thurstylark

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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

I already don't own an xbox and am happy about it. Checkmate, MS.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 52 points 3 months ago

My city recently renamed a street after Nelson Hackett, who was a local slave, but more notably, was the first and only escaped slave to have made it to Canada, and then be extradited back to the US. The road was previously named after Archibald Yell, the governor of Arkansas at the time, who wrote the extradition order. Canadian laws at the time forced the government to respect the extradition, but they found this situation so distasteful that they immediately changed the law to basically make Canada a safe haven for escaped slaves.

Lots of locals didn't know who Archibald Yell was, but now they do, and the road is now named after the slave whose case laid the groundwork for the Underground Railroad because of the governor's actions.

Not just a correction to the person who should really be celebrated, but also an S-tier snub, if you ask me.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I use vcsh and myrepos.

vcsh allows you to run multiple git repos that share ~ as their root, and mr simplifies/automates the management of those multiple repos. You can check out my setup here.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I remember having to watch those for onboarding. They weren't as cheesy as they could have been for an informational video.

I do appreciate how they're handling it, though. A public post-mortem is much more reassuring than damage control PR. Plus, being honest means they gain the IT folks who actually have to use their stuff as allies.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago

My guess: Because they reviewed and signed the kernel space code which calls code that is unreviewed and unsigned (or, at the very least, pulls directly from files that are unreviewed and unsigned without proper validation or error checking), calling out CrowdStrike's failure puts them on the hook too.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apologies, hostility wasn't my intention, only seeking understanding.

Ya know, in the context of the software in a vacuum, sure. But I think I'll ammend what I said earlier about what constitutes a distro:

IMO, It's not just software that glues other existing software together into a contiguous OS, but also a staff, a community, a philosophy cast on that collection of software. A way of doing things and thinking about them. Decisions and the rationale for them, a history of iteration, user needs and how those needs are filled. Us soft squishy humans that make, maintain, modify, administer, use, and complain about the software.

Because I think that reducing a distro to only the software it produces or uses fails to paint the whole picture. The mechanisms used for managing the collection of software on any specific machine is only one part of a larger system.

Pacman isn't the only part of Arch, and Arch isn't just pacman. The same is true if you s/Arch/MSYS2/g on that statement.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean... Yeah...? It's not all that controversial to say that any distro is essentially just glue between several pieces of software...

What's your point?

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'm genuinely not sure what you're saying here...

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Pacman was birthed from the Arch ecosystem, but it's built to be generalized so any project can use it if they choose.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago

Well, you see, the front fell off.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

Yeah, this is why I added a hardware key to my db. The hardware key is required not just for reading the db, but writing to it as well.

Another tip: use something like an OnlyKey that has its own locking and self-destruct mechanisms so this method isn't foiled by simply acquiring the key.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

IIRC, the interior of the main performance space is also covered in video wall, so add that to the pile.

But, yeah... I doubt this power is for playback. My guess would be render farm.

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