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Google is losing its status as a verb
  • I saw that on some TV show years ago - Microsoft was obviously sponsoring since every laptop and phone had a windows logo on it, and at one point one character said to another "Just Bing it!" (in a context where you'd normally say "just google it")

  • My debugging experience today: Quantum Debugging
  • Had a similar thing at work not long ago.

    A newly deployed version of a component in our system was only partially working, and the failures seemed to be random. It's a distributed system, so the error could be in many places. After reading the logs for a while I realized that only some messages were coming through (via a message queue) to this component, which made no sense. The old version (on a different server) had been stopped, I had verified it myself days earlier.

    Turns out that the server with the old version had been rebooted in the meantime, therefore the old component had started running again, and was listening to the same message queue! So it was fairly random which one actually received each message in the queue 😂

    Problem solved by stopping the old container again and removing it completely so it wouldn't start again at the next boot.

  • The Worst TV Show Finales
  • From what I remember:

    Season 5 was even worse, but at times it was "so bad it's good", so it was entertaining in an unintended way. Watch it to laugh at the mind-blowingly bad writing 😂 I wonder what drugs they had in that writer's room...

    Season 6 actually had some really good moments/episodes in the first half, but then it fell apart again.

    Season 7 was mostly nonsense, and I stopped watching after the second to last episode.

    Maybe one day I'll watch the rest (season 8 was the last)...

  • What is happening in Norway, and how do we spread it?
  • I'm a Norwegian Linux enthusiast and have never heard anything about the government using Ubuntu or Linux. Seems unlikely, from what I know. I know that within healthcare Windows is still widely used, even on the server side...

    On the other hand, a lot of software for official services is being developed as open source now, so that's at least a good step in the right direction. Example: https://github.com/navikt

  • Fallout TV Show Could Now Last Five Seasons After ‘Immensely Surprising’ Popularity, Say Creators
  • An additional problem (maybe the biggest problem imho) is Amazon and Netflix et al refusing to give them more than 8 episodes per season. For things with a huge amount of source material (e.g. Wheel of Time) this forces the writers to make big changes in order to try to tell a big story in a too short amount of time. Combine this with inexperienced writers or writers who think they can do a better job than the source material, and you've got a recipe for failure, in my opinion.

    The Wheel of Time, for example, had many small moments that were amazing, almost perfect, but overall the show ends up being disappointing when so many other parts fail completely.

  • Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X
  • I literally have an account there dedicated to porn. Have had it for years. I stopped using Twitter after the muskocalypse, except I still check my porn account every once in a while.

    You have to actively go looking for porn there, but once you do it's a neverending rabbit hole. Especially if you're into some niche/fetish stuff. There's some unique stuff to be found there...

  • not all my files showing in my JF library
  • You should remove the executable permission, see my other reply. Movie files should never be executable, but directories should be.

    chmod -R -x+X * should do the trick, that will remove the executable permission on all files, and set it on directories.

  • not all my files showing in my JF library
  • This is not correct. Movie files do not need to be executable, and never should be! Not that movie files being executable will cause problems, but it's possible to imagine a scenario where an attacker could exploit it, especially if the files are owned by root. Extremely unlikely, but I work in IT and always think about security :)

    You might be thinking of directories, which do need the executable permission to let a user/group/all be able to read its contents.

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    c/unixsocks for more
  • You can google "women in computing" for more details, or check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing - it's amazing how much women contributed to this field and how little known that appears to be. (I only learned about it a few years ago myself.)

    But the gist is:

    Early on (i.e. the 1940s and 50s), men thought the prestige and honor was in building the giant machines (which back then could fill a classroom or more). Actually programming them was considered easier, "just like following a recipe", so women got jobs as "computers" who did this part. To quote that wikipedia article: Designing the hardware was "men's work" and programming the software was "women's work."

    Fast forward to the 1970s and people had started realizing that programming was actually hard, and so it was promoted as a field boys should get educated in, while girls were encouraged to instead become nurses and teachers and such.

  • Homeserver Ansible Playbook
  • If you want to make your playbooks/roles more universal, there's a generic package module which will figure out what package manager to use based on the detected OS.

    Or, if that doesn't fit your needs, you can add conditions to tasks (or blocks of tasks), like

    when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"

    and use that for tasks specific to a given Linux distro/family.

    Ansible will detect a lot of info about each host and make it available as facts. See for example https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_vars_facts.html

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