The rationale for using LTS distros is being eroded by widespread adoption of containers and approaches like flatpak and nix. Applications and services are becoming less dependent on any single distro and instead just require a skeleton core system that is easier to keep up to date. Coupled with the increased cost needed to maintain security backports we are getting to a point where it’s less risky for companies to use bleeding edge over stable.

There cybersecurity part would be covered by infosec.pub. Devops and similar communities are more fragmented however.

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Rubber. I went in knowing it was a WTF film, but had NO idea how far out it was. It made Sharknado make sense by comparison.

Both are concerning, but as a former academic to me neither of them are as insidious as the harm that LLMs are already doing to training data. A lot of corpora depend on collecting public online data to construct data sets for research, and the assumption is that it’s largely human-generated. This balance is about to shift, and it’s going to cause significant damage to future research. Even if everyone agreed to make a change right now, the well is already poisoned. We’re talking the equivalent of the burning of Alexandria for linguistics research.

The RV260 supports SNMP. You can use that with a network monitoring tool of your choice to get ifInOctets/ifOutOctets data. The rate of change on those numbers is then the amount of traffic sent/received.

It’s a really tough choice. I think “Night Watch” by Terry Pratchett (GNU STP) wins by a hair.

You increase your alchemy skill, either via enchanted gear, an alchemy potion, or both. I don’t know if it still works on newer releases, but it used to be a thing to cheese the crafting system by making an alchemy potion, drink it, make a better alchemy potion, rinse repeat. Then once it’s high enough you make powerful smithing and enchanting potions and then use those to craft gear (rings, gloves) to permanently enhance your crafting.

The deus ex machina conclusions to his stories are getting a bit worn, but he’s still superb at producing lots of seemingly unconnected threads that come together to form a wonderful picture at the end.

Spez: this will blow over Also spez: this cannot be allowed to continue

Sounds like Lord Farquaad: “Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

Server: Ubuntu at work (previously CentOS), Debian at home. Toying with the idea to switch the home server to NixOS, given that all the services I run there are already configured declaratively.

Desktop: Ubuntu mainly due to inertia from back in the day when it was the simplest way to get Steam and ZFS support, but my loathing of snaps increases every day and I would be willing to consider alternatives if I had to reinstall. I don’t care for rolling release as long as I have flatpaks. An install option with LVM is a must for me, however.