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• Post #4239418

  Someone help me understand what possible reason the manudacturer of this power adapter for my google home hub has for making the text so impossible to read without a magnifying device and a high clntrast filter... Seriously. This information is here so you can understand what sort of power supply you need when your kids (or cat) knock your device off of a shelf and the plug breaks off. Why make it impossible to read? And this isn't only Google. It happens on a ton of devices. Is it so...

• Post #3912011

  So, have HDD vendors finally figured out shucking? Looks like external usb hard drives are now on par with internal drives price wise. #it #drives #storage #shucking

• Post #2565053

  I have a friend. Lives with his aging mother. Employed. Has a roof over his head. A few weeks ago we helped him remove the rear seats from his car because he's decided that it's no longer affordable to actually drive back and forth to work. So he. now sleeps in his car when his shifts are close enough together. Let that sink in. Employed. In a house that's paid off. Now i can't claim to have insight into his finances. But the idea that transportation is so e...

• Post #2565052

  On a very cold flight to ATL. i think the lady in the sun dress sitting across the aisle from@me is turning blue. Anyone going to #rhsummit i'll see you there! Think maybe if i yell really loud @jerry would hear me? Or maybe he's at the beach house. ;)

• Post #2565051

  Getting the RHEL booth for #rhsummit in order! Excited to see you all there! #RHEL #sysadmin #linux #redhat #conference

• Post #2565050

  Spent 14 hours on my feet having conversations with #RedHat customers today. Back to my hotel, and glad to be off my feet. Sure is a nice view from my room though. #rhsummit #rhel #sysadmin

• Post #2339047

  I learned yesterday that there's a new series from the folks behind Vox Machina. I can't stop watching. The Mighty Nein

• Post #2339046

  On smerconish this morning, theyre talking about division, and theyre touching on social media. I really want to call and rant about corporate social media and soap box about Mastodon, but alas, i have to be an adult and get my Summit deliverables handled. Someone call on my behalf. GO! :D #mastodon #division #socialmedia

• Post #2339045

  So, daily! I guess daily is the new pace at which I need to mitigate zero day kernel flaws. Got it. #linux #kernel #lpe #dirtyfrag #copyfail

• Post #2223106

  Ok Ive been working through the mitigations for the string of kernel vulnerabilities. I think this is all of them. I had Claude spit out a summary. Hope this helps others. NOTE: I have edited this post to better outline the fixes and improve terminology. Plus we've got a CVE designation for dirty frag now. ## Linux Kernel LPE Roundup — May 8, 2026 Four local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the same bug class (page-cache writes) are actively circulating. Here's wh...

• Post #1899423

  What the heck is #meshtastic ? DEF CON 610 is working with Make Lehigh Valley to help spread knowledge about this point-to-point community wireless network! Join us on May 3rd, 2026 at noon, at Make Lehigh Valley, with the folks from Philly Mesh, to learn about this #offgrid communication technology. Details in the flyer! https://www.meetup.com/defcon610/events/314318993/ #technology #meetup #DEFCON610 #community #offgridtech

• Post #1847218

  So, how do you make money on youtube? Ask 10 successful youtubers, and they'll tell you the same thing. Diversify. You don’t make significant money from the ad revenue. You make it from merch, or product deals, affiliate links. Youtube makes money from your content, you make money from using their platform to get your viewers off-platform to something that pays you better. A while back, not terribly long. 3 or 4 years if memory serves, Youtube introduced something cool. A merch...

• Post #1822851

  What the heck is #meshtastic ? DEF CON 610 is working with Make Lehigh Valley to help spread knowledge about this point-to-point community wireless network! Join us on May 3rd, 2026 at noon, at Make Lehigh Valley, with the folks from Philly Mesh, to learn about this #offgrid communication technology. Details in the flyer! https://www.meetup.com/defcon610/events/314318993/ #technology #meetup #DEFCON610 #community #offgridtech

• Post #1822850

  Bash has a lot of shortcuts, a lot of them aren’t obvious, but you pick them up over the years. Watch Scott and Nate share their favorite command line tricks and shortcuts on this episode of Into the Terminal. https://youtube.com/live/alZMRigqChc #linux #linuxtips #sysadmin #redhat #rhel #bash #commandline

• Post #1822849

  A little while back, I pulled my old Pixel 4 XL out of the closet, charged it up, and threw Grephene on it to tinker with. It has no sim, no data other than wifi, and the plan was to use it with my DJI gimbal for my camera. Which it does. But recently Ive been poking around it graphene just to see how daily-driveable it is. And i'll admit i have to add some google back to it to get the experience I want, but dang, what a nice clean android experience. And the battery! Im gettin...

• Post #1755130

  What the heck is #meshtastic ? DEF CON 610 is working with Make Lehigh Valley to help spread knowledge about this point-to-point community wireless network! Join us on May 3rd, 2026 at noon, at Make Lehigh Valley, with the folks from Philly Mesh, to learn about this #offgrid communication technology. Details in the flyer! https://www.meetup.com/defcon610/events/314318993/ #technology #meetup #DEFCON610 #community #offgridtech

• Post #1050028

  If i've learned one thing from recent events in Russia/Ukraine, and Iran, it's that the word "ceasefire" doesn't mean what i thought it meant.

• Post #1024668

  My god, how vain can you be? Now i need to look at this asshat's signature on $100 bills? Another reason to ditch cash.

• Post #1024667

  Judge Rejects 'Orwellian Notion' That Anthropic Is a Supply Chain Risk for Disagreeing With the Government https://reason.com/2026/03/27/judge-rejects-orwellian-notion-that-anthropic-is-a-supply-chain-risk-for-disagreeing-with-the-government/ #ai #uspol #trump #nokings #anthropic #claude

• Post #1024665

  Wonderful. Co-worker just let me know that a clip of one of my streams for work is featured in some kind of offensive, anti-systemd, ai generated, slop with anti-semitic undertones. Guess i'll report that. I'm sure that'll end with an equitable resolution and not just silently get ignored. Being the face of RHEL is exhausting. It wasn't even our engineer who submitted the age verification patch. #linux #rhel

• Post #786468

  I am off to an old-school LAN Party today. Some friends/coworkers have been doing this yearly, and this year I got an invite. Should I bring Jolt cola? Should be a fun weekend! #gaming #lanparty #nerds

• Post #786467

  A word of sage advice for all of you homelabbers. I bring to you, from my decades of experience, my wealth of knowledge, and from the depths of my IT grit this piece of information, that I am sure none of you have ever considered before. When you build a new system, staging it in your home office where you have access to it for things like, connecting installation media, and displays, and whatnot, and after your lovingly crafted system is ready to be moved to its new home in your rack in the...

• Post #786466

  https://youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0 Bernie Sanders debates... Claude?

• Post #508163

  I'm preaching to the choir here. But it seems that @pluralistic 's message is getting more traction. https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ #enshittification

• Post #309866

  So my daughter (mid-teen) leans over to me while I was driving her to her orthodontist appointment this evening, to show me this "new band she found that she thought I would like". It's KMFDM. I'm so proud of her. #music #kmfdm #kids

• Post #309865

  Hey @eff Do you have any statements around the recent Discord age verification and "teen by default" approach? Also, any recommendations on alternatives to discord that arent only more privacy aware, but also likely to actually be usable for folks outside of the inner nerd-rings?

• Post #309864

  This came across my feed elsewhere, and I cant not share it. #ai

• Post #309863

  Oh, that's a relief. I can now sync my contacts with OpenAI, so they can spam my friends.. er, i mean. so i can find my friends on open ai, which is a completely normal thing i've wanted to do... never. #ai #openai #privacy

• Post #262882

  I heard about this yesterday on Smerconish. It's a movement suggesting we should unsubscribe from several tech giants (which isnt exactly unpopular in some circles here) but not for our privacy, or their shady business practices, but rather because of their relations with #ice The idea is the if we can impact these companies bottom line, their leadership has the ear of the president, and they may influence him to change direction. I'm on the fence as to how effective this mi...

• Post #262881

  Did a bunch of work to my daily news podcast downloader. It had started failing because apparently podcast hosting providers don't like the user agent that python-requests uses by default, so i had to figure out how to set that in my script. re-worked the flow of the script so that the different functions were actually written in functions. and added some error checking, and history! Now it will not re-download a show that its downloaded in the past (because I don't care abou...