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Should we do this?

Donald Trump is absolutely not worried about people dressed in chicken suits handing out tacos. This is "Let's Go Brandon"-level feckless facebook-boomer euphemism, it's embarrassing, and I'm fucking sick of it.

You know what Donald Trump is actually worried about? Protests, strikes, civil unrest, molotov cocktails, actual substantive action. Stop pretending this taco chicken bullshit is that.

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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Recommenting since this is being posted fucking everywhere with the same sensational headline that makes it look like linkedin is jumping out of the browser to scan your actual filesystems - here's an exerpt from the site linked:

The Attack: How it works
Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

It's enumerating the browser extensions you have installed.

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What's a piece of esoteric knowledge you have?

ifupdown2 has a 15-character interface name limit, and the systemd predictable interface naming system uses the mac address for usb nics (giving them a 15-character name), so if you try to create a vlan subinterface of a usb nic using the standard interface.vlan naming scheme on a systemd host, it will fail, and you'll have to set up systemd network link files to rename the base interfaces to something shorter.

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Measure to ban trans Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from women's bathroom fails

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They do actually want to ban Buck Angel from using the men's room, and this is the point I always use to illustrate the real hatred underlying this issue. They want people like Buck to be forced into the choice between facing arrest for using one bathroom, or facing violence for using the other. That's the only point of these measures - to make violence and legal threat the only two options available.

The goal is to ban trans people from existing in public.

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Is anyone elses Podman filling up their "/var/tmp"?

Podman/docker leave behind old images, image layers, and containers that need to be cleaned up occasionally. podman system prune will do so.

If 8TB was taken up quickly or unexpectedly, it might be something like a container failing to start and being recreated over and over, leaving each failed container behind as it goes. podman ps --all will list all containers, running or stopped. Before doing the system prune run that and podman image ls --all to see if anything looks amiss.

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Linux is NOT private out of the box

I'm reading this post as a well-intended PSA for those who might not know that their computers keep logs, and I appreciate the poster for that. But also I got a laugh from it sounding kind of like this:

If you want to avoid providing incriminating evidence during a possible police interrogation, you must disable your brain's long-term memory functions by lobotomizing yourself