Hey folks,

I'm going to pause the bot at this time. The community didn't quite take off at this point, so for now I'm going to recommend using !SquaredCircle@kbin.social. I don't have the time to put in the love needed to grow it at this point.

If another member or mod wants to be added and give it love, let me know. For now I'm limiting posts to mods only.

Also in an order that confused me.

Say you have a script or something that gets run in cron/task scheduler and it needs a password.. say to ssh to a raspberry pi elsewhere in your house.

How do you save that password in a way that automation can access it?

Some ideas:

• Plaintext file. Not a fan because its sitting unencrypted on the box somewhere.
• Environment variable. Not a fan because its still unencrypted somewhere to someone on the box (albeit likely the same user or an admin).
• A secrets manager. If I use something locally like hashicorp vault or infisical, I can get to a point where a cli/api call gets the password. Though in this case I still need a vault password/secret to get my password. So I fall back to needing one of the above to get this to work.

If the secrets manager is easily available, the secret to get into the secrets manager is available as well leading to a feeling of security by obscurity.

If someone breaks into my system via SSH/etc. then they can get the passwords either way.

.. How do people normally do this? I'm not sure I actually get anything out of a secrets manager if its local and I have the disk itself encrypted before login.

What actually makes sense at a personal/home scale?

(Edit: I know using SSH key probably is better for getting to the raspberry pi, but still the question is the same idea).

.. its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?

Warning: This is a rant.

I don't really know how to describe it but the content isn't quite where reddit had been for me. Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn't quite seem as 'normal' as what I'm used to from reddit.

There's a lot more open source and privacy focused people and conversations. A lot of people seem to hate on big tech and big companies in a sort of toxic-ish feeling way to me (not to say the other relationship isn't toxic.. just saying). Random conversations go into: "omg your privacy is lost cause you used a Google service." Then we have the 'if we don't defederate with Meta the world ends' conversations. I personally would like to see what Meta does in the fediverse.. maybe it will make it more normalized..idk. Then the: "if your app isn't open source its awful and terrible for the world" people.

Like that stuff is all fine, but it just isn't quite my cup of tea.

These things remind me of that one person in my comp sci classes in college who I just couldn't stand talking to. He would try to make you feel like an idiot by trying to sound all self righteous and smart. (Honestly he would fail and would generally look like a dingus).

The bulk of the content that gets comments seem to be mostly meme atm. At least on all (7/10 of the current top for me are memes). I like my memes, but would like some more breadth/depth.

Like I hope Lemmy continues to grow and hope it gets better, but it leaves me missing reddit at the moment.

In a perfect world I wish reddit corp wasn't such assholes and this whole thing didn't happen the way it did.

I'm completely skipping the UI and stuff not being as familiar and the various outages/bugs/etc since that's to be expected with something at this stage.

Please don't hate me :) Just sharing my unpopular opinion. Though I genuinely wonder if others feel the same way.

/Rant

Go to %TEMP% and clean it out. I personally deleted everything older than 5 days. I have no idea why but this fixed an issue for me where it could take up to 3 minutes to get to the desktop after typing my password.

I somehow had like 100s of gigs of garbage in there. Funny enough doing a system cleanup does not clear out this directory!

The issue corresponded with an event in the Windows Event Viewer that looked like:

The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> is taking long time to handle the notification event (Logon).

And another that looked like:

The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> took 125 second(s) to handle the notification event (Logon).

(of course with a varying number of seconds depending on the boot)

Anyways, I'm not asking anyone for tech support in this case, but figure it may help someone else out.

You have a couple days left to buy stamps that can be used to mail letters after the price increase.

If you buy 10 forever stamps at 63 cents, you can use one for each letter in the future regardless of future price increases.

Stock up! Prices will likely never go down.

I bought a few hundred dollars worth to cover holiday cards for the rest of my life.

(Edited title since originally I said 6 instead of 7.. thanks for folks correcting me)

It has more content.. and fun?

How do people not use spell check before making signage?

Since everything is about beans right now, I figured we should get in on it.

.. is there a better way to report?

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