They don’t deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.

Right now, though, they’re playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.

It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn’t doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.

Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that’s just math.

Meh. If it was Ai doing the writing, it would have said “firstLY” and “secondLY”. For that matter, so would someone trained as a journalist: they went to school, after all.

I kinda think I want it to try. I make little effort to hide my location or identity, and I think I’d like to see the results.

…just without saying who I am before I get those results. And my desire to stay anonymous-ish and not give it a chance to cheat means I can’t satisfy I have the right to the identify of myself if it finds who I am.

Quite seriously, I cannot prove I have the right to make it search for me, for myself, without giving it too much information or without risking the leak of private info to a so-far unidentified stranger if it finds anything.

Catch-22

If only there was a standard time to stay with. What did the experts say?

More gear into the second market. Nice.

Ha!

My work laptop is mandated win11.

I have working headphones.

I have working headphones set that go through a dock and through a KVM and through 20 feet of USB and three chained hubs between said laptop and my earballs.

They also switch beautifully over to the Nobara (fedora) I’ve installed, and even back to this ancient ring-fenced win7 physical I have.

Hell; I only had issues last year because I got a janky USB extension and the Dell cube dock is a piece of actual shit and the two couldn’t cope.

What do I win with a ugreen usb3 sound dev and an apple 3.5mm earpods headphones plugged in? I mean, aside from a working comms rig.

Sometimes the Lennart Poetterings fuck up

Dude. That guy has single-handedly ruined two decades of bulletproof, fast, reliable booting. I can’t wait until we all wise up and it’s more than PCLinuxOS that avoids this mess. It’s a metastatic kudzu/poison-ivy hybrid with a taste for flesh.

2 weeks to set everything up (lamp stack, K3S, crowdsec, openappsec, wireguard, etc)

If you’re pushing kubes onto a normie or a noob, the fault’s partially yours. Single-box apache, maybe samba xor git, depending on the workflow, and some audio hints in /etc/profile.d to remind them how to restart various pieces if they can putty in.

echo 'yum clean ; yum upgrade --skip-broken --no-best ; needs-rebooting && reboot||:' > /etc/cron.weekly/do-eet

… and walk away.

(--no-best and --skip-broken because RH can’t even do releng now. ‘You had one job’ meets ‘Dead Sea Effect’)

If you only knew how fortified an AWS DC would be in that area. It’s gonna fail-secure, and getting in will require leverage.

Workweek

Two words, my dude.

We don’t have the luxury of space to build out mini-bunglow sprawl. We’re already over capacity with the regular sprawl. This notion that we all deserve white picket-fenced yards is antiquated.

Better laws means actual affordable housing: subsidized housing based on income levels, so the poorest can have a place to sleep and bathe securely and peacefully. There’s nothing that necessitates tiny bungalow jungles and the hideous infrastructure convolutions they demand.

two containers

Good luck, but I’m out.

At no time is assassination cool.

• even for bad people
• even for bad regimes
• even if the redneck idol does it

We’ve chosen other organizations for this, lacking only our support to investigate and then remove tyrants. But this shit both breaks international law and abandons its backing. It’s a one-two punch for civilization.

Why would trump not respect and empower objective investigation and punishment for cruelty? Is he worried about something?

different

BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.

(Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)

And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.

I’m sure comments like this will inspire people. You’re really good at this.

What’s the big deal? For 20 years in the enterprise space it’s been yum upgrade -y && reboot into cron and no issues. At the day job I even had satellite (5 and that shitball 6) cronned up to do my promotion automatically (even when 6 had shit for scheduling and I had to cron-parallel-xargs a better one). All cron.

Hell, I barely pay attention to the email reports now. It’s been that long. Okay, prod updates on Friday night only; but that’s our only nod to risk. Because even after the metastatic fatberg that is Systemd, it’s still barely reliable.

What’s the added risk for Debian packages? Imperfect replacement? No signed manifest to compare against? What?

I wish it was only double. You saw where I said it was 4x? 4x is really close to 5x ; 80% of the way, you know.

Dude. I’m sorry she’s imperfect for your particular criteria. She can still be the best for America’s evolution while not being perfect. Maybe the libel of marking someone before their trial date is just a bridge too far; but we all got it from context clues.

I’m actually glad this is the best issue today you could come up with: the amount of hair-splitting is almost a good sign.

We used to call that Talking Hard.