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ace, 6 months ago

“We interrupt your regular scheduling to bring you this additional bit of Factorio hype.”

ace, 6 months ago

I can already imagine so many fun ways this could be used.

ace, 6 months ago

A lot of that data doesn’t actually exist, ostree hardlinks data blobs internally, so the actual size on disk is much smaller than most disk usage tools will show.

ace, 6 months ago

Flatpak uses OSTree - a git-like system for storing and transferring binary data (commonly referred to as ‘blobs’), and that system works by addressing such blobs by hashes of their content, using Linux hardlinks (multiple inodes all referring to the same disk blocks) to refer to the same data everywhere it’s used.

So basically, whenever Flatpak tells OSTree to download something, it will only ever store only copy of that same object (.so-file, binary, font, etc), regardless of how many times it’s used by applications across the install.
Note that this only happens internally in the OSTree repo - i.e. /var/lib/flatpak or ~/.local/share/flatpak, so if you have multiple separate Flatpak installations on your system then they can’t automagically de-duplicate data between each other.

ace, 6 months ago

Valve did purchase the for-profit MoltenVK layer and had it open-sourced under the Khronos umbrella, so they’ve already been happy to provide people a Vulkan-on-Metal solution for those who want to support Apple without an entirely separate rendering engine.

ace, 6 months ago

Definitely the third / middle left, but the bottom right definitely gets second place to me.
Not a major fan of too abstract art, and those are just both so serene.

ace, 6 months ago

My guess is that drilling is going to cause the Vulcanus-version of pollution, since it makes sense that a volcanic planet wouldn’t have much problem with regular pollution.

ace, 6 months ago

It could be interesting with something like the old Pharaoh game and its receding riverbed farming, but you’d have to balance that compared to costs of resourcing in Factorio - or offer some reasonably simple way for the player to protect their resourcing operations against the rising lava.

ace, 6 months ago

Got a pair of old HPE gen8 1U servers that are chewing through fan packages like nobody’s business, replaced at least five burnt-out fans on them in a similar amount of years.

We’re running a mix of HPE, Dell, and Fujitsu servers and they all absolutely suck in their individual ways - HP(E) adds a bunch of arbitrary hardware limitations which we have to work around, Dell intentionally degrades our multi-system setups with firmware updates, and Fujitsu’s boot firmware goes absolutely pants-on-head retarded if you’re doing netboot first.

We’ve gotten some Supermicro systems now as well, and they’ve been a real treat in comparison, though their software UX feels like it’s about two decades behind.

ace, 6 months ago

We’ve recently kicked out our entire Cisco networking core due to it actively refusing to interoperate with other pieces of necessary hardware for us, which was causing us to have to run an almost entire second redundant core network. Switching it out with ALE has been really nice in that regard, SPB scales like a dream even between locations and cities, we even get working L2 routes all the way over to some of our locations almost half a country away.

For us, Dell has been the far better of the two (HPE/Dell) big server-providing beasts in terms of just being able to use the hardware they provide, but they’re very close to getting a complete block from future procurement due to how they’ve been treating us.

Honestly, Fujitsu is probably our best current provider; their hardware is reasonably solid, their rack-kits aren’t insane, their BMC doesn’t do a bunch of stupid things, they don’t do arbitrary vendor locking on expansion cards, etc. Unfortunately their EFI/BIOS is a complete mess, especially in regards to boot ordering and network boot, and they’ve so far not been able to provide us Linux-based firmware upgrade packages - despite using a RHEL image in their BMC-orchestrated offline firmware upgrade process.

ace, 6 months ago

It’s great to see more full-AMD hardware from TUXEDO. I’m currently using their Aura 15 Gen2, and my only complaint is about the fingerprint sensor - which isn’t even really a TUXEDO issue as they have written and submitted a patch upstream for libfprint which makes it work. (And since I’m using Gentoo I’ve just dropped that patch into my local portage tree until upstream merges it)
They’re definitely not the cheapest computer vendor, but their quality is good and their support is great. No odd boot behaviors, ACPI errors, random device disappearances, etc, like I’ve had with other non-Linux-first vendors.

ace, 7 months ago

Apparently the new OLED screen will be available through iFixit

ace, 7 months ago

Lots of people instantly think of security when they look at WiFi-connected IoT devices, but oftentimes they never think of the WiFi signal itself - what with all the added communication noise and send time limitations of having lots of small devices.
Especially with regular consumer equipment, it doesn’t actually require that many devices to fully saturate a regular home router or AP.

ace, 7 months ago

Great, now I can finally play MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure without having to worry what my friends will think of me. A++ feature.

ace, 7 months ago

Took this a few days ago. I’d been reading, and put my pad down to go grab a cup of tea, returned to this.
The image is downscaled quite a bit, was originally posted elsewhere and had to fit in the size limit.

https://lemmy.ananace.dev/pictrs/image/baaccdc9-6d64-4135-a855-af7f2d76abc4.png

ace, 7 months ago

It makes sense to use the words that people are most used to, and bluescreen/BSOD has been the go-to lingua for describing a crash/error screen - even if not blue - since a while now.

ace, 7 months ago

Nothing quite beats setting up your first bot mall, seeing the swarm put to work making you everything you could ever need is just magical.
And then plopping down blueprints in map mode, making your factory expand in leaps and bounds while you get to do other fun things.

ace, 8 months ago

I think they’ve mentioned how many devs are working on Squadron 42 exclusive content, but then you have all the content and features that are shared with Star Citizen, as well as the engine devs.
Not sure how you’d split things to get a proper number for only Squadron 42.

ace, 7 months ago

Does SC feel like a $70 game ready for release and formal critical/audience review?

To be fair, it’s a $45 game.

ace, 8 months ago

I hope you’ve joined the Linux User Group - LUG - Org in Star Citizen.

We’re steadily gunning for the top ten spot in org sizes. (Currently the 14th largest)

ace, 8 months ago

I personally burnt out after only 70 hours of in-game time, the way they kept releasing patches and DLC that added more and more levels of grind onto the game finally ended up absolutely killing all my enjoyment of the game.

ace, 8 months ago

A possibly metal battleaxe.

ace, 8 months ago

I think the file upload size limit could become a problem in my case, at least in terms of posting the complete ACLs.

We’ve recently managed to come down to only ~1.4k VLANs though, and the network firewall pair for our server networks now only handles ~600 SPB services.

ace, 8 months ago

I’ve spent literally the entire last month working on tooling to orchestrate our asset management database for NAC (Network Access Control) purposes, and somehow I still didn’t think of this.

ace, 8 months ago

Yep, but if you run out of storage space then The Factorio Way™ has always been to use some kind of destruction method - from handgunning a wooden box to using a mod to vaporize it into the ether.

ace, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

The one that explicitly states in its license that you’re not allowed to ship anything using it?

ace, 8 months ago

Been doing some DC++ over Yggdrasil with good success

ace, 8 months ago

I should note that I’m not relying on Yggdrasil for anonymity inside the network, rather more for anonymity towards observations from outside the network. And also mostly anonymity towards what I’m communicating when observed from outside the network.

ace, 8 months ago

If you’re taking part in transmitting a torrent over Yggdrasil, then people you’ve peered with in the swarm will definitely see your Yggdrasil IP - which is based off of the encryption key you generate (and you can change whenever you wish) for the connection to the mesh.
Regarding obfuscation of what you’re accessing inside something like the bittorrent DHT, that could likely be done with multiple Yggdrasil connections and torrent clients - so each address only associates with one torrent, it’s just not a core feature of the network itself.

The Yggdrasil network really isn’t meant to provide perfect internal anonymity between two directly communicating peers, it’s instead built to be an easy-to-use, end-to-end encrypted, mesh network - with great performance.
It’s there to protect the content and target of your communications from anyone beside you and said target, without adversely affecting the delivery of said content. Not to protect you from your communication target, though it can do a passable job at that too.

My main use of Yggdrasil has actually been as an easily setup alternative route into NATed systems, seeing as I can easily hit 600Mbit and get below 15ms of latency over it, which I quite often use to run VNC or SSH (and SCP/rsync) over. And since the mesh can be established as long as you can reach a node, it becomes ridiculously easy to get a functional link over it.
Transmitting DC++ traffic without my ISP being able to detect any of that is just a bonus.

ace, 8 months ago

Back when I used to dual-boot, I had Windows on its own drive just for when it gets these ideas in its head.

Had a slightly similar - but also very different - experience that finally weaned me off of dual-booting though.
Back when Windows 10 was releasing their “fall update”, something had broken in the updating procedure and Windows would - on every reboot - attempt to install said update and then fail and roll it back.

At least until it at one point suddenly “succeeded” in installing the update.
The updater took ages to run, and then when it finally rebooted the entire drive was just gone. Partition table was still there, but messed up. Partitions were still there, but contained garbage in their superblocks. Even the EFI binaries were trashed, and the Windows setup couldn’t recognize it as a valid Windows install to attempt recovery on.
I ended up taking a block-level copy of the entire drive from Linux, ran a bunch of file restore tools on that to try and recover what little data I had stored on the Windows drive itself, to some success. And at that point I was long past fed up with the mess that was running a Windows desktop, so it was also the last time I’ve ever had Windows installed on physical hardware - though I have had to load up VMs to run a couple of horribly written hardware OEM tools since.

ace, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If they actually put trackpads on them then Windows wouldn’t be as much of an idiotic decision.
Windows with only sticks is absolutely insane, Windows with trackpads is just less smart.