pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@zhenech @neil it’s useful as a reminder that not everything from that time is to be proud of, imho (and I feature in the qdb, unfortunately)

There are some gems but they’re outweighed by some ratio

@sxa how strange: I’ve not seen that before. Debian’s instance runs the alt software “pleroma”. But I don’t get offered translations of other people’s toots. Is it a hyperlink? Can you share where it’s pointing?

@jbjrkng @sxa that looks great!

@sjvn timely; someone was asking about getting modern Debian running on a P75 only this week on the user mailing list (with 32M of RAM)

@jbjrkng @sxa today I have mostly been frustrated with: its speed, inscrutable error due to a variable name being shadowed by a reserved magic word; inconsistency between roles which provide tasks you explicitly enumerate in your playbook, and roles which do stuff as soon as you depend on them. Who knows what tomorrow will bring :)

@sxa how many hosts do you use it for? My use-case is one host, which is probably worst-case for a iterating on the config :)

@vermaden kind of related, but I agree that some of the technical specifics of podman are well-hidden. On my TODO list is to look at the drawbacks of rootless containers. Because they definitely exist, and the podman docs definitely don’t tell you them…

Update after a ten year interval: I still don’t like Ansible.

@vermaden disappointed to see you’ve entrenched your position. As someone with no experience of FreeBSD I’ve been enjoying your articles until the container one

@fanf if that form of string expansion can work in user filters (I will go and confirm) then that opens the door to a lot more options, thanks!

@mart_brooks thanks; it seems to be the best implementation

@ttyS1 I suspect it might be less work to just start over with my recipes. Thanks!

New blog post: procmail versus exim filters https://jmtd.net/log/procmail_versus_exim_filters/ #email

Last used Ansible a decade ago. Will my playbooks from then still work?

Right, new VM on hetzner, arm64, named “luv” (sticking to a naming scheme we chose 20 years ago and regret now), currently running Debian trixie and doing nothing

I’ve got plans to refresh our VPS. The motivation wasn’t divesting from the US but that’s a good point, I should accelerate my plans

https://mstdn.social/@vaurora/114459325617187800

In this cartoon set in Edo-era Japan, a swordsman in red approaches a swordsman in blue. Red says you're that famous swordsman, aren't you? Blue, who is seated and enjoying a cup of tea, says "I don't want to fight." Red puts his hand on his sword and begins to bluster, and Blue draws his own sword, still seated, with a resounding SLICE. In the final panel, we see that Blue has sliced the panel itself in two, leaving Red isolated on the other side of the gap and complaining hey, you can't do that, get back here!

A bit different post as casual, but with our lives increasingly becoming more and more digital, would like to stress the importance of organising the access to your accounts and passwords in case something happens to you.

- who gets access when something happens "just" with you
- who gets access when something happens with your family (e.g. plane to holiday destination)

It doesn't matter if you have your passwords written down in a small black book or a fancy offline/online password manager. Talk to people who you trust with the access, let them know how they can get access (and show it to them).

Your loved ones will be very thankful. They will be having other things on their minds in those situations than having to hack into accounts or sending death certificates all over the place to get access.

Do not put it on your to-do list for maybe next year. Please get it sorted on the short term.

Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice).

@fraggle sycamore gap? In my back yard!

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