I managed to figure out how to bypass the cert verification in dbconfig-mysql (named on the tin as dbconfig-common) and got my appliance set up!

1. apt install dbconfig-mysql before installing the PhpMyAdmin package

2. In /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/dbc-mysql, in both sections where temporary my.cnf is defined, set ssl-verify-server-cert = off right below the port = line.

3. to install PhpMyAdmin, run DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low apt install phpmyadmin and follow the prompts

4. In /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php add the following line directly under $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = $dbserver;:

   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] = true;
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl_verify'] = false;
   

Unreal… I doubt this will ever make it to market. Seems like patent CYA.

Meanwhile, granted I live in a pretty politically “blue” part of the USA where electric vehicle acceptance is probably near peak in comparison to the American average, but there are a LOT of people whizzing around the streets on electric bikes motorcycles these days … pretty sure the “I’ll only buy electric if it sounds like internal combustion” market segment simply doesn’t exist, or if it does, is microscopic at best.

I don’t have examples offhand, but recently did a bit of reading at the behest of a friend whose cats had fleas, and recently developed pesticides were found to be active at levels of just a few nanograms per flea. Many of the newer insecticides are active to this degree, or close to it. Industry started designing pesticides using the principles of Rational Drug Design and quickly came up with a bunch of fantastically lethal (to the target, namely, insects) chemicals which are now being sprayed all over the environment.

Related: if you’ve ever happened to notice that more recently developed medications often require a lower dose, in milligrams, than older ones in the same class - that isn’t by accident. There are a number of principles that can be used to increase the potency of a candidate bio-active chemical, pesticides included.

Not pesticides that are active at single-digit nanogram quantities?

I recently moved to CoMaps after having a positive experience with Organic Maps, specifically re: offline navigation capability.

Although the search in CoMaps could be better, it’s still far superior than what I experienced with OsmAnd. In my opinion, CoMaps UX is vastly better than OsmAnd.

inetd, xinetd et al were how this was done back in the day.

many services use very little energy when they are not actively being used. that’s definitely not true across the board though.

I echo the suggestion of Proxmox.

The infrastructure required to support it is vastly more complex & expensive than liquid fuel infrastructure, and it has poor energy density.

I think I’ll wait a few point releases before upgrading.

I’ve tried and tried and tried, turns out the vast majority of people, including ones who theoretically would be into this, are beat down & atomized to the point where their primary goal in life is to not have to adjust their personal trajectory in any way, shape, or form, until they absolutely fucking have to on pain of death. 🤷

and then the ones who are actually into realistic prepping and want to work with others are batshit fucking crazy, but I think that might have something to do with my sample size of n=1 after trying to collaborate on shit like this for over a decade.

edit: it also doesn’t help that I’m autistic with a literal night watchman / jumpy cat phenotype, and have been unable to access sufficient solitude to function for nearly a decade, so I myself am sufficiently beat down & atomized that developing community comes lower in my priority queue than getting access to any precious scrap of solitude I can, in a constant losing battle to meet my basic sensory needs 🤷

My solution has been to spend time getting my gear in order, learning practical skills, and perhaps developing a spiritual practice such as meditation.

That’s cool to hear :)

I think the last big Perl app which I regularly dealt with (and was aware of it as such) was the supporting software for the Squeezebox music players.

how the hell did a Perl guru younger than me come to exist? I’d have figured they’re all 50+ bare minimum.

There’s even an unofficial AppImage of it now, which is nice because the one that deals with the Flatpak seems to break every time the Flatpak gets updated.

Exhibit A: the text tool.

In general though, I find the UX to just be worse across the board. Too many steps. Non-intuitive defaults. Bad keyboard shortcuts. and so on.

To be honest, I have successfully avoided using bare GIMP for enough years now (not sure how old PhotoGIMP is, but I think it’s been around at least 5 years) that the specific bad memories are fading.

I do think GIMP has objectively bad UX in the sense that it’s definitely not just “I was used to Photoshop first so I automatically think everything else sucks.” Probably the last ~20 years of flamewars started by people pissing off the devs by saying the exact same thing is some evidence of that. But I’m not a UX expert and haven’t sat down to do a side-by-side comparison… honestly, that’s something I’d really enjoy reading/watching if somebody did do it.

If such a thing existed, it’d be coolest if they did it with one of the “good” versions of classic Photoshop, like version 7 or whatever was made by pirates into a portable app in the 2000s. I have no idea how far the UX has evolved in Adobe’s rent-seeking era because I stopped using even portable Photoshop when I switched to Linux as my daily driver for good in 2015 or so. Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.

Look into PhotoGIMP.

GIMP is hot garbage compared to classic Photoshop (I haven’t used the rent-seeking versions so I wouldn’t know about those). The UX has been utter shite and will remain utter shite because they like it that way. PhotoGIMP has been a godsend.

I think they might be more useful than LFP and certainly than lead-acid in that role. One of the biggest issues with consumer UPS units is that they recharge very slowly after an outage, so they’re mostly only useful for infrequent power cuts. If Na-ion can recharge substantially faster, it would be more useful in areas with frequent interruptions.

Supposedly they don’t have the charge-discharge rate limitations that lithium iron phosphate cells do, so I’m very interested in them for backup power (UPS) applications on a consumer scale - something to keep the homelab up during a power failure of a couple hours or less.

Voip dot ms employs a ton of countermeasures versus skript kiddies as voip fraud is a severe problem. You are unlikely to have much luck with Tor Browser. I have to ask them to take my boring data center IP off their greylist every time I want to add cash to my balance.

try voip dot ms