@greyor I say it depends on whether the system's Internet-facing or not and what kind of 2FA you have in mind. If you're willing to mess with PAM and enable it you can do TOTP using the oath-toolkit and its PAM module.
@idlestate
@greyor To be clear: oathtool is a command line client that comes with oath-toolkit. You'll get it when you install oath-toolkit, unless your OS/distribution packages it separately, in which case you'll have to hunt down the package that supplies it. Generate a secret and then pipe it into qrencode and you'll get a QR code for it suitable for sending it to a mobile device if you want.
@JessTheUnstill They're definitely the place where you're most likely to still see 2-prong outlets. Those always make me question the safety and reliability of the electrical wiring.
@JessTheUnstill I'll come right out and say it: I'm tired of people expecting me to support Buttigieg just because we both happen to be cis gay white men. He's one of the many Democrats who sell out working people to make rich people even richer. He'd be as much of a disaster in any national position of power as any other establishment Democrat.
@JessTheUnstill If the skill atrophy experienced by pilots who are accustomed to letting autopilot fly the plane from takeoff to landing is any indication this will happen with a lot of other skills.
Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead.
Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost?
Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea.
Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this a $20/month? $100/month? $500/month? Refinance my house for a month's supply?
Doctor - Well, it's probably not "refinance your house" level.
Patient - Umm ... Okay ... That leaves a lot of room in there still.
Doctor - You'll just have to talk to your insurance.
Patient - ... Okay
Later
Patient - Hey insurance, my doc wants me to start taking pjehhdntpf, can you tell me how much it is going to cost?
Insurance - Sorry, I have no idea.
Patient - What do you mean no idea?
Insurance - well, we won't pay anything until your doctor gets a pre-authorization. And then how much we cover is based on the diagnosis codes, your deductible, the specifics of your plan, whether you get it from an in-network pharmacy or not ...
Patient - fine, so give me a best case
Insurance - free if it's approved and in network and you've hit your out of pocket maximum of $100,000
Patient - ... Really not helping here. So assume it gets approved and I've hit my deductable
Insurance - which pharmacy?
Patient - idk ... Umm the CVS down the street
Insurance - Okay that's going to be $5000/month
Patient - ... Wait, WHAT?
Insurance - turns out it's on our exclusions list so we don't cover it unless you get it waved onto the formulary upon appeal
Patient - but.... I have insurance. Why aren't you helping me pay for my medicine?
Insurance - we don't allow that medicine on your employers' plan. You should use gscsttigom instead.
Patient - I'm on that one right now. It doesn't work.
Insurance - well you'll have to appeal it, but you can't do that until after you get a formal denial.
Patient - and how long does that take?
Insurance - well, if your doctor does the preauth paperwork, they'll make a decision about it within 14 business days, unless they need to come back to your doctor for more information. Then they'll mail you the decision within another 7 business days from (insert the location farthest possible away from you in the continental US). Depending on the decision you can appeal the decision, which the appeals process can take a maximum of 180 days, after which you can appeal it again which takes a maximum of 365 days.
Patient - and if I need to start taking the medicine now?
Insurance - well you're free to do that out of pocket and file for reimbursement later.
Patient - at $5000/month?
Insurance - no it'd have to be at the out of pocket price. For that CVS, it looks like it'd be $15000/month
Patient furiously googling "how to move to a civilized country"
Googles "pjehhdntpf price in Mexico" - $12.50 for a 90 day supply.
@JessTheUnstill Really makes me wonder when people are just going to say "Screw this!" and go without health insurance since they won't cover anything anyway. I know there are some doctors out there who are setting up private practices that have people pay them directly monthly or yearly for unlimited visits and tests.
@JessTheUnstill Ken Goodman is to learning how to read what John Forrester is to cycling: putting forth ideas that have a mountain of evidence against them, and still believing in them up to the day they die. In other words "cueing" is to reading what "vehicular cycling" is to cycling. Both set back their respective subjects by about 50 years.
@JessTheUnstill I do that, too. Having had several jobs where one day things seem to be just peachy and the next I've lost my job due to "organizational restructuring" has led me to this.
I need to play with it more, starting with finding an old SDR receiver that may work with it, but I'm surprised that I just discovered Gqrx. Finally a program that takes GNU Radio and makes it usable!
I couldn't find the old SDR receiver, which was mainly designed for receiving DVB-T TV transmissions anyway. So I went ahead and ordered the RTL-SDR Blog 4 and its associated dipole antenna kit. $50 for the whole thing. Definitely cheaper than a scanner but I'll see how well it works on NetBSD―if it works at all on that OS.
theyseeyourphotos.com tool by Ente describes bald JD Vance from a pic and has a lot of incorrect assumptions but one stands our that is accurate: "The person seems to be low in self-esteem"
@JessTheUnstill This, right here, is why no matter how advanced "AI" gets I'm pretty certain that I as a system administrator will still have a job for years to come.
@JessTheUnstill I mean, about the only thing to be nostalgic about in the 90s and 00s was that the country was in an earlier stage of decay. But it was still in decay, especially here in the Midwest.
What they're in complete denial about is that Trump is accelerating that decay. If they weren't totally in a personality cult and looked at what Trump & his cronies have actually done they'd realize he hasn't done anything substantial for them and has in fact done the opposite.
@JessTheUnstill Belt lines would fix that problem. For some reason we build freeways that are beltways around a city but when it comes to public transit no one considers going from one suburb to another, or even one part of the outskirts of the city to another, without having to go to downtown to transfer first.
One thing I haven't mentioned yet regarding my Myrtle Beach trip: I found out that the city council there officially declared June to be Pride month. So while most of South Carolina is total shit when it comes to LGBTQ+ people, at least Myrtle Beach did something in support of us.
@JessTheUnstill I get this. I come from what is now a deep red state (Iowa) and while I live in Illinois my employer is in Indiana, and I see this dynamic when I visit either one.
That said, I'm still glad I live in Illinois instead of either of those two states. But that doesn't mean the other two can change. Hell, Iowa used to be a pretty purple state until the 2010s and it could be again if the Dems there focused on working people as minority rights.
@JessTheUnstill I kind of had to go through this when explaining one of my favorite ham radio modes, Hellschreiber. Dr. Rudolph Hell invented it in 1924, but the form that's used most today, Feld-Hell, was used by the German army during WWII. So I tend to go over that part as fast as possible while not letting my nervousness about that fact show.
@stux We went through that back in the 1990s with Ross Perot's Reform party. We don't need it again.
If we do get a viable third party I want it to be one that builds itself from the ground up, starting with local and school board elections and working its way up to the state and then the federal level, done that way by true grassroots organizing. That's the kind of third party that would be both viable and serve people who aren't rich.
@JessTheUnstill@lennby Coffee making methods I've used since I threw out my defective drip coffee maker about 4 years ago:
Electric percolator
Stovetop percolator
Manual pourover, single cup
Manual pourover, 8-cup
Cold brew jar
All 5 of those are easier to clean than my drip coffee maker ever was and don't have silly things like a pump to break down. And hooking the electric percolator to a timer lets me prepare the night before and brew when I want to, like the drip coffee maker.
@JessTheUnstill I think the now-defunct uselessd website summed up the issue quite nicely: "Windows programmers are migrating to Linux and they're taking their baggage with them." Which means a lot of newer programmers to FOSS are used to writing monolithic programs and are keeping that philosophy when writing their programs. It's also what users have been taught to expect by big software companies, in part because it fits those companies' interests.
@stux Back when I lived in Pennsylvania I always found it amusing that I could buy a car from Bowser in the Pittsburgh area, then drive it up to Erie to attend Gannon (I know it's misspelled) University.
@catsalad
@JessTheUnstill Situations like this are why I still have the same speakerphone I've had since 2000. I'm not going to stay tethered to a phone just to listen to that.
It's also clear that companies that do this do so to dissuade people from doing whatever you're trying to do. It also conveniently (for them) means there's no written record of what went on, unless you make one yourself.
@JessTheUnstill This is one of the reasons why I'm glad I've stuck with NetBSD over the years as my primary OS. Granted, I still have to deal with systemd on Linux for both work and my HTCP/DVR, but at least I don't deal with it all the time.
The tradeoff is the lack of hardware support for newer hardware, which is why I have one system running Linux. But for the basics NetBSD works for me without all the crap that Red Hat is trying to push down everyone's throats, including systemd.
@JessTheUnstill Good article, but my one criticism is that they take these "grassroots" organizations at face value when oil & gas companies (especially Koch Industries) have a history of using astroturf campaigns to get people to support legislation favorable to oil & gas companies. That's what I suspect is happening here.
I've seen the anti-wind part of this in rural parts of Iowa when traveling through there. So it's definitely spreading beyond Oklahoma.
@georgetakei Now I'm even gladder that I made my work cell phone a flip phone. That's in addition to the fact tha with WiFi and mobile data off it will run for days on a single charge.
@georgetakei Checks out. Also I've found wax paper to work better than plastic wrap for reheating food in the microwave. It's better at keeping moisture in and it's much easier to remove after cooking.
@georgetakei Does anyone have the heart to tell him that any boat can be turned into an electric boat simply by putting an electric outboard motor on it? My dad's been doing that with his fishing and hunting boats for over 35 years!
