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CubitOom ,

Hey…I also advocate for more solidarity within communities, growing your own food, using less plastic & cars, and Star Trek…Linux is just like 30% what I talk about.

CubitOom ,

That is a weapon, not a teleporter. -Samuel Hayden (Doom Eternal)

CubitOom ,

Interesting free financing is basically a loan with the current interest rates and inflation.

CubitOom ,

If you also add some industrial elements to it bands like igorrr come to mind.

CubitOom ,

Just gonna drop this down here… www.youtube.com/channel/UCvkgxdEPifqt01MilFr6pzw

CubitOom ,

I don’t see the problem really…but once it becomes “Futurama did it”, I will hope to not live on this planet anymore.

CubitOom ,

I wasn’t going to watch this but they threw Kyle MacLachlan in it so now I am legally obligated.

Knights among toner cartridges (infosec.pub)

(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

CubitOom OP ,

They said I was a power caller

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/2d488706-988d-4cd9-922a-c8b059ab9b99.jpeg

CubitOom OP ,

It’s not like everyone is having virtual meetings all day in an open floor plan office with terrible reverb on their day pass desks…right?

CubitOom OP ,

Hence the nerf.

I shot one with a slingshot and a nerf ball before it could get into the copy room…highlight of my career.

CubitOom ,

What type of metadata is on a server attached to posts, comments, votes and such?

CubitOom ,

Matrix via docker is pretty simple actually.

Took me like 30 mins to set it up exactly like I wanted on my kubernetes cluster.

CubitOom ,

I have to try that again. Last one I tried it it had some issues.

KDE’s NeoChat is pretty solid too

CubitOom ,

Yep SimpleX works great. Although every time I read the name I think of herpes.

CubitOom ,

Interesting. For my desktop, I just installed a binary from the AUR and it works wonderfully.

CubitOom ,

Would you like docs on just the docker component or a kubernetes centered doc?

CubitOom ,

Personally, I do the opposite. I try to avoid flatpaks and the like. And the AUR enables that really well

CubitOom ,

Security is a compromise between convenience and safety.

However, simply using flatpaks isn’t inherently more secure than using a binary or compiling from source. But it can make it easier to be secure for people that don’t want to manage their own sandboxes.

It’s also easier for devs so they only have to make one version of their app which in theory should work on all systems. But in practice I find it doesn’t always work that way

CubitOom ,

I have not tried it. But this doc seems to make sense and isn’t very opinionated.

computingforgeeks.com/run-synapse-matrix-homeserv…

One of the aspects that is glossed over in this doc however is the networking parts. There are many ways to setup your DNS, certificates, and ingress depending on how/where you are hosting the container.

CubitOom ,

From a maximum security perspective, you should be checking all the code you install on your computer. No matter if it is foss, audited by some group, or proprietary (if possible). What would stop a bad actor from auditing malicious code and approving it?

As for sandboxing, there’s multiple options, not the least of which is containerization.

Again, security is a compromise. More security normally comes at some cost just as less security does.

But back to the topic of the post. You are complaining that SimpleX doesn’t work when installed though a flatpak (because one doesn’t exist). So perhaps it’s not a good software to rely on flatpaks for. Unless you choose to only install software via flatpaks, to which I’d say that’s admirable but also perhaps needlessly limiting. Either way it’s your choice, but I would suggest some open mindedness of options that may let you use the software you want.

CubitOom ,

Damn, the Talos principle was a good game

Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?

I had to test/fix something at work and I set up a Windows VM because it was a bug specific to Windows users. Once I was done, I thought, “Maybe I should keep this VM for something.” but I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t a game (which probably wouldn’t work well in a VM anyway) or some super specific enterprise...

CubitOom ,

Yeah needed it for my monitor. I didn’t want to figure out USB passthrough so I just installed Windows on a > 50,000 powered on hours HDD and booted from that. Then once I was done I put it about as far away as I could from my PC.

CubitOom ,

It’s been a while since I checked out fedora atomic (and I didn’t quite understand it then) is bazzite just a container for Linux games? Is that why it’s called cross platform?

I wonder how well it performs on more limited hardware. I’d imagine it would be more performant to compile programs from source on hardware with less headroom.

It could be a compromise between performance and ease of use. But if someone is using fedora atomic wouldn’t they need a decent amount of knowledge already?

I think it’s still exciting and I hope it works well.

CubitOom ,

Well that really wouldn’t be utilizing containers correctly in that case. As really every noob friendly distro is about as capable. Like Manjaro comes pre-installed with steam and one can enable the Nvidia drivers by clicking the correct option in the settings to auto-detect the hardware and install any proprietary drivers.

I think the real benefit of this judging by the GitHub page is that you could never update the apps directly and instead just update the container image for every device you own so that they all work the same way. Which is a great concept but is not very noob friendly. Unless the method for pulling new containers is automated somehow.

It still seems like a similar disadvantages to using flat packs on hardware with less headroom but I could be wrong.

I only have only gaming PC, and the other devices in my house all serve discreet functions but they can still stream the games from my gaming PC. So I wouldn’t want them to share the same os image. Ultimately this doesn’t seem for me but I do like the implications.

CubitOom ,

That’s a fair point. But what’s worse for a student, not paying attention in class or getting a cop sent into the classroom to arrest/assault them?

If it’s a law, and the school has a cop on premises it’s just a question of when will a teacher ask a cop to deal with it.

I am not sure if a law enforced by the government and courtrooms without much room for exception is the best idea. What if a student genuinely needs a phone in class?

Why couldn’t the precedent be a school policy similar to how some schools might have a uniform policy? Why would it be easier to enforce a uniform policy than a no phone policy?

Also, what is the difference between a highschool and a college interms of phone use during class?

CubitOom ,

I guess the main question is if a digital device is inherently distracting or if the issue is how it is used. Also at a certain point a distraction is a tool that can be used for learning too.

I was a privileged kid in a private highschool we didn’t have smart phones yet (they came out when I was in college) but we did have laptops in class.

At first we had full Internet access via WiFi. Then the school slowly started to filter traffic by blocking certain sites. So naturally I learned for to install a proxy on Firefox so I could go to addictinggames.com during the especially boring parts of class. I would still take notes (enough to pass all my classes) and some teachers were so entertaining that I never wanted to do anything but pay attention.

Eventually a teacher did catch me playing a game and sent me to the Deans office. He saw all the things I did to circumvent the schools internet filters that he asked if I would like to spend an elective period at the it office. I said yes. So for one period a day I would help students with basic things and I learned a lot from the other guys in the office. I got super into computers and now have a career built on that experience.

CubitOom ,

Smartphones are not purely entertainment machines. They are super connected, extremely portable computers.

You could connect a Bluetooth keyboard to a phone and use it to take notes.

You could ask the class to search the internet for examples or interesting facts.

There are a lot of ways a teacher can utilize students smartphones in a classroom. Ways that might help students understand technology better in a modern world.

CubitOom ,

You are assuming that the only reason for a student to have a smartphone in class is to make a call.

Besides special needs students that may require their own set of regulations if laws are to be drafted. We are only considering what smartphones are currently capable of. What if in the future they are capable of things that are considered essential learning tools? If a law was passed to blanket ban specific devices or sweep up even more technology then it will be hard to revoke when required.

The school system already has all the tools it needs to deal with distractions in the classroom. The issue at hand seems to be more a systemic one than a technological one.

CubitOom ,

Heh, you’re right. I misunderstood the meaning of why you posted that quote. Maybe you could add your intentions next time as quotes are often misunderstood and misrepresented. I have a similar issue.

What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.

-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

CubitOom ,

That’s a good point. However I would argue it really depends on the individual student. Just because a majority of students might do better with handwritten notes, doesn’t mean we have to take away the ability for a student to type notes. That seems similar to forcing a left handed student to write with their right hand.

I personally feel that taking notes is a distraction to my own learning. And a retain more information if I just watch a lecture intently. I do record / use speech to text to make notes after the fact however.

But let’s go with that idea that students should be taking notes in class. As if they were then they couldn’t be distracted by a smartphone. So maybe a teacher could have a policy of just checking notes.

Perhaps better yet would be a policy of quizzing the students at the end of class? I guess that might depend on how much time is left in a lession though.

CubitOom ,

I am not a teacher and not part of the school system right now. Are schools no longer allowed to send kids to the principal’s office? Or send a letter to their parents? Or issue detention? Or is it that none of those methods help? Is a teacher’s only course of action to remind students to not look at their phones during class?

When I read the article and the teacher realized that as long as the students looking at their phones were quiet it was fine it really just seemed to me like that teacher failed. If a parent said that, I would also think they failed.

There have always been distractions in the classroom and unless we are talking about a diagnosis of addiction, smartphone uses shouldn’t be treated differently.

CubitOom ,

I’m glad that was cleared up. Now how can I tell if my swordfish steak is made from beef or not? Also I need a lot of help with these beefsteak tomatoes.

CubitOom ,

Nobody listens to the woman, all the men die.

CubitOom ,

If you are dipping toes into containers with kvm and proxmox already, then perhaps you could jump into the deep end and look at kubernetes (k8s).

Even though you say you don’t need production quality. It actually does a lot for you and you just need to learn a single API framework which has really great documentation.

Personally, if I am choosing a new service to host. One of my first metrics in that decision is how well is it documented.

You could also go the simple route and use docker to make containers. However making your own containers is optional as most services have pre built ones that you can use.

You could even use auto scaling to run your cluster with just 1 node if you don’t need it to be highly available with a lot of 9s in uptime.

The trickiest thing with K8s is the networking, certs and DNS but there are services you can host to take care of that for you. I use istio for networking, cert-manager for certs and external-dns for DNS.

I would recommend trying out k8s first on a cloud provider like digital ocean or linode. Managing your own k8s control plane on bare metal has its own complications.

CubitOom ,

You are right. But proxmox and many of the other suggestions aren’t vms either.

CubitOom ,

The Schwartz was with them.

CubitOom ,

Would wood splintering cause more small projectiles than if it were made of contemporary materials? Maybe the strength of the projectiles being less than metal might help if it were to hit a space station, but an astronaut on a space walk would have a different story.

CubitOom , (edited )

So what is Home Assistant using for this?

If I were to build it myself I’d probably over complicate it by using multiple llm agents on a local server. Probably use whisper to do the speech to text and then Mistral fine tuned on the Rosetta code dataset to send the API calls to HA. However that wouldnt keep it from always listening to me and trying to interpret what I say into a command for HA. Is that just a prompting issue for whisper or would I need another agent to turn on whisper?

I could maybe get this to run without specialized hardware like a GPU but it would be better to have something for the llms to be a bit more responsive.

CubitOom ,

Ok, hmm I wonder how much work it would be to implement it using open source models. I think the hardest part would be translating the voice instructions to an API call that HA can use correctly.

Then there is the whole hardware issue to fix too. I do know that some SOCs are getting good at running 7B parameter models locally but the cost is still probably going to be prohibitive.

CubitOom ,

Replacing a bay window ain’t cheap.

CubitOom ,

Bright and early for their daily races Going boldly, going boldly

CubitOom ,

Use whatever you want for personal. But I would suggest trying to use containers for hosting if you haven’t already. It really blows the idea of needing a stable OS out of the water since you can just declare everything you want in a config file and tear down and spin up with the app you need ready in less than a minute.

You can use Ubuntu still of course in a container. But things get really interesting when you use smaller attack surface distros like Alpine, BusyBox, or even a distroless container.

CubitOom ,

They are still going for that cultural victory with games and anime.

CubitOom ,

I am not an expert, but I try to be pragmatic. Here’s what socalgas.com says about the topic.

You’re right that natural gas is methane and that leaks are bad. However I think a nuanced view is important here for a few reasons.

  • Many developed countries have the infrastructure and workforce in place to not just safely deliver methane to buildings as an energy source but also to correct leaks.
  • Methane can be produced via a variety of sources both at a large and small scale. I’ve toyed with the idea of making a black soldier fly larvae farm and methane would be a by product
  • Gas tanks to hold methane have maximum a lifespan of 10 years. However many other methods of storing potential energy have a much shorter maximum lifespan, making methane a decent backup energy source in cases of emergency.

I don’t know how good the energy conversion rate of burning methane is but I would be surprised if it is low.

Personally I think we should leverage every option, especially the lower hanging fruit before dismissing these options as being not ideal when the alternative is continuing to do worse.

CubitOom ,

Thank you, these are all great points.

CubitOom ,

I’m just using my password manager in place of the authenticator app.

So rather than using an app like Google authenticator or Authy to see what the new random sequence is for the MFA, my password manager stores that QR as a string and will display the same random sequence that a normal MFA app would.

They key difference is that my MFA is synced across any device that I have configured my password manager on using the same cryptographic keys and version control history.

So if my phone is dead, lost, or stolen, I can still access my banking account via MFA as normal.

I suppose it brings up the idea of what a “factor” is in how it’s used for MFA. If a factor is supposed to be a different device, a different app on the same device as your password manager, or just a different passphrase that’s constantly changing.

CubitOom ,

It’s still two separate passwords so I think it qualifies as 2 factors.

But yes the password manager has one gpg key which only has one passphrase used to decrypt the passwords saved in the password manager. So if that was compromised then so would all passwords

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