Notices by John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social), page 2

Is anyone is familiar with flat flexible cables used to connect LCD panels to boards, what are the failure modes? I have a device where the display isn't great, but if I pull the cable (down in the photo), it's clear. Wondering if I could just trim the end that goes to the board? Don't really want to touch the part that goes to the LCD as lining it up and not damaging the contacts worries me.

Feature I'd like, the ability to click on all the links that you get in an email when the links all have tracking information in them so they can't track which specific (if any!) link(s) you click on.

@feld
Actually is it any faster? Because iirc, iPhones are limited to USB 2 speeds, so unless you have crap/old wifi, wifi is probably faster

interesting thought, on file systems like ZFS that support compression and are copy on write and mbox files, you really don't want to shift messages causing a complete mbox rewrite if the mail box is large and long. Overwriting the message w/ a dummy message that is highly compressible is an interesting idea.

of course, it's always complicated when dealing w/ legacy systems and finding correct solutions for problems.

@ThTh
Has maildir done multiple subdirs so you don't end up with a single directory with 10k+ files in it which has its own issues? Quick reading of Wikipedia appears it hasn't.

Also storing mail per file limits compression improvement and losses due to file system block size. As I said originally, it's a complex set of trade offs.

The US would rather pay more for expensive county hospitals for these people than actually help them with simple things listed.

> https://mstdn.social/users/mcnado/statuses/114572047024705974

@dvl
Sounds like a good time to check backups.

Just thinking about how bhyve doesn't support other vm image formats like qcow2 which support compression, but then I realized that if your running a number of bhyve vms, your likely running zfs for storage and there you just turn on compression.

Having compression at the storage layer (hi stacker!) makes sense in many different ways. (I also finally disabled newsyslog compression of rotated log files for this reason.)

Just a reminder, do not talk to the police.

> https://mastodon.scot/users/bobjmsn/statuses/114530273559054190

@feld
Yeah, there'll be battery projects, but an interesting issue is if they have to save the battery energy for night (when not much is needed), it won't help during the summer hot months when it could provide even more load.

I hope this backfires with battery projects ending up causing coal to shutter entirely.

Just further proof than gop and Texas doesn't actually believe in free markets and deregulation.

> https://geekdom.social/users/FantasticalEconomics/statuses/114501126312554556

Find it funny how Apple's terminal.app icon is white on black text, while the default profile is black on white text.

@adrienne
Man, this totally brought back a childhood memory of touring the local bread manufacturer, and getting a freshly baked white wonder bread that was so soft and yummy.

@feld
Do either of these apps ensure that the charger is public? That's one of the big issues I have is that a lot of the apps will list a charger as available, but it'll be in a parking lot that requires key card access.
@Tubsta

@kaia
I love the fact that they put
the green key on a keychain that has other keys (which I use almost all the time to open boxes).

@ryanc Can you explain your "solution"?

Did you have a mapping file that you iterated through? How did you map from device to key file?

Does anyone have a solution for managing geli key files?

That is something that maps key file to partition, preferably in a way that handles devices moving around (e.g. gpt labels). I use both glabel and gpt labels so, I try each key file with both, but it'd be nicer to have a better "key manager" than this.

If not, maybe it is time to write up some better scripts for handling this.

Yeah, totally expected, and don't forget almost 2.5% of that number is likely from a tax fraud scheme from Canada! (Almost ok vehicles, so even lower sales.)

> https://cyberplace.social/users/GossiTheDog/statuses/114269156029836228

Sony must be having network breaches every couple years because I keep having to reset my password.

Note that either way, it's confusing because I don't have to relogin to my consoles, so it's a bit weird that they're forcing resets so often.

So, as usual, big corp fails at security. It allows me to set a password longer than 32 characters, but PS Remote Play login page will only accept 32 characters.

Wonder if someone could mess with that login page by ignoring the limit set by the page. (not immediately easy as it's using the built in web browser so I can't get access to the console).