

Cuba should just announce their intention to join the US as the 51st state and watch the administration do an overnight 180 just for shits n giggles lol.
There’s no future where the US invades and doesn’t just keep it as an occupied territory.


Cuba should just announce their intention to join the US as the 51st state and watch the administration do an overnight 180 just for shits n giggles lol.
There’s no future where the US invades and doesn’t just keep it as an occupied territory.


completely remote teams.
There were actually a lot of these in startup type companies before covid hit.
The best ones were the ones that treated whatever comm app they used like an open discord channel and not virtualized meetings lol.
The former generates the same social relationships as an office because its your typical meme/gossip/rant/catchup/work talk you would otherwise have with your coworkers.
But if it’s the latter, every interaction is treated like a meeting which very quickly removes that type of communication, which is defnitley unhealthy for both you and the company at large since everyone gets treated as homogenous.
They’re fun as fuck.
Some of the best pics I have are from an air show! f35

F-22 for life lol, 2000s era Lockheed tincan doesn’t even look good after they threw all my tax money at it.


Part of the Snowden leaks showed that the NSA had made exploits for a ton of vendors that abused vulnerable SMEs with special versions for various servers.
I think it was shortly afterwards that Intel downstream OEMs started offering a reduced/partially disabled ME for general government purchases only, which is how some of the custom ME disable projects work.
But the fact that neither Intel nor AMD bothers to explain why the ME needs to exist is insane, especially since it runs at ring -2 above ring -1 where the original boot process starts.
IME having a full network stack is crazy. Imagine telling people they have a complete hardcoded OS running on every machine with complete host and network access.
Someone has paid fat stacks to keep the media quiet, even after the massive vulnerability disclosures.
I heard nonstop reports about spectre and meltdown in the general news for a year, but I never heard a peep about SA-00086 or even the IME much later after its introduction.


Another day of vaguely pointing at Javascript when asked where the circus is.
Anything that you can shove hardware into (CPU, RAM, HDDs, maybe a PCI slot), so any used workstation is a great start, and don’t bother splurging initially, just follow the quality tool rule and only buy when something becomes inadequate. If you want to jump straight into loud and noisy severs, you can pick up used servers for cheap like R730s which there’s a ton of out there. Just avoid 2.5" drive bays because 3.5" HDDS are way cheaper per Gb.
Would recommend podman over docker as its matured to the point where it has a lot of better features like rootless, quadlets, etc that you might want to take advantage of in the future. OS is whatever linux you prefer, but I recommend you stay away from Ubuntu. If you want something RedHat but not as cutting edge as Fedora, I’ve heard OpenSUSE is pretty nice.
For apps, If you want to do HTTPS via GUI then npmplus is nice option, Otherwise caddy can do the same with text config. Rest is whatever you want to try out :)
EDIT: If you start making an *arr stack, I would recommend recyclarr to handle the quite expansive content filter settings for sonarr and radarr.


I hate to break the news but the issue with Bitwarden is that the client sucks total ass, and there are no drop in 3rd party replacements for the browser plugin.
Been running Vaultwarden for a while now and even though the sync implementation is nice and clean, it’s just not worth the end user experience.


This is really dumb when compared to literally every other password manager, open source and enterprise which does a much better job of actually being a password manager and not a glorified encrypted text file.
I’m eventually going to switch back to KeePassXC and just suggest setting a master password with Firefox’s builtin password manager for everyone else who just wants a painless user experience and not have to deal with syncing vaults.
I wanted to commit to the meme showing walls of text lol.
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“They’re laying us off to boost stock price” and “After earnings call, they’re rehiring us”
I can’t find the original image but here’s a decent one someone posted somewhere else lol:

You can still make a CI/CD pipeline that doesn’t self combust every 5 minutes lol.


Spirit started out as the villain and ended up as the hero lol.
They popularized the low cost system in the US which absolutely wrecked quality of service from every other airline as they too started removing everything to cut costs.
But then Spirit was the only budget airline actually selling tickets for cheap and decent baggage bundles.
American and United offer the same net quality of service for 4x the price. Why whould I pay such a markup and still have to pay for carry on and checked baggages? Its not a budget airline but they sell "budget"services.
Now they all want the profit squeeze of Spirit without the lower fare.
I still remember when Delta flights above 3 hours had a full meal with multiple snack services. I don’t even think they give you regular sized pretzel bags anymore.
Wireguard.
Dunno if Cloudflare does effective auth for the tunnel or if you have to set that up yourself, but I don’t bother trying to expose services to the internet in any way because some of this stuff was just never designed for proper web security (cough Jellyfin).
It’s still worth setting up a wildcard cert with ACME so you get nice https and a real domain.
https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension
https://lemmy.world/post/45527405
TL;DR: 84,000 extensions and it took 2 hours to startup on a fat 42gb+ RAM workstation, but mostly because Firefox “regressed” from using SQLite to JSON for addons lol


I wish.
It was the same Samsung 970 NVME that I’m using right now lol.
Windows 8 on a hard drive was 1000x worse. I made the mistake of upgrading my laptop back in the day from 7 to 8, and it would just sit at 100% disk IO at idle.
But just in case, on the SSD it actually would take anywhere from several seconds to a full 15 before the start menu decided to load.
XFCE, WF-Shell, KDE, and the many dmenu clones are all instant.
Directors cut is defnitley worth a watch, but you’ll probably only enjoy it if you have at least some context/interest in the history of Jerusalem or its crusades.


My biggest “wow” was when I could hit the super key and have the start menu open immediately instead of waiting 4 minutes for it to load in and another 20 minutes to take my search input and give me back results from Bing.
Nothing will top lawn dart and the slick F-86 haha