's deeper in the "controlled by hostiles" area.Hopefulyl TinyJS can save some of the dyed-in-the-wool-refuse-to-look-at-anything-else people from being torn apart... though maybe it's better overall if they change languages due to a hostile entity...I feel languages are tools and, well, hammer nail syndrome is very, very much a thing that exists. (Can be overcome, of course. Doesn't mean it's not a problem.)
(DIR) Post #AA7ercagitPtto7yNs by mjd@hackers.town
2021-08-08T17:38:30Z
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@thegibson @tek Also if you accidentally the purple team because there is no one else maybe you should get the fsck out.Internet: Please send this note to me 3 years ago.
(DIR) Post #AA7oYDtfJFAdLsOQFs by mjd@hackers.town
2021-08-08T19:32:56Z
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@tek @sungo It is. Which is why we need to help each other, and stay vigilant, and not be crushed by a single mistake. Because those are going to happen... and most of them you can't do a damned thing about because it isn't entirely your system/network/interwebz .
(DIR) Post #AABlN5ud8H9UAmgZnc by mjd@hackers.town
2021-08-10T16:57:53Z
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so ... I just read Elementary's thinga bout E6 and "everything is in flatpaks" and I'm going"So... just inject the payload into a flatpak and you basically are all set..."Look I've done containers and virtualization too long to think someone's magically going to get abstraction to work in a secure way that isn't going to be thwarted by the user's expectations...
(DIR) Post #AAtlwLLs854VuL5KW8 by mjd@hackers.town
2021-08-31T22:47:17Z
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@thegibson do let me know if you want some help with kvm or xen.(I can't stand esx, at all. Cannot wait til I can start working with the nutanix stuff at work, but that's after the burnout repair)
(DIR) Post #AE9oLSdVGBQ9qQ6Gy8 by mjd@hackers.town
2021-12-07T10:04:51Z
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@alrs I believe that is the model I have had for some time; 32gb ram in mine, has worked well since it was new.Only issues I have had are:it does not have the greatest airflow; it does require a good blowing out after a few years or it WILL heat up due to the dust inside clogging things.blowing things off MAY cause condensation on the keyboard, causing it to lose the ability to type G and H.the typing is resolved by external keyboard or using it remotely.I have 2 docking stations for mine and it has easily supported 4 monitors over the years (at the same time.)There ARE some issues with noveau (sp) and the chipset, namely that they keep forgetting about "more than one monitor" and prioritizing ONLY the first monitor, leaving the rest often with garbled displays. Workarounds are found, but it's a tad annoying. I believe the closed source driver has no issues with this, but I wish to run Wayland, so I'm stuck with Noveaux (sp)Additionally, when using the docking station, it does have an odd "ok, to use the docking station with machines, you MUST use the nvidia chipset" hardwiring of the intel set. i.e. you can't actually do the intel chipset as multiple monitors, that is wired, somehow, only to the Nvidia. I have twiddled every combination of the discrete/nvidia/optimus possibilities in the thinkpad firmware, and it just does not work to use only intel.It's been a good choice. All the others who got machines when I did got apple machines, and none of those apple machines are supported anymore by Apple (and likely have had exploding battery syndrome.) This is still going.Mind you, there are some who think that trying to keep a machine going is a useless thing to do, we should fill more landfills and make more ocean patches. I think you know my opinion on that.
(DIR) Post #AGapS4G0j1nvJaLSIy by mjd@hackers.town
2022-02-17T15:29:54Z
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so yeah remember a few months ago when I said we needed to work on a browser enginebut I didn't have timeWell, I didn't, and still don't, and it doesn't seem anyone else has really moved on that, despite all the flashing red lights and all that.Really, we need a browser engine. A new one. And it should be able to display HTML without javascript. And then on top of that, there can be layers made by browser clients that can do javascript or whatnot.Anyone saying "but but but it has to be one language or it won't be for everyone!" needs to look at what's happened as a result of adding javascript, drm, and other anti-consumer things by large companies that now control the browsers, and which are moving to control the transport of the data completely.It has to be information. Anything on top of that is optional.
(DIR) Post #AKu6XOkXkmFf3QmVX6 by mjd@hackers.town
2022-06-26T23:54:27Z
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@thegibson what the actual fsck is Bud Light Next
(DIR) Post #AL5tZULADDLvIbsnbc by mjd@hackers.town
2022-07-02T21:47:25Z
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@djsundog Mine:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision
(DIR) Post #ANI7hGDDYjwmGXZ1rk by mjd@hackers.town
2022-09-05T19:45:16Z
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anyone know of any floor plan software that is not encumbered with ... modern software bullcrap?You know, something that would let you draw the things out and not track you, and not put advertising in, and not be web based, and not be windows or osX only.Yes I've considered just throwing it in dpaint or the gimp but there are the issues of "dimensions" and so on, and I'd like to have that "correct" and not "well crap I drew it wrong."
(DIR) Post #ANbG2AWwN6KOzfqMYS by mjd@hackers.town
2022-09-15T20:45:03Z
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@ParadeGrotesque "it me"
(DIR) Post #APf92xIGwSOxT3T6pc by mjd@hackers.town
2022-11-15T19:58:23Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Done, got any more bombs? Oh wait... no, that one is a zip command, I'm done.
(DIR) Post #APfWBqrMWxjD455oBc by mjd@hackers.town
2022-11-16T17:27:43Z
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@ParadeGrotesque I'm gonna disagree here. Tar - that makes sense to me...x, extract; t, test; c, create...J/j xz/bzip2;v, verbose...f, filename...zip: where's the filename go? do I use 'a' to add or does that make a filename? Ok, that made a filename, and apparently it didn't recurse into subdirectories... bahlha: makes sensezip: too DOS oriented(Why, yes, I still use my Amigas (: )
(DIR) Post #AWKTU5RAVeuTjxmxoe by mjd@hackers.town
2023-06-03T22:36:55Z
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Day 1: https://scenesat.com/videoarchive/4965eae6-0196-11ee-931f-00505685775e#show-4965eae6-0196-11ee-931f-00505685775eDay2 (not demo compo yet, that's ... just ended and we're still streaming)https://scenesat.com/videoarchive/65611146-021c-11ee-931f-00505685775e#show-65611146-021c-11ee-931f-00505685775e