@prologic@twtxt.net Oh no, that’s so silly.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Even just consumer grade. Wow! I also only rarely print anything and I always got third-party toners, never was disappointed with them. Last year I noticed that we have an ink and toner shop in town and bought there. That actually exist over two decades now, but looks extremely inconspicuous.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh wow, how cool is that?! :-) Ducks over here are quite shy, unfortunately. In Ludwigsburg on the other hand they are very habituated to humans. I was very surprised to see that when visiting a mate. There were a bunch of them laying on the stairs and I tried to keep my distance to not scare them off. Didn’t dare to get closer than maybe five meters or so and was super happy that they stayed. That has always been impossible over here. After we proceeded, some tourists came by and stood a meter next to them or so. That was crazy for me to see. :-)

Yeah, walking next to a highway is torture. I try to avoid it as much as possible.

Nice! The third photo looks like a Kneipp basin. What’s that round tunnel? I love those moss-covered rocks, they just look so beautiful.

You could get better value for money with a super cheap VPS without IPv4 connectivity but it wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t need the extra resources as a VPS wouldn’t be practical with such low specs. It would also require significantly more effort on the part of the operator.

I would understand paying a small premium for using the lowest-cost tier, convenience, and especially if you operated a reverse proxy with IPv4 connectivity.

@prologic@twtxt.net $0.50/month seems reasonable. Is this for cas.run?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went into the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.

That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.

Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:

https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/

But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements now, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂

@mckinley@twtxt.net Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)

Could a New Charge Double the Service-life of Li-Ion Batteries?
“An improved charging protocol might help lithium-ion batteries to last much longer,” writes Science Daily:

The best commercial lithium-ion batteries…have a service life of up to eight years. Batteries are usually charged with a constant current flow. But is this really the most favorable method? A new study by Prof. Philipp Adelhelm’s group a … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You are right, I do! But I work remotely for a bank where most of it’s employees live/work in the state of Victoria, so there 🙄

@mckinley@twtxt.net Most little web apps, websites, static sites, whatever run perfectly fine with good performance on just 100mCores, a lot of what I run only has between 100m-500m of CPU allocated to it.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yup!

Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant’s Breach
DOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000
Information Collected

An anonymous reader shared this report from Security Week:

Economic analysis and litigation support firm Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA) is notifying over 340,000 individuals that their personal and medical information was compro … ⌘ Read more

Will America’s Next Soldiers Be Machines?
Foreign Policy magazine visits a U.S. military training exercise that pitted Lt. Isaac McCurdy and his platoon of infantry troops against machines with camera lenses for eyes and sheet metal for skin:

Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying enough firepower on their truck beds to fill a small arms depot, a handful of U.S. Army robots stormed through the battlefield of the fictional ci … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I use nethogs for this sort of thing: https://github.com/raboof/nethogs

@prologic@twtxt.net What is an mCore? 1/1000th of a core?

New Spectre V2 Attack Impacts Linux Systems On Intel CPUs
An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer:

Researchers have demonstrated the “first native Spectre v2 exploit” for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. Spectre V2 is a new variant of the original Spectre attack discovered by a team of researchers at the VUSec grou … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Yes, standard time forever would be so great!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It can already drive if you as the legal representative sit in the codriver seat!

That’s really impressive I have to say.

Bitwarden is truly excellent. Highly recommend

@xuu@txt.sour.is Just a Monoid in the category of Endofunctors, what’s the problem?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh cute! That drake wasn’t scared, was he? Yes, please take your good cam next time. :-)

Was that a highway that you were walking next to? The last one shows a really cool scenery. I dig that.

US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking
From the Washington Post:

The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an arm of the Departme … ⌘ Read more

‘Defeated’ CEO’s Finally Concede Hybrid Working Is Here to Stay
“After a year of cracking down with rigid return-to-office mandates, defeated CEOs are now finally accepting that hybrid working is here to stay,” reports Fortune:

KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years.

So it’s official: Leaders wh … ⌘ Read more

73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles
O’Reilly’s “Tech Trends” newsletter included an interesting item this month:

Want your own Klein Bottle? Made by Cliff Stoll, author of the cybersecurity classic The Cuckoo’s Egg, who will autograph your bottle for you (and may include other surprises).

First described in 1882 by the mathematician Felix Klein, a Klein bottle (like a Mobius strip) has a one-side … ⌘ Read more

Google Finally Launches Android’s ‘Find My Device’ Network
This week the new “Find My Device” feature rolled out to Android devices around the world, starting in the U.S. and Canada.

“With a new, crowdsourced network of over a billion Android devices, Find My Device can help you find your misplaced Android devices and everyday items quickly and securely,” according to a Google blog post.
ZDNet explains:

Although Goog … ⌘ Read more

Does this sound reasonable for running small workloads? 🤔

$0.50/month for
100 mCores
64 MB Memory
1 GB Storage
1 GB Bandwidth

Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California
Aboard the deck of a World War II-era aircraft carrier, University of Washington scientists flicked the switch on a glorified snow-making machine,” reports the Seattle Times. They describe the scientists “blasting a plume of saline spray off the coast of Alameda, California… trying to perfect a shot of salty particles that would make clouds better at reflecting sunlight back tow … ⌘ Read more

Low-quality smartphone shots from today’s walk:

https://movq.de/v/0f42ac9be0/

Most importantly: Ducklings! 😍 I’ll have to take my good cam next time.

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My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅

Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.

The Linux Foundation’s ‘OpenTofu’ Project Denies HashiCorp’s Allegations of Code Theft
The Linux Foundation-backed project OpenTofu “has gotten legal pushback from HashiCorp,” according to a report — just seven months after forking OpenTofu’s code from HashiCorp’s IT deployment software Terraform:

On April 3, HashiCorp issued a strongly-worded Cease and Desist letter to OpenTofu, accusing th … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Wait, don’t you live somewhere in Queensland? Wikipedia says there is no DST in Queensland (anymore). 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Australia

Funny how not all states in Australia observe DST. Why can’t we do the same in Europe, ffs. 🥴

Should the US Ban Chinese EVs?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Influential US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has called on U.S. President Joe Biden to ban electric vehicles from Chinese brands. Brown calls Chinese EVs “an existential threat” to the U.S. automotive industry and says that allowing imports of cheap EVs from Chinese brands “is inconsistent with a pro-worker industrial policy.” Brown’s letter to the president ( … ⌘ Read more

Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership
Under a new agreement between the U.S. and Japan, the first non-American on the Moon as part of the Artemis lunar exploration campaign will be a Japanese astronaut. SpaceNews reports: At an event in Washington, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriy … ⌘ Read more

@pratikbaid3@twtxt.net is looking for a few small projects to add to his contractor/freelance CV and has reached out to me to see if he could do a bit of work on the Yarn.social mobile app. He’s done work before in the past and has done a pretty decent job.

Two projects we’ve discussed:

• Flutter upgrade and cleanup, ensuring the mobile app builds successfully with the latest Flutter (which breaks all the time 🤦‍♂️)
  
• A UI/UX Redesign of the Mobile App with a Bottom Nav Bar layout. This would end up having something like Timeline | Mentioned | Profile – Maybe it could also have “Search” too if I somehow found the time to add an appropriate search endpoint to the API.
  

What do y’all think? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Well it’s screwed with my working hours somewhat, but this year I’ve decided to just “not give a shit”™ and just get up at the normal time and start at the time I had been starting work the past 6 months, 8.30am. In practise it probably means I end up working a bit longer for ½ the year, but oh well, at least I don’t have to fiddle with my alarm clock ⏰

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I immediately thought of this when you asked, because we use eBPF-based tools in Kubernetes clusters. It’s very powerful stuff and you can do a lot very cheaply with it, including tying packets to processes.

And I just came across this one in my feed: https://benhoyt.com/writings/go-version-performance-2024/ At least from 1.17 onwards size is actually growing again. I didn’t measure early enough.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net The several megabytes of Go binaries always feel so wrong. Hello world is 1.8 MiB, with -ldflags '-w' still 1.3 MiB. Growing with each Go release.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No, at least not that I know of. The closest would be probably the one from the Americans in Stuttgart. No idea whose war machines these were, though.

The mountain is 684 meters above sea level, so this makes for a difference of about 350 meters in 5 kilometers (most direct trip). Plus a little bit up and down here and there, or more, depending on the selected route. But it’s not climbing stairs, so it’s much more pleasant I’d say. Kudos to you! The last section is the actually steep part. Each brown contour line marks an increase of 10 meters. Sure enough, I’m glad when I finally reach the summit and can pause for a breath. :-)

The switch to daylight saving time has really screwed me up this year. I’ve been tired for two weeks now. 😩

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I just don’t. But this script looks really interesting.

ESA Prepares To Create Solar Eclipses To Study the Sun
Andrew Jones reports via IEEE Spectrum: The European Space Agency will launch a mission late this year to demonstrate precision formation flying in orbit to create artificial solar eclipses. In a press conference last week, the agency announced details of the mission and the technology the orbiters will use to pull off its exquisitely-choreographed maneuvers. ESA … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Ohh, nice. I’ve ignored eBPF for too long, so I guess it’s time to take a look. This tool is already very helpful: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/tcpconnect.py

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t mind the binary size. It’s a taxed odd between size, portability and feature.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de An eBPF logger would do the trick here 👌

QOTD: Hello Linux users, what do you use to monitor your network traffic?

As you can see in most of my screenshots, I have a widget at the top of my screen that shows the current bandwidth usage:

https://movq.de/v/303e1b1cad/a.jpg

But what does that tell me? What do I do when I see a sudden spike and I don’t know where it’s coming from? 🤔 I don’t have an answer for that. I’d like to have something like a summarized log of the recent network activity of all processes.

Something like tcpdump doesn’t help here, because the traffic is often already finished when I notice it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The magic of dynamic linking (and C). 😅 It has pros and cons, smaller binary size surely is one of the advantages. Go’s huge binary sizes is something that I’ve never gotten used to. 🫤 (Rust can be a little better at it, but they’re still very large as well.)