I still remember looking up alt codes on the character map.

I haven’t had to represent degrees in decades, but for some reason I remembered the code being 0961. According to this page it was 0176. What a classic blunder!

Here I thought that was the cleftal horizon.

I thought that was pretty typical.

This is how I feel any time I meet what might be either one or two people in disparate circumstances without context or preparation.

If it genuinely helped, I’m genuinely happy to have done so.

My shower door hasn’t shattered, but it has its own problems - I’m pretty sure the previous owner of the house tried to make it luxurious but had no idea what he was doing (as is tradition). Hoping I can learn some things about glass shower panes myself!

Excellent!

While this isn’t about shower panes and the specific details probably don’t apply to your shower (well, hopefully), NileRed has a video demonstrating how glass that looks undamaged can have small stresses or flaws that cause it to spontaneously shatter.

https://youtu.be/tGqVMbAQhBs

There was an entire episode of Scrubs featuring this premise.

A little passive-aggressive of you

That’s a fair interpretation, but in fact I was trying to avoid the appearance of passive aggression by providing a reason for my exiting the conversation, rather than just bailing.

Ah. Well, I have questions or comments I could make about the license. However, while I feel passionately about Unix and Linux and OSS in general, I don’t think I have anything useful or interesting to add to the thread that hasn’t already been said.

I wish you luck both with finding engaging conversation and with your licensing.

I kind of suspected it might be something like that, but it was a genuine query that, yes, was intended to be mildly humorous. I don’t intentionally annoy except maybe my wife.

Your indirect accusation made me smirk, but as far as I’ve noticed you’re the only one who does this without doing it on every comment, which seemed interesting enough to observe.

Does the lack of licensing in this comment mean it’s okay to steal?

Not Shoot 'em Up?

There are at least two!

https://bash-org-archive.com/

https://qdb.lol/

Nice! I currently have a PiKVM but haven’t been able to get it working with my NVR. Maybe this would work better.

A decade and change ago, in a past life, I was tasked with switching SELinux to permissive mode on the majority of systems on our network (multiple hundreds, or we might have gotten above one thousand at that point, I don’t recall exactly). This was to be done using Puppet. A large number of the systems, including most of our servers, had already been manually switched to permissive but it wasn’t being enforced globally.

Unfortunately, at that point I was pretty familiar with Puppet but had only worked with SELinux a very few times. I did not correctly understand the syntax of the config file or setenforce and set the mode to … Something incorrect. SELinux interpreted whatever that was as enforcing mode. I didn’t realize what I had done wrong until we started getting alerts from throughout the network. Then I just about had a panic attack when I couldn’t login to the systems and suddenly understood the problem.

Fortunately, it’s necessary to reboot a system to switch SELinux from disabled to any other mode, so most customer facing systems were not impacted. Even more fortunately, this was done on a holiday, so very few customers were there to be inconvenienced by the servers becoming inaccessible. Even more fortunately, while I was unable to access the systems that were now in enforcing mode, the Puppet agent was apparently still running … So I reversed my change in the manifest and, within half an hour, things were back to normal (after some service restarts and such).

When I finally did correctly make the change, I made sure to quintuple check the syntax and not rush through the testing process.

edit: While I could have done without the assault on my blood pressure at the time, it was an effective demonstration of our lack of readiness for enforcing mode.

I’ve been trying to find a network capable KVM for home use. They’re all pretty expensive or lacking functionality. I don’t actually need one or I’d pull the trigger, but I sure have been tempted.

A while ago, I made a post saying things very similar to your first two sentences.

I definitely am far more active here than I was on Reddit. It’s less intimidating here because of a smaller audience. Also, on Reddit, I’d often get negative responses if any at all. The crowd here is much friendlier; once or twice people have lashed out in response to something I said, but mostly people have been kind even if they apparently disagreed with my message.

You’re such a light user that when I try to look at your post history, my client says you don’t exist!