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Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you are concerned about TruNAS, go look at Xigmanas. This is the original FreeNAS project before iX acquired the name.

What’s a good terminal emulator for windows to connect to ssh and WSL? in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have been using Tabby for a couple of years and I can recommend it

https://tabby.sh/

YSK the voter protection hotline phone number for your state if you witness any voter intimidation or harassment if you are voting in person. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not American, and couldn’t find a non-partisan resource, but here goes:

https://democrats.org/civic-engagement-and-voter-protection/

Our voter hotline exists to answer questions that cannot be easily answered online. The hotline is monitored by DNC employees who are prepared to field questions pertaining to felon disenfranchisement, voter purging, poll worker misconduct, voter machines, and accessibility. The hotline regularly operates on weekdays from 9:00am-6:00pm EST/EDT, and expands to both weekdays and weekends from 9:00am-9:00pm EST/EDT starting in October during election years.

Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Based on your .nl, I will assume you are tall, ride a bike everywhere, and love cheese. But I’m sure some yank will find something offensive to call you. Just be patient.

Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 60 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So for the first time we don’t get lumped in with the yanks, we get lumped in with the Brits instead???

We just can’t win.

Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 86 points 7 months ago (12 children)

This is some bullshit, I can’t even lend a hand

Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond? in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

George Carlin nailed it as always.

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Hamilton neighbourhood covered after plant malfunction sends 'beans raining down' (www.cbc.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19504574

Unvaccinated Hamilton child died from measles infection in c/hamilton@lemmy.ca
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it was just their own health that is being impacted, I would have ignored it, but the fact that unvaccinated people are dangerous to society is what make me mad. I had a discussion with someone who insisted it is their right, and that the guberment have no business insisting that they get the vaccine while working for the federals. Trying to explain that you can either abide by society's rules or "leave" didn't get me anywhere, it's like those people believe that society exists to serve only them and not the other way around.

Humanity is doomed. And I really really fear for my kids and their kids, IFF my kids can afford to have children of their own.

Can we just leave this planet already?

Unvaccinated Hamilton child died from measles infection in c/hamilton@lemmy.ca
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is there a legal precedent for this?

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Unvaccinated Hamilton child died from measles infection (www.thespec.com)
The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest | Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was trying to be funny…

https://lemmy.ca/comment/10331686

Florida school board pauses chaplain plans following interest from 'Ministers of Satan' in c/thesatanictemple@lemmy.world
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Police charge suspects in gun bust, assault during Winona Peach Festival (www.chch.com)
Project 2025 aims to eliminate the US Forest Service (USFS) powers to prevent forest fires and to increase logging on Federal lands which makes sense because it's trees that are the problem in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

I hate that my brain rambling are that close to ChatGPT’s output.

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Creating a local VMwae software mirror using aac-lib/vsm (lemmy.ca)
 

I needed to have a local mirror of VMware software, and logging into my.vmware.com, downloading, and then uploading was becoming tiresome.

I tried the VMware software solution, but:

  1. Windows only
  2. Borke all the time.

Then I found this:

Texiwill/aac-lib

It needs several packages pre-installed, but it mostly takes care of everything, as of now, it is running on a CentOS machine, the following script is running via cron daily, you will need to git pull acc-lib first.

#!/bin/bash
#
_USERNAME="my vmware account"
_PASSWORD="my vmware password"

cd ~aac-lib/vms
git pull

for _REPO in $(cat ~/vmware-repos.txt) 
do
  ./vsm.sh -c -y -nc --symlink --fav $_REPO -u $_USERNAME -p $_PASSWORD
done

Content of the vmware-repos.txt are similar to this, if you run vsm.sh you will understand the naming convention

Datacenter_Cloud_Infrastructure_VMware_Tools_12_x_VMware_Tools
Datacenter_Cloud_Infrastructure_VMware_vSphere_8_0_Enterprise_Plus
Infrastructure_Operations_Management_VMware_vRealize_Log_Insight_8_8

And here is a sample .vsmrc to get you started, I put everything in /data, which is a separate partition of about 4TB at the moment:

repo='/data/vmware-content'
cdir='/data/vmwarevsmxml'
symlink=1

I then export the vmware-content directory via a web server, just a nginx with FancyIndexing enabled, and also via NFS and FTP.

If you need more details, ask away.

I have been using this for a couple of years now, it rarely fails me.

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Cannot login to custom instances (lemmy.ca)
 

Hi

App looks good.

Browsing anonymously for now.

Trying to login to lemmy.ca but the submit button does nothing

Not sure what info is needed

Nota: I use 2FA for login if that’s relevant

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This is just a placeholder (lemmy.ca)
 

Hi,

ExVMW here, just creating this as a place holder in case it is needed

I will be happy to hand it over to any mods from r/vmware

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