pinball_wizard

Nice. I think you’ll like it here.

Welcome!

Let’s see, what does a new user need want to know?

• The only thing more sacred than Star Trek, here, is Babylon 5, or maybe The Orville
• Everyone will happily explain every corner of the Fediverse in great detail. Don’t worry about it. There’s a lot of it. It will amuse you later, when you discover more of it.
• We will probably convince you to try Linux, if you hang out with us long enough.
• Nothing here is private.
• Almost everything here is run by volunteers.

Good point. If a post is two minutes old with no replies, may as will let folks change clean up their misclicks.

I try to remember to put [SOLVED] on any serious post I make, after the fact.

You (and folks who do the same) are unsung heroes. Thank you.

Thank you for making the tough call to keep things offline until patched. I know that can be a thankless thing to do. I appreciate your focus on protecting vulnerable users.

.htaccess files are pretty simple to set up, if not hosting anything too sensitive.

Good question.

Seems like waypipe is needed for Wayland. docs.redhat.com/…/remotely-accessing-an-individua…

I initially misread your question as “What good is remote desktop software?” and I thought, "look at this person, humble bragging that they are fit enough to occasionally walk across the room.

I guess now I need to go exercise.

Also ssh -X is nice.

To me, XMPP is still the open source instant messaging gold standard. Everything has an app (or seventeen apps) supporting it, and it tends to just work.

My experiences with XMPP are: very good.

Matrix does more. I have used it on and off for fancier online meet-up type stuff. As others have said, it is relatively new, and that has various costs and drawbacks.

I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

Same! But the ones I cause don’t count.

It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.

I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.

but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than the new LLM enhanced computer way.

I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.

So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.

“Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…

It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding

It is. Sometimes the big secret turns out to just be what we all thought was happening.

Dang. I had to look it up, but CrowdStike taking down a huge percentage of Windows PCs was so last year, I guess.