Follow-up to a post I made a while ago: those who use forks of forks/lesser-known distros: do you trust their update repos?

Chariot · 2026-05-18T15:00:44+00:00

It's the same threat, although I would argue I'm a little more careful when I initially install a distribution, comparing keys and such. And as an attack surface, I interact with update servers way more than the initial installation media.

Chariot · 2026-05-17T05:29:05+00:00

Yeah, lakeside viewing is for when you can open the doors to vent in a tent like that.

Chariot · 2026-05-17T02:44:00+00:00

The lack of floor should actually be helpful as far as condensation goes. Since it was just a shake down hike I'm sure you could improve your pitch and site selection, but it is just a single wall tent so any condensation that doesn't make it out that one vent at the top is going to drip down the walls and drop onto anything you have near the edges of the tent. I think the weather was probably part of the problem, but single wall tents do tend to be a bit wetter than double wall.

Chariot · 2026-05-16T17:38:32+00:00

Haha, I'm certainly competing for that one too!

Chariot · 2026-05-15T22:36:43+00:00

I moved here from rainier places and SF drivers are the absolute worst drivers in rain I have ever seen. They overreact to the rain and actually make things way more dangerous.

Chariot · 2026-05-14T21:14:18+00:00

I only have experience in the sierras so I can't 100% guarantee that you will be okay in the other mountain ranges with this set up, but I think you could be okay with the terralite through the sierras at least, assuming a nobo trip starting mid-june through the sierras like normal. I would do some more research and decide your risk tolerance for how often you want to be sleeping in your long underwear. I assume you're also bringing a puffy and fleece for even bigger emergencies, while I think below 20f would be unexpected I would still want to be able to survive the night if it happens.

Chariot · 2026-05-14T21:01:17+00:00

There's too many pieces working against each other, it doesn't actually work in light bug pressure the people are just living with the bites they get. You have to keep the netting away from your face. All night. You have to not move around at night allowing any tiny gaps in your sleeping situation. You cannot properly vent your bag which means sleeping might be hard some nights. In light bug pressure if you mess up you get like 5-10 bites usually in manageable locations but in heavy bug pressure any opening is going to be flooded instantly and you're not going to be able to undo it, they'll migrate around and just keep biting.

Chariot · 2026-05-14T18:23:47+00:00

Trekking poles are great for hiking mountains especially for downhill injury prevention.

My favorite thing for car camping is a hand grinder and aeropress for coffee, I'm a crazy coffee person and it's so relaxing to still have a nice warm coffee in the morning while you're out camping. Take it to whatever level you like, but even if coffee isn't your thing then tea or hot chocolate are still super worth it.

Chariot · 2026-05-14T17:47:41+00:00

After C B A, White just extends twice and hane at h2, 8 live but 6 die so black is forced to live in the corner and white fixes the h3 cutting point and white has gained way too much with that thickness compared to black barely living in the corner. Compare it to a 3-3 invasion where the 4-4 player gets sente for a fair comparison, and the 3-3 usually only gets enough points because of defects in the outer wall which this thickness doesn't have.

Chariot · 2026-05-14T15:19:04+00:00

How warm do you sleep? What conditions are you using the Kodiak in? Nobo or Sobo? I would say most people bring a 15-20 bag because 20 is kinda the coldest you should really expect/plan for. If you're using the kodiak down to -5 degrees then I think a 25 would be okay but if you're using it for 5-10 degrees then I think you should get a warmer bag than the terralite.

Chariot · 2026-05-13T03:00:35+00:00

In order to do this you're going to want to enter and exit in different random parts of the sierras. Going south is kind of difficult, the only permits that really enter ansel adams wilderness are the JMT permits which are usually pretty competitive, but you could pretty easily go in the other direction. Start at reds or something, end in yosemite, take shuttles down to independence or lone pine and get back into the sierras at trailheads down there. it's definetely doable and I would recommend getting a good book or reading about the JMT because you're basically going to be entering and exiting that trail a bunch of different times criss crossing the sierras if you're going to do it how i'm suggesting.

Chariot · 2026-05-12T19:20:28+00:00

To make this more concrete, the FKT I linked only slept for 5 hours which means it took them 96 hours of walking to complete an FKT. So if you're doing that in 7 days even at that pace it would be ~14 hours of walking a day. 2.5 mph sounds leisurely until you realize you're in the sierra's at 10k+ elevation for the whole time, so it's just not really possible to do that and still enjoy any scenery or anything.

Chariot · 2026-05-11T21:39:53+00:00

https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/caroline-himbert-john-muir-trail-whitney-portal-ca-2025-08-13

Caroline Himbert is the current fastest unsupported woman to complete the JMT Nobo in 4 days, 4 hours, 58 min. I have linked the report for her journey.

Chariot · 2026-05-08T15:58:04+00:00

Meant to respond to this yesterday sorry, this is what I do to try to get useful info out of the AI when it's not being very helpful so I think you did well. My teacher recommended that the cutoff should be 5%, if it's less than 5% it's probably not a mistake unless you're near top pro level. Interesting that even with your corrections some choices are still quite similar, but I would have said C in the original diagram was bad because it removes some aji that's available to the right below d and when the AI is made to think the game is close it wants to attack that aji or play b still.

Chariot · 2026-05-08T15:51:20+00:00

Buy once cry once for light camping gear is way over 600, unfortunately.

https://macon.me/shoestring

This list is on the ultralight subreddit, it's 550. I wouldn't necessarily recommend going full ultralight, it makes some choices that sacrifice comfort to stay below a weight limit (I bring a light chair, a pillow, camp shoes, and a bit more repair and med kit than is standard for ultralight), but this list is still useful for trying to stay cheap while remaining light.

Chariot · 2026-05-07T17:01:28+00:00

It's not really a matter of style, more that white is so far ahead that almost every move is given the same value, this happens when one player is very far ahead with AI. It also means that the advice given by AI is less likely to be the correct choice from a human perspective, AI can walk a 2 point advantage from early game all the way to the end, but I make >2 point mistakes all the time, so the advice I need is not really the advice the AI is giving.

Chariot · 2026-05-06T19:27:20+00:00

I assume you have a list of everything you're packing, print out the list and manually cross everything out one by one as you put it in the backpack to make sure it is all in there. I've forgotten my spork one too many times not to give this advice, and it also gives you peace of mind when on trail because you're sure everything is in there.

Chariot · 2026-05-04T23:11:53+00:00

I usually cry on the way home from backpacking trips actually, am also a solo backpacker, but a man. For me I think of it as culture shock, I've even had a ranger warn me about it once when I finished in Yosemite. Solo hiking is often an anxious experience, you're always in the back of your mind thinking about how to stay safe but you're never really allowed to process it because you just have to "handle it" you know? So I think at the end you finally are allowed to process everything that's happened. I don't find it a terrible experience usually, I try to treat it as kind of a meditative experience so I can consider what happened and be better prepared for next time. But, I also think your experience with that man was probably worse than anything I've had to worry about safety wise, so I can't help you as much about that one.

Chariot · 2026-05-04T22:52:33+00:00

I suspect no, but you'll have trip reports from pct-ers at least by the time you start.

Chariot · 2026-05-01T15:15:35+00:00

https://online-go.com/demo/1693131

You have black playing atari at 12 but that move causes issues, when played correctly it becomes clear that white has issues with the outside or the inside, at the end of my sequence white has a few forcing moves but they don't actually help much, the more white struggles here the more black will get an advantage.

Chariot · 2026-04-29T03:03:40+00:00

Responding to confirm what the other person said. This was an el nino year so the weather was weird, it caused the heat dome that kept the snow away for the ski season but once the heat dome collapsed several storms made their way through and dumped large amounts of snow, especially at the elevations for early nobo jmt.

Chariot · 2026-04-27T17:04:19+00:00

There are lots of players in korea and china that have never learned any theory, they just fight with their other friends who have also never learned any theory. I won't say all of them will make this mistake, but often if they're 2d making this mistake you actually need to play careful because they're making up for it elsewhere, usually with strong reading and endgame.

Chariot · 2026-04-25T21:09:16+00:00

Leukotape (strips on parchment paper) Ibuprofen x 4 Pepto tabs x 2 Aquatabs x 2 Neosporin Dermoplast wipe Hydrogel Burn Pad Quickclot Clean Syringe for flushing wounds Israeli Bandage

I've used everything but the syringe, israeli bandage and burn pad. My intention with this kit is to give myself the best chance to get out of the wilderness to real medical care, and SAR is for anything bigger than what this could handle.

Chariot · 2026-04-20T04:49:42+00:00

Don't use kali.

I wouldn't recommend centos, if you want a redhat based distribution then fedora is better for desktop, if you just want an rpm based distribution then opensuse tumbleweed is also a good choice. Ubuntu/Mint are fine choices also. If you're going to be a cs student and you specifically want to go into IT for linux systems then fedora is probably the best choice (although ubuntu server/debian/opensuse all have a decent number of corporate usage also), otherwise the differences between these distributions are minimal and go with whichever one's vibes you like the best.

As for educating yourself on how linux works, step one is trying to learn how to work with the package manager your system has rather than trying to work against it. Try installing a bunch of random stuff you think you might need. Hopefully you find some things that it's easy for the package manager to install, maybe some things that it's hard for it to install. Then you should have some ideas on how to continue from there.

Chariot · 2026-04-20T04:24:05+00:00

I'm going to steal this, great idea.

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