I think that, a little over four years after leaving the country, I finally have no bank accounts or any other ties in Hong Kong.
(They just abruptly cut off my ability to log in, but it was following a conversation about closing my account, so I assume that's what they've done. A more explicit confirmation would have been preferred, but oh well.)
I take this as a vindication of "no matter how late, still better than never" :)
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I for some reason feel quite emotionally attached to whether I'm allowed to walk into roads or not, and am glad to see that freedom (which the UK has always had) spread a bit more in the US
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something that raises my hackles probably more than strictly necessary: when people say "omg, thing X happened? that's so outrageous! if aspect Y had been different, this would never have happened, proving that people are biased along that axis" (e.g. "he never would have gotten away with this if he were a woman").
this is in some sense just one particular kind of appeal to fictional / imaginary evidence, but this one in particular bothers me because, a moment ago you probably would have predicted that thing X wouldn't happen either? so the fact that you still think a slightly modified X wouldn't happen doesn't feel that compelling to me, like maybe you're just not updating enough
(not all appeals to imaginary evidence are invalid, when they're good they're called "thought experiments", but often they're not good)
a friend just told me about Framework laptops and it seems like a compelling philosophy of laptop design: it's modular and user-serviceable, and indeed they ship it to you in bits with a screwdriver 😅
Curious if anyone here has had any experience with them. Some reports on the internet that they have fan noise / temperature troubles?
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They're popular enough among hacker-types that typical linux compat issues seem to be mostly ironed out (suspend/resume, graphics, wifi, etc.).
The main reason I'm not using one is because I want a silicon root of trust that can attest to the integrity of the whole effective TCB of the platform, and only their chromebook variant has a plausible story of even attempting to (TPMs don't normally cover the embedded controller firmware), but last I checked the chromebook variants has pretty limited max specs (not enough ram for comfortably compartmentalizing desktop workloads into VMs with the desired granularity). This is understandable, since chromebooks are thought to be a low-end market segment, but still unfortunate.
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hitting enter after typing password on 2FA settings page deletes 2FA config · Issue #14464 · friendica/friendica
I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates Bug Description On the 2FA settings page, you need to enter your current password before making any changes. If I hit Enter on this field, it s...GitHub
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Have you ever wanted to do something like cp -r
, but doing something different for certain subpaths?
... You haven't?
Well here is how to do it anyway:
find . -false \
-o -path . \
-o -path ./log -exec ln -s /home/friendica/{} $out/{} \; -prune \
-o -path ./view/smarty3 -exec ln -s /home/friendica/{} $out/{} \; -prune \
-o -name .git -prune \
-o -type d -exec mkdir $out/{} \; \
-o -type f -exec cp --reflink=auto {} $out/{} \;
that is: don't do anything with
.
, with ./log
or ./view/smarty3
populate them with a symlink and then don't descend any further into them, ignore any .git
directory anywhere, and with any other path, copy it normally. (The -false
is just so I can start every line with -o
.)(This example in particular could be ~mostly replicated with rsync --exclude
and putting in the symlinks afterwards, but minor modifications would make that not work anymore; also, it's possible to combine the two symlink branches in this case, but it's ugly.)
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the other day I was feeling bad about expressing needs and had a moment of "oh, I have cast myself as Gandalf", and it felt insightful at the time; it doesn't feel as insightful now but I am going to explain it anyway
The Gandalf archetype is capable and wise, and can solve your problem whether your problem is a giant fire demon or a moment of wavering courage, having both material and emotional skills. Gandalf is seen as important and respected by his peers, but he doesn't exactly want anything himself, it be a little bizarre for him to be needy at anyone. He worries on behalf of the world, and everything he asks of others is what the world needs, that he is simply a conduit for, not something for him personally. He wields and channels forces greater than any individual, in response to threats greater than any individual, and he as a person ends up abstracted almost entirely away.
sorry if you know more about Lord of the Rings than I do and this seems wrong to you; this status is not really about Gandalf :P
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I set up my own friendica instance for testing + potentially developing addons to propose to @Ben Weinstein-Raun . (Main experience: surprisingly large amounts of "this is broken, why doesn't it log anything anywhere?")
I've been away from PHP for a long time and had forgotten how normal it is that you put your code in all the folders that your webserver is configured to send to your clients, and you have to make some of the folders writable by the webserver or it won't work. I can kind of imagine lots of PHP-native people being like "sure, that makes sense" but it sounds so insane to me. How many security compromises would never have happened if someone early in PHP's development demanded better filesystem-level separation of code and data, and demanded that the places you could write to and the places you ran code from weren't the same places?
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I am guessing nobody checks emails more than a week old.
oh I definitely do! sure the value drops off over time, but I think for some things like "someone posted on a substack you subscribe to", reading it a year later isn't necessarily much worse than reading it in real time
I do think it makes sense to archive e-mails once you're like "even though there's something here, realistically I'm never going to do it", but I also think quite a lot of those things that you should have done some embarrassingly long time ago are actually still worth doing today
looking like I'll get credited as bug reporter for a Linux btrfs bug: patch and bug report
this is silver lining on how it has become harder over time for me to whole-heartedly recommend btrfs, especially to "ordinary" Linux end users... I think I'd still do it on balance? But I'd say a backup strategy is not optional. (But maybe I'd say that anyway.)
see also: my backup strategy
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Looking around on the internet for other issues just now, it's also apparently pretty common to run into showstopper bugs when trying to do zfs send or zfs receive on encrypted zpools. I've never tried it but that does seem pretty bad.
And yeah, that USB issue sure looks annoying :/
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looking for recommendations in:
- open-source server monitoring software (things like "e-mail me when the server is down", "e-mail me when the server is about to run out of disk space", and I guess optionally things like "record, store, and graph metrics like CPU and memory"); there seem to be a lot of options out there but I'd be interested in hearing anyone's personal experience
- open-source issue tracker software -- similarly, there's a ton of them and I'm interested in hearing which ones people have had good experiences with. I'm mostly a minimalist here, with the exception that I want to be able to create ordered lists of issues (like GitHub projects).
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limited-audience posts
I'm planning to write misc techy blog posts here. I wish when I wrote stuff for a niche audience, I had some way of saying "if this post is not for you, you can filter out posts like these". When I write a post there's a "categories" input field, but I don't yet know what they're for, and I don't see an easy way to configure my ignored categories (maybe this is what channels are for? but I think people don't look at channels / know what they are by default). For the sake of experimentation, I added a "meta" category to this post.
For the time being I'm just going to post stuff and not worry about it, but I'd be interested to hear from people who have already solved this problem.
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Probably you don't want to do it this way, but in principle you could make a sub-user or even a group (i.e. a sub-user that auto-reshares things you tag it in) for this.
I do think you can use channels for this, by making a new channel that excludes the tags you don't want to see. I haven't tried it though.
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I've done this but it looks ugly:
Apparently this can be controlled with some shenanigans, see StackOverflow. I don't know if that's within the power of @Ben Weinstein-Raun to control?
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wiki editing
I've so far been unable to sign up for a Friendica wiki account -- on original signup it told me it had e-mailed me, and when I try to reset my password it says it has e-mailed me, but I don't receive the e-mails (and yes, I checked my spam). I think my chosen username was "meblin" but I don't actually have any records of it, and I don't want to post the e-mail address I used publicly :)
wiki.friendi.ca/faq/wiki says I'd need to post here to get editing rights anyway, so I suppose I might as well do both at once.
My plan is to figure out more detail on how to authenticate to the API with OAuth, and then add more detail to wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api#authe… , so any pointers on that would also be useful :)
Looks like the email provider you are using has decided not to accept the mail from the wiki
I've send you a mail.
got your mail and my account, thanks :)
FYI it looks like the template for new user page has a broken netiquette link -- it has [[wp>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology|netiquette]]
but should probably just be [[wp>Etiquette_in_technology|netiquette]]
? not sure where that's configured
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I just figured out OAuth and wrote my findings up on their wiki at wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-authe…
I probably will integrate it with flexiprocity, but I'll probably take my time about it. I anticipate it being quite fiddly.
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