The primary reason I use AI is to waste techbros’ money.

The second reason is because I am Lazy and bored.

#Slacktivism

Just put up our new flag… Never really felt the need to put up a flag before now but it seems like literally the least we can do at this point.

I made #fish function for #CheatEngine that just takes the steamID of whatever game I want to run it with and opens CE in proton-ge for that specific game.

This probably isn’t the ideal format for this kind of thing, but I’m lazy so deal with it.

function cheatengine
if test (count $argv) -ne 1
echo "Usage: cheatengine <Steam_APPID>"
return 1
end

set -l appid $argv[1]
set -x STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH "$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/$appid/"
echo "Set STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH to $STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH"

proton-ge run ~/Games/CheatEngine/cheatengine-x86_64.exe
end

I use the browser Thorium to keep about a dozen google accounts signed in, and i rotate between them as each hits limits.

Some fun things i’ve learned abusing Cursor AI:

They limit the number of free accounts per computer, this limitation however is stored locally, so creating a snapshot before first running the app lets you get around it.

I’m not sure how many “tokens” or whatever they give you per month, but the limit resets on a rolling 30.

My antacid tablets moving in their bottle sounds just like the cat treats to one of my cats , so every time i get indigestion, she gets very excited.

It’s Bandcamp friday

Here’s a few suggestions to check out.

https://itsdamag3.bandcamp.com/track/put-a-landlord-in-a-landfill

https://ho99o9.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrow-we-escape

https://andosan1.bandcamp.com/album/oh-kay

https://dyingfetus.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-cesspool-single

https://dopethrone.bandcamp.com/album/broke-sabbath

I remember when gox went down the last time, everyone saw it coming, there was a couple of dudes who went to japan to stage a very small protest outside their offices. Crypto in the early days was so much more fun, just as much of a ponzi scheme as it is now, but at least it wasnt taken too seriously.

Zhou Tonged - You Just Got Mt. Goxed! (Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It’s Hot)

hard to believe this happeend 12 years ago and now he’s a free man again.

Zhou Tonged - End of Silk Road

(Boyz II Men Parody)

Since Im not sure how much longer i’ll have access to the ability to do so, I decided to download my entire youtube watch history.

You guys member when the government threatened internet freedom and we all protested about it and then they stopped for a while and came up with a new name for the same bullshit, got the corporations to do the censorship for them and everyone just fell for it because capitalism.

replace SOPA with META, Google, Amazon, Spotify… Fuck all of the corporations trying to profit by taking away our freedoms

Arion - ＂Internet Rebellion (Fuck S.O.P.A.)＂

I know Genocide is wrong, but would anyone really be that upset if we just got rid of all the ultra rich? Send them all to Epstein island or something with no staff and a bunch of boot straps, see if they can figure it out.

#USPOL

Man these announcements just get more and more absurd.

Big announcement about the cause of autism … lol It’s tylanol!!

HUGE meeting with ALL THE GENERALS …. Its to announce a new “no fatties” policy and the president sleepily implies he’ll probably be using more forces domestically

It is not possible to be pro-gun, anti-drug and anti-abortion at the same time unless you’re simply stupid, full stop.

So anyone who is all of those things at once is a moron and you can totally ignore them and their opinions.

Do I need to explain why? If so, I’ll do it in the comments, but I’m really hoping I don’t have to.

Doing some troubleshooting on the local network to figure out why VPN routing is borked. Expect services to be intermittent for the next 12 hours or so.

#GravityWellxYz

#Sysadmin Chronicles #LinuxMint #Debian

Last night I wound up dealing with one of the wildest debian breakages I’ve ever seen. It was quiet the project to work through, but in the end we got everything working again.

While I honestly am not sure exactly what happened, I’m fairly sure it was a combination of (mostly) user error, and automatic-updates being enabled.

My user errors/ Mistakes that I know of: Distro is LinuxMint Debian Edition, and the sources for apt used the “stable” tag (instead of ie bookworm), the mint repos use the codename which was faye for LMDE6. Normally I’m used to setting up pure debian and then adding MINT repos if necessary, but this server was setup as “LMDE” from the start, so it priorities Mint versions of things like cinnamon (this ended up being a major dependency issue for apt) . Mint doesnt have a “stable” tag for their repos, so its only goes by codename, in this case the major mistake seems to be that before confirming the switch from 12 to 13 the mint sources.list should have been changed to the codename “gigi”

With debian 13 recently becoming released as “stable”, so that meant a dist-upgrade was due for the system, but we had not gotten around to it (this server gets very little tinkering unless something breaks, thus why auto updates had been enabled)

At some point since the move from 12 to 13, An individual package or 2 was installed onto the server (and maybe a dependency or 2 if it had them) without doing a full upgrade. Because it was the first time since the move, apt mentions/warns about how the stable version has changed and asks to confirm the transition, This tells debian its now okay to upgrade everything to the new 13 versions.

Later Debian auto update goes to do its thing, runs into some kind of an issue with version/dependency conflicts due to the mix of debian 13 and LMDE “faye” that prevents the installation/upgrade of a number of essential packages. but instead of reverting changes and going back to old versions, it leaves the packages no longer installed. packages like cinnamon-desktop and fish and bash shell… (or packages for libs that these essentials need to be able to start)

So after maybe an hour of trying to figure out how to reinstall everything and undo stuff, we decide to cut our losses, do a full backup/format/reinstall…. this time with just a pure Debian 13 and no Mint.

After that restoring the backups went smoothly and overall this server was overdue for a good refresh anyway.

In 2024 and 2025, humans will spend something like 600 billion of LLMs. That’s about as much money as the entire Apollo program plus 2 entire International Space Stations for 40 years plus 5 copies of the longest bridge in the world, and then you’ll have money left to end world hunger for a year.

But instead, we have funny pictures, hallucinations and a semi-ok-ish summary machine that only rarely inserts random phrases. With possibly the worst RoI since Enron

Just thinking about how if during Charlie Kirk’s “Funeral”, everyone who attended had tragically died, we would have a 91 year old President Chuck Grassley right now.