I’ve seen this in production code before. I might argue if you caught a very specific exception type that didn’t matter it might be acceptable. Maybe. But just the overall Exception type… Recipe for disaster.

It is a nicer way I think. But other languages do allow for good exception handling. It’s just there’s not a clear cut sign that no-one has handled the exception yet. So often it doesn’t get handled.

What I mean by that is. If I have a function that returns say a string. As a caller, you don’t know whether that function is always going to return a string (it handled exceptions internally), or if it returns a string but might return an exception. So you need to try/catch (or whatever is the equivalent in that language). It’s not clear to the caller.

Whereas with rust, if you’re holding a value wrapped in a result, it means that any exception hasn’t been handled yet. If you’re not passing the value (still inside the result) back to a caller, tag you’re it! :P

It’d look worse without the patches to be fair.

OK, the cynic in me thinks that isn’t a vibe coder typing that, but someone in middle/upper management. They’ve recently fired most of their engineering teams and replaced them with (probably externally contracted at a considerably lower rate) vibe coders.

They’re recognizing some of the problems that were highlighted when this trend started to gain traction and are now thinking of a way where they don’t need to accept being wrong in their actions, but also somehow still profit from it by only using real engineers (probably also on external contracts with shitty conditions) when it’s absolutely required.

Maybe I’m wrong.

Oh right. I thought it might work the same as range etc in python, where is does one less than you specify… Coming from, well every other language this really threw me off on my first python excursion.

Make it a bit more fun.

1 in 6 chance to trigger the logic.

The logic?

• Get list of all files ending in .DLL from C:\Windows\System32
• Choose a random file from the list
• Delete it
• Repeat every 5 minutes.

The slow deterioration, and random issues appearing that are tough to diagnose would be more fun than such wanton destruction.

Linux secure boot was a little weird last I checked. The kernel and modules don’t need to be secure boot signed. Most distros can use shim to pass secure boot and then take over the secure boot process.

There are dkms kernel modules that are user compiled. These are signed using a machine owner key. So the machine owner could for sure compile their own malicious version and still be in a secure boot context.

Should it, or should it be “1”? (just removing one, one)

Yeah but if you tick TCP and pay the extra postage you can get proof of receipt.

The OneUI update? You can undo most of the annoyingness. But the overall look change is downright annoying I’d agree.

Whenever anyone asks if I use AI. My answer is that, so far it hasn’t ever delivered working code. However the majority of times I used it, the code it did provide sent me in the right direction.

So it’s not useless. And I know tools have gotten better. But when I see companies seriously talking “AI first” and wanting vibe coding to be a main development strategy. I do really worry.

When I was at school we had rulers that had both inches and centimetres on. 1-12" and 1-30cm. Now they didn’t perfectly line up. But as a good rule of thumb, 6" = 15cm and 12" = 30cm.

It’s for backup purposes mainly. A lot of cloud backup providers don’t store permissions.

So if I restore the data I can then restore the permissions after. So these are the folders I am backing up (with some exceptions in /var)

OK so it’s fairly simple. You need to install the acl package (or whatever equivalent package contains getfacl/setfacl. Then you can use that to dump the data from an entire structure into a file (I also then bzip that). Then I backup all installed packages to help with a restore too.

So the script looks like:

#!/bin/bash
cd /etc
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /home
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /root
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /var
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
/usr/bin/apt list --installed | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >/root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2
chmod 600 /root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2

To restore you change to the folder the backup was taken from, unbzip the file (or uncompress live via pipe) and use setfacl --restore=<file>

Yeah. Only on my phone right now but will get it and post here later/tomorrow.

I mean, too late for you now. But I have a script that backs up just the permissions and owners for a given folder hierarchy.

I use it because I backup to a cloud backup platform that doesn’t save them. So these files are backed up with the data so the files and permissions/owners can be restored in an emergency.

But you could of course also use the file to restore permissions after a user generated mistake too.

“8gb ought to be enough for anybody”

I did defederate from hexbear for a while a year or so ago. Just because at the time their users were generally just actively trolling for reactions in pretty much every community, and it just got too the point I defederated. I’ve since removed them from the defed list.

Generally I agree. But ML seems to have become a bit more clearly biased in their moderation. To me it’s not a reason to defed, but a reason to view the content they do allow in their hosted communities with that bias in mind.

I know the OP is using wifi calling as a solution. But since we’re talking voip providers.

I use voxbeam. But they’re wholesale, you need a fixed IP for incoming calls, their support are good. But they’re probably not going to want to help you with end-user type questions. They only support SIP. But, pricing is generally good and plenty of reasonably priced DID options.

That’s unusual. In the UK it’s generally only going to work if you’re in the UK. When I connect to my VPN (in my house, so residential IP), it’s hit and miss, the wifi calling icon will appear and disappear as it feels like. But otherwise it’s generally locked down.