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  • dbtngtoOpensource@programming.devpfsense is open washing
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    6 days ago

    Ok. Shakin my head here. I certainly believed pfSense was opensource.
    I switched to OPNsense this year, mostly because that’s what we use at work.
    It sounds like I’m on the right one then?
    Or is somebody next week gonna tell me OPNsense is a fully corporate orphan crushing operation?


  • Ya, I guess. That’s a reasonable description, but what I see there is people first playing with some basic ideas about how the world works.
    You have to manipulate and work with those ideas in order to really internalize what they mean. That can come out a little clumsy at first.

    Some familiarity with the literature doesn’t hurt either. So, take this comment about being the only one in the universe. Later on, this person may read about Boltzman Brains, and they will come to understand that this idea has been thoroughly chewed up already a hundred years ago, and of course Rene Descarte laid the groundwork well before that. Oh, and St Thomas Aquinas well before that. Ya, this whole ‘the universe might not really exist’ thing has been well discussed.

    I think this is all an exploration process where people try out ideas and see how they work. In the case of solipsism, its attractive at first because it can’t be proven wrong. And then after you play with it enough, you realize its a dead end. Concluding that nothing is real gains you nothing. There’s no advantage to the perspective, and its as futile as itself concludes the universe is.



  • I dd not agree. You did not reply. And not replying seems to be your default in public as well.

    Like, you moved the comm to another instance. There was a lot of subsequent discussion of that. People wanted to know what the comm was even about. Thats about the time you nuked my cat pic. No - comment.

    You seemed to be mining the old comm and recycling content. Nope, you had no comment.

    I have no issue in general with you or your comm. I still read it.
    But its fun watching you whine about another mod.










  • Have you looked into an actual used server?
    I own 2 Dell rack servers, each of which I got for free. The big one cost me about $500 to upgrade to 80vcpu 180gb RAM and has more PCIe slots than I need. I don’t even run it because my smaller server does everything I want.

    I guess it depends on exactly what you are looking for, but at least do a scan of ebay or amazon refurbs. Look for used Dell or HP rack servers. The parts to upgrade older machines are cheap, and an enterprise server has the capacity to deliver a hell of a lot of performance. Do some searching, see what you find.





  • I definitely do not care about dicing an onion uniformly, but I read and enjoyed the entire analysis.

    All of the diagrams are of a cross-section of the middle of an onion. You know, it being round and all, it naively makes a lot of sense to assume that’s going to be ok as a model for the entire onion.

    But … I find myself curious … if the solution is to cut to an angle below the onion, and the article did point out that a few pieces along the bottom would be mismatched … It seems that we are overlooking the top and bottom of the onion where sections are going to get some really weird looking cuts.

    They say, “This is an onion. (Well, a simplified cross-section of one.)”
    … No. No that is not an onion. Its not that they’ve chosen an easy problem, but the approximation used here is not an onion.



  • dbtngtomemes@lemmy.worldGorgeous 😍
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    2 months ago

    Grandma can’t see the pins anymore to take them out.
    She made me a lovely quilt. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be done pulling pins out of it.

    Treat that vest very carefully for a while. No sudden moves.