Posts by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
(DIR) Post #AkZt5dEWrIP3tEzGYi by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2024-08-03T00:02:28Z
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I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.#crowdstrike
(DIR) Post #Akpww2vTzFbf1b7ce0 by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2024-08-10T21:49:59Z
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@ncommander Or by $27.32
(DIR) Post #Al4WPpWoa6Dolgxb28 by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2024-08-17T22:33:27Z
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@ActionRetro Just watched the vijeo over on [cat]videos.As a genuine security professional actively employed in the industry...9:20 ded. Thoroughly roasted.
(DIR) Post #AmB6DhKe2PFgyJ3b7Y by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2024-09-20T00:21:37Z
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@ActionRetro How is this even a question?
(DIR) Post #Ao9qS0DvKgKcDhYZCC by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2024-11-18T04:36:44Z
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@feoh @ActionRetro Honestly. It's probably an AI company that doesn't know it doesn't understand networking.
(DIR) Post #ArKPNuzJHfyXeoSqqO by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-02-20T03:49:23Z
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@KayOhtie
(DIR) Post #ArUG3l95N81tPykxdo by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-02-25T19:45:19Z
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@frameworkcomputer Congratudolences and #hugops.
(DIR) Post #As5V0hTOXiK6jIY4Om by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-03-15T18:57:13Z
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@grickle Oh man what a great idea for an Octodad mod. Basically octodad + goat simulator.
(DIR) Post #At5rAihJzl6JrKAnbs by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-04-14T20:47:33Z
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@ariadne @ed1conf @mwl Not...really. Alpine uses Busybox for its userspace utils, and the busybox ed(1) is complete garbage.
(DIR) Post #AvxZMGkJl0oo36zWrI by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-07-07T15:47:15Z
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@kzimmermann Huh. I work from wscons quite a bit and it's great.Are you using a serial console or wscons (eg: keyboard and monitor plugged directly into the pi)?
(DIR) Post #AwPmk4LYWUW6JI4Xgm by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-07-23T02:39:46Z
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@AlgoCompSynth @reverseics The PDP-11 is (mostly) little endian, and pre-dates all of Intel's processors. Intel's endianness comes from the Datapoint 2200, which was bit serial, and the carry circuitry is simpler if you do things little-endian.Honestly, I think the real answer is that big endian is easier to diagram if you come from a culture with a left-to-right writing system and a habit of putting zero on the left on graph axis.(I like little endian systems)
(DIR) Post #AwPmk9Jy1pDVjoMqPI by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-07-23T02:40:34Z
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@AlgoCompSynth @reverseics TBH, I'm probably just going to crib Reid's explanation just to shut down discussions.
(DIR) Post #B0RNkuLbHjxzgwZCJk by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-11-20T05:28:46Z
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@kaixin The OpenBSD installer definitely has this capability, as it stomps my boot settings on my multi-booted machines when I install or upgrade it. I don't know if there's a userspace utility that exposes it. (I just limine to get a boot menu that's motherboard independent and minimal fuss. The machine I'm typing this on is quad booted...)
(DIR) Post #B0ROFGDWXRl2CtGK12 by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-11-20T05:32:08Z
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@kaixin There's a lot of "historical reasons" going on here. Linux was cribbing its notes from MINIX which was cribbing from UNIX (including BSD), so they all come from the same place, but there are some niceties in BSD that don't exist in Linux. (Drivers announce themselves in dmesg using the driver name, which is the base of the name of the device in /dev, Linux has never done this).1/n
(DIR) Post #B0ROFHWhfch4GfF9Y8 by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-11-20T05:35:23Z
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@kaixin OpenBSD is by far the most traditional with its disk naming (and its partitioning scheme, IIRC, my OpenBSD partition still has a disklabel inside it, where NetBSD does not, and Linux never had disklabels).I usually grep dmesg (or just scan with less) for disks, and then `disklabel sd0' will get you what the partition letters are. a is always the first OpenBSD native partition on the drive, b is reserved for swap, c is the whole disk and non-native start at i.2/n
(DIR) Post #B0ROFIUG6CKfFN6iNU by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-11-20T05:40:59Z
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@kaixin This scheme has some amount of confusion when you first approach it, which is why NetBSD and FreeBSD work differently. I'm not really a FreeBSD user, so I'm won't comment, but I do use NetBSD. The base scheme that OpenBSD uses is still there, but with the caveat that d is the whole drive rather than c.As best as I can tell, the dk driver was meant to add a set of uniform device names for partitions of block devices that handle GPT partitions and removable drives better.3/n
(DIR) Post #B0ROFNg8nRo9Lfhm5o by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-11-20T05:44:47Z
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@kaixin Have you stumbled on the r-device files yet? All your block devices have a character device with an r-prefix. Eg, /dev/sd1c and /dev/rsd1c. Linux will just let you use block devices as character devices, but BSD has been historically picky about this (I think most are less so these days, or I'm just used to it). dd is the tool that I regularly use that wants an r-device file rather than the block device file. (And yes, this is maybe a place where Linux is friendlier)4/4
(DIR) Post #B0Ri0vDfoBOq74lwwa by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-11-20T17:56:23Z
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@kaixin under OpenBSD, I pretty much only use fdisk and disklabel to read OpenBSD's view of a disk. I partition with the installer and leave it.I really like NetBSD's gpt tool, but the manpage calls it out as buggy and a WIP...and I have been bitten by it.Reworking disk layout is dangerous, your anxiety is healthy. Make good backups.
(DIR) Post #B0qt1TNG4F44a3b4IC by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2025-12-02T22:32:42Z
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@mwl You do cover windows in it, because, unfortunately, it has a networking stack. It's not not for them.Mebbe some of them will ask "what is this FreeBSD thing he keeps mentioning"?
(DIR) Post #B2HEVHtJT1eE7hC0no by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
2026-01-14T04:36:10Z
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Why am I downloading and installed ed(1) today? A: mariadb-dump is generating SQL it cannot run. Also. The files are huge and just need one or two tweaks. vim hangs horribly opening the file because of its size. ed(1) just takes a nice pause when saving it, but is otherwise responsive and _fast_.I love ed.(Also. There are a lot of "modern" linux distros that don't install it by default. *glares in BSD user*)@ed1conf