Posts by p@freespeechextremist.com
(DIR) Post #Adhoq0tPVRr186CLC4 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T14:36:57.428884Z
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@hakui @r @s Who would have thought they'd be so popular?
(DIR) Post #AdhqA3AGrvLxvDCcaW by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T14:51:47.185782Z
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@p > It's infrequent; I don't think I've had one that compiled but wouldn't boot in several years. Flashbacks to compiling the kernel in the 90s or the early aughts.Someone said something like "Don't tell me that worrying never helps. The things I worry about never happen." I am pretty sure it was Jefferson but I can't find it.Also now SPC is doing the over-delivery thing. We'll see if it settles down.
(DIR) Post #AdhqeRt5VwdtHmf10a by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T14:57:16.799709Z
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@unlight @hakui @r @s I added a "strand link" to someone named "DooDooDevon" once because of his name, and I like running around the world and seeing that guy's name over ladders. He seems like a ridiculous person.
(DIR) Post #AdhsQ07S9vox1BcOMi by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:17:04.753254Z
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Webster's 1913 edition had "Etym: [Named from Americus Vespucius.]" in it. Sure, but what's that name mean? Per https://www.etymonline.com/word/America#etymonline_v_10975 , it's kind of interesting:> Amerigo is Germanic, said to derive from Gothic Amalrich, literally "work-ruler.""Work-ruler". :terrythinking: "Negotium populo americano melius quam otium committi."> The Old English form of the name has come down as surnames Emmerich, Emery, etc. The Italian fem. form merged into Amelia.:otacon:
(DIR) Post #Adhu3mF5GxDTW7iaJ6 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:35:28.334517Z
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@lanodan @p > initrd and grub quite few times,I don't run GRUB anywhere I can avoid it. If I have ever seen a more overwrought bootloader, I must have suppressed the memory. I don't think it's designed to be used directly.I run most of these systems without an initrd, too. I should probably do a minimal initrd like "if you can't mount root, start dropbear or whatever the smallest sshd is" for servers.> made me used to test that stuff before a reboot with qemuThe worry wasn't that the kernel wouldn't work at all, but mainly that I would have omitted something that would be necessary to make the machine come up. Some driver gets deprecated and moved and I hadn't enabled the new one, or sometimes you get something contradictory, or the net interfaces get reordered and renamed, or some init script gets angry.> +spiceI tunnel the VNC ports over ssh. I still haven't used spice for anything. It does seem like it should be semi-trivial to do the VGA memory region as ncurses but even ncurses is a pain.> usage of framebuffers over a serial console)I really would prefer serial console. You can mostly get it, a lot of BIOSes don't mind talking to the serial port. At least once LILO comes online, LILO will talk to the serial port, so you're not beholden to the hardware at that point. It's not *quite* as nice as old Sun hardware but it does work at least. The DC has to hook up one of the KVM-over-IP devices and it's a pain and after that, they always wanna hook up the one that does some Java nonsense that doesn't even work under Linux so I have to say "No, the one that does regular VNC" every time. I'd rather they hook a serial cable up to link my box with a terminal server, but no one even makes those any more, I think.I managed to get bochs to do DOS that way once, but it spat out the entire screen on every update. I had to patch it, but I don't remember what I did. (My patch was trivial, I remember it only taking half an hour and most of that being spelunking; I don't remember what was missing. It was like ten years ago, recollection is fuzzy. It was a stunt-hack, mycroftiv had attached LP49 to his ANTS hubfs and it seemed like a kind of perverse fun to get a Plan 9 cluster that could talk to DOS and get a "C:\>" prompt in acme.)
(DIR) Post #Adhu5GbbrrtpycxsBs by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:35:44.521667Z
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@dcc @p You alive again?
(DIR) Post #Adhu8m4VKmwyR59Vr6 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:36:22.494181Z
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@dcc @p What are you using for the router?
(DIR) Post #Adhu9ivKWXfUxiJWFM by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:36:32.826107Z
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@kirby I believe this.
(DIR) Post #AdhuEWK4niw3KTAyYK by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:37:24.871907Z
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Alex Jones's middle name is Emmerich, also.
(DIR) Post #AdhvboulwWKFbb0wuO by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T15:52:49.793022Z
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@dcc @p Pretty beefy for a router!
(DIR) Post #Adhz4Qu8ai0hOp3KFs by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T16:31:36.968875Z
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@lanodan @p > ZFSAh, right.> avoid having /boot being on a separated filesystemBack when the LBA32 thing got added to LILO, I had gotten in the "separate boot partition" habit. It keeps the bootloader simple. I still usually do that: uboot likes it that way (though it can understand ext[234] nowadays) so ARM/RISC-V do that, an encrypted root basically requires it.> barely maintainedIt doesn't matter too much if it's a "contingency sshd" that you turn on when the system fails to boot.> OpenSSH or use tinyssh.Will have a look.> https://hacktivis.me/git/make-initrd/Nice!> I wish all computers would still have a serial portThat would be nice.> And for DCs, couldn't you attach something like a small ARM board? That's pretty much what IPMI is (except typically with a webshit console). It's probably easier to just eventually have another machine in there, or replace the existing one, or just get a bigger pipe to my house and then if I need to fix something, I'm already there.
(DIR) Post #Adhz6MFsqd73Yj8sAi by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T16:31:57.843140Z
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@dcc @p NICE
(DIR) Post #Adi0WKCxBLRMh1iXoG by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T16:47:51.717139Z
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@577de06dce160a0379163a4bb7b680be3e0a0e1c68de6e6ba8c01134b44064dd I've heard that; it's a stretch. The Spanish didn't enter Inca territory until about twenty years after "America" appeared as a name on the map, with a note about Vespucci. The Incas didn't publish too many books in Europe, and that name isn't even proposed as a source until the 20th century.In any case, I think the etymology of "Amerigo", the guy's name, is interesting. "Amalrich".
(DIR) Post #Adi0xx0R2WGGqG2Eca by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T16:52:51.289841Z
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@Pawlicker You know it federates, I just reposted it.
(DIR) Post #Adi1KSmXZucrlQGqmG by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T16:56:55.398879Z
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@pleromanonx86.wordpress.com@pleromanonx86.wordpress.com @Pawlicker > Or it could be social networking, like with Bluesky and Nostr having Jack Dorsey around at some point.Or with Twitter, which was described by Twitter execs as "The free speech wing of the free speech party" in 2010.
(DIR) Post #AdiF9s4IcdykMSQ9HE by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T19:31:52.751066Z
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@thendrix @pleromanonx86.wordpress.com@pleromanonx86.wordpress.com @Pawlicker > It’s all so tiresome…The goal is to make it tiresome.
(DIR) Post #AdiFLSMC2guo5sJZqq by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T19:33:58.388167Z
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@ehhh @lina I will bring you a Fatburger.colossus_of_clout--also_burg.jpeg
(DIR) Post #AdiFS1ixSdxPWL60LA by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T19:35:09.626986Z
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@wishgranter14 @Pawlicker >it's just the nazis"It's just the people that we can call Nazis" is how it starts. You ever read Trotsky? This "Everyone that isn't full-communist is a Nazi" meme completely covers his writing.
(DIR) Post #AdiG5tZtATWPq3rfP6 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T19:42:20.765385Z
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@djsumdog @RustyCrab @drewdevault > poetic ironyWhat did he do? Someone told me at some point but I cannot remember.
(DIR) Post #AdiGKKfVF6o1ueNHua by p@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-10T19:44:58.509130Z
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@leyonhjelm @ehhh @lina 1.5 POUNDS PRE-COOKED WEIGHT