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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • You will need a barrel, a rope and a pulley on a pole. Oh and something to make holes in a barrel with.

    To compile:

    • rope the barrel and lay the rest of the rope over the pulley
    • drive the pole into the ground next to your desired source of water
    • optionally, keep the barrel’s lid openable
    • make holes in the barrel in a convenient position, such that the holes will face downwards when you eventually mast the barrel

    To charge:

    • Set the barrel in the water source and wait until the barrel is full of water (optionally open the lid at this point)
    • If you optionally opened the lid before, then mandatorily close the lid, now
    • Pull the rope from the other side of the pulley such that the barrel goes up
    • Let the water pour from the barrel and have fun with the shower

  • Yeah, one big problem of man I found was the severe lack of explanation of what the command is mainly intended to do. It’s as if the user is expected to run the man after knowing what purpose a specific program exists for, which, I guess is what it is intended for. I tend to rely on the package manager’s information and other similar sources for that information and man mainly for determining the exact usage.

    I don’t at all expect man to be useful for someone who can just follow written instructions.
    The reason being than man is just supposed to tell the user, what typy stuff needs to be done for specific functionality. And most programs tend to be doing some small thingy and not fulfilling the user’s whole requirement in one go.
    Meaning, to be happy with just man, one needs to be able to create a solution for themselves by properly fitting little parts and that is already more than half way to being able to do programming.

    Your man -a intro example and what followed, made me more confused than before of what you were trying to say, so I am just trying to go with the feel of it for now.


  • Other than stuff like ffmpeg - which has so many features that a man page just can’t cut it; and sed - which doesn’t have a simple hyperlink saying “you go here to learn sed regexp”, most man pages do what I need them to do.

    You just need to learn the basics of how the man page is organised and what the brackets in the SYNOPSIS section mean and that makes using them much easier.

    We also have man man for that purpose.










  • I’m guessing the ransomware gangs would be giving better payments than regular companies asking for pen-testing.

    But with this, comes other concerns:

    • Will the pen-tester be enticed to use the “authorised hacking” as an opportunity to install a backdoor of their own or do they maintain strict borders between both jobs?
      • I’m thinking, not so much, as, if they’re already doing something illegal, they might as well just go the extra mile.
    • At the same time, pen-testers working for one company might also be used for industrial espionage efforts, by competitors


  • LMDE

    Oops! I thought it was some obscure DE.

    Considering your points, it seems to be most probably some configuration issue.
    Might even be that some of the automated monitor/display configuration tools (might be some GUI settings thing) wonked out and reconfigured something.

    If your system has some shortcut combination for selecting external monitor/connected projector/mirror screen, perhaps you can try that.

    Also, since you mentioned xrandr, I would assume X Session. You can also use xrandr to check and set the monitor configuration. Not just whether it is connected, but also location (left/right/up/down) and screen resolution of each display separately. Perhaps trying those could tell you what is happening.




    1. Any recent software updates that you might find relevant?
    • It would be good to know which distro you use
    • “Samsung commercial” would make me believe it doesn’t get automatic updates, but just in case, that is also a factor.
    1. Does the TV work with other input sources on the same port?
    2. Reading “Samsung”, I would assume it has multiple input ports. What was the result with other ports.