[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Weird how all the evil uber rich are outside the states.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm trying to set up a somewhat weird network configuration, three interfaces on a pi, an adhoc AP, a wireless lan, and a USB modem.

I want clients of the USB device to talk to clients of the AP, I want clients of the AP to talk to other clients and a single host on the wireless network.

Sorta simple right? Just a couple firewall rules? Well NetworkManager is a land of logical defaults that do not like to be adjusted. I had it working where the AP clients could not reach out to the internet, but could reach the USB clients. NetworkManager automagic'd a NFTables ruleset that doesn't appreciate being changed.

Okay so I'll tell NM to not use a firewall backed in the conf, firewall-backend=none, easy.

But once NM is restarted, the networking is behaving like the firewall is still active, despite NFtables and iptables reporting no rulesets, as NM has taken its ball and gone home.

I can't even figure out a baseline of "what the fuck is going on" because the level of opaque NM automagic happening behind the scenes. I just poke at it and hope something happens. Half the NetworkManager behavior is hidden in dev blog posts that you need to sift through, the official documentation just basically gives the bare minimum info for a feature.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

HF autist, ADHD but sorta medicated(probably too low of a dose).

I've been trying to acknowledge/identify something that I feel has been having a lot of negative effects on my life lately. When I'm working on learning something or solving a problem, I'll often hit a point of frustration where all my interest to move past it is suddenly lost.

This will be something like dealing with something annoying at work. But also in creative pursuits, ie I slacked on practicing guitar for a couple weeks and now some knowledge I had is just gone and I'm frustrated I need to start a few steps back.

Things like games with few save points were never fun for me. On many occasions, I'd drop a game completely after forgetting to save and losing hours of progress.

Basically once I get this feeling of frustration, I glaze over and start feeling really tired and annoyed. Like I hit a wall and the only thing that stops it is going to sleep. A few times I've straight up gone to bed hours early just to avoid simmering in the frustration.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

This is like the second terrible take I've seen from the iusearchlinux.fyi instance in a span of minutes holy shit.

What about the pedophiles story? where he had two young girls who were not his wards in a hotel room for some innocent reason

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

It's not great if security is your main goal for organizing, but it has a better user experience than most chat apps. Especially if cross platform chatting is important to you.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Ah yes, the despicable crime of selling bootlegs can only be punished by permanent service to a billion dollar company. Makes sense.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

doing something as drastic as this requires a pretty compelling reason

I've already had a couple people immediately retort "wow mental health is scary", then say "nobody will remember his name".

These people will shamelessly undermine any action then act disappointed that these actions are quickly ignored.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I've got a degree in engineering. I love engineering, programming, electronics, CAD and physical prototype design. I love identifying problems and figuring out requirements and designing something to solve it. I know I'm really good at it, but I can only really perform what feels like 20% of the time.

I'll get into some hyper focus for some problem, learn some complex technology, solve the problem, then not be able to look at tech for weeks. This is cool for hobby stuff but man I gotta work too.

I find it nearly impossible to work on things which I don't find personally interesting which isn't good because most "work" isn't interesting whatsoever. I envy people who are able to just go "ah time to do this boring thing" and they just fucking do it. It genuinely feels impossible to just start.

I'm medicated for ADHD but it feels like it only works like 20-30% of the time. The rest of the time my eyes just lose focus and I stare blankly at a screen waiting for hours to pass.

I don't know how to make this work for me either. I know theoretically I could be a prototype engineer, the type of freelance generalist who gets an idea out and disappears but I don't know how to network sufficiently enough to do that. I've got a good job right now, but COL is so high and full remote isn't possible so I'll always be living in a small apartment or be in so much debt I'll never be able to retire.

I want to do more hardware stuff but that's so rarely a remote type job and offices just hurt my soul with how uncomfortable I am all day long. I could probably make a living as a software engineer but I don't know if I'd be able to keep up any kind of pace long term that would let me keep my job.

I almost want to take a stab at doing youtube videos and see if I can make a handful of neat projects that get me a sponsor. enough to score a house in a rundown rustbelt town and be able to fuck off and work at my own pace without the impending doom of rent or mortgage staring me down.

I drink plenty of water, jog when its warm, use a pomodoro timer when I remember. I learned the fundamentals of Rust in a weekend, designed and manufactured a run of PCBs in under 3 months. I just can't keep that momentum going, even if I try to slow down.

thanks for letting me rant. Its not lost on me how privileged I am in this scenario. I'm quite lucky and comfortable but it terrifies me how even someone doing well like myself can't see an exit off this awful ride.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

I really never understood why one would need a GUI for git except for visualizing branches.

I feel like I'm crazy seeing so many people using clicky buttons for tracking files. I need like 4 commands for 95% of what I do and the rest you look up.

You're already programming! Just learn the tool!

And now there's a github CLI tool? I hate to beat a dead horse but Microsoft pushing their extended version of an open source tool/protocol is literally the second step of their mantra.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Programming humor on reddit used to be excellent bits like this but then it devolved into new learners jumping straight to the irony they didn't understand and flooded the sub with nonsense.

I miss these bits.

btw it does get easier

import math
def is_even(num):
    if num in [i for i in range(1000) if float(i)/2.0 == math.floor(float(i)/2.0)]:
        print("true")
    else:
        print("false")

Obviously one would need to increase the range for bigger numbers but this code is optimized.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I find I can leverage this sometimes.

Years ago in college, I lamented to a classmate of mine that I feel like i was doing so much thinking all weekend but had nothing to show for it. He simply responded "That's called research, and that counts".

Now, although i'm far from efficient, I try to use that rapid thinking time to sort out all the loose strings in my mind, essentially polishing ideas over and over again until my "what-ifs" are paired down and in the last hour of work I can sometimes get myself into a hyperfocus and accomplish what I was thinking about all day.

Totally not a blanket solution but I hope it helps someone reframe their thoughts a bit, maybe help them feel less guilty about holding all this in their head.

Also TAKE NOTES. Obsidian is great, you can link your ideas together, extra pages are free, the canvas tool is great to just tie ideas together.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

DAE DMV?

Every time I hear someone complain about the DMV, USPS, etc, I assume they're being difficult to the workers. Every experience I've had with these kind of government services, I read up ahead on what I need, organize my shit, and show up prepared with a smile.

When I do that you see a wave of relief over the worker and they return the smile and respect. You can basically extrapolate the verbal abuse they deal with all day long.

With my secret method(being nice and respectful), every USPS worker I've interacted with has either been very friendly, or neutral but relieved.

Leave our brave troops alone goddamnit, be nice to them.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

not a lib

Double not a lib

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

long story short, he has a history of it. They've historically resolved after some medical care and medicine adjustment. Its really hard to tell what's happening this time. I think a medication change and some trauma triggered it but it's gotten to the point where he's continuously flinging slurs, hateful comments, and doing some (probably) illegal and heinous shit.

I'm really not sure what to do. I don't want to call the cops but idt it matters because he's gotten several welfare checks already. He's saying everyone is bullying him when in reality, he's the one doing the bullying.

He was already hospitalized, to basically no effect. I know there's not much I can do but it really sucks watching this guy be a wrecking ball through his life, family, and friends.

I really don't want him to get hurt, but I don't want him to hurt others even more. Some advice would be helpful.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

It comes from a disregard of Civility politics. So often Liberals will come to us with bad faith, poorly researched takes, and demand an argument.

Hexbear generally embodies a disrespect for the civility politics and bad faith concern trolls. As an instance we typically act as a single unified unit, which is rare for an online community.

It's nothing personal, but a lot of the members are very well read in theory and history, and propagate that to other users with well sourced arguments. If someone comes in and demands that their propaganda based opinion is the only truth, some will try good faith reasoning. If that good faith attempt is lambasted as being a bot/troll/brigade after effort put in to educate, we'll become hostile.

An internet argument is rarely for the participants, but for the people lurking through. Often times, this method is effective at getting people to question the generally accepted narrative.

I hope you have a good day and please consider logging off for a bit. It's really nothing personal.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

As a committed hexbear poster, I want to share something sorta quick that might give insight into the chapo rules for posting.

The culture generally arose from having a home-team advantage on the old sub. Where typically across reddit, Liberals and Conservatives would argue in bad faith with leftists, return to propaganda as proof, and generally ignore history and call it "whataboutism".

The culture that came from the home-team advantage was a mix of well cited arguments and a ruthless trolling component. It's a relentless form of arguing, where many people can get together and reverse the general consensus.

So when some far right person came in and thought they were being witty with some canned racist/sexist/homophobic remark, we would simply bully them, Tell them to post hog, etc. Same thing with Liberals depending on the comment. Good faith comments are typically met with a thoughtful response. Nowhere else on reddit could you have the level of backup to drown out the fascist elements on that site.

This culture is a shock to a lot of people but I assure you we're very nice people and I think some of us are just a little too excited to dunk again.

I hope this helps a bit. We're all extremely anti-fascist. We do have critical support for previous socialist endeavors, because the horrors of capitalism and it's bedfellow, fascism, have still more than outdone the harm socialist projects caused.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

If the results were also open and public, it'd be a different conversation.

This is more akin to rain water collection up-hill and selling it back to the people downhill. It's privatization of a public resource.

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