xantoxis

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xantoxis ,

Block and move on kids

4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?

Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like "oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great" I was like "Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good..."...

xantoxis ,

I'm not trying to give you shit here OP, you did what you did 4 years ago and you're thinking of doing something about it now so it's all good, but:

this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good…”

This is so astronomically expensive that I can't imagine caring about 300 bucks to see if anything is horrifically wrong with it. Seriously folks, get an inspection if you're buying a house! This would be like, I dunno, taking a job without talking to a single person who works there, except at least with the job you can quit without wasting thousands of dollars! The inspection could save your life!

xantoxis ,

It doesn't matter, if it was a good idea 17 other people also had it and at least one of them is a big enough asshole to try it

xantoxis ,

Because change is costly and therefore a risk. When it seems that resources are scarce, risks are dangerous, and it can seem rational to destroy ideas that cost more resources, lest your imagined model of society collapse for lack of resources as the idea takes over.

It's always conservatism, in other words.

US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden ( www.reuters.com )

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas....

xantoxis ,

Sure but the point is, after months of pithy quips about how the Democrats will support genocide of the Palestinians and the Republicans will support genocide of everyone including the Palestinians;

here we see that even on this specific issue, the parties have differences. So make the right choice.

xantoxis ,

Dog teeth only have to last about 15 years.

xantoxis ,

I mean, yeah

xantoxis ,

This feels a bit subtle, they should have gone with a black and white photo of Hitler and "Miss me yet?"

xantoxis ,

The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.

xantoxis ,

I chuckled at the first commenter's description of this as a boulder, but honestly the metaphor is pretty robust.

xantoxis ,

It's not even true. If there's a medical product in eyeshot, they'll be seeing its logos

xantoxis ,

This feels like the way email scammers operate. Send a troll so obvious that reasonable people are pre-filtered out, leaving only the rubes.

I'm not sure why they'd want to do that to influence an election, though

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio ( www.theverge.com )

Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....

xantoxis ,

You're right but let's be clear here: Microsoft doesn't care if it changes the industry for worse, so the only calculus that matters to the execs is whether it works

xantoxis ,

Bahaha this was the very next post in my feed,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0aa91f44-931f-4511-aff0-bc701ae44d63.png

, and your comment works with either one of them.

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

Here's a funny-because-it's-true take on Transurban and the poor tax it imposes, from Punter's Politics:

https://youtu.be/FlKBakPAtiw?si=G39_0GcJzSB0SSA8

@fuck_cars

xantoxis ,

You're right, the toll roads should be collected by the government, and the amount collected should be based on income so it's not regressive.

Also, they should be placed every 15 feet, so people stop driving altogether.

xantoxis ,

Maybe he pulled it back to proofread for spelling, grammar and clarity

xantoxis ,

I don't usually read walls of text (attention span) but this was a good one, worth reading to the end. Well said tbh

SSH login without user name? ( docs.gitlab.com )

I was reading GitLab's documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user's name it is associated with....

xantoxis , (edited )

EDIT: Noticed you're talking about Gitlab in the question, and I responded about Github, but I'm certain that gitlab does everything the same way, because that's all the technology is capable of. (I have no way to test the ssh -T command at the end for gitlab, though, so ymmv.)

To clear up some minor confusion here:

  1. Github knows nothing about your private key. There's very little metadata stored in the private key, and github.com has access to none of it. That includes email address or identity.
  2. Github has identity information stored for you, and then, separately, you uploaded a public key. The public key also contains no information about you, but github knows it's part of your account. Additionally, github enforces a requirement that your public key can't be uploaded to any other account, for the reason I'm about to state below.
  3. Github has an index built of everyone's public keys (or more likely their digests, although the technical details of the index are not something known to me--and it doesn't matter). When it sees an authentication request, it looks up the digest in the index, which maps to a user account.

At this point it already knows who is trying to authenticate. Once your authentication request succeeds with your public key (the usual challenge-response handshake associated with asymmetric cryptography), github interacts with your ssh client (most likely git) applying the permissions of your user and your user account.

BTW, github has a documented method for testing the handshake without doing any git operations:

ssh -T [email protected]

Depending on your ssh config, you might also need to supply -i some_filename.pem to this. Github will reply with

Hi aarkon! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

and then close the connection.

Note that the test authentication uses the username git and, again, contains no information about who you are. It's all just looked up on github's side.

xantoxis ,

I think the term "metal" is overused, but this is probably the most metal thing a programmer could possibly do besides join a metal band.

xantoxis ,

Imagine any internet company lasting 50 years.

xantoxis ,

They were chanting "hit the showers" (to prove how pro-Israel they are?? I guess???). So exterminating jews is fine, but getting in trouble for racist slurs is not.

xantoxis ,

Let me get this straight. Jack Dorsey is:

  • not on the Bluesky board,
  • no longer the owner of a Bluesky account, and
  • heavily posting on Twitter.

Did Elon make him some kind of offer?

I can understand him bailing on Bluesky if he wants to focus on billionaire "philanthropy" or he's just fucking tired of working (wouldn't you be?) but it doesn't explain the Twitter presence.

xantoxis ,

Guys, I wouldn't vote for her if I were you. I'm pretty sure if she wins she's going to kill everyone's dog

xantoxis ,

You merely adopted France. I was born in it.

xantoxis ,

You can infect a hospitalized patient with MRSA by paying off one (1) nurse, and I guarantee you can find a nurse who will play for cheap. At this point I'm 50/50 on whether the second whistleblower was murdered.

xantoxis ,

A Nest doesn't have to be connected to a network, at all. They're wired to your climate system the same way as a dumb thermostat. If you don't need remote control of your temperature--and I'm gonna be real here, does anyone need remote control of the climate system?--disconnect it from the network.

It's a dial that turns your temperature up and down. I haven't adjusted mine since, like, August.

xantoxis ,

Mine was inherited from the previous owners. At my insistence they factory reset any devices they left around the house. When I moved in, I turned on the nest and discovered that it worked fine with no configuration whatsoever. It's just controlling the current on two wires, with a fancy display. I've never had a reason to change it from that.

xantoxis ,

Oh cool, love to start getting daily reposts, it's just like we're on reddit

xantoxis ,

"The democrats are mean to me so I didn't vote" grow a goddamn spine

xantoxis ,

It is with great regret that she [did something nobody was forcing her to do].

xantoxis ,

The Han Solo drinking game: take a shot before Han gets shot at (Han shoots first)

Note: This means you will be sober throughout the prequels obviously, but you're gonna be pretty wasted by the end of ESB

xantoxis ,

So did she hit or pass

xantoxis ,

Is there an easy way to block one publication from appearing in my feed, this guy isn't worth listening to any more

xantoxis ,

You can shine a flashlight through your entire hand, OP. Light probably reaches most of your interior at least in small amounts.

xantoxis ,

The main thesis here is good, but that's a mischaracterization of what people consider "failed" writers.

Someone who wrote one novel and had it published is not considered a failed writer, no matter if they then stop writing immediately. "Failed writer" is pretty much reserved for people who tried writing and couldn't get anyone interested enough in it to publish it.

I'm not sure what labels would be applied to someone who exclusively pursued self-publishing, but that's not really the common way.

xantoxis ,

That's who I was thinking of when I wrote this!

xantoxis ,

Also, a medieval doctor would not have access to 4chan

xantoxis ,

Gen X here. I also just bought a house a year ago. I support the elimination of housing-as-investment. It has always been a smoke and mirrors trick anyway.

You buy a house to live in. You put money into that house. Eventually, 30 years later, I won't have to pay a mortgage any more but by that time I'll be a very old man. In the meantime the value of the house has gone up. Hooray? Not really: I can't get that money back out and live on it. To live on it, I'd have to sell the house. Then I'd need somewhere else to live. Oh, I suppose I could buy a house? Except the value of every other property has gone up just like mine. It's break-even. It's not an investment for anyone except developers and massive real estate corps.

xantoxis , (edited )

I'm not gonna read this person's Evangelion analogy, but I did go to the trouble to hunt down what Jon Ringer actually did.

Here's a link.

I don't agree with him, and representation of particular minority groups, including gender minorities, are important when they are particularly under attack. It is important to actively resist the marginalization of groups under attack by elevating their voices.

That said, I'm not sure what Jon did was actually "actionable". I'd say, stop listening to him and treating him as a leader? As someone with lots of close trans friends, I think this guy lowkey sucks, but I think this suspension is weird.

xantoxis ,

Jon Ringer's actual actions did include pushback against representation for trans people. I'll take your word for it that this article didn't mention those exchanges; I'm not readin' all that.

xantoxis ,

Well I didn't see the comment you're apologizing for so, no apology necessary ig?

xantoxis ,

So they went to the trouble to point out what your reaction looks like, but they have not once in x decades reconsidered the strategy of asking you annoying questions.

xantoxis ,

Much to think about here. I count 11 stickers if we treat "GLUTEN (subaru logo) MATTERS" as a single sticker, and each heart as one sticker. Add in the GLUTEN plate, and we're at exactly 12. Really on the border between deranged and artistic.

xantoxis ,

She's not protected by the double jeopardy rule? WTF?

xantoxis ,

OK. Why?

xantoxis ,

Terraform and OpenTofu are great tools for building virtual infrastructure, e.g. using AWS API calls to spin up AWS virtual machines and provision them with networks and security relationships and stuff like that--in an automated, repeatable way. They are generalized tools for deploying and modifying infrastructure, even if it's not in the cloud (there are many tools in these frameworks that apply to self-hosted setups).

The rest of the words after "Terraform fork" are just the names of companies that decided to help OpenTofu, and are not especially helpful in understanding what it is or what it's used for.

xantoxis ,

So, I'm curious.

What do you think happens in the infinite loop that "runs you" moment to moment? Passing the same instance of consciousness to itself, over and over?

Consciousness isn't an instance. It isn't static, it's a constantly self-modifying waveform that remembers bits about its former self from moment to moment.

You can upload it without destroying the original if you can find a way for it to meaningfully interact with processing architecture and media that are digital in nature; and if you can do that without shutting you off. Here's the kinky part: We can already do this. You can make a device that takes a brain signal and stimulates a remote device; and you can stimulate a brain with a digital signal. Set it up for feedback in a manner similar to the ongoing continuous feedback of our neural structures and you have now extended yourself into a digital device in a meaningful way.

Then you just keep adding to that architecture gradually, and gradually peeling away redundant bits of the original brain hardware, until most or all of you is being kept alive in the digital device instead of the meat body. To you, it's continuous and it's still you on the other end. Tada, consciousness uploaded.

xantoxis ,

The problem is capitalism, and it’s beyond the reach of education or regulation. There are other methods that could overturn it, of course, but not those two things.

Even if you established another economic system, though, that system too would be subject to corruption. I don’t know how a society regulates itself in such a way that economic systems never get corrupted by the desire for short-term personal gain.

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