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DevOps Anonymous 05-12-23 02:51:26 No.22707[Reply]

If you thought managing several layers of complexity was a pain enough, we added even more layers of complexity just so we can deploy infrastructure in a few commands.

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Anonymous 05-12-23 15:02:57 No.22722

>>22716
Yeah I wish I got paid more instead of having the company funds go to fucking Amazon or Google.

Anonymous 05-12-23 15:19:22 No.22723

>>22716
I used to work for Microsoft. The servers had to run in some fucking obscure cobbled together cluster protocol, maintained by a myriad of undocumented scripts, software and platforms, running some godforsaken windows NT to run C# .NET servers.

Count your blessing lol. AWS, ec2/ecr, docker, terraform are a breeze in comparison.

Anonymous 06-12-23 07:10:55 No.22730

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>>22707
*mogs all your cloud-native bullshit*

Anonymous 06-12-23 07:19:20 No.22731

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>>22707
"I can break the cycle of abstraction and encapsulation with one final act of abstraction. It's never worked before, but it's going to work this time."

Anonymous 06-12-23 07:51:47 No.22732

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>>22730

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Uploaded Harmy's Despecialized version to some servers hosted by mates in Finland bigfuckingnatives 29-11-23 06:36:08 No.22643[Reply]

Uploaded it here: https://harmy.link/

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Anonymous 17-11-23 03:41:42 No.22359[Reply]

Is using a tiling WM and a well-configured TLP enough to get the most of my battery on Linux?

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Anonymous 23-11-23 22:00:51 No.22523

>>22522
/bin only contains dynamic links :^)

Anonymous 23-11-23 22:36:36 No.22524

>>22523
/bin , /lib and /sbin are not real

Anonymous 23-11-23 22:57:15 No.22525

>>22524
/bin is real on gales, /sbin links to /bin and /usr links to /. Links to the actual commands are copied from a package hierarchy similar to gobolinux stow. If linux had a proper union mount implementation, the package/bin/s could be be mounted to /bin though.

Anonymous 25-11-23 18:41:07 No.22560

You can also use mdev or mdevd for managing /dev
Alpine Linux supports both and also udev.

>>22494
>Shouldn't Openbox be as good as a tiling WM too?
Yes. But, as far as I know, OpenBox development has stalled. I think IceWM is still being developed (it's very similar WM). There is also JWM.

Anonymous 25-11-23 23:59:06 No.22569

Consider switching to Wayland. During the early days of Wayland, so much focus was on embedded and low power devices, where X is an absolute train wreck, and Wayland is now undisputed king.
Taking that mentality forward has real advantages for anything battery powered, like a laptop.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Wayland-Power

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Anonymous 23-11-23 01:37:30 No.22487[Reply]

Is randomizing your MAC address with software like macchanger or NetworkManager enough to actually conceal it or can your hardware MAC actually get leaked when connecting to a random network by whatever means, like wireless traffic sniffing i.e. Aircrack?

Basically, how do I make sure I can't get identified when connecting to random wifi spots or even when only scanning for networks? I know your hostname can also be detected in a LAN but changing that is easier.

Anonymous 23-11-23 03:28:53 No.22496

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AnonymizingNetworkMACAddresses

Anonymous 23-11-23 23:54:03 No.22529

If you're going to change the hostname under X remember to update the authentication cookie with xauth or you will break your session unless you restart.

bump Anonymous 17-02-24 12:30:38 No.23482

>>15141
check the catalogue first pls redundancyghurs

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linux for noobs Anonymous 12-11-23 19:14:56 No.22278[Reply]

where should i start with linux? i really want to jump ship, but i've been on windows since 2000/xp and really don't know were to start. i want to be able to customize my desktop gui, use video editing software (it's for work), and still play my video games. i've been looking into Nobara and it seem like a good place to start. Should I dual boot it on my main OS, or put it on my old labtop to get use to it?

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Anonymous 23-11-23 12:34:26 No.22504

>>22503
Virtualbox often breaks after new releases or kernel upgrades, leading to relatively frequent crashes and file corruption.
Apparently Oracle only keeps vbox around as a legacy enterprise product and for gullible hobbyists, so stability and testing have suffered over the last decade.

Anonymous 23-11-23 13:29:02 No.22505

>>22504
I think you are right to some extent. But I know for a fact of many irl important uses of VMs in corpos and academia that are not legacy or hobbyism at all. Particularly to do with cybersec and other networking related stuff where without a VM you would have to run like 80 physical machines with the same OS and other software on top of each of them and VMs are just a whole lot easier

Anonymous 23-11-23 13:49:53 No.22506

>>22505
I never claimed anything about VMs in general, only that Oracle treats virtualbox as a legacy and hobbyist product.
IIRC virtualization is indispensible in the server market; Xen, Bhyve and Docker in particular.

Anonymous 23-11-23 14:18:34 No.22507

>>22502
not rly

Anonymous 23-11-23 14:31:05 No.22509

>>22502
If you aren't a "FOSS schizo" (?) then just install Steam.

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Anonymous 20-11-23 05:44:21 No.22419[Reply]

That's the list of toggles for disabling telemetry in Firefox. By default, Firefox sends pings every time you shut down your browser, make a new profile, it pings their servers when you run firefox and much more. Is this supposed to be 'le privacy browser?

I actually just copied and pasted one of these hardened configs and starting up firefox still pings home every time. Very cool!

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Anonymous 21-11-23 01:17:35 No.22465

>>22453
>also it had a bunch of unaddressed phone homes and security issues at the time I used it
I've never heard of ungoogled chromium doing this…
https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry/

Anonymous 21-11-23 01:26:50 No.22466

>>22465
well I didn't save what I saw at the time, but perhaps I read a misleading article an the matter.

Anonymous 22-11-23 22:04:16 No.22479

>>22419
Here -→ https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js
You don't need to use user.js if you don't want. Just go over the file and use about:config

Anonymous 23-11-23 03:16:05 No.22491

>>22479
Those pings still happen even with the most hardened config.js!!!!!!

Anonymous 23-11-23 03:28:40 No.22495

What about Librewolf?
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/librewolf

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Mechanical keyboards Anonymous 30-05-21 07:37:27 No.8859[Reply]

Do you own one? I just bought a cheap Chinese one and I love the feel and noise and the extra space (it's a tenkeyless).

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Anonymous 29-10-23 18:50:49 No.22100

>>8868
>retvrn to hieroglyphics

Anonymous 29-10-23 20:39:52 No.22101

>>8859
got one, mostly for getting rid of ghosting, and its more pleasant to type too
feel pretty good, got it since 5+ years for like 120bucks (I had plenty of money), given the time I spend on the computer was a good investment

Anonymous 04-11-23 00:20:51 No.22143

Cliqter claxters
tip tap

Anonymous 04-11-23 12:08:23 No.22144

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>tfw you will never own an IBM beam spring keyboard

Anonymous 22-11-23 22:29:06 No.22483

>>8859
I always get a full sized keyboard. You don't actually need a mechanical keyboard as long as you buy something that's better than the cheap entry-level stuff. That being said, I think Cherry Mx Brown keys are the most comfortable ones.

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Anonymous 29-05-22 03:55:09 No.15112[Reply]

why is maths as a school subject nothing but difficult number tricks with no practical application? physics has equations that are both piss easy and give you answers you can use. fuck educational maths

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Anonymous 13-11-23 18:56:51 No.22328

>>15129
66+44 does not equal 100 tho

Anonymous 14-11-23 00:21:47 No.22334

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>>15120
our universe is the only possible one, therefore physics is mathematics

Anonymous 14-11-23 01:45:28 No.22336

>>22328
that sounds like a social construct

>>22334
sry, just one of many

Anonymous 21-11-23 19:03:16 No.22471

>>22251
Based

Anonymous 21-11-23 22:13:51 No.22474

>>15112
>why is maths as a school subject nothing but difficult number tricks
cuz school is meant to make you into a trained monkey that doesn't think, just does according to principles thought out by someone else

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Anonymous 17-11-23 21:14:09 No.22380[Reply]

recommend me resources for learning bit, hex, dec, ascii and stuff

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Anonymous 18-11-23 19:12:57 No.22399

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File: 1700334775180-1.pdf (570.65 KB, 197x255, Boolean Algebra.pdf)

I tried finding you something, it's surprisingly hard. These two look good. They are from here: https://home.csulb.edu/~hill/ee201/

Anonymous 19-11-23 00:23:32 No.22404

>>22380
https://www.jemarch.net/poke

Anonymous 19-11-23 04:54:02 No.22409

>>22399
thanks fren
some wikipedia references and articles are also good resources tho it's a shame such info is so spread out

Anonymous 19-11-23 11:21:03 No.22412

>>22409
The actual topics to cover will largely depend on what you want to get out of it. Since you mentioned ASCII, I assume you are interested in the actual representations used by computers and not just the numeral systems in mathematics. I'm sure there are plenty of textbooks that cover these things but I can't recommend any because I learned these stuff by attending lectures in university.

I would cover at least these topics:
- Boolean algebra, maybe a little digital circuits
- Numeral systems (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal)
- Bitwise operations
- Number representations (BCD, sign-magnitude, one's complement, two's complement, floating point)
- Memory, endianness
- Arbitrary precision numbers (maybe?)
- Character encodings (ASCII, ISO/IEC 8859, Unicode)
- Maybe some simple image format like something from netpbm? Or some other example of how other things are represented in computers. 3D models, audio? idk

I'm sure I missed something, hopefully other anons will insult me for it,

Anonymous 19-11-23 15:59:32 No.22415

>>22404
This looks sick, I wish I had an excuse to use it.

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