furrowsofar

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Correct me if I am wrong but I think some breakers you have to fully shut off before resetting. Also good to figure out why it tripped. What do you have on that circuit for example and is it too much.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Meta is used in many ways. In CS usually something in between. Source code, intermediate or meta code, binary code.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Such a crazy title. Should say "Longer device lifetimes reduce waste".

One reason I use Linux. My workstation was puchased back in 1998 and I do a partial but fairly major update about every 10 years.

Same reason I have a Pixel with Graphene. Should get 6 years maybe a bit more.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes humans are terible at multitasking.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not at all. The Volt is great. No major issues. Not sure why your loosing your shit over something you seem to know nothing about.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

Over bloan. Software does not age but security does. Other things that do not age well is specialty tech hardware components. Batteries are a question too.

I know my volt at 10 years does not have a viable oem battery replacement (back ordered and nutty price). I can get a reasonable after market battery though.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Frankly I can be convinced of a lot of things and there are a lot of reasonable solutions. A rigid system the is a bad deal for 80% the people is however not reasonable. Nor is one that divides rather then unifies. The current system has big issues with both.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is why IRV and other systems that allow for more then 2 parties are important.

I know for me, neither party represents me very well.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

However UCare was entirely nonprofit and local. They had some great plans for great prices. Obviously too good for too little price.

Not sure but Medica might be largely nonprofit but it is not local. Health Partners might be too and local but it is a doctors and clinics network too. As far as I know most of the others are generally profit making entities acting narrowly as a nonprofit.

 

Sad news, MN is loosing a non-profit insurance org that has covered many people for decades.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

More tornadoes too I think. More intense rain at times.

Hail. Yes and constant stream of questionable roofers coming to your door.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We looked into a replacement for our 2014 Volt (maybe worth $3500). Not even possible to get and price was nuts (1 year back order and $16K). The only reasonable option was a 3rd party replacement which seem to be in the $3K-$6K range. Turned out we did not need it thankfully, it was some other problem. We expect to need a replacement at some point as we will run the car to at least 15 years.

 

I've noticed something new on my Debian Linux VPS. When I run "ss" or "netstat" with the appropriate parameters I find that there are a lot of IPv6 connections in the SYN-RECV state. This is something new.

The connections seem to all be to port 443 (my apache https port). They all seem to be IPv6 mapped IPv4 source addresses. If you geo lookup the IPv4 address, they map to Brazil. This has persisted over weeks maybe longer, and the IPs do shift over time especially the first and second components, the third seems to be in the 220-223 range, the fourth seems to be random, and the port seems random. The ones I've seen are all Brazil. It does not seem to be DDOS related as it causes no other issues I can see, and I see no evidence of intrusion. Just don't like this new thing. Feels like some sort of scanning.

So any ideas of what this is, or what to do about it?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by furrowsofar@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
 

I'll admit, I've been using Reddit some recently for certain things. Some experiences got me thinking. Over the years I've noticed that any actually honest discussion about certain things seems to either get your posts or comments deleted, or you banned. Things that tend to be counter to the myth of the virtuous 1% or of say the Trump myth, etc. seem to generally almost always end in this result. I've seen many examples. You can't post a vodcast calling out Trump pocketing $230 million of our money from the US Treasury based a bogus lawsuit to r/Politics of all things, and there's not much media coverage on it. You can't post anything about issues with the business model of many optometrists in the US to the optometrists subreddit even if someone asks a question about it. You can't even have a side discussion about economic and social policy when discussing the ACA. This is not recent either. I used to use Reddit a lot before the big exodus, and some of these are from years ago.

It got me thinking. People say that social media is bad because people don't actually discuss things except maybe in their own silo. It seems to be that even if people wanted to, it is banned on at least Reddit. Is this common on most platforms, or is this just a Reddit thing.

I love lemmy and Beehaw, but there are a few issues here too. In particular, scale, and the other is it tends to be a silo. So it is not actually usable for some things.

Thoughts?

 

Trump has taken to filing a bunch of law suites against various organizations. Many people believe many of these have very little merit. However, one method or the other they settle and pay him a large amount of money. Now it is the federal government which Trump controls and our money that he is pocketing. Not a good look. Thoughts?

 

Basically initial news articles were often quite miss-leading. Yes GPS jamming, but they were only delayed about 9 minutes, and they used a standard VOR/ILS approach which was not GPS based. About paper maps -- no but they may have looked up the VOR/ILS procedure on an electronic or paper chart and this is pretty standard.

 

Nice take on the Charlie Kirk situation. See the link.

 

Interesting experience, this has happened twice now. When house looses power I am still online now that I have moved to Fiber.

It feels a bit eerie. My network and computers, TV, media center, etc are all on UPS so they just keep going. Things just get really quite which is interrupted by just the periodic beeps of the UPS systems.

Does anyone know why my new Fiber connection does this but my old system which was bonded DSL did not? I know back in the early days of DSL I could do this, but some where along the way it stopped being power outage resistant.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by furrowsofar@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
 

Another AI fail. Letting AI write code and modify your file system without sandboxing and buckups. What could go wrong?

 

A nice overview of the impact of the Trump administration's cuts on US cybersecurity. Basically the concerns seem to be loss of knowledge, effects on information sharing, impact on government/industry coordination, and just chaos.

 

Nice update on the US Administrations shift in Russia/Ukraine policy.

 

Covers what we know about the Air India 171 accident. Includes information from the interum report.

 

The video explains why the US can never have peace with Putin. This is something that everyone needs to consider. The only thing that remains to decide is if we plan to win or loose, and the current plan seems to be to loose. Rather long video, but well worth it.

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