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  • rtxn@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonebillionaire rule
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    8 hours ago

    The lawful/chaotic axis represents a person’s willingness to follow an external set of rules against their own instincts or opinions. Having a pocket judge or a pocket president to legitimize one’s actions does not make that person lawful.




  • rtxn@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonetrans rule (cw: slur)
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    2 days ago

    Imagine going to a mechanic because the engine is acting up and getting hit with “Your ignition timing is too retarded, it’s killing the engine” without the necessary context.

    (to advance/retard ignition is the correct terminology for setting the timing ahead/behind top dead center; also used in aviation for moving the throttle levers towards a higher/lower power setting)









  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldVPN server on router or within home network?
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    3 days ago

    Tailscale. It does some UDP fuckery to bypass NAT and firewalls (most of the time) so you don’t even need to open any ports. You can run it on individual hosts to access them directly, and/or you can set it up on one device to advertise an entire subnet and have the client work like a split tunnel VPN. I don’t know about OpenWRT, but both pfSense and OpnSense have built-in Tailscale plugins.

    People are freaking out about their plan to go public, but for the moment, it’s a reliable, high quality service even on the free tier.

    I’ve also used Ngrok and Twingate to access my LAN from outside, but they simply use relay servers instead of Tailscale’s black magic fuckery.




  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldNever go full cringe
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    I’ve been learning Rust by going through The Book… there’s some wack-ass syntax in that language. I’ve mostly used C# and Python so most of it just looks weird… I can more or less understand what while let Some((_, top)) = iter.next() { ... } is doing, but .for_each(|((_, _, t), (_, _, b))| { ... } just looks like an abomination. And I mean the syntax in general, not this code in particular.



  • rtxn@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonejob rule
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    6 days ago

    Fuck university. Pick up a trade and get industry certifications. You’ll end up with real marketable skills without going into crippling lifelong debt. Some training agencies also offer help to find jobs. If you get lucky, your employer might even sponsor your education.

    Tradie life is not glamorous, but it’s better than working as a cashier while having a bachelor’s.



  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldThe end is near
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    7 days ago

    I’ll just copy my comment from the other day.


    Some people think it handles too many low-level systems. It’s a valid concern because if systemd itself were to become compromised (like Xz Utils was) or a serious bug was introduced, all of the userland processes would be affected. People who are stuck in the 90s and think that the Unix philosophy is still relevant will also point out that it’s a needlessly complex software suite and we should all go back to writing initscripts in bash. The truth is, it’s complex because it needs to solve a complex problem.

    Red Hat, the owner of systemd, has also had its fair share of controversies. It’s a company that many distrust.

    Ultimately, those whose opinion mattered the most decided that systemd’s benefits outweigh the risks and drawbacks. Debian held a vote to determine the project’s future regarding init systems. Arch Linux replaced initscripts because systemd was simply better, and replicating and maintaining its features (like starting services once their dependencies are running) with initscripts would’ve been unjustifiably complicated.