Lars Duesing ( @[email protected] )

Gute Nacht, liebster Caesar. Dort, wo Du jetzt bist, geht es Dir hoffentlich besser als die letzten Tage. Es waren tolle 10 Jahre mit Dir, und es hätten noch viele weitere sein dürfen.

@tamay_idk Fast: "Aufgrund einer behördlichen Maßnahme muss dieser Zug geräumt werden. Bitte steigen sie aus und verlassen sie auch den Bahnhof. Folgen sie den Anweisungen des Personals"

@tamay_idk "Aufgrund einer polizeilichen Anordnung muss dieser Zug geräumt werden. Bitte verlassen sie den Zug, und im Anschluss den Bahnhof auf direktem Wege." (Oder so, ja, diese Ansage ist in einigen Zügen vorprogrammiert)

Allen Admins mit D-Trust TLS Zertifikaten der Bundesdruckerei wünsche ich Frohe Ostern. Heute wurden alle Zertifikate des letzten Jahres zurück gerufen heise.de/news/Fieses-Os…

@LGcommaI @straceX Yes, for instance the Toshiba mg09 series. Self encrypted drives.

@lduesing @straceX Not in this context; does it specify a fast-erase for spinning HDD?

There’s a massive difference between older magnetic hard drives compared to modern TLC/QLC flash (and even older SLC). The onboard flash chips rely on trapping exact amounts of electrons to represent your files, and without power, that trapped charge slowly leaks through the insulating oxide layer. Firmware can correct some of this, but not indefinitely. 🧵

@LGcommaI @straceX You never heard of Opal ssc spec?

@straceX On a related note: magnetic HDD simply do not offer the possibility to erase everything in milliseconds via SOFTWARE. Of course they can be destroyed, too, but never that quickly, for physical reasons. x.com/LGcommaI/statu…

@straceX Borpand Pascal and Turbo Assembler. And Microsoft Assembler. There had been no python then.

13 years old kid and already coding in Python. What were you doing at his age?

@DerPhysiker21 Nun, Dein ABS im Auto wird auch von einem Computer mit "Betriebssystem" gesteuert. Nur mal so als Gedanke...

Das ultrawoke Kalifornien ist im Begriff, sich ins Knie zu schießen. Sie verlangen ab 2027, dass alle Computer-Betriebssysteme eine Altersverifikation ihrer Nutzer erzwingen sollen. Die Anbieter der Open-Source Betriebssystem Linux und BSD-UNIX überlegen bereits, Kalifornien die Nutzungsrechte zu entziehen. Na und? denkt sich da so mancher Kalifornier und Regierungswoke, habe noch nie davon gehört, also egal! Schief gewickelt! Linux ist nicht nur für Privatnutzer famos (ich benutze es fast ausschließlich), sondern es steckt auch bei fast allen Servern unter der Haube. Extra für die Regierungswoken: Server, das sind diese Dinger, die Webseiten und Daten liefern. Auch für das Intra- und Internet der Regierung. Willkommen in der internetfreien Zeit! achgut.com/artikel/das_en…

@FedExHelpEU wait, you're telling me you put my parcel into your delivery car, go 600km to Italy, sorting it in your hub there, and all that in one hour?!?

@CyberRacheal You never had troubles with your printer driver using windows? Or - ok some years ago - your scanner would not be of use because Windows changed the driver infrastructure and the manufacturer of your scanner told you that your scanner is aged and there will be no new driver.

Linux is "free" if your time has no exchange rate.  In terms of cash, yes, it’s 100% free. No $100 Windows license, no forced subscriptions, and no "Pro" versions. You can download the most powerful operating systems in the world for the price of a coffee (well, the electricity to download it).  On Windows or Mac, you’re a passenger. On Linux, you’re the mechanic. If your Wi-Fi driver decides to go on strike after an update, you’re the one who has to open the "hood" (the terminal) and fix it. You might spend three hours trying to get a specific game or a piece of Adobe software to run because it wasn't built for Linux. That’s three hours of your life you aren't getting back. The reason people love it despite the stress is Ownership. Windows is like a rental apartment where you can't paint the walls, and the landlord (Microsoft) checks in on you constantly to see what you're doing. Linux is a plot of land where have to build the walls yourself, and the plumbing might leak at first, but nobody is watching you, and you own every single nail.

Pixel: OS Update bekommen, Neustart: "Installiere bitte die App" - und dann:

@vxunderground Wait? Any OS? Even the rtoses in your car? So you can't use your brakes (ABS!) without prior age verification on every single rtos on your car? Funny.

Chat, all hell has broken loose in the Linux community. Linux nerds are discussing how they'd implement age verification at the OS level (if need be to comply with laws). Linux nerds are having a psychiatric meltdown. The nerds are revolting.

@MancerAI_ @davepl1968 Much funnier: Novell netware in DOS times: you got the message in the last two rows of your screen, waiting there for acknowledge via ctrl-enter. But: in such a color you would not see it at once if you used word or such ;)

Back in middle school on the ... win 95? Computers wr could do "net send * " from any logged in user. Resulted in a popup "" [ OK ] To all users on the network. If you were logged out you were greeted by it when later logging in. Also ofc you could send many in a row. 13-15y.o. boys.. you do the math. The "computer guy" (some teacher who got a 2 half day course and a cup of coffee I guess) had a rough few days dealing with that.

sudo ping -f 192.168.1.255 This is a wonderfully antisocial little experiment that fires ICMP echo requests at my broadcast address as fast as the kernel can manage, essentially shouting “anyone alive?” to the entire LAN over and over again. On a modern network, most machines sensibly ignore it, but anything old-school, misconfigured, or intentionally permissive may answer back, and if several do, you briefly get a taste of the kind of packet chaos that made 1990s network admins lose sleep. It’s fun and cool because it turns a single command into a stress test, a history lesson, and a truth serum all at once: you learn which devices are well behaved, which ones still think it’s 1988, and whether your own network stack or emulator can survive being yelled at relentlessly without falling over. Why? I'm testing a DEQNA emulator that I'm writing for the PDP-11, and need a stress test before I check in!

@davepl1968 With all respect, my passwords are encrypted at rest at bitwarden, my topt-secrets are encrypted at rest at my cloud-provider. But my bitlocker key is for anyone to read at rest at microsoft?

As a user, this is sort of a Hobbesian choice: do you want the convenience of a backup key stored by the vendor, or do you want your data to be fully private? Pick any one. Ultimately its up to you to decide. Once there's a valid court order, and they have the key, no one at Microsoft is going to jail to save you. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

@Itsfoss Not really the first, but the oldest I found. Before there was slackware in the 1994/1995 from sunsite.unc.edu ;)

Did everyone start their Linux journey with Ubuntu? What was your first distro?

@TechOperator C:\ll1\sierra.com Oh. Wait. That was earlier.

You are presented with this screen. What’s your next move?

@TheGoldenDays Windows 1.02. Still got the original 5 1/4" Disks. (And they are still readable...)

What was the first Windows you ever used?

@m_t_mask Ich hatte immer Angst das meine Diskette gelöscht wird, wenn ich sie im Finder in den Mülleimer ziehe, um sie auszuwerfen... Ok, ist ca. 40 Jahre her ...

Hab Windows seit klein auf. Linux hier und da mal benutzt. Heute erstes Mal Mac. Das Piktogramm zeigt mir, ich soll die geladene Datei in meinen Programme Ordner ziehen. Ich gehe in meine Downloads und ziehe das Image in meinen Ordner mit Programmen. Doppelklick. Wieder der das Pop-Up. Nochmal von vorn. Ich habe 15 Minuten gebraucht und ein scheiß Youtube Video gebraucht um zu kapieren, dass das Piktogramm kein Piktogramm ist und ich innerhalb dieses Fensters das Icon in den Ordner ziehen muss.

@RVN256 @markusdd5 Ein Informatik - Studium geht kaum um programmieren. Hauptsächlich um die Mathematik dahinter.

@markusdd5 Bin am überlegen irgendwas in Richtung Informatik zu studieren und da wird man wohl nicht rum kommen.

Frage in die Runde: Wie schwer ist es, Programmieren zu lernen?

@LTE_Max Kommt immer auf das Risikoszenario an. Für mein homelab ist es eher weniger relevant, für gematik extrem.

@leothrix @alexey_avdeev So please do not use OSes glued together by C: x *x &x are WAY different.

@alexx_avdeev My point is that it’s undue mental burden to have to remember how $VAR, “$VAR”, “${VAR}”, etc. are all subtly different

Even assuming Omarchy had zero bloat, gluing together a system with POSIX shell scripts is like building a house with tools that will randomly break if you hold them at the wrong angle or disappear in your hand if it's Tuesday