[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Depends on what you need:

  • As cheap as possible, but actually want a VM: OCI free tier will be way bigger than you will probably need
  • Happy paying money but still want to learn about Linux things: I've had good experiences with Scaleway
  • I just want something I can set up and not think about: don't use a VPS. Architect your site as a pure-static site, stick it in an S3 bucket. You'll probably be within the free tier unless you do absolutely bonkers traffic, and once it's running you can leave it alone for literal years without worrying about patches or upgrades
[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Llama 3.1:

I couldn't find any information on the New York Times website about dinosaurs being found roaming a playground. It's possible that the article doesn't exist or has not been published yet.

However, I can tell you that it's highly unlikely for dinosaurs to be found roaming a modern-day playground in the United States. Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago. The last dinosaurs on Earth lived during the Maastrichtian age, which was before human civilization even existed.

If you're looking for information on a specific news article or topic, I'd be happy to help you search for it!

Edit: to clarify - this instance is not configured to fetch external resources unless a specific prompt syntax is used, so the first paragraph is entirely BS

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

I suppose the point of a longsword is less "wickedly sharp razor blade to slice and dice with precision" and more "wedge shaped heavy piece of metal to drop on people with the hope of finding a gap in their armour"

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

Over grip seems like a really great way to slice your hand open

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Adding the cue marks for the skip intro takes actual effort to set up correctly

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Yup - anyone who is likely to try and hit the US is far enough away is going to be using long range ballistic missiles, and it's been pretty conclusively demonstrated that it's technically feasible to intercept a single missile, it sure isn't reliable enough to be a reasonable deterrent or cheap enough to build enough launchers to give you any amount of coverage.

Iron dome works because Israel is small, with a concentrated population, and is being attacked with small, short range rockets that are easy to spot on radar - that isn't a likely scenario for the US to face

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

They seem to be pretty good at making sure the military has all the finding they need

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 298 points 6 days ago

I'd be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.

Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.

Maintains uncomfortable eye contact with the camera

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 279 points 5 months ago

At some point every professional computer person - programmer, sysadmin, whatever - will seriously consider piling all their computers into a big pile, lighting them on fire, and moving to the country to start a new life making things with their hands

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 246 points 5 months ago

Don't forget that he also didn't found Tesla

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by RegalPotoo@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

The KDE 6 announcement says that

On prior versions you chose between either password or fingerprint authentication for the lockscreen. In Plasma 6, both are supported at the same time.

I've updated my Neon install, what do I need to do to enable this? I've set up a fingerprint through the user settings, but when the screen is locked I still have to use my password to unlock - there isn't a prompt, and touching the reader doesn't seem to do anything

Edit: follow up on an old post in case someone stumbles across it - I needed to install libpam-fprintd

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I'm trying to find a thing, and I'm not turning up anything in my web searches so I figure I'd ask the cool people for help.

I've got several projects, tracked in Git, that rely on having a set of command line tools installed to work on locally - as an example, one requires Helm, Helmfile, sops, several Helm plugins, Pluto, Kubeval and the Kubernetes CLI. Because I don't hate future me, I want to ensure that I'm installing specific versions of these tools rather than just grabbing whatever happens to be the latest version. I also want to ensure that my CI runner grabs the same versions, so I can be reasonably sure that what I've tried locally will actually work when I go to deploy it.

My current solution to this is a big ol' Bash script, which works, but is kind of a pain to maintain. What I'm trying to find is a tool where I:

  • Can write a definition, ideally somewhere shared between projects, of what it means to "install tool X"
  • Include a file in my project that lists the tools and versions I want
  • Run the tool on my machine and let it go grab the platform- and architecture- specific binaries from wherever, and install them somewhere that I can add to my $PATH for this specific project
  • Run the tool in CI and do the same - if it can cache stuff then awesome

Linux support is a must, other platforms would be nice as well.

Basically I'm looking for Pythons' pip + virtualenv workflow, but for prebuilt tools like helm, terraform, sops, etc. Anyone know of anything? I've looked at homebrew (seems to want to install system-wide), and VSCode dev containers (doesn't solve the CI need, and I'd still need to solve installing the tools myself)

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 312 points 10 months ago

tl;dw - ed25519 keys are now the default

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A whole bunch of this sounds really familiar for some reason...

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