thelastknowngod

It’s fucking stupid to do it all at once but I think this should have happened ~5 years ago. Raising interest rates are how you fight inflation… We wouldn’t be in a situation where it costs 500 TL for one sucuk if they started doing this well before covid.

Higher’d’n AC.

Fuck if this isn’t the truth… Saying this as a Sr. SRE with no degree or certs.

I only access banks electronically if they accommodate Tor.

So they know when you logged in and what you did when you got there. So you can’t escape it there.

The bank only gets to know my physical location when I do a transaction where that’s unavoidable.

So you can’t escape this either.

Even if I were to carry a mobile phone on standby wherever I go, the bank would get nothing from it if I don’t run their app.

They would get nothing except the time, location, amount, business, and how that relates to the other purchases you make and all the data those transactions generate as well. That data is shared with the bank, Visa or MasterCard, and all credit reporting agencies. This is unavoidable too.

You are not getting out of this unless you allow it to seriously affect your life.

My man… You are not getting around the tracking. It’s never going to happen. Unless you literally toss everything with a network connection and disconnect from the electric, gas, and water grids, you are going to be tracked.

Enjoy it. A night out is now cheaper.

I have a function called up. I do up X where X is the number of directories I want to go up.

up() {
  if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    cd ..
    return 0
  fi
  local path i
  for (( i=0; i < $1; i++ )); do
    path+=../
  done
  cd "$path"
}

EDIT: Don’t know if it’s just me but if you see < it should be the less than character.

Ignoring the war, bombing, murder, politics, etc… Who the fuck is Blinken to tell the news how to report the news?

I used to be in love with Awesome but I think it’s been more than 10 years since I used it last. I remember the software being wonderful and the people in the people in the community being stereotypical, smug, “rtfm” types… That was more frustrating than anything else about Awesome.

I don’t drink coffee at all but I do live outside of the US. I have noticed that in MANY places in the world, instant coffee is the norm. It’s not normal to see coffee beans in the grocery store at all really where I am now. I would have to go to a more upscale place or to a specialty spot to find whole or ground coffee.

Not scrolling through all the comments to see if someone mentioned this yet or not but every December I check what is on the best albums of the year lists… Generally I check per-genre that I’m into. Like best black metal of 2023, best jazz of 2023, etc etc…

Other than that, bandcamp and YouTube are the biggest. I honestly buy more on bandcamp these days than I torrent though. It’s such a great site.

Agreed. I could run water sensors and solenoid valves for my basement water heater off of an arduino or rpi. I could also use a commercial product that has a warranty and a product engineering team and a QA department and etc etc…

I’m going commercial. The potential for damage to be done is too high for some hack job.

I’ve been in FOSS software for more than 20 years but honestly find the absolutism insufferable. It’s not always practical and there are more important hills to die on.

It’s completely overkill for pretty much everyone but I have been thinking about building a kubernetes native client for months now.

Like the torrent should be treated as a normal resource with a Torrent CRD. It should be scheduled onto whichever node has available capacity and rescheduled onto a different node if it goes down. If allowed by the tracker, multiple instances could be run. You could set resource limits programmatically, easily configure block storage, build dashboards, export logs/metrics… It would be open ended enough that you could have interfaces built as browser extensions, web ui, mobile app, tui, cli and be unopinionated so much that the method for torrent ingestions could be left up to the used. HTTP request, watch directory, rss client, download manager… You could even do stuff like throw magnet links into a queue… etc, etc…

I keep thinking it would be a great project but I just do not have the spare time to dedicate to it… I imagine it could be used for large scale deployments for something like the Internet archive or whatever.

In the case of small little indie bands, they often aren’t on torrent sites at all. Given the choice between Spotify and Bandcamp, I’m going to buy the album on Bandcamp 100% of the time. I can contribute to the artist more and usually end up with a vinyl copy on the process.

Pirating has always been a solution to poor ease of access to content. If I could pay a legitimate subscription for a site with the catalog of PTP or RED, I would do it in a heartbeat. It will never happen though.

I kinda don’t care. The providers do all of the work anyway and, I think more importantly, terraform still feels like transitional tech. I might use it to stand up an initial working cluster but, in the long run and if given the choice, I’d want to use something closer to Crossplane for managing infrastructure.

Terraform is still quite manual and doesn’t mandate consistency… You have to build automation around it and because drift is so easy it results in a system that can’t just be fully automated… You always have to check to see if changing a simple resource tag is going to revert a manual IAM permissions change that was made to a service account 3 weeks ago…

I’ve been using terraform almost daily for years but I wouldn’t be sad if it stopped existing.

I still can’t believe voters didn’t give him the boot.

That was the Trump-era midterms IIRC… He’s there now because he has a D next to his name. That’s about it.

For me personally it’s probably mostly just momentum or habit at this point. I got into Linux on the late 90s or early 00s. Vim was the best option at the time so I figured it out mostly out of necessity. Now I’m just so comfortable with it and I’ve tweaked it to high hell it’s like a perfectly broken in pair of shoes… Everything fits me just right. I don’t see any real benefit to switching to vs code. I’ve tried it but didn’t like it. Things like filesystem navigation were so clunky and slow compared to what I was used to.

Whatever… No judgement. There are obviously great developers out there using vs code. This just works for me.

I’m more of a Rob Taxpayer man myself.

https://youtu.be/EvYG-mRNmog

There is no such thing as “better” really. It’s more about how much you want to tinker.

I ran arch and slackware 10-15 years ago. Now I have a job where I need to get actual work done so I don’t have the time or energy for that anymore. I run mint.

Use something that fits your goals.

At a base level though, really there is very little difference. Any app can be run on any distro. Again, depending on how much you want to wrestle with things.

“If I treat a man for a broken leg, that’s what they will die of.”