I once got assigned a work project to add new functionality to the web service of a recently-acquired company.

The meat of their codebase was a single lua file to handle web requests, query value from Redis, and then progressively filter out items in a loop. Of course, because Lua has no continue statement, the file was a long series of if / else blocks. It was clear that the development style was to just keep adding new things to the loop. There were, of course, no tests.

I asked the former CTO of the acquired company (now in a sales) why they went with Lua. His reply was something about how if Lua is good enough for fintech, it should be great for web services. He must have been good in the sales role, because when I learned how much our company paid to acquire this crappy Lua script, my jaw dropped.

Anyway, that’s all to say that in my sample size of 1, Luarocks has been the least painful part of Lua.

Since this will be a facility owned by a public university, I think the city would see no property tax revenue from this project. So why should a city trade its health and/or morals for a nuclear weapons datacenter and not even get anything out of it?

What I’m getting at is that for people using FDE, any performance hit is worth it compared to worrying that you’ve covered every angle.

Suppose you’re in some hypothetical country where torrenting is illegal. The presence of /usr/bin/qbittorrent on your disk could be enough to face charges. Unencrypted /var/log? Maybe they can see you’ve been running a cryptocurrency miner. There could be plenty of data outside of $HOME on your computer which a cop might try to use against you.

In the most paranoid hypothetical scenario, someone could mount your unencrypted /usr/bin and replace openssl with a compromised version.

I’ll just wait 15 years for the OpenMind project to release the first fully open source brain chip.

Then spend the remainder of my life in a coma because I flashed the wrong boot image.

OpenMW has been fully playable for years

The Elon-oi.

I’d be OK if my descendents got to eat them.

It looks like the evolutionary advantage is still debated. There’s a newer hyopethsis that, because psilocybin evolved during a period of heightened gastropod diversity, it could be defence against snails.

Reminds me a bit of a previous campaign (not DnD). We (the party) spent so much time and attention murdering and threatening our way into a coup against the sickly King that we stopped paying attention to anyone else in the story.

Then in our campaign finale, we flub every single roll to execute the coup, and our whole plan gets hijacked by a more competent NPC to seize power for herself. Queue TPK* while we all get hunted down as traitors.

* Except for the party poisoner. He was happy to spend his life in prison so long as the new government let him brew poisons for use against enemies of the state.

When I was a student, my school had analog clocks that were synced via some electric system.

Hey, not everyone was born to be a king.

I wouldn’t think so. Isn’t bottles just an easier way to manage wine prefixes? If so, it doesn’t do anything to hide your Linux system from the executable.

Wine prefixes are not sandboxes. They are a way to separate the windows-level configuration for different programs (eg env vars, or drivers, etc).

Wine is a translation layer between a compiled windows binary and your Linux syscalls/libraries/device drivers/etc, nothing more.

Wine is not an emulator. It’s not sandboxed either. If you can do it as a user, a program running in wine can do it too.

There’s nothing stopping a piece of malware from crawling your disk for sensitive information, or encrypting your files for ransom.

You inspired me to test on 6m. Not a good match at all (SWR 40+). Gonna explore more, but from what I read about moxons on Wikipedia, they don’t lend themselves well to multi-band operations. I guess the measurements can be very band-specific.

Honestly, my plan is to use it as a minor propaganda tool: Call up a local ham friend for a “radio check”, and “just happen” to mention that there’s a protest going on and nobody is being aggressive, etc. I hear way too many maga guys on the airwaves, I want to do what I can to counter it.

Plus, if the cops do get violent, there’s no downside to having a communication tool that doesn’t rely on big tech or cell phones. One more way to get the word out.

Of course, something like this could be adapted for tools like meshtastic, or used with digital modes in order to coordinate a group.

Serious answer: ownCloud

There are some sites where Anubis won’t let me through. Like, I just get immediately bounced.

So RIP dwarf fortress forums. I liked you.

What do you mean by handling the keyfile?

You can generate your ssh keys outside of docker and make them available in the container through a mounted directory. You will need to manually copy the public key to your remote host authorized_keys file anyway.

The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.

Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?

• Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
• Windows “helpfully” cleaning up your Linux bootloader
• Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a “dirty” state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again

And suddenly, that’s where you’ll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.

Shouldn’t he be folding little origami animals or something?