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Written by Jumile on 2025-01-18 at 00:22

Discovered WUD (What's Up #Docker) this week, and I'm impressed.

Similar to Watchtower (originally designed for the -arr stack) but instead of updating containers it focusses on granularity with monitoring and has All The Notification options (SMTP, Discord, Gotify, Pushover, etc, etc).

Helped me realise that my stacks are mission critical (to me), and lets me read release notes prior to upgrading, rather than wondering why X suddenly isn't working and trying to unbreak it afterwards.

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Written by Jumile on 2025-01-08 at 11:17

People unironically posting about whether they should stay on their Meta accounts of choice as some weird form of solidarity, protection for some imagined demographic, or balance. Forgetting that every single person is there by choice (except perhaps those who use it for work).

There are easier ways to ask for "permission" to stay somewhere awful because you're terminally online and live for the drama and conflict. 🙄

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Written by Jumile on 2024-12-13 at 21:06

IT industry standard: No pushes to production on Fridays!

[#]Arch #Linux devs:

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Written by Jumile on 2024-12-12 at 02:22

It first creates a user-owned (and chmod 700) "" directory inside it and then all cross-filesystem moves (i.e. copy+delete) go through a try-timeout process that drastically slows everything down and gives the appearance of a network issue.

One of the weirdest IT bugs I've encountered in decades of working with computers, Linux and networking. 2/2

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Written by Jumile on 2024-12-12 at 02:21

Fixed a weird problem with my "network" yesterday. While copying lots of small files from #Linux #KDE Dolphin to my NAS, I was getting just 18kbps. Long story short, trash-cli (trying it out) and Dolphin's implementation of the #FreeDesktop Trash Specification don't play well together.

For mount points, the former uses a root-owned (a+rwt) ".Trash" directory and the latter uses a user-owned (chmod 700) ".Trash-" directory. But Dolphin will still quietly use the former. 1/2

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Written by Jumile on 2024-11-24 at 13:50

Dark patterns in mobile OS has bothered me since forever. Here's the latest T&C update for UK Samsung users.

As if notification wording wasn't terrible by itself, the page it goes to "helpfully" shows "optional" beside 3 of the 4 tickboxes. Except all 4 are optional.

It's attempting to trick you.

[#]DarkPatterns #privacy #mobile #enshittification

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Written by Jumile on 2024-11-14 at 17:33

I can't be the only person who thinks this is hideous?

Our friendly AI will be listening to all your calls... for now. Pray we don't alter the agreement any further... slow mask-breathing noises

Edit: Scam detection is good. But at what cost.

https://twit.social/@twitnews/113482098019176992

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Written by Jumile on 2024-10-09 at 00:44

My gaming this evening was immensely improved by having Blind Guardian playing in the background throughout.

That is all. 🤘🏻

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Written by Jumile on 2024-10-06 at 23:45

This evening's gaming in #ThroneAndLiberty included a bizarre event: riding a flying whale that appears every 3 hours. It's tied into the storyline and exploration.

This was the reaction of an NPC recovered from the whale, once it had been revived. Sums it up pretty well. 😄

But doesn't mention the potential motion sickness of being on a large, undulating and flying surface for up to 30 mins... :blobcatnauseated:

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Written by Jumile on 2024-10-04 at 23:39

I could have spent this Friday evening playing a game I really like but instead I spent it trying to get VNC-like connectivity working to that same PC.

Was it it successful? No.

Was there some upside? Also no.

These are the Linux stories you won't see very often.

I. Am. Disappoint. :ablobsadpats:

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Written by Jumile on 2024-08-01 at 23:04

This should be fun. People are going to think this will update the #Android apps they've installed via things like #FDroid from the same source, when what it'll really be doing is replacing the more private app with Play's analytics-riddled version.

Which is why people use things like F-Droid to begin with. Google wants to "helpfully" get in the way of that...

https://mas.to/@alternativeto/112888700201663944

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Written by Jumile on 2024-07-14 at 13:10

Idly wishing #ActivityPub made posters select one or more categories for their post that includes things like sports, news/current events, and politics.

And that users could configure their client to see or block by category (possibly with AND and OR options).

Maybe I'm a niche user, but #Mastodon is the LAST place I want to see anything related to some categories and endless and "unique" takes, subposts, and such. The Arab Spring was one thing, but that content has been commodified.

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Written by Jumile on 2024-03-14 at 15:47

The stuff above is for a headless VM server (CLI-/SSH-only), and it's probably the motivation I need to rebuild it as a raw Debian VM.

Which it should have been in the first place, but I wanted to see what Ubuntu server offered over Debian server. I guess that question's been answered...

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Written by Jumile on 2024-03-14 at 15:43

The #Ubuntu #Linux LTS "pro" thing is stupid.

It refuses to upgrade two installed packages, tells you to check the logfile ("Package ubuntu-pro-client has conffile prompt and needs to be upgraded manually"). What?!

I apt install ubuntu-advantage-tools. Still get the error. Try apt upgrade... nope: "held back". So apt install ubuntu-pro-client-l10n. No prompts for either of them.

Now apt list --upgradable is fine, but 20apt-esm-hook.conf still displays the warning. Ubuntu is maddening.

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Written by Jumile on 2024-01-31 at 16:03

I'm old enough to remember when governments used taxes to maintain public services and sometimes borrowed to improve them.

Unlike now, where they withhold most funding from local government AND let services crumble AND borrow just to pay for tax cuts to the rich and their sponsors.

It's so bad that even the IMF issued a warning. The absolute state of this country.

[#]ukpol

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Written by Jumile on 2023-12-18 at 20:31

I mention CPU twice because... just the CPU on an old laptop. It's impressive!

Yet to try it on my main PC with an RTX Nvidia card.

I remember first trying raytracing on Linux nearly 30 years ago, and it took 8-12 hours to render a 640x480 image on a 386DX40 with 2MB RAM. Things have moved on so much.

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Written by Jumile on 2023-12-18 at 20:22

Experimenting for the first time with self-hosted AI-generated images this evening on my Linux laptop to see what it can do: default #InvokeAI install using #StableDiffusion 1.5. Simple to setup if you're familiar with #Python venv and Pip.

Using just the CPU and giving it the prompt "bluebird", this is what it gave in 17 minutes (CPU only). Must admit that I'm pretty impressed.

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