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rytis

1,759 karma · joined April 30, 2011

System administrator with some Python developer skills.

URL: https://pages.pulegium.eu/ Email: pub [at] pulegium [dot] eu

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rytis··on Layer cam
No. Adding the tag is no burden. The burden is finding out what EXACTLY needs to be added.

EDIT: Sometimes it's enough to mention the author, sometimes you need to provide link to the license as well, etc, etc.

rytis··on Layer cam
Don't think so. The very first image has "Some rights reserved". If you click on that, it says "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use." I don't want to do that. Or even if I wanted, I don't want to spend time figuring out what exactly each clause in the license means. F* that, I'll just take the damn picture myself.
rytis··on Layer cam
Exactly. "These days" you have 1 million photos of Eiffel tower, most look the same, bit blurry, not ideal lighting, etc. Yet you cannot really use them, unless you pay someone some amount of money, or you write an essay attributing them (and you spend 2 days figuring out what the license actually is for that piece of "art"). Say you want to make a t-shirt with a picture of Eiffel tower, with some catchy meme underneath, and sell it. You google/bing/whatnot for "picture of Eiffel tower", download the best looking image and silk print a t-shirt. Now, in an unlikely event it catches up, and you start selling in millions, what's going to happen? There's a good chance that you'll get a mail from someone who took that crappy picture and now demands a hefty sum in royalties. Well, just to avoid that, I take the picture. I don't care that there are millions of those taken already, they are not "mine". Yes, first-world problems, but they might be quire pricey. /rantover
rytis··on Layer cam
> Why are you taking this picture? It’s already on the Internet!

I am taking it, so that I can use it whenever and wherever I want, without being afraid of "copyright" holders. Not ideal, but hey, such is life these days.

rytis··on Solar Scare Mosquito
I guess they could be anchored?
rytis··on Euthanasia Coaster
I guess if they inverted it, so that the passengers get exposed to negative g force it would be "safer". It seems that -3g is enough to kill, so 7 loops of -10g would be sure death.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Vertical_axis_g-force

rytis··on The Absurdity of LinkedIn
I expect candidates to have a LinkedIn profile that is up to date [...] If you don't have a LinkedIn profile, I assume you're either very junior, shady, or clueless

This is very ... interesting. So the next thing is to expect everyone be active on Facebook, otherwise they're socially awkward and perhaps mentally unstable?

EDIT:

I should have probably provided my personal experience with LI - I had LI profile for ages, and keep on maintaining it. No good ever came out of it - lots of spam, that's all. From hiring managers mostly.

rytis··on Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
Also, what happens if I really like the product, and I am eager to work on it, but not 24x7? I suppose I'm not welcome then? This is just sick, IMO.
rytis··on Man Walks Nearly 3000 Miles Through China
Wholeheartedly agree. Question is though, is it possible to appreciate what you have without losing it first? You seem to have been bored of your surroundings until you lost them (ie moved to the city). Only then you realized that in fact country life is not as bad and there's loads to do... So IMO to appreciate and discover the 90% one first has to lose or abandon it all.
rytis··on Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
When I work, and want to be paid, I say upfront "I can do this for you, and it will cost you X". However if I say "here, please, take this, it's for you" it means exactly that. I don't want you to put any monetary value. Because there's a chance you might undervaluate it...
rytis··on Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
If I give something to you it's entirelly up to me to decide whether I want you to give me money. If I want to give (for free) and enjoy doing that, please stop saying "take my money", because I don't want it. If I wanted your money I would have said so or at least hinted you. In other words, don't spoil the moment.

On the other hand, may be it's just me being too sentimental... Or may be it's because I grew up in an evironment where not everything was measured by the money, and giving and helping others without expecting to be "paid" was relatively normal.

rytis··on Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
Why does it always need to be about the money?? Imagine giving a candy to a child. You make the child happy, and that is your reward. Or do you expect the child to say something like "let me pay you"?...
rytis··on Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
So just extrapolating on this example - would the best results in any negotiations be achieved when both parties speak a language that is foreign to both of them? In that case both are taking more rational decisions, ignoring the emotional "burden" than their native language puts on them.
rytis··on "Free-to-play" misleading advertising in Europe
No one is suggesting to ban anything, or enforce people's behaviour in any way. What they want to do is to enforce correct labels on items that people are purchasing. If it says "free" it must be free full stop. If it is only partially free, then it must say so.

It's like getting a "free" train ticket, but then when you want to travel you're asked to pay for boarding the train.

rytis··on "Free-to-play" misleading advertising in Europe
I think it'd be a good thing to do. You have a process in place, and enough self discipline to avoid installing such apps. But not everyone is like that. I'm guessing majority of the users go like this: "ah, it's a free app, great, I'll get it. <10 mins in the game, when they run out of gems, bullets, whatnot> Oh, what do I do now? £0.99 is not too bad, I'll just get another pack of <blah>, so I don't have to wait 30 mins".

Can people self-regulate and avoid behaving like that? Yes. Do they? I doubt it.

rytis··on Atom
being ignorant

"Ignorance is Strength" (1984)

rytis··on Mt.Gox Withdrawals
like he's being held at gunpoint, forced to read a statement

Look at his eyes, he is actually reading the statement.

rytis··on Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
Do you truly believe that you as an individual can make any difference at all? And do you truly believe that it is in fact the society that governs itself?
rytis··on Awful app review trend among Turkish users
Is there anyone else who thinks the "5 star" rating is somewhat flawed, or is it just me?

I think, the problem is that the scale is all on the positive side, but people are trying to use it to give negative rating. So naturally they readjust the scale, so that it has both, positive and negative sides, by "shifting" the zero of the scale. Now, where exactly does it go? Will 3 become 0, or is it 2 for some people, or maybe 4?

I know it's way too late in the game, but why can't the rating system be just a simple "good", "bad", "it's ok", or maybe even: :-(, :-|, :-)

rytis··on Death To The Open Offices Floor Plan
Also, not everyone likes wearing headphones all day long either. It's like saying "oh, you don't like the smell of cigaretes? wear a gas mask!"
rytis··on Tracking Changes in Directories with Python
The host is provisioned using some other automation tool, then when it comes up, it runs puppet agent. Puppet agent makes cert sign request (at which point csr file is created on puppet server).

Puppet server doesn't have this host in autosign.conf, so doesn't automatically sign the cert. And this is where incron kicks in and runs my script. The script queries the provisioning tool, sees that the host is in there, and runs puppet cert sign command.

rytis··on Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts
I'm not sure how they (or anyone really) prove that they actually removed all information, other than running something like 'select name from users' and sending you the results so that you can see that your name isn't there.

If they send you all info that they have about you, that doesn't prove that account has been removed, it only proves that they have all your data.

rytis··on Tracking Changes in Directories with Python
Or even use incrond [0], and get it call your script that does whatever needs to be done with the modified files.

[0] http://linux.die.net/man/8/incrond

EDIT: As a use case example I use this to detect when a new cert request is made to my Puppet master server. Once a CSR file is created, I check if the host is created by our provisioning system, and if so, then sign it.

EDIT2: This will eventually go into 3.4.0 - https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7244

rytis··on Sheerwind
take this efflux wind at 15mph back to the top again

you need energy to do that, so perhaps by the time 15mph wind gets all the way up to the tower influx, it's less than 2mph

rytis··on Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006)
theory is very often contrasted to "practice" [...] a Greek term for "doing", which is opposed to theory because pure theory involves no doing apart from itself. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory

rytis··on Ansible 1.4 released
Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with YAML?
rytis··on I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
I live in constant fear of getting a bad review.

I wonder when is someone going to come up with an idea how to fix this. As far as I can tell there's not a lot a supplier on airbnb/ebay/etc can do about them. It's all too consumer centric... My subjective opinion is that most bad reviews are unwarranted, left by customers that have unrealistic demands.

rytis··on Don't Pipe to your Shell
And slowly a humble `wget -O - <url>|sh` grows into a foot long command with user agent settings, save first/execute later, etc, etc... Why not use a package manager then? Added bonus - version control.
rytis··on MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete
But that wristband doesn't actually reduce your body temperature, sweating does. Unless I'm missing something obvious here??
rytis··on Setting up a new Mac for development
I agree with this 100%.

And here's to all replies that say it's as secure as a package: it's only partly about security.

The other part is version control. I can install a specific version of an RPM relatively easily, but wget|sh approach makes it much more inconvenient. One day it does one thing, the next day it may do something completely different. Even if I install on 2 machines, there's no guaranty that the repo owner won't push changes in the meantime.

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