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Trust me bro!

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That's amazing that they would consider auto-generated responses to be appropriate in something which is supposed to be reference documentation. We are a good way from that type of querying and explanation being reliable.

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Wisconsin judge sides with 11-year-old trans girl over her right to use school toilets

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The best compromise for neutrality and efficiency is to keep gender neutral stalls but also retain an area with urinals which will be much quicker for large numbers of men to pass through then using stalls, and also saves water.

The other consideration would be that the stalls will need to be sufficiently screened that people in them don't feel overlooked or vulnerable (I'm looking at you USA with your weird gappy stall building!).

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So where are we all supposed to go now?

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Maybe it's different on Lemmy, but signing up to the fediverse via kbin couldn't have been easier. Pretty much the same as signing up for any other web site and the federated servers just show up automatically in the search. Once you're subscribed local and federated communities look pretty much identical.

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What's your most-loved non-star movie/show?

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This would be mine too - it's the one series that I've actually been back and re-watched multiple times, and I've gone back to the books too.

In contrast to others comments I'm not sure I want any more seasons of it. I loved the current set but it feels like it ran its course and I'm not sure I need anything more.

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People with pets: how do you deal with all the fur?

Badly :-) Two golden retrievers create a lot of hair every day and at some point you just learn to live with it. Even if you regularly clean then there will be fur tumbleweeds behind and underneath everything. It really helps having hard flooring through the ground floor of the house (my dogs don't go upstairs), as that's easier to keep clean, and regular grooming reduces but certainly doesn't eliminate the shedding.

People have said that a good vaccuum cleaner helps, which is true, but my last Dyson (pet edition) got so clogged with fur that the motor caught fire! Now using a Henry vaccuum which seems to be working pretty well.

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CentOS Stream for HPC work?

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The lack of stability is actually quite attractive to me. In a scientific environment we're normally running fairly new, often unstable code, and we often hit problems because of using older versions of libraries / packages / compilers, so somthing which stays a bit more current would be good and we can deal with breakage if it happens. The trouble is the management systems around HPC assume you're working on enterprise systems, which isn't really true in our case.

I've looked at things like OpenHPC but they're still on RHEL8 (RHEL9 is in testing but not released yet), and even lower level tools like warewulf is still only supporting RHEL8 at the moment which is getting too old for me to want to build a new system from it.

I've looked at more generic tools like Ansible and Chef / Puppet but before I go down that rabbit hole I'd like a sanity check that there isn't something more suited that I'm missing.

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I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) | Jeff Geerling

It looks like the downstream rebuilders are already working on this and are able to extract (with a bit more work) the information they need from the stream repo. How much Redhat tries to block these approaches remains to be seen, but if they can work around this so quickly then it seems a pretty petty stunt to pull.

https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/

https://rockylinux.org/news/brave-new-world-path-forward/

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AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System

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I'm still in two minds about this. We have a lot of infrastructure build on RHEL rebuilds and there's no way we're buying enough RHEL licenses to cover it.

I can look at Devian based alternatives but switching is going to be a time consuming process. If Alma and Rocky get this figured out then I'm still tempted to stick where I am. These distributions have been very stable, and I don't need support for them. Even if RedHat don't like this I'm fine with doing it on the basis that they have an obligation to release the source (at least for GPL code).

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I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) | Jeff Geerling

I'm not clear what this means for distros like Alma or Rocky which used to rebuild the SRPMs that RedHat made available. Are they now dead in the water, or is there a more indirect way for them to get to the code. It looks like the CentOS Stream repository will have all of the code released by RHEL but it's going to take a lot of work to find and extract those packages from the ongoing development, so that's likely going to difficult if not unfeasible.

This is going to be a huge pain to anyone using these distros - it's fine to say we should all move to Debian based distributions, but that sort of migration takes time and planning. If this is implemented immediately then you're going to see a ton of unpatched systems around as existing distros lose support.