Haha maybe put the edit at the top 😉

Scroll scroll scroll. Oh.

Thanks for the giveaway! Wish I could give away codes I’ve redeemed and haven’t played.

Yup, my servers just run bare Debian and ZFS and I have backup scripts that parse the docker compose files for how often to run and keep backups.

What would keep a future president from renaming it to the Book Closet of Mexico?

As if. Bye bye neighborhood library boxes.

In FreeCAD, spent 5m trying everything to figure out why a part wouldn’t adjust. Had transform dialog open. Still let’s you click everything, items just don’t work.

Right after that, went to work on the new NAS. Kept rebooting during install. PSU is a nice 850w, can’t be that. Swapped out for proven RAM, no luck. Can’t be the PSU. Swapped out the… Everything. No luck. Can’t be the PSU. Sigh…

You sure about that?

Epyc Egg

Yea, I guess because they are “selling” vs being compensated for? If the US govt dictates terms to that business under homeland security, GDPR probably wouldn’t matter, but I can only assume since it’s a sale, that’s not the case.

Assuming the data doesn’t include international departures or arrivals (only their domestic counterparts), would GDPR even apply?

Headline lobs it.

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware, a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years.

Kyle Schutt is a 30-something-year-old software engineer who, according to Dropsite News, gained access in February to a “core financial management system” belonging to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The original quote:

In an email to The Post, his father, Errol, said Musk and his younger brother were “interested in motorbikes, computers, basketball and a little about girls. They were not into political nonsense, and we lived in a very well-run, law-abiding country with virtually no crime at all. Actually no crime. We had several black servants who were their friends.”

Original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/elon-musk-race-dei-doge/

Just gonna drop this one in here.

https://github.com/ventoy/PXE/issues/106

Ventoy PXE used by iVentoy installing malware and fraudulent CA certs from… you guessed it, binary blobs. The primary dev is now in damage control in another issue and moving forward on updating the primary repo. Good on them.

So, yea, not a minor thing, even for Ventoy.

FSD? Fake Self Driving? False Self Driving? F#@& Says Driver?

No more than a pot on induction. Or for that matter, no more than with propane, or friction, or pressure, or with a mini-sun. Takes the same amount of energy regardless hah.

Speaking of which, this is a pretty cool tool: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/water-heating

So for 1 liter in my case, a 2K watt inverter woth 80% efficiency across the system would take under 4 minutes to boil.

Yea, big steamer vs iron fan here. This will be for a van. A while back we aquired a mini van and through the magic of DIY it now has no back seats, a couch+bed, fold up kitchen and running water. We are very outdoorsy and like cheap travel, so we are doing some planning for potential next/future stage of life in something that could replace structural living 😉

Computer science is going to be q commodity job. Prediction of three tiers:

• Tier 1: No education requirement. I write code and build things. Large percentage of developers.
• Tier 3: Science based, high education working on algorithms, physics, and other elements requiring an understanding of matters in deeper education
• Tier 2: Right in between 1 and 3, may require formal education, but definitely experience. Will understand applications of high science, and can both program well and manage teams. Will replace current nontechnical middle management, because who needs that when the market is flooded

We’ve been headed this way for years, AI is just speeding it up.

While I hate this world for what I’m reading, we should be careful to separate suspensions and guilt. Due process is there for a reason, and suspension will end at conviction. I feel like we’re constantly fighting for due process in today’s world, but it needs to exist everywhere if it’s going to work. For the family’s sake, I hope it’s a quick trial.

If someone posts a screenshot of this on Facebook, you could see meta of meta of your meme on Meta

If you think of them as Oculus, it makes more sense. VR is a great training tool for things that need subjects not readily available. A good example is teaching doctors surgical practices without the need for patients or test animals (at least in initial rounds). So in that scenario, VR can he used to help save lives. In some instances, the military does the same, so why not use VR?

And then, you know, do the reverse of that, too, I guess? Ugh.

This is nothing new, it’s just more polarizing because of everything else.