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Account Degradation

Current System

Account reaches an age (e.g. 30d)
Services considers the account expired
Services removes this account. This frees all nicknames associated with the account for re-registration and removes this account, including all metadata, group and channel access from the database.
There is no D. That's all that happens.

So your network doesn't support e-mail, eh?

On how the “secretary of the office of the president” retained me as a Rogers client.

I've been a long-long-long-time Rogers customer. Their support, for me, usually gets to the point not of desperation, but of joy. Admittedly it usually takes several attempts to reach someone who isn't a complete idiot reading from a script, but I've always been satisfied in the end. Satisfied enough to remain a customer, at least! This event in the mid 00's, though, taxed the limits I'm willing to reach for bad tech support while still managing to leave me as a customer. (Lesser of evils and whatnot.)

I'm a sysop. I need access to my boxen from anywhere and everywhere, and while GSM speeds are pretty suck compared to modern LTE it was more than enough for an SSH connection, or some light-weight HTTP or VNC/RDP over a VPN. The VPN turned out to be a sticking point, as no matter which technology (PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, etc.) I tried my phone would never connect and/or authent

The Scammiest Scam To Yet Anonymity Scam

I'm still holding out for this being a hoax, a big joke, and that they're going to cancel the kickstarter any minute. It'd be quite the cute "lessons learned" about anonymity scams. However, I will be treating it from here on out as a genuine scam. (As of May 2nd, the kickstarter has been cancelled, after the strangest attempt to reply to this imaginable. Good riddance.)

This absolutely ridiculous thing was brought to my attention by a friend and since it was late at night I thought I must be delirious in how absurdly over the top fake it seemed. So I slept on it, woke up, and found that it had gotten a thousand dollars more funding and was every bit as flabbergasting as I thought it was.

Since I realize that not everyone has spent their entire lives studying computers – and such people are the targets of such scams –

NOTE: This Gist concerns the old Linode KVM Beta, NOT the current Manager. Please see linode/docs#501 (comment) for more up-to-date instructions.

You will need:

Windows Server 2012 R2 iso. Obtain from MSDN
A server with libvirt/virt-manager/KVM/etc set up.
Fedora-sourced Windows virtio drivers: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.103-2/virtio-win-0.1.103.iso
A Linode 1GB in the KVM beta, booted into Rescue mode, with a 20GB(20480MB) "raw" image.

On the KVM source, run the following to create a VM:

Intro

perf is very handy, it comes with linux and works without a lot of setup (contrast: oprofile, systemtap)

probes work for kernel and userspace and you can record function arguments and local frame and other variables in the trace

you can use perf script to view the output of such traces, and it will display the variables bundled with the trace, by name, and with the format given when the probe was added

Context

recently someone was asked to record what happened in systemd at source_dispatch, in sd-event; to see what the value of s->description was at the time, they were advised to use gdb

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide being aware of the fact that I'm not an expert regarding the things outlined below, however I made my best attempt. A few people in IRC confirmed it worked for them and the results looked acceptable.

Attention: After following all the steps run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache as root, this prevents various gdk-related bugs that have been reported in the last few hours. Symptoms are varied, and for Cinnamon the DE fails to start entirely while for XFCE the icon theme seemingly can't be changed anymore etc.

Check the gist's comments for any further tips and instructions, especially if you are running into problems!

Screenshots

Results after following the guide as of 11.01.2017 13:08:

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

	In the time before ponychat, the world was just not the same. Parasprites
	ravaged the scattered herds in their multitudes. Harsh rulers wantonly declared
	banishment. And frequent netsplits violently tore at the very fabric of the
	netscape, leaving even bronies of the same herd segregated from their friends.
	In despair of this abysmal situation, two intrepid independent groups of bronies
	forwarded their best minds towards finding a solution. They both arrived at the
	same conclusion, both knew that the brony communities needed a network to call
	their own. A place where tolerance reigned free, where the rulers ran with the
	herds, and where, above all else, friendship was highest prized.

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.