Shdwdrgn

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Keep in mind that seasonal crops are going to be harvested soon, and nobody will be getting good prices from foreign sales this year. I know most farmers can ride out at least one bad season, but if the current policy continues into next year you can bet that a huge number of farms are going to completely collapse.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago

Meh there was nothing important about him and no reason for anyone to care. On the other hand, there was another school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado, at nearly the same time, and THAT is what everyone should be focusing on. Of course the cantaloupe in charge still hasn't said a word about THAT because he couldn't make that tragedy about himself.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 62 points 6 days ago

Every claim they make that the shooter was left-leaning has been found to be an outright lie.

Influenced towards the left in college? He spent one semester during the 2021 lockdowns taking online courses.

Old friend who said the shooter leaned left? Retracted the same day after realizing he actually didn't know if he was thinking of the same person.

And now this crap of the roommate being trans? The roommate had a tiktok chat where he asked an AI to generate an anime character from his photo and it generated a female character. The roommate then clarified he was wearing a "sloth" hoodie because he was hoping the AI would generate a sloth themed character.

This "evidence" just goes to show how desperate the right is to make people believe the left is declaring war on them. As usual, the right wants to play the victim in something they've done to themselves. And lets not forget the shooter was an active groyper -- that simply cannot coexist with someone who is left-leaning.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

A couple of theories come to mind when reading this article. The first is that Pluto could be a captured rogue planet, ejected from the death of another star, which would explain its highly-elliptical orbit. The second theory is that Jupiter once orbited much closer to our sun, somewhere in the vicinity that is now occupied by the Earth itself.

This all makes me wonder if it's possible Jupiter is also a captured rogue planet, one that started out in a more elliptical orbit and broke up the inner planets (perhaps adding to its own mass), before settling into the more distant outer orbit?

Regardless, the evidence certainly seems to hint that "something" seriously disrupted the distribution of mass between our local planets early in their formation. It would certainly make for some interesting computer models to try and work out the possibilities.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 39 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I guess this is how they solve their food shortage after getting so much blowback from trying to force children to replace migrants working in the fields.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

Why does everyone think the term came from Star Wars? I know it was used in steampunk before then, and google suggests it goes back to a 1958 article about robots. Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, just feels like a lot of people give Star Wars unjust credit for things they didn't actually create.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Made in the USA -- for when "Made in China" just isn't fascist enough.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything else aside, what kind of "financial" harm could she have possibly suffered? As if she would even know the meaning of overwhelming money loss.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Amazon is so bad at coordinating their deliveries that I have seen three delivery vans parked on my block at the same time. Now I'm just waiting for them all to show up at the same house at once.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Spanned 515 miles, spawned at least 116 air-to-ground strikes during its duration, and lasted about 7 seconds total. The article also mentions the record for longest known lightning arc was 17 seconds!

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Don't forget that managers think the same thing -- if it's free then it is somehow an inferior product but if you pay for something then that automatically makes it better. This applies forward as well... the more they pay for something, the "better" it must be.

For example... Cybertruck.

From my perspective, open-source products are greatly superior because you have the entire community of users and engineers working on a known issue, rather than a few paid engineers who may not even use the product. Even more importantly, the community will solve problems that a corporation has decided aren't worth the effort or are "obsolete".

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

I can understand why some programs only allow a single copy to be opened at once, something like email makes sense. However on Linux they got this right... if you try to open a program that is already running, it switches to the screen that program is on and restores the program window to the desktop. There's no guessing why the program "won't open", it just makes the logical choice that you want to see it.

Heh that reminds me of another detail from that call... the guy also wasn't willing to reboot his computer (which would have solved the problem as well), but berated me for not knowing what I was doing for making the suggestion. Dude, it's Windows, things break constantly and a reboot generally resolves the issue.

 

I built a new firewall under Debian 12. The machine has eight network ports, and during configuration I accidentally used the same name for a couple of the ports in the files under /etc/systemd/network/*.link. I ended up with two link files referencing two different MAC addresses but naming each of them as WAN0, and once systemd got that configuration it wouldn't let it go.

From what I could find online, normally I would just issue systemctl daemon-reload followed by a update-initramfs -u and after a reboot systemd should have had the updated information... but no dice this time. The way I finally discovered the problem was when I noticed under ifconfig that my wan0 port was pointing to the wrong MAC address (even though the link files had been corrected).

After several hours of fighting with it, I finally managed to get it to work by renumbering all of my link files, and now the information for each port matches up correctly. But my real question here is WHY did systemd refuse to read updated link files? Is there another step I should have taken which was mysteriously never mentioned in any of the dozens of web pages I looked at trying to fix this? I really need to understand the proper process for getting it to correctly use these files so I can maintain the machine in the future.

(God I miss the reliability of udev already)

 

I'm building a new rack server (Poweredge R620) and am using the option "consoleblank=600" in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX setting. During the setup I used the wrong memory stick and installed Bullseye, and screen blanking was working correctly there. Since I had already finished nearly all the configuration this week, I thought it would be easier to just do a regular dist upgrade than reloading the whole system.

After upgrading to Bookworm and rebooting, I notice that now when the screen blanking is supposed to kick in (which normally just turns off the display), I am instead getting what looks like rolling static on the screen. I have several other R620 racks running Buster so I know the screen blanking should work with this hardware, but this appears to be an issue specific to Bookworm.

Note that even when I try something like setterm -blank 1 or setterm -powerdown 1 I get the same resulting static after 1 minute. To be clear, this is specifically for the command line, I do not run desktops on my servers.

A google search for the problem has been unsuccessful so I'm hoping someone can point me to a solution or help with the proper search terms.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has found (free) sources of data to use for live elections results, specifically the Presidential race? I've been building a map of poll results but would also like to put something together to watch the race tomorrow night.

 

A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric.

 

I would love to have them light up like a scoreboard as each representative takes the floor, showing all of the commandments they have broken. If people want so badly to bring religion into politics then lets just show them exactly who they've been voting for. Maybe we can get the news networks in on this too, displaying it on the side of the screen similar to a sporting event.

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the bastion of factual information, has once again shown the nature of her character by claiming that peaceful protestors at the Capitol are in fact an "insurrection of terrorists". Don't you see all the violence and mayhem being caused in this video clip? No, me either...

If you want to make such bold comparisons, lets start out by checking how many people are running for their lives or the number of deaths involved between these two events. Or maybe we should be asking why MTG thought it was an "honor" to meet with the people responsible for murder and the attempt to destroy our democracy?

 

I've seen the occasional blip here, but this is the first time I've seen a complete outage of this instance. Hoping @Salamander wanders through and gives us the scoop?

 

I have an annoying problem on my server and google has been of no help. I have two drives mirrored for the OS through mdadm, and I recently replaced them with larger versions through the normal process of replacing one at a time and letting the new drive re-sync, then growing the raids in place. Everything is working as expected, with the exception of systemd... It is filling my logs with messages of timing out while trying to locate both of the old drives that no longer exist. Mdadm itself is perfectly happy with the new storage space and has reported no issues, and since this is a server I can't just blindly reboot it to get systemd to shut the hell up.

So what's the solution here? What can I do to make this error message go away? Thanks.

[Update] Thanks to everyone who made suggestions below, it looks like I finally found the solution in systemctl daemon-reload however there is a lot of other great info provided to help with troubleshooting. I'm still trying to learn the systemd stuff so this has all been greatly appreciated!

 

Just in case there are others like myself who rarely check reddit any more, I thought it would be helpful to cross-post this. It won't look like much unless you have the solar eclipse glasses, but I plan to break out my tracker and camera (with solar filters!) to try and get some pics.

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