I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
There seems to be a line, so far as I can tell. If everything you need sits on the free tier, they’re really good (well tbh their R2 storage is reasonably priced too). But once you stray into needing a paid tier, it apparently (I’m not there) quickly gets expensive as you’re lured into every higher tiers.
But yes, in general I don’t mind cloudflare so much and do use their free (and R2 paid) services.
Am I the only person that would be surprised if this place wasn’t inhumane at this point?
Yeah but it’s meant to be bread and circuses to distract from government. In this case, it’s bread and circuses, from the very top down.
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This is my assumption too. It’s disabled for me. I have no plans to change that.
When you’re alone, and life is making you lonely you can always go… Downtown Abbey!
It’s in the app list for me. I set it to disabled.
Phone is Samsung s24 ultra.
Gemini is an app, I disabled that. I also shut off the key press and there’s some other places you can turn off some of the automatic AI features, and also there’s a setting to disable the “online” AI in general.
But that’s why in another comment I said, I am still not sure I turned it all off (or even if it is possible to).
Doesn’t the motorola phone have a settings screen for defining what the button does? For Samsung they like to re-purpose the power button.
First of all, it brought up bixby. I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled bixby.
Then, with the new update they re-assigned the power button to gemini. So, I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled gemini too.
However, the problem these days is that I’m never completely sure I’ve turned off all of the AI nonsense on my phone.
Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be “on by default” for most users.
Yeah. The suggestion I saw was that instead of retracting the gear they mistakenly retracted the flaps.
Now in the video the wings do look quite flat. But yes, it would be hard to say for sure in a video of that quality at that distance.
The descent looks (to my untrained flight sim eyes) to be controlled albeit without power.
At 400ft agl they had very little options most likely. Not even much choice in what they hit.
Very sad all round.
Linux secure boot was a little weird last I checked. The kernel and modules don’t need to be secure boot signed. Most distros can use shim to pass secure boot and then take over the secure boot process.
There are dkms kernel modules that are user compiled. These are signed using a machine owner key. So the machine owner could for sure compile their own malicious version and still be in a secure boot context.
I bought my first HDD second hand. It was advertised as 40MB. But it was 120MB. How happy was young me?
I never heard that. But it seems entirely believable.
It’s for backup purposes mainly. A lot of cloud backup providers don’t store permissions.
So if I restore the data I can then restore the permissions after. So these are the folders I am backing up (with some exceptions in /var)
OK so it’s fairly simple. You need to install the acl package (or whatever equivalent package contains getfacl/setfacl. Then you can use that to dump the data from an entire structure into a file (I also then bzip that). Then I backup all installed packages to help with a restore too.
So the script looks like:
#!/bin/bash
cd /etc
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /home
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /root
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /var
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
/usr/bin/apt list --installed | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >/root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2
chmod 600 /root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2
To restore you change to the folder the backup was taken from, unbzip the file (or uncompress live via pipe) and use setfacl --restore=<file>
Yeah. Only on my phone right now but will get it and post here later/tomorrow.
I mean, too late for you now. But I have a script that backs up just the permissions and owners for a given folder hierarchy.
I use it because I backup to a cloud backup platform that doesn’t save them. So these files are backed up with the data so the files and permissions/owners can be restored in an emergency.
But you could of course also use the file to restore permissions after a user generated mistake too.
Pretty sure one of the first things musk did was kill off an entire (or more than one?) data centre. Pointing out with glee that it worked fine without it.
This is probably why it existed.
Still it’s only twitter. No real loss.
This was actually the story I had in mind when I wrote my comment. In my case, I’m using cloudflare for this mbin instance, another unrelated low traffic site, and R2 for the media on the instance. It’s so small that it will never really escape their free tier.
But yeah, if you’re doing something that is scaling up this is definitely something you need to be aware of.