been fixing up my little local solar harvesting rig since the place i'm moving next month has expensive electricity and i figure since i already have this, i might as well use it and save myself a few bucks
i haven't been using it much here since the grid power is solar anyway
once i get things tweaked a bit i'm pretty sure i can manage running almost all of my devices off of this, despite the limited wattage
i was having issues i didn't understand how to address and that were making it hard for me to work (i, like you, use computers for a living) and was extremely stressed about it, both because it was hard to read things due to the double vision and blurriness, and because it was painful. old eye doctor didn't help at all.
so i went to my childhood small-town family eye doctor, he took a look, and just started casually explaining to me that there was nothing to be worried about, he got me some "computer glasses", got my insurance to pay for them, and told me a specific type of eye drops to use and when/how to use them, and explained why the whole thing was happening (basically: eye infection a few years ago never properly recovered, surface layer of my eye kept getting re-damaged during the night as my eye dried out, in somewhat of a "feedback loop"; surface layer heals fine if you give it a little bit of help, and then it will also lubricate itself properly)
apparently a lot of issues he sees are like this, where people are worried and facing debilitating issues but there's a simple way to address it
getting my own ASN and IPv6 range has turned out to be a rather fun hobby so far, and a surprisingly less expensive one than i thought it would be
i did not honestly expect, before i started poking at this, that if you go about it right you can do it for an ongoing cost of less than $50 USD a month
i'm paying a little more than that, but i'm also doing so in a way that allows me to collapse all my existing servers into this network and reduce the ongoing costs from those, so it balances back out to that again anyway
if you're looking at the lzma thing and trying to figure out if you should be concerned, and if you can do anything about it:
the answers are definitely yes, and probably not much, respectively
this is one of those 'off the charts' sorts of scenarios, because the impact isn't just the vulnerability itself (a remote ssh backdoor on some systems), it's that it was seemingly inserted intentionally into this library which exists on every linux distro by one of the maintainers of the library, in signed commits, with very thorough attempts to obfuscate it, and with what appears to be active efforts to mask side effects when they were noticed.
so even if your system did not fit the criteria that we believe are necessary to trigger that backdoor and/or you have reverted to an older version that didn't have the final piece, you are still running code written by the person who intentionally added that backdoor.
@suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish i don't know how they extracted the image of marion wheeler i had in my head and put it in this video but they sure did do that
havent used this keyboard in a long time and both of my irises were missing keycaps/switches, but i really wanted to have something i could use comfortably wherever without fucking up my wrists, so i dug the newer one out and fixed it up
gonna take a bit to get used to it again, but it's already not too bad, i haven't lost that much muscle memory
part of the reason i wanted this is because i want to experiment with screen readers more, and in doing so i want to have a keyboard that is usable somewhere other than at my desk. and that i can still easily use without having to look at it. this is pretty good for that
the idea is that if im feeling migrainey or otherwise just dont want to stare at a screen but still want to be able to do computer stuff, this could provide a way to do that. the screen reader on my phone certainly has been great, but (and this is critical) i have had absolutely no success in finding a way to use a terminal emulator with talkback on android, and i genuinely do a surprising of computing in a terminal emulator on my phone, so that still leaves me unable to do many things
if i have an alternate option that only gives me the terminal emulator. well, that still limits me, but in a different way, and one that i'm more comfortable with
it doesn't even have to be a particularly powerful machine that i use for this, either. like, my requirements are: - usb host port - audio jack or bluetooth - wifi - ability to run netbsd - enough cpu to do ssh and speech synthesis at the same time
anything meeting those requirements can just be the terminal and talk to another machine over the network that is actually running the programs
@noracodes@tenforward.social software is too often used as a tool for enforcing unnecessary bureaucracy, by offloading it to the cold, rigid, unthinking machine that literally cannot diverge from the inevitably broken processes and procedures, and somehow, every time, it is done in the name of "convenience"
@nano@fedi.nano.lgbt cheating in games is a social problem, not a technical one. trying to solve social problems with technical means (like a kernel rootkit), without finding some way to address the social aspects of it, is a great way to not actually solve the problem at all
1. disable postfix if not needed (local mail still works without it; fetching remote mail won't. if you aren't sure you need this, then you don't!)
2. if applicable, disable powerd (some ports won't have this enabled. if on i386/amd64, leave it on if you have power/sleep/lid switches and want them to work. pre-ACPI/APM machines definitely don't need this)
3. use static addressing if possible, or set up dhcpcd to operate as one-shot (ymmv with the latter method depending on how your network deals with expired leases. if you want to try, i usually set my dhcpcd flags to "b1q64" (mostly because it's a Blinx: The Time Sweeper reference but also the aforementioned reason) )
4. use inetd for everything possible - e.g. once ssh keys are generated, you can have inetd handle ssh connections by adding something like this:ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/sshd sshd -i
ssh stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/sshd sshd -i 5. consider replacing some of the services in the base system with lighter alternatives from pkgsrc (e.g. openssh -> dropbear), but be sure to actually verify whether or not the alternative actually uses less memory - sometimes it does not, and sometimes it does on one system, but not another.
6. if your system is really cramped, and/or you also want to use less storage space, consider building the NetBSD userland from source, with the "SMALLPROG" flag. this removes some less-used functionality in many tools and utilities, so you may find that some features are no longer available, but your system will have a smaller footprint. you can also look into "crunchgen" if you want a busy-box style single-binary swiss army knife.
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