surfrock66

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[–] surfrock66 1 points 22 minutes ago

I thought the nuke was very good, and it isn't lost on me that this isn't for the mega fans, it's for the people that only know Ethan from clips from biased feeds. It is stuff that fans know and have seen, but put in a way casual viewers need to see. I haven't seen any actual critique against any of the content, just copium and hate, like attacking him for including Kaya. All in all, I think this was important and had some great points, like "Hasan and I are like 5 degrees apart on Palestine but that is too much for him" and “This conflict will never end until people realize that Palestinian liberation and Israeli security are not mutually exclusive. You need both.”

[–] surfrock66 35 points 1 day ago

You know, I like the way this is going. The last 2 republican disasters that democrats had to dig us out of (the 2007 financial collapse when I entered the workforce, and the 2020 covid pandemic when my kids were entering school) really had long slow dramatic burns which were unpleasant gradual declines. If he makes it bad enough fast enough, the reaction will be nice an swift so we can begin formulating a rebuilding plan earlier, even if that plan has to look like settlement building in fallout 4.

[–] surfrock66 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you learning networking? You're entering the world of vlans. In the networking OSI model, Layer 3 is where you're dipping your toes.

I'm gonna try to over-simplify this, but each network has a gateway, which is a layer 3 device that helps a local network talk to other networks, either in the house or on the internet. That doesn't have to be a physical device, it can be a virtual network device on your bigger layer 3 device. Most residential network gear won't understand this. When you get into vlans, it's like having multiple separate networks on the same devices; if you have "vlan 10" and "vlan 20"; devices on vlan 10 cannot see devices on vlan 20, even if they're connected to the same switch. This is done by "tagging" ports, which is where you specify what network each port is on. You can also have a port with multiple vlans on it, which is called a "trunk", but for this to work the network traffic has to carry a tag specifying what vlan each packet belongs to (though each trunk also has a "native" port, think of it like a default vlan if a packet isn't tagged). The verbage changes based on the vendor, but that's the idea.

In the actual world, here's how that works. Ports with devices on the other end with multiple devices/networks on them (access points, switches, firewalls) usually are trunks, then end client ports (your computer, a printer) are "access" ports. You would apply a single vlan to access ports, or make it an "untagged" port, whereas you "tag" multiple vlans on trunk ports. The networking devices will make most of that happen.

So how can you shape the traffic between them? Your firewall/gateway/layer3 device. The easiest entrypoint into this is get a small computer (1L PC which you can get nearly as ewaste, having multiple network ports is good) and installing opnsense on it. It's free and good for learning, and I use it in prod today. The opnsense box, let's say, has 1 physical nic, then you create a virtual vlan interface on vlan 10 and 20. That becomes your "default gateway" on all client devices on the respective networks. All traffic leaving the networks go through this device (so faster network ports is better) and that is why firewall rules get to allow/block ports, IP's, endpoints, etc. Your port forwards to the internet happen here as well. You can make a firewall rule to say your other network allows passing traffic to the original network on port 53 to the pihole, for example, so dns servers on a different "lan" can still be used.

This is a complicated subject, but getting some gear on ebay (a "managed switch") is a great way to learn. For example, I have an access point with a management interface on my "mgmt" vlan (99, number is arbitrary), then I have 2 ssid's, one for IoT stuff (vlan 5) and one for my devices (vlan 4). The port going to the access point on the switch is native vlan 99 but tagged to allow traffic with packets tagged with vlan 4 or vlan 5, and the access point tags the traffic based on which SSID the client connects to, the client doesn't care.

[–] surfrock66 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, I think there's a lot of reason to disbelieve him. There were multiple accusers that released the documentation and proof. He said that one accuser was not credible and provided no proof. He also said that that accuser had attacked someone else and didn't provide any proof. At this point there's lots of reasons to believe the accusers and not really any reason to believe him.

[–] surfrock66 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This rings extremely hollow to me. He provided no evidence that he was only given an hour and was not going to be able to ask for an extension. A person has publicly outed him, and he is not willing to share evidence to defend his side of the story because of respecting their privacy... That does not make a lot of sense when his entire livelihood has been compromised. Other than "Trust me bro, I was treated unfairly and I have no evidence but believe me, I was cancelled with a targeted attack and I did nothing wrong" this video contributes nothing of substance to the discussion.

[–] surfrock66 131 points 4 days ago

Man pushing the narrative that Trump sent the military into a liberal state to fix things with positive results is surely not a precursor to anything sinister...

[–] surfrock66 2 points 1 week ago

So first, it's assumed that the transition between matter and energy has evolved to be essentially lossless in the trek canon, and you just have to assume that's true. This is handled with the "Matter-energy conversion matrix" which is a hand-wavey sci-fi invention like a "Heisenberg Compensator." See https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Matter-energy_conversion_matrix

Additionally, this process is bidirectional; waste on a starship is converted into energy and stored. This is done with the "bio-matter resequencer" and is referenced a few times, see:

[–] surfrock66 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This seems like an insane idea, cosmic radiation causes so many measurable impacts even on earth with things like bit flips, this would be a huge issue in space with no magnetic field and atmosphere. I would think this would focus on low density slower speed chips, and likely avoid anything with flash storage.

[–] surfrock66 3 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like it still in development, they have improvements in mind to reduce unnecessary system calls, and at this time you would only run these patches if memory safety was ago critical you didn't care about IO performance, which is niche.

[–] surfrock66 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Everything you feel is valid and it is overwhelming. You can't fix it all quickly. It will seem awful to fix. It can be fixed. When it is behind you, you will be so grateful. You can't fix all problems now, but when you fix the last problem, you will be grateful to past you for fixing the first problem. However bad things are now, they can get worse, so realize that honestly admitting to these things now under the guise of getting help is not something you should be ashamed of. I have been there, I got past it, and everything changed. Getting my depression dealt with took years, but when it was done, it gave me the space to tolerate the discomfort of weight loss to go from 310 to 185 and to fixy career and health.

You need a therapist, and the right one. Don't feel embarassed if it isn't the right fit, I went through 5 or 6 and I've been with mine for 10 years. You don't need to want to get a good grade from your therapist, you won't disappoint your therapist by having a bad week, your therapist gives you the skills to deal with the difficult things so YOU can fix your problems.

Meds won't fix the problems, but they will help interrupt the feedback patterns that cause feelings to amplify and seem insurmountable. The right meds will take time to find and dose right, it can take months, but it can be the enabler to help you open mental doors easier. Don't listen to social media opinions, have an honest discussion with your care team and be open to options that have helped this process for millions of people to your own comfort level. Effexor and lexapro caused more issues than help for me, but Zoloft changed my life and after a decade I am now tapering off... Everyone has a different chemistry and understand the right mix takes time.

You got this.

[–] surfrock66 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anything that gets us closer to mattercast. If we can have one interop standard to be able to cast to devices, whether it be a kodi box running the casting server, a smart speaker running Home Assistant's voice, or a google/amazon device, one open standard to rule them all is the world we need to get to.

[–] surfrock66 8 points 4 weeks ago

I know everyone likes tmux but screen is phenomenal. I have a .screenrc I deploy everywhere with a statusbar at the bottom, a set number of pre-defined tabs, and logging to a directory (which is cleaned up after 30 days) so I can go back and figure out what I did. Great tool.

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