Posts by paco@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #B3mSU2Xzw8XKMFtKue by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-02-28T12:47:46Z
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@acarsdrama Mate. It’s not flight simulator. You’re not gonna get better FPS. Fly the damn plane and quit trying to upgrade your GPU!
(DIR) Post #B3nBVfXQx0mpVrmKCO by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-02-28T21:13:04Z
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@nixCraft Email is easy. I don't know what your problem is. Just take this quiz and you'll see how easy it is.https://e-mail.wtf/
(DIR) Post #B3nGtzeuIIymdWgycC by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-02-28T12:57:04Z
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@pluralistic No company has announced “thanks to AI, we have the same number of employees, but we have launched zillions of new services and are growing our product lines because of all the time our people get to spend innovating.”I don’t know why that is.
(DIR) Post #B3oFhaJwlkZnmTMqDg by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-03-01T07:05:34Z
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@meeper JavaScript you say? The same person covered that too. This one made me want to punch my computer. https://jsdate.wtf/@nixCraft
(DIR) Post #B3rXofPubKqoGLZ1sm by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-03-02T23:47:50Z
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@jae Why is he wearing it on his eyes? It’s meant to be a bikini top!
(DIR) Post #B48Cg1s2xDe5wg5Aky by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-03-11T00:05:19Z
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Ok, my #homelab NAS took a power hit last night. Power went off across the whole house for like 5 seconds. It was in a temporary location and not on a UPS. Since it has come back, it does not see any of its hard drives. This is how amazing the mastodon #selfhosting community is, though. I came here to start typing out the problem and try to ask for help. I had tried an awful lot of things and nothing was working. So as I carefully reproduced the error, and made sure to take some photos and screenshots that I was going to share... it started working.Thanks mastodon crew! You all are the best rubber ducks that money can't buy.
(DIR) Post #B48Cg6gB4m7erJZGS0 by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-03-11T00:07:44Z
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What I think was wrong was something with the way the PCIe was negotiating with the card. I am just guessing, but maybe the power surge caused something to get into a weird state? I know so little. I'm just guessing.I made some changes to my PCIe BIOS settings, then changed them back, and that is when it started working again. Oh, and it's on a UPS now. Even in its temporary location. 😃
(DIR) Post #B4EFobTnuUQxVpHbBw by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-03-12T23:15:33Z
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I was messing with the #debian installer and its disk partitioning. I don't understand this at all. This is plain stupid.If the partitioning scheme includes swap, it should be the last partition on the disk. This installer frequently puts it in the absolute worst possible place: the middle.That's dumb, especially in a virtual world where hard disks trivially change size.See, what if I decide to make this disk bigger? What if I decide I need more swap? If swap is the last partition, it's trivial.Increase the virtual disk sizeBoot to single user modeDelete the swap partitionExpand the penultimate partition to encompass the new space I created, minus the amount of swap I want.Grow the filesystem in the penultimate partitionCreate the swap partition in the final position again.Boot.But when you stick swap in the middle of the fscking disk then it makes changes really non-trivial. You really can't change anything. The only partitioning scheme that gets it right is the "All files in one partition" scheme. Since there's just the one root filesystem, it puts swap at the end.Also, it appears that you cannot change the size of partitions in this view. Like, if I wasn't happy with 1.1G of swap, tough noogies. That surprises me. The entire POINT of an interactive installer like this is to allow me to specify high-level things like "Gimme 2G of swap" and have the installer recalculate all the start/stop partition values and such. I've done plenty of debian installs, but this is the first time I stopped to notice how bad this is.Some of you may argue that the problems I cite aren't important. But I defy you to come up with a good reason why one should put the swap partition in the middle of the partition table. You can argue it doesn't hurt, but you cannot argue that it does something good.#linux
(DIR) Post #B4rm1a10Wh8a9ccpH6 by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-01T22:57:27Z
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This is the Neil Peart of computer workstations.#artemis
(DIR) Post #B4tgM0PLtjH6OOHxL6 by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-01T22:49:18Z
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When I look at #artemis I don’t think about a billionaire or a company. I think about my country. And for a fleeting moment I don’t feel shame. This is what it feels like when we, as a society, accomplish something. We don’t focus on some singular person. We feel this whole country pride.
(DIR) Post #B4uMHr0Z6HJq9jOi7k by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-02T20:06:39Z
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Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?#privacyhttps://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/
(DIR) Post #B50MlktJZb60ow1XXc by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-06T03:47:36Z
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Old man flies in cloud.
(DIR) Post #B5IBouvn6F0iB2lY4u by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-14T18:09:11Z
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@acarsdrama Umm… that’s nice, but is that… noteworthy???
(DIR) Post #B5b0U1iDHlU5dOUQJE by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-23T13:16:22Z
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I just saw the most amazingly corporate expression of "we did what the bosses wanted us to do, even though the research didn't support that." The actual phrase was:The research employed a methodology that prioritized stakeholder voice over researcher interpretation.I wonder if a data scientist slipped that in to make it clear to other folks how this happened. You don't have to write stuff like this if the boss wants to do what the research says is a good idea. You only have to write this if the research says one thing and the boss says another.
(DIR) Post #B5dEoMFQQntsn5X6yu by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-24T16:58:11Z
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"It's called vibe plumbing. I'm not even a plumber. Soon, all swimming pools will be done this way! Get onboard or get left behind."(a real life version of the 'vibe construction' comic from https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/). Photo taken from plumbers fails)
(DIR) Post #B5ghlMiVi8iXWPwUts by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-25T19:49:50Z
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I’m helping my elderly mother (93) adapt to a new computer. It’s an iMac. She’s had Mac’s for the last 25 years.Mostly this is fine. But man, Apple has completely lost their way with accessibility. Some things, obviously are world-leading. I don’t want to ignore that.But the fucking mouse gestures. In Apple Mail you cannot turn off left-right swipe gestures. My mother, with her arthritic hands, cannot reliably do just vertical. It tends to be diagonal. Swiping on a mouse is great. But we need LESS gesture.In Apple mail the little set of buttons that allows you to see the existence of attachments and download them only appears if you move the mouse. If you leave the mouse alone a few seconds, it disappears. So trying to tell her where to look for something? It disappears before I can get her to focus on it.
(DIR) Post #B5gjq2H3LP8rTYSDj6 by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T14:24:58Z
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@futurebird I thought it funny that he gets to the "put baking soda on your dog" thing and finds it odd that the dog is chill while baking soda is applied.He doesn't remark about the next clip says to mix baking soda and vinegar with water. I recommend doing that and then screwing on the cap to your spray bottle really tight. He doesn't mention how wacky that is, but he included that clip, so I bet that's why he included it. I agree, though, this level of surprise this far into the slopocalypse, especially for someone presumably on YouTube a lot is amusingly naive.
(DIR) Post #B5pkhQzbv6THuTOhhQ by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-04-30T22:32:35Z
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@acarsdrama Stop talking politics on air traffic channels.
(DIR) Post #B60IJ5su5W21W4QOau by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-05-05T23:14:29Z
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@Viss it seems to me that a whole lot of people in this world have decided that expertise isn’t a thing any more. They all have a lot of money and a “how hard could it be?” attitude.
(DIR) Post #B61aTDZIMqUoZlBqhE by paco@infosec.exchange
2026-05-06T02:15:26Z
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One of the great things about getting the print version of TheOnion is the ads. Full page mock ads that are just… ouch.