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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange To say nothing of the fact that the original cohort of D&D players are entering retirement age
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@quinn@social.circl.lu @rysiek@mstdn.social At the time I was part of the network engineering team at the University of Pennsylvania. We were having a discussion about what we should use for our campus information system. We felt that Gopher was not so user friendly, and the world wide web was just too new. So we decided to develop something ourselves. Sigh.
Needless to say, that project never really got off the ground as everything rapidly shifted to HTML and the web.
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@timberwraith@mastodon.social Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex 65 years ago. Our current spending makes it clear that his warning went unheeded. Now that big money has captured government, it becomes self-reinforcing.
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@limebar@mastodon.social Yeah, bad.
Free on Youtube for folks outside the USA. Maybe try a VPN to appear to be coming from elsewhere?
I've heard several mondegreens for different lines in the chorus of Boston's "More Than a Feeling", but mine was always the second line. The correct lyrics are:
"It's more than a feeling (More than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (More than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (More than a feeling)
'Til I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away"
But my brain changed "When I hear that old song they used to play" to "When I heard that old song yesterday". I must have sung it that way for decades before I happened to look at the lyrics.
Boston, "More Than a Feeling" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo
(Incidentally, after watching this video I am convinced that Tom Scholz was an early pioneer of the Shoegaze movement)
#TuneTuesday #MistakenLyrics
Boston - More Than a Feeling (Official HD Video)
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Had a wasp fly up one leg of my trousers. Stung multiple times. Apparently I did a funny dance too.
Painting a grim picture of the #WPBL’s internal and external communications. As a hard-core fan of the league I have personally found this frustrating, but they’re also jerking around prospective players and the few media outlets wanting to cover the nascent league. Also the last-minute ESPN media deal sabotaged a number of sports bars that had scheduled watch parties. I hope the league can do better next season.
https://defector.com/the-new-womens-pro-baseball-league-offers-hope-and-frustrations
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@Eichi@mastodon.bierschutzpartei.de My courseware is free under Creative Commons licensing:
https://github.com/halpomeranz/LinuxCmdLine
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@DemonHusky@mas.to @thomasconnor@mstdn.social @my_roxbury@better.boston Choosing “home cities” for the #WPBL teams from the major sports media markets—even though all games are in Springfield, IL—is kind of cheesy. But I hope it is successful in generating fan interest.
I’d be happy for ESPN to move the games to their “ESPN zone” ballpark here at Orlando Disney World though. It’s a beautiful little park and much more convenient to me!
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@ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz I believe your solution would work.
Pro: Don't have to cache changes to the image
Con: Complexity
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@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems The carbonation process doesn’t put the plastic jug in danger of rupturing? Or at least popping the top off and letting the gas escape?
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@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems I’ve had alcoholic ginger beer in Australia, but I think the alcohol came from grain alcohol that was added to the flavored soda. But I don’t need the alcohol, I just really like ginger beer.
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@utf_7@mastodon.social @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Celestial mechanics is one thing, but why have 12 oddly irregular months? Why not have 12 30 day months and 5 days of holiday—six on leap years.
Each month could have six day or five day weeks with an arbitrary number of work vs non-work days.
Or do away with weeks and months entirely and just count days.
These are all choices.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Chasing retail investors is one of the signs of a late stage bubble heading to extinction. The small group of folks who own 90% of the market are repositioning their money for the collapse and need the rest of the world to absorb the loss.
Here's a challenge for all you Linux DFIR types that I've never been able to satisfactorily solve:
You have multiple Linux disk images that were all derived from a common base image. Consequently, they have duplicate LVM2 group names, volume GUIDs, etc. You'd like to be able to mount the images simultaneously, but Linux doesn't allow mounting LVM volumes with duplicate names.
To date, the only solution I have found is to make a working copy of the image and then destructively rename things with vgrename, etc. Yes, you could use overlayfs, but that effectively makes a working copy in the merged directory and adds additional overhead.
What I want is a way in Linux to add an on-the-fly copy on write cache file to absorb any changes necessary to the underlying image file so that the underlying image is not impacted.
Has anybody come up with a workable solution?
#Linux #DFIR
Once carried through the current, and being swept away
The king is in his closet, he's hiding from today
And though he owns all fortune, this room is where he'll stay
And his world is filled with darkness, turning grey
Kansas, “Closet Chronicles” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcYxb_YKZ1s
#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty
I'm posting my long-form #WPBL content over at https://RunsHitsErrors.com -- this is mostly for the benefit of friends and family who are not on and/or struggle with Mastodon.
What shall we do with all of this rage?
Somebody please fix Lee Smith’s mic
#wpbl
Florence + The Machine with Dizzee Rascal, “You’ve Got the Dirtee Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMr3cmzGfyE
#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty
Florence + The Machine & Dizzee Rascal - You Got The Love (Brit Awards 2010).mpg
I feel like I’ve done this one before. But what the heck, it’s a great tune!
“1st Movement (Jumping Biz)”, Electric Light Orchestra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9akUBIutzY
#TuneTuesday #JumpUpAndDown
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@csem_cn@mstdn.social In the worst case scenario, you have to rename multiple layers:
VG name— vgrename
Volume GUIDs— vgchange -u
PV GUID— pvchange -u
File system GUIDs— tune2fs (EXT) or xfs_admin (XFS)
You can do all of this to your working copy without impacting other data in the file system. Once all the changes are made, you can mount the images side by side.
Why do you want to do this? Because each image has unique data—logs, OS changes, user data, etc. Being able to look at them side by side has value.
It's difficult to decide which Al Stewart song to use for today's category, because so many of his lyrics use historical events as a metaphor. But here are a couple of my favorites:
Al Stewart, "Man For All Seasons" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzI_rqO0nE4
Al Stewart, "Laughing Into 1939" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eD6YU98tLY
#JukeboxFridayNight #History
A Man for All Seasons
Today’s #AWiderWorld hashtag for #JukeboxFridayNight is chock full of interesting music! Check out some musical traditions you may not have heard before.
Early in our relationship, Danielle was dealing with a terrible migraine and her normal medications were not helping. I was feeling helpless as she cried in my arms from the pain. I quietly sang this song to her as I held her and she settled and was able to drift off to sleep.
Badlands, “In a Dream” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU91leRu-_k
#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist
Badlands - In A Dream (Remastered 2021)
#WPBL let’s GO!
(friendly reminder that my non-baseball friends should probably mute this hashtag)
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca It’s not a crime if you make the umlauts out of googly eyes
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@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems Oh. Hmmm. I’ve never been attracted to beer/mead brewing. But ginger beer? This is stirring…something in my brain.
This song transcends the Reggae genre and becomes something universal.
Bob Marley, “Redemption Song” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aCv1pFCW4
#AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight
11. Redemption Song - (Bob Marley) - [Legend]
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I see my loved ones struggle in this pattern constantly and it kills me. I keep looking for supportive ways to facilitate.
DFIR is just the cover story I use to excuse my strange passion for file systems.
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@csem_cn@mstdn.social The use case is forensic investigation. I am currently working a case with multiple images that all have duplicate LVM and file system GUIDs because they were all cloned from the same base image.
I can mount any single image with no problem. But the minute I go to mount another image, the OS refuses because of duplicate GUIDs.
Interrupting my recent nerdy baseball content with some nerdy Linux DFIR content.
https://righteousit.com/2026/08/03/workaround-for-duplicate-lvm-names/
#Linux #DFIR
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @quinn@social.circl.lu @rysiek@mstdn.social I remember Lynx (text/curses) and NCSA Mosaic (graphical)
Come on, #WPBL! Post the lineups before gametime!
Yes: ZZ Top
No: “Sharp Dressed Man”
Gotta go with the classic:
ZZ Top, “Cheap Sunglasses” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHkaIHRK35g
#TogsAndClogs #TuneTuesday
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@Howitzer105mm@pdx.social The “Til I see Marianne walk away” line is another one that often gets misheard
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Danielle is currently using my home office to phonebank for two hours on behalf of the Florida Democratic party. The modern tools allow her to do it entirely from home. It’s dead easy.
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@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social People have told me they have successfully halved the recipe when they didn’t need a full batch. But they go pretty quick with my family of five.