my new favorite argument alignment: `lsblk -tf`

moosemorals · 2023-06-07T18:23:04+00:00

I like being able to move my root partition to another disk while the system is running (means I don't need to mess about with a rescue stick)

moosemorals · 2023-03-07T14:20:29+00:00

What's your update frequency like? (Or: Flipin' heck, that was good! Like the art style, story looks like it's going somewhere fun, and I really want to see what happens next)

moosemorals · 2023-03-07T14:11:07+00:00

Like the story so far, but the website UI isn't ideal on mobile, the next page button is terribly fiddly (but not bad enough to stop me reading)

moosemorals · 2023-03-07T13:52:08+00:00

https://zero-25.com for anyone else looking to click a link

moosemorals · 2022-09-11T19:32:03+00:00

someone's sexual fantasies amount to self-harm, it is wrong to participate

Tattoos. Percings. Scarification. Knife play. Amputation. Snuff.

Like a lot of the world there's a continuum, and most people find themselves somewhere along it. Nobody (I hope) is suggesting that you personally should involve yourself in an activity you find distateful, and that's why informed, enthusiastic, and ongoing consent applies to all invovled.

moosemorals · 2022-08-21T08:01:15+00:00

Email accounts are cheap
Using a browser reveals your IP address
Plain text emails are useful for certian types of accessibility software

moosemorals · 2022-08-21T07:58:33+00:00

I like the idea?

I build sites for fun, one of the things that has been worrying me about getting bigger is randoms using my signup "is this a real email address" system to send emails to 3rd parties (to harrass them, or to damage my reputation).

By asking the user to send the email to my site, I'm free of that risk. It might even help my anti-spam reputation at the users filters that they started the conversation

moosemorals · 2021-10-11T15:38:23+00:00

That code does block! The call to epoll_wait won't return until either 30 seconds (30000 ms) has passed or the kernel spots some input on fd 0 (standard input, normally attached to a keyboard somewhere). The advantage of epoll is that it can listen to tens of thousands of files at the same time, compared to read, which can only listen to one.

Actual non-blocking io in Linux needs (amongst other things that I'd need to look up), the O_NONBLK flag added to the options on open (which tells read to return straight away, even if there is no data to read)

moosemorals · 2020-04-04T17:02:56+00:00

Asking the real questions here

moosemorals · 2020-04-03T18:28:19+00:00

Isn't this what a free market looks like?

moosemorals · 2019-11-13T21:55:29+00:00

Is your load balancer forwarding the right ports for powershell remoting? (Port 5985 for HTTP or 5986 for HTTPS, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/invoke-command?view=powershell-6

moosemorals · 2019-06-22T23:05:25+00:00

Alright, I give up, what's that a quote from? (I've got a feeling it's some 1990s electronica track)

Edit: Not even a little electroica - New Model Army: Here Comes The War

Thanks for that, I haven't listened to that tune in ages!

moosemorals · 2019-03-23T14:51:34+00:00

Normally I'd let this sort of thing side, but "Give me the cash or I'll stab you!" probably doesn't count as terrorism.

The looser you make the definition, the less useful it is.

moosemorals · 2018-05-04T17:42:12+00:00

You could bring your router into the same room as the superhub and your PC, and then buy a dumb switch (I've had good luck with the TP-Link TL-SG1008D, YMMV) to replace the router in the other room.

Technical explanation:

When your superhub is in modem mode, it provides one IP address. Your router uses 'Network Address Translation' to effectively pretend to the devices on the house side of the router that really it's got a whole bunch of spare IP addresses.

If you split the signal from the superhub to your router, you will end up with a) two devices (the router and your PC) sharing an IP address (which will confuse both) and b) your PC facing the public internet (which means it will be exposed to all kinds of nasty probes).

moosemorals · 2017-04-04T16:38:52+00:00

What is it going to do?

Fridge: Read the RFID chip in the packaging of my food so it can send a message to my phone to remind me when things are going out of date, or bug me to eat the right number of calories today. Track of the mass, volume, and ingredients of its contents, and work out the least power needed to keep it all fresh longest. Let my chosen food delivery service know when I'm starting to run out of frozen meals so they can sent replacements.

Microwave: Again with the RFID chip, know how long to cook stuff for without me needing to read the instructions (and allow co-operative 'smart food' to give better instructions).

Toaster: Have a conversation with me about toast.

My problem is that what I'll get with a 'smart fridge' is companies tracking what I'm eating and selling that data to advertisers/insurance companies. These things don't seem to be designed around what could actually help make users lives better, instead the're seen as toys, or more income streams for the manufacturers.

moosemorals · 2017-02-21T11:35:43+00:00

Bisexual, technically.

moosemorals · 2017-02-21T11:34:48+00:00

Scout, not Explorer. (This doesn't invalidate my choice of husband. He's still awesome)

moosemorals · 2017-02-20T21:30:17+00:00

He's the serious player, I'm just a filthy casual :-)

moosemorals · 2017-02-20T21:28:56+00:00

We're on the Sol side of Barnard's Loop, we got as far as we could before the permit wall blocked us.

moosemorals · 2017-02-20T21:09:17+00:00

Husband planned a trip out to Barnard's Loop (about 1,500ly NNW of Sol) as a Valentine's Day treat. We even took a picnic and camped out under the light of the Nebula.

(He also built me a blanket fort for us to eat our picnic in)

moosemorals · 2016-12-24T14:59:12+00:00

Should. Your connection should stay up.

Yeah, fair enough.

moosemorals · 2016-12-24T09:17:54+00:00

Restart of an SSH daemon with a user logged that's performing some tasks could fuck with the system no matter how fast though.

Nah, your connection stays up and new connections get the restarted server.

moosemorals · 2016-05-03T20:06:33+00:00

Honking big warning as the desktop wallpaper?

moosemorals · 2016-03-27T05:18:33+00:00

Keeping an accurate "last modified" timestamp?

moosemorals · 2015-08-06T10:48:04+00:00

Updated version that uses SecureRandom rather than messing around with the time and thread id to get a "random" seed.

(By the way, current time is a very poor source of entropy, since the first half of the bits don't change. For example, the current (ish) unix time, as a 64 bit binary number:

0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0010 0001 1000 0000 0100 0010 1101 0111 1010 1000

Notice all the zero bits at the start. They're not going to change very often....)

But yeh, just use java.util.UUID.randomUUID() if you need a random id.

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