Computers are far too easy these days. That is why I CTF, so I can spend a relaxing Sunday night dredging perl cpan syntax up from the dark ages to escape circular dependency hell and hopefully turn this blob of random bytes into a flag.
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canllaith
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You mean you don’t precariously balance your server’s monitor and keyboard on the bag of pasta in the pantry ? I mean, each to their own.
In horrible little computer adventures I now have 32 hours worth of still not doing the thing I am meant to be doing instead of tinkering.
@nzdjb@cloudisland.nz I will pay a bit more and I think it is more than justified for 2. and especially 3. - bring it on.
I wholeheartedly recommend CTFs and Hack the Box for continuing professional education credits for ISC2 certifications. Over half of this was automatically submitted for me and was way more interesting and did much more for me than sitting through endless webinars on 'Vibe Your Way to Security with AI'
Seriously considering switching from iPhone to GrapheneOS entirely for fewer features and for the device to make fewer assumptions about what I want in a particular moment. When did I get so old and grumpy ?
@nzdjb@cloudisland.nz life is too short for that kind of rubbish.
In tiny computer adventures I am writing a report in LibreOffice at the moment on the ex-Chromebook. The report itself is only 10 pages with a few screenshots but I also have open a CSV with a million rows and Firefox with 3 tabs showing me reference documentation. It is genuinely impressive this can be done with under 2GB of memory in use.
As soon as I try to open something like Facebook of course it will use 2GB alone - which is an excellent argument for never opening Facebook.
I will never not giggle at this little bit of shade.
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@thomasbeagle my partner just did the same and I will do the same next year. Apparently global medical advice is for 55+ but of course we don’t follow that here …
Sigh. 'echo 'sudo apt-get install vim' >> .bashrc'
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@sitharus@cloudisland.nz (I'll stop spamming poor JSR) I find it against my personal principles to take advantage of the sale and buy more Allbirds for both reasons although one of them is clearly worse than the other ... darn and blast etc et al. America and AI are both quite annoying.
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@jsr@social.jsr.com I was going to buy a sale pair of their shoes and then I read that and I am now going to not do such a thing out of pure spite.
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@sitharus although to be fair the patch for Debian Stable 6.12 is out so those are patched , I am just running a kernel from backports on three of my machines.
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@jwz I am so glad. I went through all the xscreensavers one by one recently to make a playlist of favourites and I have so much appreciation for the art in the project. LLM contribution would ruin it.
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave omg what is even going on here usually you leave the trauma to the end guys. A+ story telling so far.
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@sitharus@cloudisland.nz @duckalini@cloudisland.nz @jsr@social.jsr.com yes, that ... that is the reason for the conversation =)