@algernon thank you!

@algernon hi! What httpd would you recommend these days? Last time I made a decision (well over 10 years ago, and driven by how awkward FCGI was with apache) I chose lighttpd which doesn’t look sensible today. Back to apache? Or nginx? I’m asking you because I figured you may have spent some time configuring them for scraper defence. Thanks!

@sxa weird. I’ll poke at it tomorrow!

@sxa Translate [from Geordie]

@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