Notices by Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)

@javalps Can you run a SMART test on your disk from the BIOS?

@javalps See if you can check online which keypress will open up the BIOS menu on your workstation (it's different by manufacturer — sometimes a notice is shown during boot telling you which key to press, but it's best to check to be sure). Once you reboot the machine and use the keypress to get into the BIOS menu, you'll be able to navigate the options (via the keyboard). The exact menu structure varies. Look for something to do with disks or devices, or SMART in particular.

@javalps If the BIOS doesn't have it you could try installing smartmontools or similar (while the disk is working) and try to run them. I think you can run them off a USB too if needed.

@javalps @abhijith @fossunleashed It sounds like you've done the test so you don't need to do it through the BIOS as well (it would be the same). With SMART you can do a short test or an extended test. There's also data you can pull from the drive (like the number of times it has ever failed reads in its lifetime, stuff like that). When I had a problem like this recently I ended up using a GUI tool that highlighted the problems, and before that when I used a BIOS test myself the failure was...

@javalps @abhijith @fossunleashed ... quite clearly indicated. Nothing you've written here in the SMART test output screams disk failure to me (the test would fail rather than pass, for starters). I'm not a disk expert, though. You could try the extended test but some hard drives abort them... western digital I think.

In short, I've never had a failing disk look in SMART like there's nothing wrong with it — with the symptoms you're describing a SMART failure should be obvious.

@javalps Wow, that's crazy. I'm really glad you found what's triggering the problem, and that it wasn't a drive failure. Seems odd that a piece of software would be able to do that to your filesystem — maybe it's calling some function in the operating system that has a problem and isn't used much by other software 🤔 It might be worth flagging it with Fedora as an issue, too (not sure how you'd do that, but there must be a way). @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser

Here's a huge red flag I was nowhere near sufficiently aware of when I was younger: people cultivating a culture of hostility around resources they value, and that behaviour being tolerated from above.

For example, coworkers who are competitive to the extent that it actually undermines the mission, or even openly aggressive, and that being permitted as a status quo.

@Norobiik They can give those two northern islands back if they don't want the exercises so close to "their territory" 🤭

@Norobiik Japan may well do, if it's not decimated first in a conflict between combined Russian and Chinese forces attempting to seize Taiwan, and U.S. forces resisting from Japan and South Korea 😱 (Where did I put my passport?)

@Norobiik (I don't think Russia would be particularly interested in Taiwan, actually, but if China did make a move, Russia would see an opportunity to "stand with its ally" and take a few more northern islands and perhaps Hokkaido at the same time. The North Koreans might have something to say as well. It'd be a massive mess.)

@kushal I started trying to draw something with svg (in html) for the first time.😅🥂

@Ooze There must be a reason I haven't done that, mustn't there.

Yet again, zero days since I was reminded #Threads is a cesspit. How do I turn this baity shit off in #Instagram? I don't want to see it!!

@z428 @osnews How do I turn this off? 😅

"Is it me that should be fixing this?" is a question I should ask much more often.

@jik This is what social media is for! ☺️

Every time I see this news about work being put in to attach human skin to a robot, it reminds me how much of robotics (like AI) must be motivated by tech bros who can't get laid wanting to replace disobedient women with technology. Because why the hell else do you need human skin on a robot? What possible other use case could make it worth the investment of time and energy being put into it? For artificial limbs, perhaps it would be some aesthetic improvement, but at the cost of maintenance.

Great googly moogly: If there's one thing the #MBTA could do to make you forget all the other stuff ... https://www.universalhub.com/2024/great-googly-moogly-if-theres-one-thing-t-could-do

@aramloosman Yes, Garmin's sleep tracking is really awful 😞

@trumpet Hi there (sorry, me again! 😅) Is the indy.rest domain blocked? I saw posts circulating about the Awakari scraper now using the @ indy.rest @ indy.rest account to hide its activity and went to block the account but can't seem to find it on mas.to -- which is good -- but I can't see that domain on the list of domains blocked or suspended on our about page, either, so I was wondering if that list hasn't been updated yet or if the account just hasn't connected here yet 🤔