packetloss

packetloss, 7 months ago

I highly doubt people are uninstalling their ad blockers. If anything they’ll just disable it on YouTube if it’s that big of an issue to them.

Firefox + uBlock still works for me on desktop. For my SmartTV and my phone I’m using other frontend applications to get around the ads.

packetloss, 9 months ago

All the time!

I’ve woken up smacking myself thinking a spider is crawling on me, and then spend the next 20 minutes trying to convince myself that there’s no spider and its safe to fall asleep again.

packetloss, 9 months ago

Haha!

Totally had me. Excellent shitpost.

packetloss, 9 months ago

Update the OS and all installed applications using a single command.

packetloss, 9 months ago

Pretty sure they’re not transporting kids in that vehicle, but the OP spotted this vehicle while taking the kids to school.

packetloss, 10 months ago

Is this how you partition a hard drive?

packetloss, 10 months ago

Perfect depiction of downtown Vancouver.

packetloss, 10 months ago

The closest thing to an official app is Jerboa.

packetloss, 10 months ago

I tried Google Authenticator, Bitwarden, Duo Authenticator, and Microsoft Authenticator. I also tried on mobile (Android) and on desktop.

In all cases the authenticator was giving me a 6 digit code, but the code was not valid. If I used the same secret on multiple authenticators they all gave me the same TOTP codes, which is expected, but the codes wouldn’t work. So even though multiple authenticators are displaying the same TOTP code, the code the site is expecting doesn’t match. Meaning the site is not using the secret it generated properly.

packetloss, 10 months ago

This.

I just went from Arch to Debian 12 Bookworm. Running the stable branch, but so far most of the packages are rather recent. Kernel is 6.1 instead of 6.4, but I could switch to the Testing or Unstable branch to get the “bleeding edge” packages/kernels if I need to. But honestly so far it’s been a real pleasure to use. Everything is just working and is stable.

packetloss, 11 months ago

Of course… how could I not with that look he’s giving. Haha

packetloss, 11 months ago

Haha! He gets a TON of cuddles, don’t you worry. But he’ll act like he’s deprived to get more.

packetloss, 11 months ago

I don’t blame you, haha

packetloss, 11 months ago

I’ve been playing PC games since 1986. Started off with Kings Quest, and Heroes Quest. I can honestly say that no game has caused me to upgrade my PC until last year when I bought Cyberpunk 2077 because it was on sale. At the time I was running a 1080Ti, which is still a capable card, but I’m a whore for fancy graphics and visuals, and when I saw what CDPR was doing with Raytracing in that game I needed to have that. Pulled the trigger on a 4090 in January and haven’t regretted it for one minute. My 1080Ti lasted me 5 years, I’m anticipating my 4090 will do the same.

packetloss, 11 months ago

Zabbix stores all it’s data in a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. However… there are 2 ways that Zabbix Agents work. Either in passive mode, or in active mode.

Passive Agent = “poller” process on the Zabbix server sends a request to the agent asking for values for the items it’s monitoring (based on template applied to host). Depending on the number of hosts you’re monitoring and how many poller processes are configured to start with the Zabbix server, you may run into a situation where requests are queued because the poller process is too busy. Increasing the number of poller processes will fix this, but it also adds additional load to your DB as each poller process will connect to your DB to write data, and each poller process will consume a certain amount of memory. Too many and you’ll run out of RAM, or bog down your DB.

Active Agent = “trapper” process on the Zabbix server listens for item values from being sent to it from the agents. Agents will query the Zabbix server to see what templates are applied to it’s host, and will figure out what items it’s supposed to monitor. The agent will actively query the items without the Zabbix server requesting it, and will send the item values to the server as scheduled. This puts a lot less load on the Zabbix server.

Item values are not read from the DB to activate the trigger. When a value is received that matches the trigger’s expression, then the trigger is activated. Live values are used to activate triggers and trigger actions (alerts).

packetloss, 11 months ago

Also yet another version with the address book not implemented, but I bet the sign in button is still on the client to continue to confuse new users. Almost 2 years that button has been there to do nothing.

packetloss, 11 months ago

Day-to-day use: Bitwarden, YouTube (Revanced), Liftoff.

Productivity use: Duo Authenticator, JuiceSSH, WireGuard