cenzorrll

@cenzorrll@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upstate NY creativity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In another week, it’ll be a gate embedded in the snow with a pile of rust and four tires surrounding it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Calibri kind of sucks, it’s better on screen then TNR, but it’s ugly as shit still. A better font could probably be found that reads well on screen and in print. But:

  Rubio did admit in the memo that Calibri wasn’t the “most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful” example of DEI to his mind’s eye, but he still berated the font for contributing to “the degradation” of the State Department’s official correspondence.

  Fuck this guy, regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I brought a laptop from 2003 back from the stone ages. It runs surprisingly well, is up to date, and only really struggles with web stuff because of the state of things.

  Antix linux running on 2GB ram, Pentium m 1.4GHz, and an SSD in an IDE enclosure. Uses about 200mb of ram. As far as being functional, the screen is small and low res, and it doesn’t do these newfangled video formats. But if you consider 90% of my work life is in spreadsheets and documents and low resource applications, it really could be just fine. I’m not saying I would enjoy it if it was all I had to use, but I could if I needed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source developers are just like you and me. They’ll get fed up with the bullshit and start developing things they need with the resources they have, just like they’ve always done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rpis are great for always on things with low power use but not if you have many low power use things. But you would really be feeling that 1GB of ram, and microSDs kind of suck to run off of. I would honestly save the $25 and put it toward one of the $100 tiny/mini/micros.

  I would not steer you away from an RPI if you don’t have one, they are very useful and fun, but if you’re looking for learning about self hosting, you’re probably going to end up getting something more powerful anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which SBC for TV streaming?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Le Potato AML-S905X-CC has h.264 and h.265 decoders up to 4k, emmc connector So you don’t have to run off an SD card. I’ve used it as a media player and its pretty damn solid. I can’t speak to streaming games because I don’t do that, so I don’t know if it’s a different format. It does not have a powerful processor, so if the stream is encoded differently I wouldn’t expect it to be very good.

  Its pretty old, around rpi3 performance, but having the decoders in there make it better than the RPI 4 for playing those types of videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but you see, they don’t do it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That last sentence. Perfection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got lucky and bought a house in 2015 at 28, I barely pulled it off with roommates, barely pulling it off now with a fiancé. There’s no way I could buy a house now. I’m not even sure we could upgrade if we needed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, per the comment you replied to, that isnt under my control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I agree, but I have to argue enough with professionals who know better as it is. I have to do it every day with recent PhDs as a BA who’s been doing the job for 15 years. At this point it’s not my problem if something happens. I have other things that affect me every day to fight about. I’ll just continue cycling through my no repeats after 10 changes, 12 character passwords and using my yubikey for docusign for my own sanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  K, I’ll go tell the CEO that they need to come up with something different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found a pretty good use for a passkey. Docusign. About every 3 months I need to docusign something at work. The process involves logging in, changing your password, logging in again, opening the document, logging in to sign, logging in to finish. The only steps you get to skip if there’s more than one document is the initial log on, and changing password. So with a passkey I just touch it a bunch of times and there’s no password change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you update software on your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, unattended-upgrade does it’s thing. Updating other packages happens whenever I think about it. Very few things are not containerized and there’s very little added beyond the base Debian install, so when I do update its maybe a dozen packages.

  I would previously reboot during thunderstorms if we lost power, but now that I’ve got a UPS I probably ought to come up with a different plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can i find what files are causing the problem? Opening the app shows everything normal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having just dealt with something similar from Linux to windows, I'm 97% sure this is the cause. Mine was a "same file name" issue because capitalization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOOK AT THIS NERD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain't that his hoodie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He looks like someone in a cult. Wide open eyes, thousand yard stare, not mentally in the same universe as the rest of the world.