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pepoluan

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IT Security / Architecture / Infra guy. Also doing some Python things.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 17h

As an #AlarmTone,
or even a #Ringtone,
this short ditty from #Klangphonics
SLAP so much!!

youtube.com/shorts/-7gQ3...

Your new alarm clock

YouTube video by Klangphonics

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 4d

#Art
in the Creation (process)
and as the Creation (result)

𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐭🎨 @paulkentonart.bsky.social · 5d

Be determined when creating a piece of art and passionate about painting of art and craft

Reposted by pepoluan

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 4d

Chump is ignoring Blue States 💙
Like California, and Gavin Newsom
Has Been Ringing Alarm Bells
About This.......

Reposted by pepoluan

Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 4d

I told my nephew he could be anything when he grows up. He chose disappointment.

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 4d

Somtimes I wonder
why they call the company
Go-Ogle

It's almost like
what happened with
ExpertSexChange

#Google #Strange

Reposted by pepoluan

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 18d

Atop the same SSH session
other protocols may run.

For example:
- Port forwarding / tunneling protocol
- SFTP protocol
- X11 Forwarding protocol
- SSH Agen protocol
- etc.

All using one single TCP connection to port 22.

Hence is why SSH is a #SessionLayer protocol.

#Networking #OSILayers

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 18d

The #SSH stack
is the best illustration
for the OSI 7 Layer architecture.

The SSH protocol itself is a Session-layer protocol
the $TERM is a Presentation-layer protocol
and the shell is the Application-layer protocol

#Networking #OSILayers #OSI7Layers

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 22d

My favorite #Linux distro

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 22d

Ho-Lee ...

Why is dev-lang/zig-bin so HUGE
on #Gentoo

#GentooLinux #Linux #Zig

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

The (selfish) reason being:

In my company's server, I cannot guarantee Python is installed.
But I can guarantee SaltStack is installed.

So some sysadmin-ish scripts I write, all simply leverage the Python already in /opt/salt

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

I hope support for whatever version of Python bundled in SaltStack, can be guaranteed.

(Though, tbt, SaltStack currently bundles Python 3.10 so supporting only double-digit versions are [still] okay [for now])

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

We -- that is, humans -- can store energy in different forms:

- As voltage difference
- As chemical reactions
- As gravitic potential energy
- As heat

The Earth has only one easy way store energy:
As heat in the atmosphere.

And this heat
drives the Climate Machine.

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

True
the average temperature of the Earth
is rising.

But that is just a symptom
of too much Energy being stored.

"Greenhouse Gases"
are powerful molecular Energy storage.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateWeirding

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · Sep 25

#GlobalWarming is kind of a misnomer.

it's less about rising average temperature,
but more precisely,

about the Earth storing MUCH more energy.

the overabundance of energy intensifies everything:

summer becomes hotter
winter becomes colder
cyclones (typhoons/hurricanes) become more powerful

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

One important thing to emphasize
is that USE flags of #GentooLinux really help
in ensuring that packages work well
with other packages.

Remove all unnecessary cruft
and all dependent packages
will just adapt.

Something that other
binary-based distro
might not be able to do.

#Gentoo #Linux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

#GentooLinux empowers you.

You no longer have to subscribe fully
to the opinions of the package maintainer(s).
Add/remove features as you want.

Gentoo Linux keeps your system stable.

USE flags ensure
that packages 'know' how to work with
other packages
or how they *won't* work.

#Gentoo #Linux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

And even if a package refuses to compile
#Portage will tell why.

Usually it's because of a missing
or incompatible
USE flag.

You have transparency on what the blocker is
and agency on whether to "fix" the blocker
or find a different package.

#Gentoo #GentooLinux #Linux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

The SuperPower of #Gentoo #Linux
is that you can set up your system
exactly the way you want it
via the USE flags.

And packages will -- most of the time --
adjust to your desires.

No such thing as package broken
because of missing dependency feature.

They either compile
or not.

#GentooLinux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

#Gentoo Linux is not that "hard"
at least, not as "hard" as #LinuxFromScratch

Some of the "hard" points, I think, are:
1. Installation
2. Setting up your USE flags
3. Configuring your kernel the first time

Once you've done all that,
maintenance is easy.

Just need TIME.

#GentooLinux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

#Gentoo Linux is not that "hard"
at least, not as "hard" as #LinuxFromScratch

Some of the "hard" points, I think, are:
1. Installation
2. Setting up your USE flags
3. Configuring your kernel the first time

Once you've done all that,
maintenance is easy.

Just need TIME.

#GentooLinux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

I refuse to confirm or deny this allegation.

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

tbt,
#Gentoo installs are often
more stable than #Arch

because every single component
are compiled to work together
according to USE flags.

no such thing as a package
requiring something that a different package
does not provide
because of maintainer preferences.

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 29d

With surprise,
I noticed that my #Gentoo machine
now pulls in #Zig as a BDEPEND

A bit of diving shows that
#ncdu has been rewritten in Zig.

Nice,
though that means
yet-another-compiler to pull in.

Maybe I should pull in zig-bin instead?

#GentooLinux

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · Sep 30

And he has now declared that Bcachefs code will be gone from Kernel 6.18.

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · Sep 30

Oops, forgot to paste the link to the story:

www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachef...

Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel

With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained' and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tr...

www.phoronix.com

pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · Sep 30

Finally Linus drops #Bcachefs from the #LinuxKernel

Starting 6.18 Bcachefs will be available only via DKMS.

#Linux