I’m on vacation. No working. Well, actually I was doing a ton of Selfhosting stuff (migrating my homeserver to proxmox, now at a usable level), but also video games.

The wordle-analyzer will have to wait until next week, and until I can fix my lifetime compiler errors in the latest commit, and before that: Until I fix my forgejo server that refuses to start after updating the server kernel.

Good to hear, I’ve only been in the Linux World for a few years myself, but I was very surprised too. Through I don’t think that using cp is any different in terms of creating boot records and a partition table.

Why would you count Rufus and balena etcher not trustworthy? Sounds like you’re to deep in the paranoia, which I completely understand, but gets just impractical “Man yelling at cloud” depending on how deep you are.

dd is just another program too, why trust dd? Linux is just another Program too, why trust Linux? And so on. You can audit every (OSS) Program if you want in theory, but let’s be real, no one does that because time is better spent elsewhere.

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Company: Here is a security vulnerability in your OSS project, please fix our production is vulnerable.

Random Guy working on OSS library in his free time: Sure, I have some time next month.

Random Guy works full-time, has a family and friends. Random Guy is not your supplier and has no obligations and warranties WHAT SO EVER, even implied. That’s what the license of his project says.

If Company wants it fixed, they better allow him to work full time on it, or pay part time work. Or they pay someone else to maintain Project and send the changes to Project so Random Guy can take a little look and merge if he feels like it. Random Guy won’t just merge company code and be done with it, more code in a codebase needs to be maintained now after all.

This also works with features of course. The time of Random Guy is valuable and if Company wants Random Guy to work on something they use, they’d better pay good money for that time.

I didn’t really consider that there are feeds for such things, especially for my distro(s). Embarrassing, but it means you helped making me safer!

I’m now subscribed to the Debian security list, seeing as all my servers run Debian. I just had unattended upgrades with Mail logs before.

Didn’t know this existed. Just subscribed. Thanks

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It is really informative! Spread the word.

Same for me. Ventoy is pretty amazing and keeps most of my isos on it. Sadly, sometimes it’s not capable of doing the job, for example when I installed proxmox (based on Debian 12) this week, ventoy couldn’t do it. Apparently this is a known issue in ventoy.

But yeah, for most isos, ventoy is the way of you install OSes somewhat often, as it contains partition layouts and boot records regardless (I think).

There is. Just use a media creation tool, like Rufus. dd’ing onto a drive is a hack.

Recently, I learned that booting from a dd’d image is actually a major hack. I don’t get it together on my own, but has something to do with no actual boot entry and partition table being created. Because of this, it’s better to use an actual media creation tool such as Rufus or balena etcher.

Found the superuser thread: https://superuser.com/a/1527373 Someone had linked it on lemmy

Cron is active on all my Debian 12 boxes

I resized an lvm partition on my server with a fedora live image, and when I installed something with dnf, I was in shock how long it took. Hopefully this addresses this. Personally I’ve found my home distro: Debian

Not very stable at all, but the cli game (wordlec) is playable with the responses of whether you hit a letter or not, the naive solver and the stupid solver work too.

However, I expect that the API will change a lot before v0.1. I will release it when I deem it somewhat stable. Happy to hear you like it.

I’ve started building a wordle-analyzer. I got nerdsniped, and now I’m implementing the game (already did a game and a cli implementation using the abstracted interface) and a solver.

The idea is to provide:

• game - a wordle game that can be used to implement the game in many frontends, a cli version and exists already
• solver - something that can solve the game
• wordlist - any wordlist people might want.
• bench - if you want to know how good your solver is

I’m providing built-in versions, but anyone could implement the traits.

I currently have two solver implementations;

• stupid - literally tries words at random
• naive - checks which letters matched and reuse them, require letters that are included but not matched in other words, then use the most common word that matches

The naive solver can actually solve the game in less then 10 steps most of the time. Mathematically, the optimum is about 3,4 steps. There are two amazing 3blue1brown videos going into details, and my eventual goal is implementing solvers making use of that math.

I’ve been using generics and traits like never before for that project. Solver? It’s a trait. Game? It’s a trait. Word lists? It’s a trait.

And all my structs have generics <'wl, WL> so that I only need to have the word list once to save resources. You get a little crazy from the lifetime errors but it’s fun.

Besides that, my homeserver got janky this month, and today I started migrating it to proxmox. It’s hard, because I need to do a lot more thinking than just docker go brr now.

In case you want to check my wordle-analyzer out: https://git.cscherr.de/PlexSheep/wordle-analyzer I need to update the readme before publishing.

we haven’t had to deal with a Decentralised network across the internet before

You say that while using the WWW, a decentralized network of Webservers and Webbrowsers all Access the world.

And you say that while using Domain names, which certainly don’t come from your /etc/Hosts but from a decentralized DNS Network of servers all around the world.

Not sure what a show and tell is, I guess my laptop with tons of stickers, and boot up something that looks hackery. Besides that, my guitar perhaps?