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It’s really hard to time it just right but the theme to Jeopardy 👍

Get it wrong and it’ll really surprise you!

God’s keyboard

Astronomers: The Sun is a recent development

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Just wanted to throw my hat into the ring: I like them too.

Now we just need inline looping gifs/videos and I’ll have every feature I’ve ever wanted👍

You had corruption with btrfs? Was this with a spinning disk or an SSD?

I’ve been using btrfs for over a decade on several filesystems/machines and I’ve had my share of problems (mostly due to ignorance) but I’ve never encountered corruption. Mostly I just run out of disk space because I forgot to balance or the disk itself had an issue and I lost whatever it was that was stored in those blocks.

I’ve had to repair a btrfs partition before due to who-knows-what back when it was new but it’s been over a decade since I’ve had an issue like that. I remember btrfs check --repair being totally useless back then haha. My memory on that event is fuzzy but I think I fixed whatever it was bitching about by remounting the filesystem with an extra option that forced it to recreate a cache of some sort. It ran for many years after that until the disk spun itself into oblivion.

One point: ext4 has a maximum file size of 16TiB. To a regular user that is stupidly huge and of no concern but it’s exactly the type of thing you overlook if you “just use ext4” on anything and everything then end up with your database broken at work because of said bad advice.

Use the filesystem that makes the most sense for your use case. Consider it every single time you format a disk. Don’t become complacent! Also fuck around with the new shit from time to time! I decided to format my Linux desktop partitions with btrfs over a decade ago and as a result I’m an excellent user of that filesystem but you know what? I’m thinking I’ll try bcachefs soon and fiddle around more with my zfs partition on my HTPC.

BTW: If you’re thinking about trying out btrfs I would encourage you to learn about it’s non-trivial maintenance tasks. btrfs needs you to fuck with it from time to time or you’ll run out of disk space “for no reason”. You can schedule cron jobs to take care of everything (as I have done) but you still need to learn how it all works. It’s not a “set it and forget it” FS like ext4.

The researchers focused specifically on 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran (TCDF), a widespread persistent organic pollutant (POP) that is a byproduct of waste incineration, metal production, and fossil-fuel and wood combustion.

Because the tree absorbed it? Anyone know?

Hah! Obviously this girl has never had a puppy before. They bite. They bite anything and everything. They will chew anything and everything. Chair legs, your legs, door/window frames, and carpets can be endless fun for them (they’ll leave a looooong visible trail where they pulled up until they ran out or got caught 🤣).

Her reaction was great though! If a puppy bites you it won’t really hurt that much (more of a gentle pinch than an “Ouch! Fuck!”) but you have to sell it! When a puppy bites you, react loudly like they just sucker punched you hard in the face while insulting your mother. Act! And don’t interact with them for a minute or two. If you’re holding them, put them down and be like, “I don’t play with dogs that do that! 😤”

That’s how they learn that biting is bad. Also, always have treats handy for when they do good things and teach them to have a gentle mouth the same way as teaching them not to bite. Keep a death grip on the treats when you’re teaching them this because if they were too rough but got away with the treat they won’t learn.

BTW: Puppies have sharp teeth. Way sharper than an adult dog. You’re much more likely to get scratches from their biting than bruises.

Now’s the time to start saving for a discount GPU in approximately 12 months.

If something is “older than dirt” that means it’s at least 18,000 years old but can be millions of years old depending on where you live:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14qna.html

There’s not much to learn in Windows land! Learn how to set file permissions, how the registry works (and some important settings that use it), and how Active Directory works (it’s LDAP) and you’ll be fine.

If you’re used to using Linux nothing will frustrate you more than being forced to use a Windows desktop. The stuff you use every day just isn’t there. You can add on lots of 3rd party tools to make it better but it’ll never measure up.

When you have to go out on the Internet to download endless amounts of 3rd party tools the security alarms in your head might start going off. Windows users have just learned over time to ignore them 🤣

I interview developers and information security people all the time. I always ask lots of questions about Linux. As far as I’m concerned:

• If you’re claiming to be an infosec professional and don’t know Linux you’re a fraud.
• If you’re a developer and you don’t know how to deploy to Linux servers you’re useless.

So yeah: Get good with Linux. Especially permissions! Holy shit the amount of people I interview that don’t know basic Linux permissions (or even about file permissions in general) is unreal.

Like, dude: Have you just been chmod 777 everything all this time? WTF! Immediate red flag this guy cannot be trusted with anything.

If you’re working in the attic, under the house, around dirt/dust/debris wear a mask/respirator. It’s so nice to be able to take deep breaths without coughing later in life (and outclass your peers in the stamina department) 👍

Pro tip: Even though they’re bigger and bulkier respirators are much more comfy than masks.

I’ll take laptops over a Punch Card System (PCS) any day!

Now do big trucks and cars modified to be extra loud!

Just use Gentoo. Do it from scratch on the command line without the GUI installer like a pro 👍

At the very least you’ll learn how everything works at a deeper level.

I’d love to see more adoption of… I2C!

Bazillions of motherboards and SBCs support I2C and many have the ability to use it via GPIO pins or even have connectors just for I2C devices (e.g. QWIIC). Yet there’s very little in the way of things you can buy and plug in. It feels like such a waste!

There’s all sorts of neat and useful things we could plug in and make use of if only there were software to use it. For example, cheap color sensors, nifty gesture sensors, time-of-flight sensors, light sensors, and more.

There’s lmsensors which knows I2C and can magically understand zillions of temperature sensors and PWM things (e.g. fan control). We need something like that for all those cool devices and chips that speak I2C.

The part of ICE vehicles that will become unaffordable is the gas, not the vehicle itself. In fact, I expect the price of gas to result in even cheaper ICE vehicles because they’ll have to make up for the price of gas somehow.

Not sure it’ll keep pace with the price reductions going on in the land of EVs and batteries though. The only reason why EVs are so expensive is because of the supply/demand curve (and the fact that manufacturers seem to be focusing on cars with loads of luxury features). Sooner or later the supply will catch up and their price will plummet.