Notices by ARGVMI~1.PIF (argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org)

Every once in a while, my #WiFi, hosted by a #Linux PC running #hostapd, gets really slow or outright fails. To fix it I have to:

1. stop hostapd,
2. rmmod rtl8821ae (the driver for the #Realtek Wi-Fi chip),
3. insmod,
4. udevadm wait for it to come back, and
5. start hostapd.

I wonder why it keeps failing like that.

I also wonder if I should schedule this to happen every night. Or maybe every hour. 🤷♂️

@prettygood

You don't have to pirate the original. If you can buy the PlayStation game, your computer's optical disc drive can read it. I think it's also available on Steam.

@pixx

I have a string of LED Christmas lights that flicker pretty hard. I assume they're just wired in series directly to mains, with no rectifier. So, it could use that!

@niconiconi

@niconiconi

That won't work with LED lighting though.

But I guess nobody thought people would be crazy enough to stuff a rectifier into every lightbulb.

If #Nintendo is so great, why isn't there a Ninelevendo?

#shitpost

@monospace

This right here is one of the “killer features” of #systemd.

Long ago, in an archive far, far away, a Redditor posted:

“I'm a new Air Force pilot. When we fly solo for the first time, our call sign is "Kitty." This is the patch we wear when we are done.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/egp12/im_a_new_air_force_pilot_when_we_fly_solo_for_the/

#AirForce #cat #meme

The existence of #WholeFoods Market implies the existence of Fractional Foods Market.

#math #shitpost

Well, in Who-ville they say... that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!

It was the most rapid onset of cardiomegaly ever recorded, and researchers at the Who-ville Institute of Science and Medicine published a number of fascinating papers about the condition.

#Grinch #Christmas #shitpost

Dax: “Aren't you uncomfortable in that uniform?”

Hon, Worf's wearing a *Starfleet* uniform. Have you, like, met Starfleet? Their idea of starship design is to strap a pair of nacelles to a freakin' luxury hotel! Starfleet doesn't *do* uncomfortable.

#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9

Well, you can't say you weren't warned.

#cat

Do good gateways get pets?

#shitpost

Quality products from Acme. Accept no substitutes.

#LooneyTunes #joke #TrolleyProblem

@kimapr

Ah, that. Some people seem to be under the impression that blocking ICMP traffic will improve their security…which breaks path MTU discovery. 🤦♂️

@ak @erik @shiz

@ak @shiz @erik

What does MTU breakage look like? I'm not familiar.

@whitequark

XMPP definitely had E2EE in 2015. Not OMEMO, but it did have OTR and OpenPGP.

The lack of forward secrecy is extra scary for a private chat app, so it was certainly not ideal. But it wasn't nothing.

@ariadne @lynn

I was bullied heavily in school. From an age of about 12, the Internet was my only source of social exposure. Without it, I would have had no friends and no one to talk to except schoolchildren who hated me. Pretty good chance I'd have ended up dead or worse.

Folks these days are yelling about how chat harms kids, but I couldn't disagree more. When I was a kid, chat saved my life.

@dhry

Well, I suppose that might've worked too.

One of the times I was physically attacked at school, I gave the attacker a bloody nose. Wasn't particularly trying to hurt him, just defend myself, but that's where my hand ended up.

The day after, I got gestures of respect from a bunch of other kids. Only time anybody ever respected me. It was surreal.

But it wouldn't work today. From what I hear, you now get instantly expelled if you hit anybody or if anybody hits you.

@domi

How did SFTP not time out?

I mean, yeah, no IP addresses are changing so it could in theory resume once connectivity comes back up, but timeouts aren't usually 7+ minutes.

@makdaam

I know this isn't what you meant, but it would be absolutely wild if a computer somewhere fell into some kind of slumber in 1985 while in the middle of an FTP transfer, woke up today, and the other end of the TCP connection was still there, waiting patiently for its long-lost peer's inevitable return.

@domi