Please also consider mikrotik brand gear. I’ve been told they’re especially easy to manage as one moves from manual control to something declarative like terraform(opentofu).

weird grab bag

You don’t mention whether that is adherence to the FHS or denial of it.

One of those options is, to be clear, violating a standard.

Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.

Oh, no. That’s just what it is today. Are you new here?

The CI turned me off though. It’s like they saw how bad GitHub is for CI and said “no notes. Just like that”

And I use the CI config a huge amount.

So lennart personally blocked the revert? Fucking on-brand for all he’s wrecked in Linux.

Is he still working at Microsoft, or was he just too special for them too?

Wow. Every word of that is frightening.

How much methane is that gonna burn?

Isn’t methane bad for the environment?

There’s gonna be people who don’t know why containers break iso27002 and think they’re the bees knees just lashing out for this affront to their favourite toy, dude. Hunker down.

I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me.

I second this.

Since about 2002, I’ve had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of yum-cron I’ve seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that’s it.

So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I’ve seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homelab) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That’s it.

weeklong

Just a tiny klong; wee, even.

#hyphenateMuch

natural gas

We can start just saying ‘methane’ now. We don’t need to ‘green-wash’ it like it’s not killing our air.

it is crazy that Poettering is even considering merging this

You’ve, uh, seen systemd, right? Cmon; this is just one more section for the cancer to eat.

Consider PCLinuxOS: they’re an RPM-based mandriva (mandrake/conectiva) derivative with really great and wide compatibility in stacks without the ‘modules’ shitfest RH started after no one remembered what ‘alternatives’ was for.

They don’t use systemd, but their installation is a bit shite as it’s a “live CD” installer – they pruned out the proper templatey install that mandriva has. But so far that’s the biggest issue. If they can get off networkManager we’ll be even better off, though.

Feedback is feedback.

there are complete ansible-repos

Ansible is toxic. Anything else?

There are many benefits to a siloed operation that all relate to preventing overwork and scope creep.

This example is part of the cost.

We use copy and paste a lot.

My nephew’s initials are b.o.m.b unintentionally.

He’s the bomb.

“gnarly” still exists as a word for convoluted or fouled.

“Bray” is the verb for a donkey making noise.

The more I type about it, the less “psych” looks like a valid English word.

…because the word is ‘psyche’: “I psyched him out.”

I think it’s Greek origin, and it’s like “psychology”.