KISS is great if you want something really simple that works well.

And people who have no time install gentoo? Pull the other one :D

Checking in

We have a while to wait before everyone has microdiamonds in their testicles, but one day we’ll get there!

Interesting, I think it’s different for structural engineering because you’re doing calculations in accordance with a code of practice and the spreadsheet needs to be adapted to tweak the inputs and outputs of a standard formula and apply it slightly differently for different bridges / structural arrangements. I’ve written loads of spreadsheets that have been used and adapted by other people in my company, I honestly don’t think they are that difficult to understand (or people wouldn’t have been able to build on them and adapt them).

I can see that lab software is quite different, especially if you have very well defined procedures and you are repeating exactly the same test again and again with the same inputs and outputs.

In structural engineering (bridge design etc), we use quite complicated spreadsheets for calculations; a database wouldn’t be the right tool for that job. We use excel because everyone knows how to use it and it’s easy to print to PDF and see the inputs and outputs and any graphical summaries you have added. Using a spreadsheet makes it easy to check and easy to adapt/change when you want to do a slightly different calculation next time.

I’ve tried building spreadsheets of similar complexity in libreoffice and it’s true they are very slow in comparison and more prone to crashing.

Libreoffice works well for some tasks and I enjoy using it at home but honestly if I tried to use it at work it would cut my productivity significantly. I’m probably using it more intensively than most people though.

Was not expecting that! What a dark character arc :D

What do you use nowadays?

Their own assets are probably busy in Ukraine or trying to combat Ukrainian infiltrators

Thanks, I find the names of Ubiquiti’s product lines pretty confusing particularly as they are often used together.

I have an Edgerouter X, an Edgerouter PoE-5, two UAP-AC-LR (“Ubiquiti UniFi-AC-LR”) access points, and one UAP-AC-MESH (“Ubiquiti UniFi-AC-MESH”) access point.

The access points came with UniFi firmware, whereas the routers were running EdgeOS. I’m no longer using the PoE-5 and I’ve replaced the firmware on all of the other devices with OpenWrt.

Yes of course I changed the root password, I think it would actually be quite difficult not to do that on OpenWrt as it warns you if the password isn’t set.

Was the exploit not related to unifi’s remote / cloud administration features? That’s how I read it, unless they mean remote admin that was installed by the malware.

Makes me glad I replaced the firmware on my Unifi devices with OpenWrt

Auto updates works really well for me so far!

I’ve wanted this for years; in the past manually flashing the privileged extension after every system update was such a pain that I quickly gave up on it.

Not sure if I’m just misreading you, but which party do you think was the opposition during the brexit referendum and has subsequently gained power in the UK? The Tories called the referendum and have been in power since. Hopefully we will be rid of them at the upcoming election but I wouldn’t count on it.

HP are pretty awful when it comes to shenanigans with ink cartridges and all that, but HPLIP is great and deserves some credit.

Not much good news going around at the moment is there. All the more reaaon to celebrate this, which can’t have been easy or quick and can only have been achieved a result of hard work over many years.

Apologies if you’re asking for something different but I recently discovered https://annas-archive.org/ which is great for books.

Did you not switch to Nextcloud a while back?

Yeah and you also need execute permissions to read what’s in a directory, so 666 for the whole system means you basically lose access to 99% of files

In situations like this can’t you get superuser privileges back using grub?