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tony,

Ad floods happen semi regularly… they get banned fairly quickly though.

Any way to add an "It's now safe to turn off your computer" message at the end of shutdown?

I want to do this for my raspberry pis since they don’t have an ACPI system in place. I think it would look really nice combined with XFCE and the chicago95 theme. So I would prefer it if it were showing it like the windows 95 shutdown screen, maybe using an image file? There’s a lot of information on the shutdown process on...

tony,

Just before shutdown you’re at the terminal so something like this github.com/stolk/imcat on the image at the end of shutdown script might work.

tony,

Ads pay miniscule amounts per view… I’ve heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere… the more ads the better.

Which means people block the ads because they’re obnoxious, and they make nothing…

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

tony,

I presume apple users do occasionally…

I guess this is a way for google to force apple to open the protocol since they can’t just open it in the EU, so it affects the US too. But the EU don’t have to listen to google… if imessage is such a minor player they may just leave it alone.

tony,

He can join the queue then…

Lots of new sites starting up. Most don’t last a year.

tony,

It looks to me like they were counting some windows variant as ‘Other’ for a time.

tony,

I’m surprised stackoverflow haven’t sued some of them… they literally steal the content and stick their own name on it.

tony,

Raid 0 on 3x500GB triples your failure rate (especially important on older drives, as I presume these are), and still won’t get anywhere near an SSD in speed.

You could just mount the 3 drives separately and have storage that way, which means if one fails you’ve still got the data on the other two… it’d still suck but not as bad as losing everything.

If it was me I’d wait until I could afford the SSD… it’ll be many times faster and newer.

tony,

Holy shit… 1Tb drives too…

If only I had a use for them :/

tony,

Or actually do anything useful? No network, no filesystem… it’s a hello world app isn’t it…

Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount (i.imgur.com)

IKEA Family is a membership program, like grocery store memberships. The only real feature of the program was their 5% discount. But now, they are getting rid of it to focus on “New Lower Price offers”. I’m not holding my breath that their prices are going to come down anytime soon....

tony,

How am I going to fit my rackmount servers into it now?

tony,

There are some well known ones, like L4sbot, that copy everything but they’re upfront about it with bot in their name.

There are a few others more sneaky.

tony,

Thank you for signing up for Uninstaller 365. Your monthly fee will be $49.99. To cancel write 16 pages of klingon opera and send it to the following address exactly 100 days 16 hours before your requested cancellation minute.

tony,

If it’s fun, it’s not overkill!

You also have experience you can use in the workplace (even if it’s mostly experience of what happens if you f**k things up).

tony,

Yeah I went to firefox beta for ublock origin… but it seems most things work.

tony,

It refuses to install on the non-beta version… had to upgrade to allow it.

tony,

Find out what happened to Dasani in the UK

Bad publicity can destroy a brand.

tony,

Or Fedilab…

tony,

Hmm…

“last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs”

So… they simply switched to UBlock Origin?

tony,

Used it once… it’s as annoying as shit since you can’t just run apps you have to type ‘flatpack run org.mozilla.firefox’ instead of just typing ‘firefox’ (and I had to google that because I just can’t remember the sequence). Also for some reason it’s slow… as you mentioned a 1 second delay before anything works. I can’t see myself using it again.

tony,

So now you have to do that every time you install a flatpak.

Or just stick to a normal package manager, that does all that for you.

tony,

Cancellation must be provided in writing at least 180 days before the end of the contract.

tony,

Bah… NCSA Mosaic FTW.

nirogu, to linux
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Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose "sudo -u" is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

tony,

The system is broken. Wipe it and start again. I could imagine a system with no configured root but root only is just a security nightmare and not worth using as a starting point.

I really hope that machine isn’t exposed to the internet…

In theory a root application can drop capabilities when it starts up and remain root pid, but it’s not that common… it’s used for certain system apps that require root to increase security. It is not a replacement for unprivileged users.

tony,

And cloudflare controls the connectivity… luckily they’re not (yet) evil and are happy just to provide infrastructure.

tony,

So companies are people when it’s convenient for them to be so, and ‘just a business’ when it isn’t.

tony,

What I’ve read looks good but it’s going to need a track record of reliability before I’d trust it.

tony,

I’m the same… I setup a VM but it was so much work just to setup a basic machine with ssh I gave up on it… I’m also no sure moving all the config out of /etc into a script is scaleable at all. I get that by copying the script from one machine to another you can duplicate configs… but we already have ansible for that.

tony,

Same here.

I’m guessing US only.

tony,

The name just reminds me of the film. So I just assume that like the film the site is nightmare fuel and avoid it.

tony,

I use zerotier for that kind of stuff, mostly because it runs native on my router (mikrotik) and is zero config so easy to run on a random mobile device I might have on me.

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

tony,

I think it’s plausible he will actually pull X out of the EU completely and concentrate on the US. Banking regulations around the world vary greatly and I can’t see him wanting to handle all that.

tony,

It’s a thing online… Black Friday week still happens, where they try to get rid of the tat that didn’t sell to clear space for christmas shopping.

Physical stores have basically given up I think.

tony,

I’ve never seen it despite doing nothing special beyond my normal ad blocking… it’s a partial rollout I think.

tony,

TBH that doesn’t surprise me… I had a minor spat over the existence of a local supermarket, of all the stupid things… Wiki said it had been refused planning permission and never built. I had shopped in there many times, and could link to many articles about the fully built existing supermarket. I gave up after the second revert because it’s just not worth it.

tony,

It still has the issue that joining a popular channel can bury a server for a couple of hours whilst it downloads the entire history since it was created (hillariously trying to connect to thousands of servers that no longer exist… the error log was… impressive).

The new protocol was announced on here recently but synapse is stull running the old protocol with a proxy in front and the proxy just means clients can log off whilst it’s updating, it doesn’t fix the issue.

It’s probably fine if you don’t federate it, but I could just use my IRC server for that…

tony,

I wouldn’t want to calculate what it’d cost to replace all my switches with 25G capable ones… then all the network cards… You’d have to have a really specific application to justify it.

tony,

I’ve yet to see a remote website that’ll send me 1gbps continuously except a speed test… and whilst it’s nice to see big numbers on those, it isn’t really justifying the cost.

Even things like microsoft and steam stuff throttle far lower than that (presumably because they don’t want a million people trying to hit them for 1gbps constantly).

Once my minimum term is up on this link I can get a 1.6Gpbs one, but probably won’t bother.

Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does (indianexpress.com)

Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....

tony,

It gives google access to all the traffic statistics for users of chrome, not just those going via google. That’s valuable marketing data. They also have made sure that nobody else can get that data - they have to buy it from google as they become the sole source of it.

That’s why they want to do it… nothing to do with ‘privacy’.

tony,

Yeah with car manufacturers the usual tactic is ‘concept’ cars of ‘the next model’ containing every single thing a consumer could wish for… which of course never get built.

tony,

If it contains energy, there’s probably a way to make that energy release in an uncontrolled fashion. As energy densities increase, so does the risk if that happens.

Luckily batteries are built such that it’s actually quite hard to ignite them. As are fuel tanks for the same reason.

tony,

It goes deeper than that. They encouraged Hamas.

timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-…

tony,

It’ll happen in games first… nobody cares if ‘background NPC #15’ is generated by AI, and mostly they voice a few sentences at a time.

Suddenly, voices aren’t special… Voice actors have to have something else, like movie or book fame (Audible books seem to be mostly voiced by the authors, and I can’t see that going away). But only a few % really have that… I bet there are thousands of voice actors we wouldn’t even recognise the names of.

tony,

Wars are already simulated like crazy. AI battles will be going on right now working out if various ukraine battles are winnable, what will happen if Iran gets too riled up, etc.

The bit we currently do wrong is then verifying the results using real people…

Has HP printers always been this bad? (sh.itjust.works)

So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...

tony,

HP haven’t always been this bad, but they are this bad now, and nobody should be giving them money.

tony,

Get a Laser then… Inkjets dry out if not regularly used, which on the cheaper printer often means ‘throw it away and buy a new one’ because they don’t have replaceable heads. A laser will happily sit for months idle then spring into life.

tony,

“As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,”

But you’re not doing the first half, so you can’t do the second half…

tony,

It’s derived from the old shugart interfaces IIRC. But yes not IDE. I’m sure a converter is possible but USB makes more sense these days, or if you must an FDD controller card (assuming no motherboard support).

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