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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • That’s fair, there’s other angles of observation made available already.

    Seeing as you like speculating about cyberpunk, how about if observation is just the initial way to way to sell the drone cloud? Depending on how cheap you can make them, there’s an argument to made for reducing time-to-intercept for low-speed aerial objects.

    If you’ve got a bunch of drones overhead already, you could run one in to the path of a kamikaze drone, or if your swarm is even lightly armed, you can extend engagement range and reduce required accuracy with a single buckshot shell to shoot an offending drone down.

    If you’re content to prioritize executive safety over public saftey, there’s a lot that can be done.

    Drone displays terrify me.




  • That’s what I was thinking, I know the pain of watching something run for ages, only to finally get past where it failed last time and run straight in to another stumbling block.

    I don’t envy you having to work in an SELinux environment with less than stellar developer understanding of policies and contexts.









  • And that’s exactly why they’re in some part right. If you have enough money to buy scabs, and protection for the scabs, the union relies on the government making that illegal.

    It’s the break down of the pact. At a small scale anyway - obviously the longer it goes on and the further they go with the busting attempts, the more union actions will cause ripples in other industries, and solidarity movements. They can’t buy protection everywhere, and if they try, it’s escalation all the way to the bloodshed that wrote the pact in the first place.



  • It’s the right move.

    I tell you, the first time you’re sat in front of a CEO and an auditor and you have to explain why the big list of servers has a highlighted one called C-NT-PRIK-5 is when the fun stops.

    Explaining that it’s short for ‘customer network tester Mr. Prickles 5’, and is actually a cacti server never really seems to help the situation.

    At least a few of the customers got a laugh out of it being on the reports!



  • You had me digging through old hosts files and ssh configs to find some of these.

    I try to name them something that resembles what they do or has something to do with what their purpose is.

    Short is good, and if it can match more than one of the machine’s purpose/os/software/look, the better.

    If it’s some sort of personal machine, it gets a personal name

    Phones

    • traveller
    • pawn
    • rook
    • bishop

    Virtual Workstations

    • boxy

    • moxy

    • sandbox

    • cloud

    • ship lxc container host

    • dock docker host

    Laptops

    • ciel Razer blade stealth with a rainbow LED keyboard
    • arc runs arch.
    • lled is a dell

    Desktops

    • bench
    • citadel
    • bastion

  • I turned a $20 Mr Coffee in to an automated, autoshutoff masterpiece with a Shelly plug and home assistant.

    It starts brewing 15m before the lights slowly ramp on in the morning, or if we’re up early because of my kid, when I slap the smart button next to the bed. It also handles my living room curtains.

    Currently working through an automated mold management system (robovac, air filters and quality sensors). I live on a tropical island, so this is super important, especially if you’re not running aircon 24/7 because you don’t want an $900 utility bill.