I have received awful, slow, inaccurate support from ovh. Avoid.

Hello internet friend. I may be able to make your life easier for 4.

You can use aws vault to open the aws console using roles:

    aws-vault --help
    usage: aws-vault [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]
    ...
    login [<flags>] [<profile>]
        Generate a login link for the AWS Console.

Which when combined with this plugin: https://github.com/blimmer/zsh-aws-vault

You can just to `avli some-role` and it will pop up in the browser in a new profile.

The only downside here is that you can't combine them into one window.

But it takes the pain out of logging in, and 2 factor, etc.

I stopped going to red robin after they gave me food poisoning

I’m not sure that would be a net loss. I would be shocked to hear of an area of the world that only has chain restaurants and nothing else.

Locust has been useful for load testing. We don't use their cloud offering, anyone have any thoughts on what is being lost in the self hosted version vs cloud.

Nah, they probably used pre-existing marketplaces like steam as an example of what "they could get away with"

I did build a charybdis, and I daily it. Its been great typing wise. I don't have any wrist issues anymore.

The trackball I don't use for any precision actions. Its useful if I want to hit a tab, or move to the other monitor. But trying to hit small links for example is painful. (That being said I am using the stock bearings, which don't seem to work well)

It was a significant expense for a keyboard, especially being a kit. Albeit my wrists are worth it.

I'm enjoying my ZSA Voyager and Navigator (trackball) combo.

Out of picture, I also have a Magic Trackpad (right) and Logitech MX Anywhere 3 (left). I like to switch up my hand movements.

https://i.postimg.cc/TYMSMCT1/IMG-1528.jpg

Hello, fellow ZSA Voyager plus dual-weild aficionado! It’s great, isn’t it? I saw [this](https://evantravers.com/articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-...) here recently and promptly bought some mini-tripods and MagSafe adapters. Access to arbitrary tenting angles has been a big plus. I also have a 3D printed deck for it that sits over my MacBook keyboard and is quite nice. Don’t want to lose access to my Miryoku layout when on the move! Especially home row chording.

I also went down the switches rabbit hole and ended up with lighter weight switches under my pinkies, which I find quite pleasant.

I also dual-wield a Magic Trackpad (outside left) and Logitech Lift (which I have found to be vastly better for my wrist than a normal mouse, since it requires much less unnatural rotation).

I’m also looking forward to the ZSA trackpad attachment for the Voyager. Interested to see whether it’s an improvement on the excellent Magic Trackpad. As an avid Magic Trackpad user, what do you think of the trackball?

All in all, though, this kind of setup feels like something of final destination, don’t you think? No more desire to tinker and can see myself using it this way for decades - just replacing switches if / when they fail. I even have some spare keycaps which I bought from Tai-Hao (who manufacture the original keycaps, I believe). I bought the blanks from ZSA then sort of regretted it. They look so darn cool but made the transition to Miryoku harder than it needed to be.

Goodness gracious look how much I’ve written about my keyboard. My wife would find this very amusing.

I love the the Voyager when I want to really focus or if I'm going to code for a long time (limits my arm movements and I'm more intentional). When I'm doom scrolling or being creative, I end up using the mouse (I'm looking at the Lift too) or the trackpad more.

Yes, it's my end game but I was pretty tempted by the go60 because of the wireless nature. https://www.moergo.com/pages/go60

Do you find you use the trackball for precise movements? I wonder if a more polished product is any different than the Charybdis.

I used the trackball for about 2 weeks straight when I got it. I felt I could do about 95% of movements I wanted pretty easily. Became like second nature. But I prefer the Magic Trackpad for its gestures. So basically I have 3 pointing devices on my desk now (LOL).

I don't have a static IP, so tailscale is convenient. And less likely to fail when I really need it, as apposed to trying to deal with dynamic dns.

Not sure if any use this camera. But dude hangs out with a lot of ballet dancers it seems

https://www.instagram.com/cristi.baluta

I personally only really noticed that I did not like the "after dark" style reddits. But I would generally try to ignore anything political, and focus on like craft/hobby content, media (but not tabloid style), and things not a commentary.

Reddit (or socially generated sites) are really a mixed bag.

I think what became interesting and I nailed down with others was any hobby forum became toxic and lost its utility in direct correlation with its popularity.

For the most part I pinned it down to casual engagement from non hobbyists introduced noise and anti information at scale.

For example in r/cars a site that talks about vehicles the vast majority of commenters do not own, comments become about the “simualacra” of having an exotic (comparing specs debating reviews etc). Where as Ferrari chat forum is about the utilitarian ins and outs of actually owning one (financing, maintence, dealer issues etc).

This seems to apply to all hobby forums when grow in popularity to the point where engagement rewards contributions from non hobbiests over real ones.

My final takeaway was that the nature of the internet being a simulation inherently rewards non real content over real. (Fake news is inherent to the internet) And karmic systems specifically reconstruct and enforce that simualacra.

An adjacent problem is when enthusiasts in hobby subreddits become a bit too enthusiastic about the hobby which sometimes develops into an unhealthy obsession that the community (un)wittingly becomes a part of.

I recently bought a pair of boots from a reputable brand. So I of course checked out the subreddit for the brand and while many posts are good and the community is receptive to questions but posts by weirdos with like a dozen+ pairs of $300+ boots dominate the discussion.

Can these people actually afford like $5000 worth of boots and all the accessories they come with it? Maybe. Maybe we’re all participating in their shopping addiction when they post pictures of their stairs covered in boots.

Either way there’s something unsettlingly unnatural about their posts, and I don’t mean in an astroturfing sort of way.

This is a part of the simulacra due the karmic re enforcement and feedback.

The person is buying the 10th boot because of the feeling they get showing it off and getting karma on the forums.

This is crazy represented in watch forums where broadly in the real world no one cares an iota about watches but inside the forums it becomes insanity.

> Either way there’s something unsettlingly unnatural about their posts, and I don’t mean in an astroturfing sort of way

the mentally ill are, well, mentally ill after all.

Out of curiosity, can anyone say the most impactful things they've needed incredibly accurate time for?

I work at a particle accelerator. We use White Rabbit (https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/) to synchronize some very sensitive devices, mostly the RF power systems and related data acquisition systems, down to nanosecond accuracy.

Spanner

(See https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-externa...)

Does it need to be this close to NIST, or just relative to each other? Because the latter one is solved by PTP.

As far as I remember, near each other, but the comment I was replying to was specifically about needing accuracy.

It's been over a decade now since I managed the truetime team at google, things may have changed since :)

Spacecraft state vectors.

Not sure but synthetic massive aperture radio telescope would need syncing their local clocks.

I defer to the experts.

As far as I'm aware they just timestamp the sample streams based on a local gps backed atomic reference. Then when they get the data/tapes in one computing center they can just run a more sophisticated correlation entirely in software to smooth things out.

GPS

As a very coarse number, 5µs is 1500 meters of radio travel.

If (and it isn't very conceivable) GPS satellites were to get 5µs out of whack, we would be back to Loran-C levels of accuracy for navigation.

Telling people at the bar that I have an atomic clock at home.

cesium or rubidium?

rubidium + gps