Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

Sea horse, …pommel… Horse…?

I miss the keyboard screen series of Logitech stuff, I held onto my G510 a lot longer than I probably should have and only really retired it for something much nicer to type on around 2020.

If Logitech had released something like their G915 but with the screen, I’d have got it in a heartbeat. Even though game support had long dwindled, it was still good for media player feedback, system stats and IIRC there was a third party way of getting notifications from some sites to show up.

I guess smartphones kinda do most of that better these days… Well excluding the system stats, but that was always the fallback if nothing else was worth showing

Lived in Liverpool and then Manchester from the age of 18, now nearly 2 decades of never needing to own a car.

The odd couple of times I’ve needed to move stuff around it’s either enlisting the help of a friend with a car or just renting a van. Other than that public transport and taxis cover 99% of any journey I’d need to make, and ultimately cheaper.

The only thing I’ll say is travelling across the country by train is forced into being something of a privilege at the prices of the tickets these days. The fact that if I decide to go to London for the weekend with my partner at short notice, that’s going to cost me about £200 discounted with a Railcard, is patently absurd when I could rent a car for the weekend and get a couple of tanks of petrol for less.

Still, travelling by train for long journeys beats having to concentrate on driving anyway IMO, so I’ll still pick the train.

I reckon we’d see a lot more people forgoing a car if more areas invested in their local public transport like the north west has, and if we can find a way to slash the prices of longer train journeys equivalent to equivalent prices in Europe.

This is kinda cope

Practically everyone’s job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.

At that point things end up pretty concrete.

These opinion pieces that pop up saying “ha-HA! Behold the petard they’re hoisting themselves with!” Kinda miss the importance of preparation.

They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.

The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we’ve got something left at the end of it all

That’s totally going to be applied without bias

I was doing some awful manual patching trying to get some Linux TV kernel patches into a raspberry pi kernel I was cross compiling on my main desktop.

IIRC I had both repos cloned for quick reference/source of truth and then a third I was using to do the actual work on. I remember running a du summary on my working directory with it all in at the end, and it was somewhere between 40-50GB.

There was probably a more space efficient way to achieve what I was doing, but there was no need to worry about that

I mean, this sounds like a pretty huge deal

Does anyone who knows this field better than me, know if this is as big as it sounds?

I wouldn’t say a gamer is remotely exceptional, some modern games take up 200+GiB (which is ridiculous, but still reality)

If you’re a content creator or hobbyist that does anything with video, photo or audio, that’s gonna disappear in a flash. For example, I came back with ~30GiB of RAW photos from my last weekend away, and that’s before any processing which will create some intermediate TIFF/DNGs. If it was a week away I’d not even be able to pull them all onto my PC to process.

Hell, I’d be worried about using most of that up by just cloning and compiling a Linux kernel, I think last time I needed to do that I ended up using about 50GiB

I’d say sure, the average web browsing, word processing user you’re probably thinking of is going to be fine for a while, but all other use cases aren’t exactly exceptional.

70GiB was a good amount of free space about a decade ago, not really at all today

Oh I was more saying that’s quite a low amount of free space for an application to be putting a message like that up!

I think my desktop has something like 20TiB free out of around 60TiB currently and I’d just call that a comfortable place to be.

… But I’d understand if a disk tool gave me some grief over it

70GiB is lots of free space? 🤨

I think if that was all I had left I’d already have a new disk in the post

Assuming that’s US dollars I think a large latte (455ml apparently or just over 15oz) at the Costa (about Starbucks level) by me is about £5 (which is about the same as $7). Would probably be an extra quid from a fancier place, probably for a smaller coffee too.

How much is a similar sized latte where you are? It’s been a minute since I’ve checked how much we’re comparatively getting ripped off over here

I’m gonna start pronouncing gnocchi as nookie to wind up my partner

I vaguely remember getting into a WPA network (that I owned!) using kismet about 15 years ago with relative ease, but I’m struggling to remember details about that process.

I also remember reading that WPA2 non-enterprise was broken a while ago, however I just looked into it and both of the main exploits I can find were patchable (and have been patched) at client OS level (They were the KRACK and FragAttacks). Seems like there has already been something found wrong with WPA3 too that’s also been addressed.

So yeah as you say back to brute forcing for the most part. Forcing reconnects was a pretty easy way to get more handshakes to record back when I last tried, so I assume that still has decent levels of success, given the prevalence of mesh networks. Looking further it seems people use a tool called hashcat today to get pretty rapid results doing the actual brute forcing using a modern GPU.

But yes very good advice all in all, long passwords and the highest WPA version you can get away with are going to make an attackers job harder.

Thanks for the reply, you got me to go back down an interesting rabbit hole I’ve not looked at in a while

Worth highlighting WiFi blasts all your data in all directions, and unless you’re using enterprise/WPA3 encryption with a strong password, someone determined enough can break in.

If someone wanted to they could park near your house and run aircrack (or whatever the modern suite is called) without you ever knowing. FWIW this is why it’s good to set up a way of getting notified about new devices on your network (most modern non-ISP routers support a way of doing this)

Conversely, I believe most ethernet NICs discard any packet not intended for it at hardware level, they’re super optimised for speed, it would be much slower to leave that for software. I’m not 100% if that’s universal however, so I’d try and double check that

How would a general strike be neutral or positive for the economy?

General strikes have to involve a meaningful percentage of the working population and are only supposed to end when the demands are met. The people on strike stop working, reduce spending as much as possible and stop paying tax.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where that wouldn’t affect it massively in a negative way, so I’m genuinely curious as to what you think would happen in that scenario

Edit: I’m not sure I understand why this has been met with downvotes and no comment? I don’t see how I’m saying anything false here

Unless it’s a misunderstanding that I’m saying people should not do a general strike, which couldn’t be more wrong. Tbf I think Americans should have started one long before this point.

Hurting the economy in a sustained manner is the mechanism through which general strikes are an effective tool of the working class

Something something false idol

I hold no warmth for organised religion and believe it to be an accelerating net negative to society for at least the past 5 or 6 centuries, probably further.

With that said, these people aren’t Christians, they haven’t even successfully learned the most basic lessons of their book. They’re just a hateful cult appropriating some culture that’s got nothing to do with them.

If there are any actual Christians left out there that actually read the fucking bible, they should be (according to the book itself, as far as I can tell) vehemently denouncing this behaviour as loudly as they can ad nauseum. Reminding all their Christian friends this behaviour is the ticket to eternal damnation, etc.

Why isn’t this happening?

Fascists need to project an image of strength on both themselves and their enemy

If either are perceived as weak that hurts their support, because they spend all this time painting themselves as a necessary solution to something even worse.

The people in Portland are doing exactly the right thing

Mock the fascists & make them look ridiculous. It completely fucks up the entire plan.

Great, there’s a whole additional angle for getting splashed by a puddle I need to watch out for now

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