magikmw
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- Comment on Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win 3 weeks ago:
Reuters is a russian proaganda outlet.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
Wait till they hear of scanners and copy machines. The books aren’t safe either!
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 3 weeks ago:
I know the reference, and I’mma let you finnish, but 5/7, bruh that’s a gucci gun.
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 1 month ago:
Who is even installing preview updates? Why?
- Comment on Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past 1 month ago:
By the way, anyone ever got a bread crust cut? I did. On my own baked bread.
- Comment on 28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15 1 month ago:
But it was cheap, they even could afford the Oppenheimer actor back then.
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 2 months ago:
Ok but can we keep it on the summer time? I like later sunsets.
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 2 months ago:
It’s hard to believe but 16s are cheaper than 15s. I guess not enough 15s sold.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
I tried to sign up a while ago and had some issues, like link not arriving or something. Shame because I like the idea. Will try again I suppose.
- Comment on "It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs 2 months ago:
Inb4 we’re hunting uncontacted tribespeople to collect unpolluted samples, and they are also polluted.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Yea we’re doing something similiar. Only update base images for bigger OS updates or if something breaks or can break.
The general idea is to have config that works for both new PCs and the ones that are already in use. Saves on maintaining two configuration methods.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
I’m the only one to swoon here, and I’m as sceptical as one can be.
I’m also a cost and my budget is on paper only. Non-IT management is complicit in crappy IT.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
I wonder how you’re supposed to get PXE boot to work securely over the internet. And how that helps when affected disk is still encrypted and needs unusual intervention to fix, including admin access to system files.
I’ve been doing this for a while, and I like creative solutions, so I wonder about those issues a lot. Not much comes to my mind besides let’s recall all the laptops and do it one by one.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Sure. At the same time one needs to manage resources.
I was all in on laptop deployment automation. It cut down on a lot of human error issues and having inconsistent configuration popping up all the time.
But it needs constant supervision, even if not constant updates. More systems and solutions lead to neglect if not supplied well. So some “would be good to have” systems just never make the cut, because as overachieving I am, I’m also don’t want to think everything is taken care of when it clearly isn’t.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
This worksbgreat for stationary pcs and local servers, does nothing for public internet connected laptops in hands of users.
The only fix here is staggered and tested updates, and apparently this update bypassed even deffered update settings that crowdstrike themselves put into their software.
The only winning move here was to not use crowdstrike.
- Comment on The Crowdstrike whoops would've been so much worse in 2020 3 months ago:
Can confirm. I have 200 users and at least 1/4th of that work from home at any time. Anything that requires hands on approach you can’t do over remote assistancce software is a logistical nightmare, mostly because people can’t or wont swing by office.
- Comment on The Crowdstrike whoops would've been so much worse in 2020 3 months ago:
Do target individuals. CEOs should be responsible for neglect and rockstar culture.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
Wood is the reason for climate change!
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 4 months ago:
Radical.
- Comment on Looking for suggestions for game streaming server 6 months ago:
I use a 2016 Asus Zenbook with integrated intel gpu.
The performance is comparable. The only thing that’s different is latency, obviously, although it’s fairly negligible on LAN, and encoding/decoding sometimes createa artifacts and smudges, but it’s better at higher bandwidth.
- Comment on Looking for suggestions for game streaming server 6 months ago:
My box sits in my closet, so can’t really help much with docker or vm. But I use sunshine server with moonlight client. Keep in mind you can’t fight latency that comes from distance between server and client. I can use 4/5G for turn based or active pause games but wouldn’t try anything real time. On cable my ping is under ms, enough to play shooters as badly as I do these days.
I use AMD for CPU and GPU, and wouldn’t try nvidia if using Linux as sever.
I did use to run a VM in xenserver/xcp-ng and passthrough gpu with a mock hdmi screen plug. A windows 10 vm, ran very well bar pretty crap CPU but I did get around 30fps in 1080p tarkov, sometimes more with amd upscalling. Back then I was using parsec, but found sunshine and moonlight works better for me.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
That’s exactly my point.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 6 months ago:
For cold storage it makes sense, but I always consider UX - there’s not enough solutions that make private key encryption, especially remote, as easy as opening a link or mounting to a directory.
I’ve used s3ql before, and it’s really nice for making the encryption transparent. Not something pre-encrypting before dropbox upload can provide.
More, you wanna share those files via dropbox native tools? The recipient better have your private key or you need to reencrypt specifically for them.Mentioned tool: github.com/s3ql/s3ql
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
I like learning french because it shows me how weird the connections to english are.
“Chez Steve” means “At Steve’s [place]”. This one is more verbose in english.
But you can say “chez moi” for “at home”. And no need to specify which home.
- Comment on Anyone got Tubearchivist running in Kubernetes? 6 months ago:
It’s generic advice, but check
kompose- it can translate docker compose yml into a bunch of k8s objects, as far as it sensibly can.The mose issues can come from setting up volumes, since docker has different expectations towards the underlying filesystem.
It does save a bunch of work of rewriting everything by hand.
- Comment on Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software 9 months ago:
Check xcp-ng with xen-orchestra.
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
I think it depends. In my limited experience, because I have not tested this thoroughly, most systems pick the first DNS adresses and only send requests to the second if first doesn’t respond.
This has lead at least a couple of times to extremely long timeouts making me think the system is unresponsive, especially with things like kerberos ssh login and such.
I personally set up my DHCP to provide pihole as primary, and my off site IPA master as secondary (so I still have internal split brain DNS working in case the entire VM host goes down).
Now I kinda want to test if that offsite DNS gets any requests in normal use. Maybe would explain some ad leaks on twitch.tv (likely twitch just using the same hosts for video and ads, but who knows).
- Comment on Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy 10 months ago:
Don’t worry, water boils, steam spins turbine.
- Comment on Control - the first game to get me to turn on cheats in decades 10 months ago:
FYI Old Gods of Asgard are basically Poets of the Fall, a real band that collaborated with Remedy at least since Max Payne 2.
If I listened to Late Goodbye on tape you couldn’t hear it anymore with how I much I abused it.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 11 months ago:
Good, HP finally running their printer businesses into the ground. Paperless or bust.