Lost more time than I care to admit to Civ V on Steam the last couple of nights (damn you Humble Bundle).

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just broke a dish while trying to do the dishes. Argh.

Ooops!

It was super slippery. It was in the sink, but it broke the dish underneath in the sink

Soapy dishes and coffee jitters don't go well together

@dafyre said in Remix OS Singularity:

Arguably, another company tried something similar (Motorola, wasn't it?) and I can't remember if it was just poorly done, or too far ahead of its time, lol.

Canonical had a go too IIRC.

Doing a little dance at getting my second paycheck earlier than expected (was sold the contract as monthly, but turns out its fortnightly instead).

I was going to say its unlikely, but then I remembered that there are phones shipping with more RAM than my last laptop came with.

Does anyone know of an open source implementation or alternative to this? Just a distributed file system?

It looks like a good utility but I'm not sure I'm comfortable paying a company to manage tiered storage on my own hardware if I can do the same myself.

@dafyre I was wondering about what they were storing 2TB on to charge $25k alright

Forbes

A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that Microsoft can't be forced to give the Department of Justice access to customer emails stored outside the country.

In a 4-4 split, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider its July decision denying the DOJ access to the emails of a drug trafficking suspect stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland.

The court had ruled that the Stored Communications Act (SCA) didn't cover searches outside the US, which should instead be handled through an existing mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT).

However, the court noted in its decision that the rather ancient SCA had been overtaken by technology: "It is overdue for a congressional revision that would continue to protect privacy but would more effectively balance concerns of international comity with law enforcement needs and service provider obligations in the global context in which this case arose," wrote Judge Susan Carney.

Huh. Who knew Aaron Sorkin was onto something.

@Kelly @aaronstuder In my head this is something I would expect to see more in a server environment, where a Linux application could be deployed on a Windows server in a more traditional "Role" than the overhead of deploying a full VM for the service.

@scottalanmiller Looking at the OpenSUSE blog post they're using the same Windows Subsystem for Linux and replacing the Ubuntu userspace with SUSEs one.

Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone had any IT-related plans over the holidays?

I for one hope to get a Nextcloud instance running on a Pi 3 (still debating the merits of CentOS + LXC vs Ubuntu + snap) and import my ownCloud/baikal data in there, and get virtd LXC migration between my VPS and laptop working.

@stacksofplates said in Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com:

CephFS? That's kind of concerning.

Huh. I wonder why that is.

Important: CephFS currently lacks a robust ‘fsck’ check and repair function. Please use caution when storing important data as the disaster recovery tools are still under development. For more information about using CephFS today, see CephFS for early adopters

Oh.

Richard Donner. Met him at Comic-Con San Diego about 10 years back. Lovely gentleman, graciously signed a Superman comicbook for me.

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud community is growing fast!:

Isn't ownCloud like that as well? I've not looked.

It is.

Not really sure the Seafile graph is fair or representitive, given the way the projects are split across different repos.

Budgie as in the Desktop Environment of Solus?

@Dashrender said in Argh! Windows 10 Updates...:

I'm not sure what Apple does in terms of support for an OS after they release the next one

Generally, what Microsoft is trying to do now. Update to the newest version if your hardware supports it, or you're plum out of luck. Very occasionally you might get a back ported security fix if the issue is big enough.

What time is the Spice Girl Costume Contest?