traches

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[–] traches 5 points 15 hours ago

For passwords you have to keep in your head, diceware. Surprised it’s not already mentioned! Basically you roll dice to choose words from a long wordlist until you have 6 or 7 words.

Human brains are good at remembering words. It’s way easier to remember a password that looks like:

grandson estimator virtuous scabbed poet parasitic

than it is to remember a random character string.

[–] traches 3 points 1 day ago

I’m sorry, that came off as meaner than I meant it to be. I’m genuinely trying to convince you that if you get your mind and attitude in a better place, you’ll have no trouble with dating. Learn to love yourself and the rest will follow.

[–] traches 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Stay off the incel forums bro, unless you want to be one forever. They might seem like an understanding support system, but those guys have real toxic and self-sabotaging ideas about dating and women in general.

[–] traches 3 points 1 day ago

If you need honest-to-god office, then yeah you’ll need a windows installation. Either a VM or a second drive is best.

You can use windows indefinitely without activating, you’ll just have the watermark and default desktop background.

[–] traches 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That’s not really true, we can definitely see yellow light. Red receptors and green receptors are both sensitive to it, which your brain correctly interprets as yellow.

[–] traches 2 points 1 week ago

Moon base on the surface is a great idea, I’m 1000% in favor.

Lunar gateway is in NRHO, which means rendezvous windows are a week apart. This makes it pretty useless for any kind of emergency. It’s in this crazy orbit because Orion is a pig that can’t transport a crew to low lunar orbit and back.

[–] traches 1 points 1 week ago

There’s a happy medium somewhere between Lord Farquad and “nothing happens until 18 committees in 23 states have determined there is less than a 0.00001% chance this unmanned probe will fail in any way”

[–] traches -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You’re absolutely right, though the extreme risk aversion is harder to blame on congress.

[–] traches 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re absolutely right, which is why I don’t want the left get tricked into defending a status quo that doesn’t deserve it.

[–] traches 64 points 1 week ago (15 children)

The challenging thing here is that NASA does have deep, systemic problems and is in need of some overhaul. SLS is a breathtakingly expensive boondoggle, lunar gateway has no reason to exist, Orion is underpowered and overweight, Mars Sample Return’s entire mission is in question, JWST was a decade behind schedule and an order of magnitude over budget, and the list goes on. Extreme risk-aversion and congressional meddling have resulted in a bureaucratic quagmire of an organization. It’s hard to find nasa projects that are going well.

Of course I don’t think a gorilla with a sledgehammer as we’re sadly going to see from Trump will make things any better, we need a surgeon with a scalpel.

[–] traches 13 points 1 week ago

I love your writing OP

There are daytime people and nighttime people and they marry each other

 

I have a load-bearing raspberry pi on my network - it runs a DNS server, zigbee2mqtt, unifi controller, and a restic rest server. This raspberry pi, as is tradition, boots from a microSD card. As we all know, microSD cards suck a little bit and die pretty often; I've personally had this happen not all that long ago.

I'd like to keep a reasonably up-to-date hot spare ready, so when it does give up the ghost I can just swap them out and move on with my life. I can think of a few ways to accomplish this, but I'm not really sure what's the best:

  • The simplest is probably cron + dd, but I'm worried about filesystem corruption from imaging a running system and could this also wear out the spare card?
  • recreate partition structure, create an fstab with new UUIDs, rsync everything else. Backups are incremental and we won't get filesystem corruption, but we still aren't taking a point-in-time backup which means data files could be inconsistent with each other. (honestly unlikely with the services I'm running.)
  • Migrate to BTRFS or ZFS, send/receive snapshots. This would be annoying to set up because I'd need to switch the rpi's filesystem, but once done I think this might be the best option? We get incremental updates, point-in-time backups, and even rollback on the original card if I want it.

I'm thinking out loud a little bit here, but do y'all have any thoughts? I think I'm leaning towards ZFS or BTRFS.

 

Not sure about the artist, sorry

 
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