digitalfox @digitalfox@vulpine.club

This #introduction dossier details a classified Blappeture Mesa research project. The Enrichment Center would like to remind you of these mandatory safety and happiness guidelines:

1. Petting and patient discussion are encouraged. ⚠️​ Device size may vary.

2. The device will never threaten to bite you and, in fact, may hug you. Repeatedly. (With permission.)

3. The device is slow to respond. Your request will be processed.

#Art details/full resolution/extra story: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/27507881/

…my thermostat control app disables taking screenshots of it. Really?

It's also the same one that added a basic root check. Nothing as invasive as e.g. Pokémon Go scanning media storage, and no SafetyNet API call, but still. Even though it also works for ${company}'s home security devices, there's nothing a basic root check is going to catch - either malware hides itself, borrowing MagiskHide's open-source techniques, or your app is just annoying a legitimate rooter into adding said app to MagiskHide's list.

Darn. Looks like #Superliminal is Windows-only so far… 🙁​ As a fan of messing with perspective (hence #macro / #micro interests), if #Linux is supported later, I'm definitely getting this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SX8XMwMw6Y

Problems finding #technical solutions on #Google ? You're not alone: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dspk3d/is_google_getting_worse_or_am_i_getting_dumber/

CC @azure - you might find it encouraging to know you are far from the only one frustrated with 10¹⁰⁰.

#Nextcloud is reasonably simple to set up and maintain, has a full-featured web UI, but seems to have the worst synchronization options - no delta sync, slow performance with many small files, poor version history management, etc.

I've heard that #Seafile is pretty good, and the feature set looks promising - it's akin to git, but optimized for large files, and has a full-featured web GUI, etc. However, my attempts to get it working so far involve either a convoluted setup process for bare-metal installs, or finagling with container images that appear to have some concerns (latent security updates, etc). Or I could build my own container images… which I aim to learn how to do anyways, but it's a lot to take on just to try it out.

#SyncThing looks like the most robust solution as far as the actual syncing goes… but the web UI is "roll your own" (i.e. none), it doesn't seem like there's a good way to support uploading a file without setting up a whole client, and there's not really any way to generate shared links (file drop for uploads, download links, etc).

(Syncthing + Nextcloud is an option, but even more moving parts?)

I'm trying to replace #Dropbox on #Linux and it feels like everything's a compromise 🙁​

It's kind of neat to dig into #Firefox's "Studies" system, i.e. #Normandy.

I'm highly interested in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587357 , flipping on the new Rust bookmark sync engine in stable - I've had out-of-order syncs with the old engine, which the new one should fix.

So, by viewing a graphical browser of Shield studies here: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php

I narrowed it down (check the "Surveys" box so all are enabled). Or, better yet, with Firefox's JSON viewer, you can directly browse the 1.26 MB JSON blob at https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/studies_json.php

With this, I found the experiment I wanted by filtering on services.sync.bookmarks.buffer.enabled. I can tell that 25% of folks currently have it thanks to the filter_expression:

"(normandy.channel in [\"release\"]) && ((normandy.version>=\"70\"&&normandy.version<\"71\")) && ([\"new-sync-70\",normandy.userId]|bucketSample(0,250,1000))"

I.e. bucketSample(0, 250, 1000), creating 1000 buckets with 250 of them selected.

Which is documented here, along with the rest of Normandy on one of #Mozilla's websites: https://mozilla.github.io/normandy/user/filters.html

…I could just flip the pref manually in about:config, but I feel like I should wait for the rollout for some reason.

…I'm sure this will bring advantages down the road. The focus on namespacing, isolation, and declaring dependencies is great, especially in a world where not every package treats your system nicely.

That said, I'm not keen on how some projects distribute full-fat #Linux #container images.

And the transition curve is… fun.

Yes, I realize I'm making it harder on myself adapting a docker-compose.yml file into #podman 's format, but I really don't want to run a giant root daemon (#Docker).

So far, I've gotten a container cluster. Just… need to make it very less kludgy, and integrate with configuration management.

Favorite snark:
https://youtu.be/HlAXp0-M6SY?t=374 "Kubernetes for Sysadmins – Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf 2016"

All right, so here I'm saying from Ruby 2.3… That's probably gonna bring in an entire operating system.
Does anyone know why we bring in like an Ubuntu or Red Hat [OS] in these container images? Because most people don't know what the dependencies are; it's a shotgun approach.
Just take the whole OS and just shove it into the container, guaranteed I'm going to have my dependencies in there somewhere. And if not, just yum install the entire Internet and you're going to get your dependency at some point.

Today I decided to try listening to three times Sleep as Android recorded me sleep-talking.

…I won't make that mistake again.

(In seriousness, it is… unsettling. I don't like listening to my voice normally, anyways.)

Downside of replying with new message notifications disabled: someone might be sending another reply clarifying what you're unsure about while you're writing a question to ask.

Why I don't like snap decisions to go on trips:
Packed everything (clothes, laptop, comb/toothbrush/such, LED lights, etc).. except for my laptop charger.

:'(

Welp. There goes the hope of playing games with cousin, showing lights, etc. I'll have to add that to my packing list for next time. I've never forgotten my charger before. (The 19v chargers at the destination's house would work.. but it's the wrong DC barrel jack shape.)

Why does a public #library still matter?
Spoiler: beyond books, it's making #knowledge and #information available to all, not just the rich & clever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPb9o3uDF_Q (5m)

@rey What inspired "America runs on systemd-reyd"?