I went to see this movie in the theater with a friend and his father, who was ex-NSA and never spoke about his job.

The only thing his father had to say about the film was “that film roughly approximated our tech about fifteen years ago, it is more advanced now.”

EDIT: edited for clarity

Eccentric Al Yankovic just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Depends on what you’re doing. There’s workarounds for parted that allow you to do things like grow the size of a partition, but by default, you cannot shrink a partition via command line because the design philosophy of parted is that it should by default try to not delete any data. So growing via command line seems fine, but otherwise not so much.

Here on stackoverflow, there’s some directions on how to use the ---pretend-input-tty flag to use parted in a script.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52509644/how-do-i-get-over-parted-confirmation-request-in-a-script

Crypto is never going to solve the issue of data-in-transit will always have a chance to be intercepted, even if it’s encrypted.

Crypto doesn’t magically make all the internet infrastructure your property. It’s still bits passing through routers and switches that none of us actually have control over.

I think crypto is held back by it’s insistence that it traverses other people’s property and relies on other people’s computations/CPU cycles to exist as a good thing, and not a bad thing. Just personal opinion, anyway.

There was never anything crypto couldn’t do that a database couldn’t reasonably do as well, with the right configs.

What’s it called when your “feeling” is a fact?

The Fellowship of the WebRing.

Considering the kind of art direction talent they pull and the fact that they have some shots of Gwimbly in action…

I kind of half expected Zach Hadel to make it and release it on torrent sites. It would fit his style.

I’d seed the fuck out of that Alien Tony Hawk game.

For real I keep waiting for it to pop up on GGn.

All I know is he acts like Elon Musk is his friend, and that pretty much says everything.

The company you keep speaks volumes, and anyone who would gladly keep company with Musk is a fucking psychopath.

This thread is just full of super useful info. Cheers and thanks!

No problem, also look at [email protected]’ comment in reply to mine. They have some info I wasn’t aware of regarding tri-band WiFi routers. I’m living in WiFi 5 land, so I wasn’t aware of this cool trick:

His router is tri-band though meaning it has 2 5ghz transceivers. With an extender usually you use one of them as a backplane for ap->ap communication so it doesn’t interfere with your performance.

So an access point is still a good solution, but it sounds like you can use it as an “extender” without an ethernet cable as long as you can use one of your spare 5ghz bands to communicate with it. Which is super cool and I was totally unaware of.

I’m living in WiFi 5 world so this is new info to me. Neat. Thanks for the heads up.

Neither router you linked to is supported by OpenWRT or DD-WRT.

Plenty of supported TP-Link routers exist, and probably for cheaper.

What you need is a cheap access point.

“Extenders” actually slow down your network since WiFi isn’t full duplex but half duplex. That’s why you can’t have really have more than one.

Run an ethernet cable to an access point and you will be glad you did.

The only rational answer here is “how many fucking caps did you eat, man?”

You could set your staging environment PCs to be checking for updates hourly and installing them daily.

You could set your other PCs to just be downloading the updates daily but only install them on certain days of the week.

That means your staging servers could be constantly updated, but your other servers only download the updates, but wait until a certain day to install them.

I’m not sure you can set the timer based on a specific package being updated without some bash scripting alongside checking for which things are getting updated in your staging servers, and then using that script to update the unattendedupgrades control files on your second and third tier PCs in the fleet to adjust when they’re supposed to install those updates.

I can’t currently find anything on prohibiting specific packages or only installing selected updates from the downloaded updates. Perhaps you could use a mix of systemd downloading the updates and a cronjob for installing them?

Further, Ubuntu/Debian is technically already doing this as well. They already have staggered rollouts in APT.

If you’ve ever updated via command line and seen the phrase “These packages have been kept back” or “these following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing” it’s because they’re purposefully withholding those updates from you, to make sure they roll out safely to everyone. That way, if a handful of users who get a phased rollout have issues, the rollout can be undone before it goes out to everyone.

An obvious option is to set some machines to update on Monday and the others to update on Wednesday, but that only gives me only weekly updates…

You can literally schedule them by the minute, but okay buddy.

I’ll never not be stumped by people who are looking for answers shitting all over those answers.

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#Modifying_download_and_upgrade_schedules_.28on_systemd.29

Bottom of the page. It’s not about staging environments, but it’s about scheduling the updates in systemd.

No wonder those Navy touchscreen controls killed people…

I personally have never had good luck with Linux touchscreens…

I live outside of time, outside of currency…

No kings, no presidents, no senators… Just… Coreys.

*Pats my all AMD system on its chassis.

(Its a joke, don’t fanboy for corporations)