Good question.

26 years ago I was a volunteer community manager for a (at the time) huge fps for a big online gaming community. That involved effectively recruiting and managing a group of admins, developing a system of monitoring and anticheat reporting. In hindsight I put way too much time into that but I have difficulty limiting.

It was tiring. 4/5 hours every night after work. No social life. All my choice.

I don’t regret it. I did good, I think. With the team, we stopped a lot of really nasty racism and other abuse. Really helped inform and prevent aimbotting and similar cheating (went down a whole other rabbit hole and ended up writing several guides on the subject). Generally made the servers a nicer place to play. I was offered a job with the company, but I couldn’t take it - and they’ve since closed doors.

Downsides: Death threats, doxxing attempts, a long running issue with another admin who didn’t like me firing him. The charismatic cheaters who think they can charm their way around a ban with begging and promises. The entitled players who’ve never been told “No” before and get ridiculously angry. It can be a lot.

Now I try to help around the edges rather than be the main guy. I do manage a biggish facebook group, but it doesn’t need a lot of input.

I know what you mean - although I’ve found the… receptiveness? on lemmy is generally better than reddit for most things, but yes, the scale is tiny in comparison.

A lot of the replies so far focus on fixing the problem yourself, which is awesome if you’re a coder.

But even reporting problems is a big help to all projects. Found a bug? Report it - give the right information and be cordial.

Also, contribute sensible suggestions. Some smaller projects suffer from a single owner not understanding how others might use their work because they don’t have that perspective (certainly an issue for me). Plus, getting involved and contributing this way can be a huge motivator to these small projects. It can be pretty disheartening to work hard on a passion project and not hear anything back from users.

It’s a lot of work, but if you’re feeling tired or overhwelmed and thinking negative thoughts about these releases - then don’t. It’s a good thing.

These are bugs that already exist and, in some cases, are almost certainly being actively exploited by criminals and government-backed organistions both.

Whilst we might ask that some are a little more responsible with their disclosures, overall this is a massive boost to computer security once we get over this hill of information.

Fair enough - not that then.

Quick check: Try “cat /proc/cmdline” and confirm that the net.ifnames variable is missing after a reboot, to ensure it’s not persisting somehow after you removed it.

It’s a positive thing, don’t be worried.

These vulns already existed. It’s possible the bad guys were already using them. This gets them out in the open and on their way to being resolved.

Just keep patches up to date with any modern and maintained distro and you’ll be grand.

fuck printers

Spoken like a professional.

Needs expert advice, so asks random strangers on Lemmy

Some of 'em will be experts.

SME here, moving around 300 vms from Rocky to Debian.

But your question is really too vague. Our workflows are quite traditional, but the world is a big place and there is no single right answer here.

separate your banking from your mobile device altogether.

Not possible. Many banking services require a mobile device for visual authorisation as part of their MFA. That requires using their app, not a normal website.

NC7s a good pick.

But don’t blur all 2k+ beemers into the same group. I had a 2004 GS for a good few year - my first proper bike. Not as solid as the CB or NCs that’s true, but that big solid boxer engine is lovely and a superb motorway cruiser. The 04’s were the last of the oilheads, widely considered the most reliable engines, But even then, BMW were over-complicating shit, and it’s much worse now.

/If/ he’s declining (I like spankinspinach’s answer) through dementia, then as someone who’s watched their very intelligent mother, their step-father and their uncle all decline with it - my answer to “how do you accept this?” is - you can’t.

Oh, you can be rational, and sympathetic, and take steps to protect them and get them the care they need - but emotionally? Dude, it’s fucking hard. Seeing someone go through their own denial in the early stages, how they try to trick you into thinking they’re okay. As it progresses and they have to surrender, then the oblivion that inevitably follows. Watching my own mother forget every single fact about our shared memories to the point she didn’t even know who I was, then worse, when she thought I was my father. Then her regression to a little girl. (That sounds linear but it isn’t)

If he is going down that route, then the only thing to do is try to prepare yourself for a whole world of hurt and anger. Be strong, be the parent for them, but die yourself inside.

Good luck with your licence. I found it a hard test when I did my DAS a few years ago but did pass first time, doing both MOD 1 and 2 back to back.

You say you’re not fussed about top speed, but smaller bikes are very buzzy at the top end of their range (as you know on a 125) so don’t be afraid to go bigger for motorways and it’s nice to have power in reserve. Big bikes ride better there and less twitchy in side winds, but are less agile in the city.

If you want a solid commuter bike, you can’t go wrong with Honda cb500 or similar. There’s a lot of older ones still chugging away - tatty and less stealable, but ultra reliable and cheap to maintain. 70mpg, more than enough power for the motorway, not too fat to filter.

Some of the older (2000-2010) BMW 1100-1200s are fairly good, either GS or RT. Lovely torquey engine, good presence, comfy and nice on the motorway. A bit fat for filtering sometimes.

Good shout on keeping your 125. They’re a hoot and great for bombing around the lanes or cities.

Ah, so it is. Now I understand why you’re not putting the code up front on the github project page for everyone to see.

For me, that means something where the code is obviously AI authored.

I’m not anti-AI, I use it all the time when coding. But when the human responsible for that code, and there must always be one, doesn’t understand every single line of that code and why it’s there, then it’s unwise to use that code. LLMs can churn out perfectly good code within their current scope, but they cannot (yet) produce cohesive and maintainable code that doesn’t grow out of scope. And when an experienced coder sits down and reviews that code, there will be a high WTF/minute ratio.

Well, you asked for our opinions, that was mine.

That still looks like closed source though, and these days folks view such things with suspicion, especially for small projects that are generally foss. There’s a lot of people unwilling to run stuff they view as heavily AI authored, or potentially malicious, and not having the source out front to look at is going to put some folk off.

But as I say, it’s just my opinion. Hope it works out for you.

Pomodoro is an interesting technique, and it’s something I’d quite like to try.

But I’m struggling with a couple of things here;

1. Why use github when it’s closed source? Github users tend to expect to be able to see the code and use it freely. (With larger projects, some features may be paywalled)
2. What are you offering to justify it being paid? Especially when there are a lot of free pomodoro timers out there (Two websites - https://www.freepomodorotimer.com/ https://www.tomatotimers.com/ and desktop tools)

I’m a developer (well, sysadmin,but I write a lot of software both for work and as a hobby). I don’t see your method as viable, but perhaps I’m wrong. I wouldn’t pay for such a tool when there are free alternatives. I can’t see how much work you’ve put into yours, but this sounds like something simple that wouldn’t take long to write, vibe or not. I’m also a big fan of FOSS, both as a user and an author.

So basically, what’s special enough for it not to be FOSS?

Extended Warranties.

As in the pig from Charlotte’s Web?

Says the millennial, complainingly.