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Is it possible to flash a new OS onto an old iPad 2?

I bought an old iPad2 for the purpose of viewing a Home Assistant dashboard via a web browser. My thinking was that the ability to browse the web was the sole requirement for a tablet for this purpose, but I was wrong: Home Assistant’s web pages apparently require a newer version of javascript than iOS 9.3.5 can handle, but...

markstos,

Good news. You can install a newer browser in a virtual machine on some other server you have and then use some Remote Desktop software on the iPad to access the VM which can run a browser to access your Home Assistant dashboard.

markstos,

Spam filters rely on many signals besides the from address to decide if a message is spam, because one signal alone is often not reliable enough.

It’s hard to see who deals with spam with the best because when the filters are working well, you don’t notice how much is being blocked.

I can say that both Fastmail and Google work fairly well. Unless things have changed, about 90% of email is spam, with most getting blocked or diverted at different levels. So even if some gets through, it’s possible the systems to block it are still working very well.

markstos,

School is a time to learn and both Arch and NixOS provide plenty of opportunities for that.

markstos,

I recommend first trying the Nix package manager on Arch to see how you like it. You can use it to install some things in your home directory without interfering with the Arch package manager.

markstos,

I noticed this feature in Brave first.

markstos,

The speed limit might possible be 25 mph because a human could survive being hit at that speed.

Going this fast in a 25 mph zone is quite likely endangering someone else’s life, not just a private game of Darwinism.

markstos,

Driver going 80 mph in 20 mph zone, strikes, kills man on bike:

tampabay.com/…/tampa-surgeon-in-tesla-struck-bicy…

markstos,

Facts disagree with you. Humans have about an 80% chance of surviving a 25 mph impact.

www.propublica.org/article/unsafe-at-many-speeds

markstos,

And do you have some data for the “most pedestrians will try to dodge” claim?

markstos,

Tools like Podman, Docker, Distrobox and Toolbox use custom uid namespaces. I don’t see how they could work with them disabled.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

markstos,

How is it better than using NetworkManager or systemd-networkd directly?

Why is it worth the extra complexity?

markstos,

They spent $220 million to produce the movie…

markstos,

HBO 360

markstos,

And here is Google Bard’s answer for how socialism ruined India in just two decades. I’m sure these tools can generate all sorts of X ruined Y content from even conflicting perspectives.

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India gained independence from the British Empire in 1947. The country’s new leaders, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, were inspired by socialism. They believed that the government should play a leading role in the economy and society in order to achieve rapid economic growth and social justice.

Nehru’s government implemented a number of socialist policies, including:

Nationalization of key industries, such as steel, coal, and banking Land redistribution programs Subsidies for food and other essential goods Expansion of the public sector Progressive taxation system These policies led to some initial successes. India’s economy grew at an average rate of 5.7% per year from 1950 to 1970. However, the socialist system also had a number of problems.

First, the government was inefficient and corrupt. Public sector enterprises were often poorly managed and ran at a loss. Second, the socialist policies discouraged private investment and innovation. Third, the government’s heavy spending on subsidies and welfare programs led to large fiscal deficits.

By the early 1970s, India’s economy was in crisis. Growth had slowed to a crawl, inflation was soaring, and the country was heavily in debt. The government was forced to abandon some of its socialist policies and implement market-oriented reforms.

However, the damage had already been done. Two decades of socialism had left India with a stagnant economy, a bloated public sector, and a mountain of debt. It would take India many years to recover from the legacy of socialism.

Here are some specific examples of how socialism ruined India in two decades:

Agricultural production stagnated. The government’s land redistribution programs led to fragmentation of land holdings and a decline in agricultural productivity. Industrial growth slowed. The nationalized industries were inefficient and corrupt, and they stifled private investment in the industrial sector. Inflation soared. The government’s heavy spending on subsidies and welfare programs led to large fiscal deficits, which fueled inflation. Unemployment rose. The public sector could not absorb all of the new entrants to the labor force, and unemployment rose sharply. Poverty increased. The socialist system failed to deliver on its promise of social justice. Poverty actually increased during the first two decades of independence. In conclusion, socialism ruined India in two decades by stagnating economic growth, creating widespread inefficiency and corruption, and increasing poverty.

markstos,

Great app!

markstos,

Circle of life.

markstos,

The virtual machine adds valuable security isolation with hardly any performance penalty. What’s the drawback?

markstos,

I once ran a bunch of calculations on the carbon impact of storing things online. There’s a real impact.

Compared to impact of our transportation and food choices, it’s not huge. Though all aspects of carbon emissions are worth addressing.

Some of the big tech companies are aggressively working towards being carbon neutral or carbon negative, including Microsoft, Google and Apple.

We each move the needle some one way or the other ourselves with our daily transportation and food choices… as well as how many more photos we store in the cloud!

markstos,

I wonder what these folks think of the use of RICO to charge Trump and associates.

markstos,

Oddly, my church has a cauldron. It has been used at fall festivals to cook giant amounts of chili over open flames doors.

I believe it was bought at a farm auction.

markstos,

I don’t have the answer but am curious about any advantages of using kubernetes for self-hosting a static website.

markstos,

Now I can sleep.

Would you be buried alive for 48hr for a million dollars?

You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?...

markstos,

Are you forced to eat only asparagus as your last meal before going in?

markstos,

What’s not ready for you on Wayland yet?

markstos,

Vegans. Plants = Fiber.

Animal products have no fiber.

markstos,

The average American gets only about half the recommended amount of fiber.

markstos,

Solution: Code Style Guidelines doc that the team agrees on. A checkbox in the PR template that affirms that code is compliant with the guidelines.

This way it’s not personal, it’s a rule that everyone should follow as a shared standard.

markstos,

Ugh.

markstos,

I’ve been at this for 25 years and a restriction on variable name length hasn’t been a problem since then.

A good senior dev shouldn’t just be older, they should have continued to learn and evolve.

I do remember texting abbreviations because we texted on a number pad with no autocomplete.

Everyone I know was happy to switch to better keyboards and autocomplete as soon as they were available.

markstos,

No, litres.

markstos,

Nothing some ice cubes can’t solve.

markstos,

The beauty of your homelab is that you can try and break things, learn something from it and try something else.

markstos,

And dmenu-wayland.

markstos,

I initially missed SSH support from Rofi, but just changed my workflow to open a terminal and then use Fish with the history autocomplete history to quickly select a host to SSH to.

markstos,

The Anker 575 can drive dual 4K monitors at 60 Hz and is supported by Linux, although I’ve best luck driving one monitor with a dedicated laptop USB C port. It currently retails above $200 though.

markstos,

You don’t define bitrot. If you leave software alone with no updates for long enough, yes, there will be problems.

There will eventually be a security issue with no fix, or a new OS or hardware it doesn’t work on.

Backups can also fail over time if restores are not tested periodically.

This recently happened to me. A server wouldn’t boot anymore, so we restored from backup, but it still wouldn’t boot. The issue was that we’d introduced change that caused a boot failure. To fix that by restoring from a backup, we’d need a backup from before that change. It turns out we had one, but didn’t realize what the issue was.

The other moral is to reboot frequently if only to confirm the system can still boot.

markstos,

If companies follow the license it’s legal.

Yes, it would be good if the companies shared some of the wealth they generate back to the free projects that power the company.

markstos,

You could use a Garmin and disable the normal syncing. You can plug it in as USB device and access the activity files that way.

You could write your own automation to process the files when the device is detected on the USB hub.

markstos,

Under this model, a proprietary, closed source process can access all your secrets.

markstos,

The classic Unix user and permission system provides a solution for this.

Create a user for the app you are worried about. Make the environment variables available to that user only.

Other apps can’t read the secrets, and if the app itself gets exploited, it has access to the secrets in any case.

markstos,

If your concern is about the comfort using the Control key frequently, another option is to solve this at the keyboard hardware or firmware level.

For example, I use a Corne keyboard with a control key on a convenient thumb key. I also don’t have to hold it. I can tap it and tap the next key.

Also, by holding down another thumb key on the other hand, arrow keys are available for the home row. With this, using arrow keys and modifier keys via comfortable across all apps.

mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-l…

markstos,

“Family that could afford $800 phone rescued from fire while others perish”.

Wealth often buys better odds of survival.

markstos,

Na, it’s just that a memorial post is a time to pause the editor wars, if only for a moment, and pay respect.

markstos,

ChromeOS already supports Flatpaks.

flatpak.org/setup/Chrome OS

markstos,

Right, and that’s very easy to set up with the GUI ChromeOS provides.

markstos,

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