Yea, that seems to track

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_movement

Kinda confirms to me that the current admin’s strategy is to destroy as much as possible and only address the squeaky wheels on a case-by-case basis.

The small handful of things that we fight back against and win won’t outweigh the sheer amount of damage they do to things we have less awareness of. A single win, no matter how large or trivial, will sate the general public for a time and give them the calmness the admin needs to keep moving forward.

Pretty sure this is a military strategy and probably has a name. Inundate your enemy with so many events they spread themselves too thin to address everything coming at them.

This is about as newsworthy as whoever [insert celebrity name] is dating right now.

Give NixOS a look-see. Takes a different approach to package management, but for an engineer that want’s customization abilities it’s probably one of the top choices. I don’t usually recommend this for newbies, but if you’re an engineer it won’t be too bad and simply using it may give you more skills to add to your repertoire when looking for work.

A lot of people put time into maintaining their dotfiles, but NixOS takes that idea to the infrastructure-as-code level when you use it as your daily driver.

ETA: in terms of gaming, with Wine/Proton + Steam/Lutris/Heroic pretty much any distro will be workable

I randomly think about something I want, and then usually find it here. Used to be a GitHub repo, but it got so popular and useful they got a nice site with search and all, now.

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

I don’t have as much running anymore outside media/games, but I do still run Stirling PDF as an Acrobat Pro alternative.

Everybody expects Google to become Skynet. I guess SpaceX are going to be the ones to create HAL9000.

If your name is Dave or Frank, don’t become an astronaut right now.

Place your bets, when will Starbucks / A Company that uses this method start implementing AI to design the buildings and run the printers? The last part of the article they talk about how this was more expensive than normal, but it “addressed a labor shortage.” Motherfuckers will literally spend twice as much just to not pay a human a living wage.

I agree with you. I just think about how some government entities are less-than-efficient when it comes to the customer service thing, and that would probably apply here as well.

Probably also makes a difference if it’s at the state or federal level. Local DMVs in some areas are, well, many jokes exist.

The idea is sound, I think. Treat emails, in a way, like we do phone numbers and house addresses. Except this doesn’t ever change, when your name could (or you share a name with thousands of others). I wonder what the identifier would be for the address? Obviously SSN[at]usa.gov is a bad idea 😅

However, could you imagine the nightmare (on both sides) of a tech support call center for official government email account support?

Unfortunately, the people that still use it are not on Lemmy. They’re still on Twitter.

lol, glad I clarified it. I was going to leave it vague and then remembered tables.

Also, yes. Markdown is the shit and I’m glad Lemmy didn’t try to reinvent the wheel!

Nah, Teslas will set themselves on fire with a family inside before it allows something like that to happen.

He forgot to give us the point values…

I wonder what they’ll offer in the Tesla rewards shop

I spent what felt like many moons trying to compile Gentoo when I was a kid. There was only the wiki and a gritty forum for getting answers, nothing in real-time. I didn’t have very much knowledge of the kernel or messing with modules, and was certainly lost on getting a desktop environment going even after I got past the kernel part.

It was such an experience, I decided to become a janitor.

ETA: also this guy (not strictly linux, but same vibes)

I wonder if we could get EU to take over some states if we got enough votes to secede in some areas.

I imagine the list will be dynamic. Those projects might be on a list somewhere, just haven’t been vetted yet by their standards. Start with the source projects, then dive through the forks.

It’s for deployments and managing many environments/machines from a single CLI interface. You can do all sorts of things like push configs based on labels/groups, gather real-time data/logs, scale up/down. It’s great when you have a lot of VPS/VDS/VMs to manage and you’re not using a platform’s specific management tools.

I mainly use NixOS as a barebones backend, keep it as minimal and hardened as I can, then most of the projects/apps that run are done through something like Docker or k8s. So for me, it’s all about managing the underlying servers that provide the tools needed for a project to operate.

The tool itself is undergoing a pretty big redesign at the moment, but you can get the gist of it from the overview in the manual of the commands.

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115931128/download/1/manual/manual.html#chap-overview

lmao, valid and true.

Get your placebo and spam sandwich while it’s hot!

My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.

This is precisely why I asked the question, because I feel the same way.

I do wonder still if there is any way this petition could actually be useful for IA, though. My hopes are not high.