@fred @sxa thanks for investigating! I might be able to set a user preference for my language, I’ll take a look

@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