Germany in a nutshell? the government plans to develop and integrate an onboard emulation system to replace the 8" floppy disks

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/german-navy-still-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-working-on-emulating-a-replacement/


nostr:npub1qj5g2vt35mjt8hnxtvaujs9jptrfxk03xcuzrd0hugy2kqejnknql488ry right, but not necessarily for TOTP.

My use case is for https://github.com/FiloSottile/age with the age-plugin-yubikey https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey


The tonijnsalade at the Van der Valk in Utrecht is fabulous.

Oh, and good morning to you


I’ll admit, today has been the first time I’ve heard ‘Freizeichen’ (dial tone) being used instead of “Leerzeichen” (space), and I hope it was the last.


"You didn't write that", I say to a student.

"I used ChatGPT".

#JFC


nostr:npub1amdcevgxvd9xxlyqae3plak4u3z0l7efqu0gx2ndxrsuy5xvecasflqlf5 FYI https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/4332


When clicking on https://fidoalliance.org/ I didn't really expect to be presented with this

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/082/497/755/509/052/original/735e28af6e00ed9a.png


nostr:npub17qes6mstpcsn6rg3w9fwnsau68sw9h9nga9zjy3htmegg27na6wscyu62y can be placed on the left and still points left!

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/082/074/834/022/970/original/bba872f3848b3c84.png


Your first task: copy this file from the controller to the node.

Do you mean its content?

#FML


Predictive text has become all but useless to me on the latest iOS incantation


I wonder why to me the German "Milliarde" (or the French "millard") sound like more than the English "billion"*

* when I was a kid a billion had 12 zeroes, now it has only 9.


"reverse DNS" is a lie. 🙂


Darf denn schon geheizt werden?


How utterly fucking daft must a company be to write ingredients in red on top of red sausage?

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/188/914/690/829/459/original/a14d07a1543820f1.jpeg


nostr:npub182unjacxjxuwqlnetjfnx03vrd6f7luzyt2x98gt02cjacslnlvstwgy9a

FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781832


nostr:npub17qes6mstpcsn6rg3w9fwnsau68sw9h9nga9zjy3htmegg27na6wscyu62y so extra core hard porn, amirite?


nostr:npub156yen0r5ut6psctlyp980agc23686tlcu627r7xfv6nt3su5pncsv7lnrz why is that the best key rollover, and how do they do it differently than I would? ;)


Mercedes-Benz E-Class has up to five (that's 5) cameras inside with which one can, say, take part in video conferences.

It's like working from home but different.

(Article in German: https://mbpassion.de/2023/06/die-neue-e-klasse-hat-bis-zu-5-kameras-im-innenraum/ )


nostr:npub1pwcn9u7hjum7kgpega33d0z5hyq9a4vmrqrx9x6l6dfmf3xa0jsq8t3nva right.

To answer your earlier question: my two namespaces are assigned to me.


nostr:npub1pwcn9u7hjum7kgpega33d0z5hyq9a4vmrqrx9x6l6dfmf3xa0jsq8t3nva but your ansilabnl/-nl were there as I pointed out recently ...


nostr:npub1pwcn9u7hjum7kgpega33d0z5hyq9a4vmrqrx9x6l6dfmf3xa0jsq8t3nva I saw my namespace, but I'm waiting until the PoC (pile of crap) settles before doing anything with Galaxy.


It doesn't get much more american than this:

"Man officiating a wedding in Nebraska accidentally shot his 12-year-old grandson during the ceremony"

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/04/us/wedding-shooting-nebraska/index.html


I think the NG in #Ansible Galaxy stands for No Go.

;)


If you're familiar with #Ansible you likely understand what's going on here; I was amused by the [admittedly unexpected] asterisks 🙃

(What's with the cows? Well, I'm still trying to make up for NOCOWS ... This is a small service which I use in trainings.)

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/182/938/338/651/972/original/afb0e33722dc9bb6.png


"My solution was simply to use mysql with the -B parameter, inline the SELECT statement with -e, then massage the ASCII output with sed, and wind up with CSV including a header field row. This doesn't seem to take into account STRING column types that have double quotes in them: Here is the updated regex to escape double quotes"

I love learning from the internets 🤐


If only more organizations published post-mortems of user-facing issues they experienced, like Cloudflare did for the ZONEMD #DNS problem which caused massive amounts of SERVFAIL on their resolvers yesterday.

Bravo and well done!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-october-4th-2023/


I won't mind if you laugh at me: I copied/pasted a generated password into a .my.cnf and couldn't for the life of me login.

password=(o{&u#$dW15->!Z>y{Ua6U)3

#professionalAtWork 🤦


nostr:npub1wpl474avdywq9uvdkp0zkka3qu7w9wv7r5gena8kmrft422u0y9qd97d2c no comprendo, pero es igual.

"files/" wird nicht nur von copy sondern auch z.B. von assemble, unarchive, script und andere verwendet.


Why is "Add channels" there when it's at the top left anyway?

Why are the blue icons on the right sidebar there? I can't seem to be able to remove them.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/177/128/340/736/470/original/ad137c2a51a8f30b.png

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/177/131/465/787/726/original/107df3325268113c.png


I can't remember what made me do it back then (it might actually have been a Mattermost guide), but I'm pleased I placed config.json and data/ out of tree; it makes upgrades so much less painful.


BTW, and while it lasts:

https://old-galaxy.ansible.com

#ansible


#Ansible's Galaxy NG repo has no issues.

By which I mean you can't submit an issue; it has plenty of issues!

https://github.com/ansible/galaxy_ng/issues


nostr:npub199ndj65dnmucxrzaujm8vrp0auc63x8wrgljpp05nu7sf6nm2hyqcjfg60

je n'arrive *plus* à reproduire. Cloudflare status n'as pas encore signalé "ok".

nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry nostr:npub1qpetky5ar2feqtp0ulkuacezj85gdlkvd9mxf4wry46hxctzjwws3m3kvl


nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry

voici un example de faille: https://gist.github.com/jpmens/e7555c0108a7d154be3d3c2612563b19

nostr:npub1qpetky5ar2feqtp0ulkuacezj85gdlkvd9mxf4wry46hxctzjwws3m3kvl


nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry

regarding consistency of data, this is sad, right?

https://rdap.denic.de/domain/mens.de

nostr:npub1084ge48f4zqjlw46vwazq3r6chmh8nfq6pcxvef8d3mnrkm3e7squ5700n


I think the answers to my question are here: https://forum.ansible.com/tag/galaxy-ng


I’m a bit early to the meeting. Whiteboard all set up, waiting for Margot Robbie and her presentation.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/165/411/957/581/318/original/18ebdd7d63da8d23.jpeg


nostr:npub1n33suq4tgs2nzywxarqdfm2xjjj0f5cuaj7c0vu2nqs4yzt073zs2xgwnw fair point, though I wasn't moving 'off' but actually deleting, but obviously Github can't know the difference.


Github now asks thrice when I'm deleting a repository (plus auth code if configured).

I wonder how many people mistakenly deleted their shit


The movie "Barbie" has a rating of above 6y in Germany, whereas in Mexico it's viewable by children over the age of 13.

https://elcomercio.pe/respuestas/mexico/por-que-la-pelicula-barbie-es-recomendada-para-mayores-de-13-anos-tdex-noticia/#


nostr:npub1ngv8y8utprrcjyuc82ap4xgq384r00sld6udw5s6r4274jwea3mq703p9y

U+FEFF day to you too, sir!

(I'll let myself out.)


Buy cheap?
Buy twice!


And then, after innumerable years, Pushover (on iOS), goes and changes the layout of the main screen.

Butwhy.


nostr:npub1gk4k0qax3dp65w5d5n3l2tp4kpm7x7zgh82zfyeqn4vs04kelles3en0g7

with a bit of intelligence, no problem. They added that page I hear because there can be roles and collections with the same name.

Get the query, determine there's only one, and do a 302 to it. If there's more than one, present the "chooser" page.

nostr:npub1xn4nufcl4v48f0uqx3a9q49fh2zzfzn9ykprmdr4umamgs23a54s40dnt2


nostr:npub1n0q20mcf47jqz7rwsayrkw3y08hr5ns44ghpuulf0k38zcc2t97s6mqde4 for a few years as a youngster the TRS-80 was my dream.

My parents had a wealthy acquaintance who had one (don't remember the model), and I very occasionally got to play with it.


LoL, how do we programatically break all URLs to existing stuff?

https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/59


I'll admit to using translate to figure out what's going on here:

I'll assume sender used translate just as I did to figure out that 原始邮件 means "the original message".

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/159/301/857/124/689/original/7c2634c2a4c0bc33.png


nostr:npub1f2ag4g6pzy9t8s596j3k0celskyuf5kda78rvkrl4ps7rqcez27qlekvg3 yeah, if we assume that, then I pity enterprises.


nostr:npub1qj5g2vt35mjt8hnxtvaujs9jptrfxk03xcuzrd0hugy2kqejnknql488ry it's massively worse; pagination is broken, no counts of roles etc. shown after search, all links to collections/roles are kaputt, ...


Did anybody actually test Galaxy-NG before letting it out to pasture?


"Added security measure"

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/153/520/213/513/399/original/f3ef9dc384b218a8.png


nostr:npub1amdcevgxvd9xxlyqae3plak4u3z0l7efqu0gx2ndxrsuy5xvecasflqlf5 the post goes via UK and since Brexit nobody knows where Europe is?


nostr:npub1amdcevgxvd9xxlyqae3plak4u3z0l7efqu0gx2ndxrsuy5xvecasflqlf5 You'll find it hard to believe, but I actually took some time to mensplain bits and pieces of life to him because he showed interest and asked questions.

I'm on a weekend outing and have the time and the inclination to do so.


I’m sitting at the bar. Young 24-year-old behind it, and I told him that the three clocks on this wall (New York, Berlin, and Tokyo) are off because they are not showing the same minute. He asked how do I know?

Poor chap’ll have a sleepless night.


nostr:npub1amdcevgxvd9xxlyqae3plak4u3z0l7efqu0gx2ndxrsuy5xvecasflqlf5 well how do you conditionally compile your yaml? ;)


I’ve started the meeting without you.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/148/837/893/713/621/original/d335cabecb1360d5.jpeg


nostr:npub1zvpxuu707u8pju2qzgvmtyzdntyvjxkh7crzlce4r80e70hm806sv768xl

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/141/603/145/097/967/original/c210e7ba1d45ffbc.jpg


and then you wake up and see the term 'foss' being taken for a ride.

No idea why. Nor do I particularly care.


nostr:npub1d6mj99daqwjuw0xa8uu4sssumjat5pler2vuwu5ka5es4gqem2fqkw6tv6 show code, or it didn't happen! ;)


nostr:npub1nhlx65ngvhwh0wrl99kgfnuhfxz4wy8jthvumnq2u2qfays3553svwx69k

thanks for the heads up. I've reserved a hotel room.


The Alpine Linux installer: so refreshingly blazingly fast and bullshit-free.


There were 9069 failed login attempts since the last successful login.

I stood the box up yesterday. Don't you chaps have anything better to do?

(FTR: these throwaway machines for trainings.)


JP Mens

Small-scale fiddler, enjoys doing & teaching. Wrote a thick book on FLOSS DNS servers. Dreamed up @OwnTracks over MQTT. Ansible with NOCOWS=1. Loves plain text. I (re-)toot in several languages. https://jpmens.net


nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry what is that "ipv6" you speak about? Is that something like "dnssec"?


nostr:npub18yy7rv7pfjlxrp2v5rksycnvc5zx4t2x50z6c6fmgqdapkvvc43qkr4lvg I am going to be demoing Ansible AWX in a few off-line locations, which is what I’m going to use his little thing for at least a few months. It could also have been a laptop, but I explicitly wanted a very portable (!) “server” type thing.


nostr:npub1nzj7e4gvhragwnun990hych7zpe00vmjffeql9w9ym7hdjhcq5wqwrmaa0 good point; I've not seen anything in BIOS related to that, and indeed after pulling plug it stays off.


I have your number of browser tabs open as terminal tabs.


nostr:npub155ztf4kfxc5awtjlrz508ypr4zzvkzk5npzh58h5jva960zrww7sq3lm02

at the moment it's getting Ubuntu 22.04 server on it for experimenting with awx here. What it will 'finally' run I do not yet know.


Ain’t she sweet? Beelink Mini S-12: 16GB RAM, 500GGB SSD, 2xHDMI, 2xUSB, Windows 11Pro (being wiped as we speak)

And no, you cannot have the pen: I swiped it from nostr:npub144lqdmltqn4hxn8qy55sdwk7932uyxekl4m32c8kplu2l862a7ysvc8hdv

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/080/550/025/508/522/original/4b29554707d2851b.jpeg

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/080/550/400/686/664/original/871e1e6bfffa31ab.jpeg

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/080/550/824/577/064/original/567df5c532c1e1cd.jpeg


nostr:npub1nzsznuzzjhn9nknv06ds6ev6cgu5vqfc4y09mt6uwdwdhmgngj0sq72yzq this is what you mean, right? ;)

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/080/465/566/217/446/original/7646fc18ac7fac7c.jpeg


Catching up: Toots I've seen so far about the EuroBSDCon chronologically:

- We're done, thanks for a great event!
- We are well on our way with the European BSD event of the year.

Hmm.


nostr:npub1nzsznuzzjhn9nknv06ds6ev6cgu5vqfc4y09mt6uwdwdhmgngj0sq72yzq I remembered that bit, but you could have reminded me to pull the ethernet cord ...


nostr:npub1y3sljtqnag5txca3npv432yl3qyp7x4rrquemfyh98vw07srj9csyfdxlu that's what I always thought ... This didn't occur today.


nostr:npub12u7khzdl0w9qydjy36dwwc65mjwgtd7amm72h6mly4w26yc6t3as2rwtsg which shows me

ssh@   ssh.socket

and when I enter on ssh:

Synchronizing state of ssh.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable ssh

And I *really* wasn't wanting to see something re SysV service scripts...

Ubuntu 22.04


nostr:npub1w55qzrdzqqlf2u330wuq6sg0k028sk3q9q56tlclex73cl9g2fuqy34zju that's where most of my pain starts, right!


I mock Windows but:

apt install ssh-server

(sorry doesn't exist, it's called openssh-server)

apt install openssh-server

(installed)

systemctl enable --now openssh-server

(haha, doesn't exist)

systemctl enable --now sshd

(boo you suck)

systemctl enable --now ssh

(congrats boy)


Current status: wading through the mass of bullshit questions upon setting up a fresh Windows 11 PC.


nostr:npub1wpl474avdywq9uvdkp0zkka3qu7w9wv7r5gena8kmrft422u0y9qd97d2c

Full ACK.

nostr:npub1slyc6w2fy6t7sk7e5caxclu2dn629l35n4tkjyxzrqndkpq86x2sfut8j7


nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry I seem to recall you were toying with RISC recently. This might be your cup of tea:

Open source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home

https://pineapple-one.github.io


Lovely snippets by nostr:npub1wpl474avdywq9uvdkp0zkka3qu7w9wv7r5gena8kmrft422u0y9qd97d2c again, and my favorite is "systemd service: ExecStartPre as root"

https://binblog.de/2023/09/15/too-good-to-0009/

Link to systemd's Command Line switches: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#Command%20lines


"Zum Ausdruck des Tickets benötigen Sie den Acrobat Reader von Adobe ©, den Sie unter http://get.adobe.com/de/reader/ kostenlos herunterladen können, wenn Sie ihn noch nicht auf Ihrem Rechner installiert haben."


nostr:npub156yen0r5ut6psctlyp980agc23686tlcu627r7xfv6nt3su5pncsv7lnrz I'll pay the full $8 if you fix the typo in the application to xn--jpklo-6f1c


nostr:npub156yen0r5ut6psctlyp980agc23686tlcu627r7xfv6nt3su5pncsv7lnrz why am I getting a $1 rebate?


"Ich vertraue dem Warnsystem in Deutschland."

tears streaming down my face as I fill in https://www.warntag-umfrage.de


Again, Julia brilliantly explains a topic. This time: In a git repository, where do your files live?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/09/14/in-a-git-repository--where-do-your-files-live-/


nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry

il en sait des choses; j'assume c'est parceque il est Directeur Générale.


nostr:npub156yen0r5ut6psctlyp980agc23686tlcu627r7xfv6nt3su5pncsv7lnrz are you sure that's right? Shouldn't it be "asdf" ?


Seeing as the default in your currency picker is "US dollar" I am going to assume this isn't malice.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/068/021/021/845/095/original/4f8f58aed8dfb815.png


nostr:npub1427nasegt09mryntw9ve9ze8a9455ued0e083rrm69e4mynvzxuqyy8tza

UUCP was the bestest thing!


pic | tbl | eqn | troff #unix


Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions and a renderer to create and modify complex diagrams. The main purpose of Mermaid is to help documentation catch up with development.

https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid


Do you remember Coherent, the Unix clone for IBM PC compatibles?

http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php


nostr:npub1sdns6mkpagh5sajg9kchq2xrf5gewh6s0dxzpm20z35e84cvn2pst88xym isn't it!


Apropos old box of staples, nostr:npub18445fa225fhfhswmjwdrgxlmp786t45ur992uw0tuk8h0m7u37wsaay4tg, I also have staples from the 80s, and this beast, which decorates my desk, eats them. Very slowly.

My father had this stapler on his desk ever since I was a little boy, and boy was that a while ago.

I just checked the base. It's an Ace Aceliner Model No 502 Stapler which must date ca. 1970.

https://americanstationer.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/ace-aceliner-model-no-502-stapler/

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/063/977/898/546/055/original/cf08610a8aef18e3.jpg


'tis the season for an ESTA Expiration Warning


nostr:npub1p4kt97cy70cc38z86hapswxwq3cql9grfrdw0y0zdnc9lat2v07qnq9e4y shame on you! ;)


OK, I'm gonna confess right now because you're bound to find out some way or another sometime, right? When did this type of secret stay secret? Remember "I did not have sex with ..."?

So I just purchased a Packt book.


nostr:npub1amdcevgxvd9xxlyqae3plak4u3z0l7efqu0gx2ndxrsuy5xvecasflqlf5

wot?

Next you'll try and tell me a beef entrecôte is vegan?!


nostr:npub18cj9hqrsh64ldqmkggmzqdw3wwwcpekvutm977aaxuq7nvngtyfs6dupj8

blocked and reported!


On the importance of logging #ansible #awx #curl

https://jpmens.net/2023/09/13/on-the-importance-of-logging/


nostr:npub1jw50ps6cehf060ytu6c7g4udrha6g002grwamtzvfhk8xk58nekq4k9fry

Est-ce qu'il y a un autre moyen?


nostr:npub1zvpxuu707u8pju2qzgvmtyzdntyvjxkh7crzlce4r80e70hm806sv768xl safe travels and enjoy. I'll hold the fort.


nostr:npub1wpl474avdywq9uvdkp0zkka3qu7w9wv7r5gena8kmrft422u0y9qd97d2c eine für mich schöne Abwechslung war es manchmal ein Video call zu machen (Thema weitestgehend egal) mit eingeschalteter Kamera. Vielleicht hilft das.

(Und ja, ich weiss: in .DE sind 76% aller Laptopkameras defekt; ist leider so....)


IMO one of the most idiotic things he did (and the list is veeery long) was to rebrand Twitter in such a way as press now have to write:

"on its profile page on X (formerly known as Twitter)"


Y'all know the drill: see a good blog post (blogticle), check the blog whether there've been more of them and if so, add it to the RSS feed list.


nostr:npub1ccc7agl0tc6mq32ne8dqp6usq7jzy06mfzlhzpxs0zf808q49h6qucsp5w and particular thanks for making it clear discourse (Ansible forum) has a mailing-list mode; I glanced for it, but didn't immediately see it.

I've now enabled it and will use your Mutt recipe!


Lightning connectors feel much better to my hands than USB-C, and don't bother to @ me.


I ordered Flï¿½ssigseife.

#wtf-8


sweet, I've now got the third notification...


This bag of engelse drop is doomed.


nostr:npub1p5p0nlnewf6dp4sfelr8ut87nag7myz5j5yjeswu50ztje3ga7jq9teww0 it's unlikely I'd react, but it'd make a lot more sense to me


nostr:npub1yg7ye4gspcqvpuq9zppllxqfaucufeda8m42mlsvj2sh9puzv5eszstrax mit Bio-Sekundenkleber Motiv?


Amazon offering I get a video game at the end of an order I submit.

They know I've never looked at a game in their store. They know I've never glanced at a game on Prime. They know I've never bought a book on games from them. They can guess, I'm not fucking interested in games not have I ever wanted to gift one.

That's AI.


The Technical Development of Internet Email (2008)

http://emailhistory.org/papers/partridge-email.pdf


My favorite emails:

<html>^M
^M
<head>^M
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">^M
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered)">^M
<style>^M
<!--^M
 /* Font Definitions */^M


'Cash, check or charge?' I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.

As she fumbled for her wallet, I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.

'So, do you always carry your TV remote?' I asked.

'No,' she replied, 'but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'


nostr:npub1u5dftkpm8nknf8nf7tv0tyev3z0q5nws55mywhx8q5hjhzr9lj3sql4m84 I’m with you


I just heard an American say ‘adoo’. I’ll admit it took me a few moments, but I guessed the meaning from the fact they were leaving.

I believe the word ought to have been ‘adieu’.


nostr:npub174t832slt4252dk526cnh64sfa3k6claah2cdl3c5n9eeeyvjz7q2fmqm6 sorry we’re all out of blue checkmarks at the moment, but I have added you to the list for the next batch