If you haven't early voted, election day is Tuesday November 3rd (that's tomorrow as of the time of posting).

Get out there and vote everybody!

If you haven't already registered to vote, the deadline is October 5th (two days from today) if you want to vote in the November elections.

The linked page should provide all the information you need.

Check with your friends and neighbors and make sure that they're registered to vote, and plan to vote, in the upcoming election.

Get out there and vote.

Election Day is November 3. Any adult citizen in Arkansas can still register to vote after October 5, but if you want to vote in the midterms you need to be registered by the 5th.

I've gotten a lot of really good recommendations from this community (thank you!) so I think that it's time that I give back.

This is a 2005 movie with Bruce Campbell that I thought was from the late 80s or early 90s. That's really all you need to know but I'll paste the wikipedia description below :

Man with the Screaming Brain is a 2005 science fiction/slapstick film co-written, produced, and directed by Bruce Campbell, who also stars. It is Campbell's feature film directorial debut. The film was co-written by David Goodman and co-stars Ted Raimi.

The film centers on William Cole, a wealthy American executive who travels to Bulgaria with his wife, only for their marriage and lives to unravel after she begins an affair with their taxi driver, Yegor. A violent encounter with a vengeful maid leaves William and Yegor dead, but William is revived through a brain transplant that forces him to share his body with Yegor's consciousness.

Where do you recommend for pen purchases? In the past I've used Goulet but there was a post (maybe here?) awhile back about them that inclined me to not give them money any more.

Background : I teach a class about once a year and I like to gift my graduating students a pen because I find it unique and interesting - you don't see fountain pens much anymore. I usually go with a Lamy Safari (but am up for recommendations on similar starter pens; see bottom). In the past they (Lamy) sold a gift set that was the pen and 5 or so of the disposable cartridges in various colors (no Z28 included) and that was my go-to. They don't appear to sell that particular product anymore so I'd reverted to just the standalone Safari and including one extra disposable cartridge since I have quite a few but don't use them.

Preferably a US based distributor.

While we're at it, any suggestions for a good, comparable, starter pen besides the Lamy Safari? Around $30 USD is my max price range since some times I have up to 15 students and that gets... pricey : ) Main consideration is that it's a decent pen that won't frustrate new users but something nicer than a disposable (EG: Pilot Varsity).

That's it... It's a big permanent marker.

Follow up from https://lemmy.world/post/37310527

We did it gang, and we went even further to be able to enter the LUKS password from anywhere via Tailscale.

The general Dropbear info from the Debian wiki seems accurate though it included dropbearconvert usage that wasn't mentioned elsewhere. Unsure if that was needed or not but I did it anyway.

I also referenced this guide. I especially enjoyed the -c cryptroot-unlock param to Dropbear so it automatically prompts me for the password on login.

I've been getting familiar with Tailscale over the past few weeks and also just replaced my home router (immediately flashed with OpenWRT). Turns out you can run Tailscale on OpenWRT and cajigger it in a way that you can use the router as an exit node while allowing LAN access. So, I did that. Now, with Dropbear, the static IP in my initramfs, and Tailscale, if the server reboots while I'm away from home I can SSH via my phone and enter the LUKS password to allow it to boot.

... mostly it's just going to be when I don't want to dig behind my desk to plug in a keyboard, but the truly remote option is nice too.

Thanks for all the input.

I've done a little research but curious about first hand experience.

I've got a little home server that is full disk encrypted with LUKS (+LVM, of course). It's headless (no display, no keyboard, etc) and just lives attached to the back of my desk, out of the way.

If it gets rebooted due to a power outage, I can plug in a keyboard, wait long enough for it to get to the LUKS password prompt, enter password, hit enter, and assume it worked if I see the disk activity light blinking. Worst case scenario, I can move it to a monitor and plug it in to get display too.

Because lazy, I'd prefer to be able to enter the decrypt password remotely. "Dropbear" seems to be a common suggestion but I haven't tried it yet.

So, asking for your experience or recommendations.

I'll start. Recommendation #1 - get a UPS : D ... But besides that.

Addendum: either way, I currently need to be home to do this because I access it remotely via tailscale along with my desktop. Since both are full disk encrypted, neither will boot to the point of starting tailscale without intervention. But, I might repurpose a nonencrypted RPi with SSHd to act as a "auto restarts with tailscale so I can SSH to it, then SSH to server to enter the LUKS password" jump point.

My Buff Orpington laid this one yesterday. She often lays "oddly" textured ones but this is the weirdest by far.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31340928

The American Civil Liberties Union plans to challenge a new Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public buildings.

Act 573 was passed by the Arkansas Legislature earlier this year. The law mandates a framed copy of the Ten Commandments be hung in all public buildings, including school classrooms. The ACLU is suing four Northwest Arkansas school districts, and not the state specifically, because Act 573 assigns enforcement to local school officials rather than a state agency.

The suit argues that the law promotes a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments and sends a message that students who don’t share those beliefs are outsiders in their own schools. Joining the suit are families of public school students in Northwest Arkansas. Some plaintiffs are Jewish or non-religious, while one family is Unitarian Universalist.