henfredemars

@henfredemars@infosec.pub

This is a secondary account that sees the most usage. My first account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.

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Personal website:

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henfredemars, (edited )

It was me. Reinstalled three times a couple days ago because I’m an idiot.

But I’m an idiot who uses FOSS and I rather be dumb in a world of genius than a genius in a world of dumb.

henfredemars, (edited )

Our anti trust is currently not far from asking nicely to not abuse your market position. Has there been a change to give it some teeth?

With that said, it could be even worse!

henfredemars,

A stern reminder that we should all use a password management tool and use unique, unrelated passwords with every service.

henfredemars,

I’m willing to pay for one, maybe two subscriptions, and ain’t nobody got time to dig for which service has what show to find out season 2 is on some other service entirely.

Piracy provides a better user experience 🤷‍♂️

henfredemars, (edited )

Come on Steam, show those 32-bit libs the door!

Not the political kind. The shared object kind.

henfredemars,

How about this then. While your neighbors are using wine, it attracts more commercial attention to develop the open source projects that you do actually use. It’s so impactful that you measurably benefit directly from its contributions, like optimizations to the Linux kernel.

You don’t have to agree with it, but you cannot deny the increased investment in open source projects it causes.

For a painfully blatant example see: Steam Deck.

Also for the binary blob purists, how do you feel about all that closed source firmware underpinning your pure world? Isn’t it practically impossible to get completely open source firmware down to the silicon? And even then, do you trust the silicon? Are you running everything on FPGAs?

henfredemars, (edited )

It’s a cool feature, and I played with it some, but I don’t really see how to use it in a home or small office environment unless you’re willing to subscribe to someone who can generate the live patches for you.

I can certainly generate the patches myself, but it’s much faster to let the maintainer of my distro’s kernel handle shipping new packages and accepting the reboot. My system reboots really quickly.

If high reliability is a concern, I would suggest load balancing or some other horizontally scaled solution such that you’re not impacted by one machine going down. Because they will go down for things other than updates!

henfredemars,

Man that place. I know it’s cliche to talk about it like talking about your ex on a date, but I posted there for good reason.

I found the solution to a rare bug that was bothering a group of people. I posted the solution, and my account was immediately banned sitewide for violating the terms of service, whatever that means.

I thought to myself: yeah… it was a mistake coming here. Leave it to the bots to have conversations with themselves.

henfredemars, (edited )

It was a solution to a Lutris bug. Basically, flatpak containers can use these things called portals to gain access to specific files and directories via a file chooser rather than broad access or manually assigned access.

In this case, my wine installation was crashing because some part of it was trying to obtain a lock on a directory object, which is an unsupported feature when accessing a directory through a portal. The error message is something completely unrelated like can’t draw window with a string of hex values. It took me a few hours to track down the real root cause.

Oh well. Works on my machine. Also, there’s a fix on the development branch now. I made a write-up, posted it, and it’s all gone. I should have known better honestly. It works great for some people but anybody can arbitrarily receive unfair treatment with no recourse at any time. I’m satisfied knowing that eventually the fix will get out to everybody eventually. It’s just a shame I couldn’t leave a signpost behind.

henfredemars, (edited )

I’ve seriously been writing down the pros and cons thinking about switching over to Linux on my main desktop at home. It covers all the games I play now. I was very surprised.

Without the games to hold me back, I don’t see why I wouldn’t.

Follow Up: I’m on Linux mint! And my two favorite Windows games work just fine with zero configuration with Steam.

henfredemars,

My wife wanted amethyst because “everyone gets a diamond ring. And it’s purple!” It was also very cost effective.

henfredemars, (edited )

I literally asked my wife to marry me on the first date and she said yes. Getting right to the point is a woman after my own heart. Neither of us have ever dated before or, naturally, since.

We’ve been together for ten years.

We are also on the spectrum so that may have been a factor.

henfredemars,

Those attributes are an important part of what I like about her! Very direct, very plain to a fault. She has never and probably will never have an interest in playing interpersonal games. Zero drama. Loyal, because she doesn’t like change. She’s obsessive in her interests meaning we both easily get sufficient time to be our own person.

Sure, she’s exceptionally sensitive about certain textures and sounds, but I understand because I’m the same way. Meeting her was like living a life where everyone speaks this language that I just wasn’t born with, and finding someone else who is just as confused as I am was really validating.

So yes, I suggested that we marry, and she says yes you will suffice… which is perhaps the highest compliment she has ever paid me.

henfredemars, (edited )

We did–After we agreed to get married, because we were quite sure, but at the same time we didn’t want to impose such a stark change right away in case the change would exceed one’s ability to cope with change which could lead to panic, meltdowns, etc. Neither of us handle change very well. We didn’t actually get married immediately of course. She packed up a pod and moved in next. It was months before.

We also talked about having kids right away. Not having them right away! But we talked about it immediately, I think like five minutes in, because isn’t it important to know?

As a counterpoint: nothing in life is without risk. I’ve seen friends take it slow and end up divorced, too.

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

henfredemars,

Ouch. You know some landlords get kickbacks for exclusivity? It’s pretty corrupt where I live.

henfredemars,

I think it comes down to the culture. A minuscule improvement to a file system is big news in the Linux community. There’s also lots of academic interest in the performance critical parts of the kernel that you just can’t emulate with a closed source model. Is anyone writing papers on how to obtain a 2% improvement in the task scheduler on Windows?

Linux dominates the server market, so even small improvements matter when you’re talking about a server farm with thousands of machines or the latest supercomputer. Many, many people care about the scalability of Linux. On Windows, we say: NTFS? It’s good enough. The user won’t notice on modern SSDs.

henfredemars,

I think the implication is that the customer is drinking alcohol frequently lately because the lady ordered in the way you would order many alcoholic beverages with ice.

henfredemars,

There’s a whole protocol for talking to supported devices so they can negotiate power delivery.

henfredemars,

I always start off being nice until some leader insults me for no reason.

More blood for the blood god 🤷‍♂️

henfredemars,

I met the author… a guy who wrote the script for one of the pictured movies. He was doing stand-up comedy on a cruise ship. He said yes, they are all terrible, but there’s a certain audience for them and they’re quite profitable.

He said I want you to think of me when you’re forced to watch one of these. I want you to know who is responsible, and that I’m very sorry.

henfredemars, (edited )

Here’s the reference:

…wikipedia.org/…/John_Jacob_Jingleheimer_Schmidt

I’m curious. Where are you from? I didn’t know the children’s rhyme was uncommon.

henfredemars,

The mole man who comes up the drain to wash your dishes is very shy.

henfredemars,

Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.

I’m not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.

henfredemars,

Honestly forgot it was a thing. I figured that it had disappeared by now.

henfredemars,

I love to see this. One challenge that concerns me is that many people really need to be paid for all 5 days. The shorter week by itself isn’t enough.

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