a […] software

A software WHAT?

Its fantastic when you’re a few rungs up and already reaching back to help others.

Linux since 1.2.13, here.

Yes, self-hosters can be really focused on their own complex setups, and forget that they’ve become overcomplicated through years and iterations of rebuilds.

A new bucket to stash all those crabs, though, isn’t it.

Start the noobs a little lower on the complexity scale, so it doesn’t look like a mandelbrot just to get basic stuff. App installs on a basic host is totally okay, to start.

Teach and reinforce proper patching and maintenance. Teach man-pages at every turn: promote good ones and take a second look at the bad man-pages because, really, maybe they need updates. Reinforce the “look up before asking;then ask well” routine for discussions and seeking help. Be super-welcoming for good questions, even if the pre-work is “I checked the man page and it didn’t really make sense for that option”, and gently nudge toward a cursory search when even that’s missing.

We lost a LOT of mentorship after the dotcom bust, and we’ve not been great in the Lost Boy generations that followed. We need to make it easier to get help, and we need to encourage that walk-before-fly mentality.

And if apps can’t properly package their stuff so that the secure and safe usage is the easy usage, then we steer noobs around it. I’m looking at you, docker-fixated app ‘releases’ without adequate delivery and via channels that aren’t validated normally as part of the process. We need to be so much better at that.

MBA

I’m glad he specified it later, but dereferencing the jargon the first time it’s used - especially an initialism often linked to something else - is much better.

Hands up if you also saw “Masters of Business Administration” and were a little confused.

Beautiful. I’d actually forgotten until I started watching The Bear TV series. It’s been decades.

Let’s avoid systemd solutions. They’ll just lock you deeper into lennart’s cancer.

I’ve used smb with autofs. Works a treat.

Be sure you have nothing running from or accessing the mount constantly, of course – I forgot with a homedir – or it’ll never I mount.

science meme

r u

\sigh

Every word of what you just said was wrong.

I love the many ways the Dead Sea Effect is getting press during these otherwise joyless times.

So it’s not Federated yet; just “Federated”.

I worked security while we created and shipped an enterprise linux distro and maintained AT&T Unix.

Flatpaks, even at their best, break Single Source of Truth for installed state. This alone should invalidate them, but they also don’t validate contents against a signed manifest like proper packages will, and so the supply-chain exploits are a huge risk.

But if all your friends do risky things and you need to join them, then you be you.

You found a solution and you are looking for a problem.

This is not the way it goes. You identify a problem, and if the solution involves self-hosting then you solve it with self-hosting.

hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything

Not immediately. Take the job now and get the finances under control. But don’t stop interviewing and applying, and move from a position of strength into a better job when it comes around. And if you’re back at the old job that ditched you, then ditching them isn’t so hard this time.

Always take care of the basic needs - money for food, money for clothing, money for shelter - before moving up the Maslow pyramid.

Yeah. The issue isn’t what Ai can do, but more that CEO/CIOs have been sold magic beans.

Can rebut; was also a guard, briefly, first with rounds at a remote pulp mill, and then pit-lamping hobos at a construction site. Raccoons and bears and cougars – oh my!

Part of a well-known stanza.

It’s also treason with - get this - gunpowder.

https://gprivate.com/6iz9j

Yep. But owncloud went from old and idle to active again. It seems to be a more LTS take on it where NextCloud is your All Features Faster mandate.

Just show me the one that doesn’t rely on containers, venvs, npm or other supply-chain risks.

Yep, two reasons I’m out.

Depends.

Some I cultivated afterwards - gave some space, and later pitched a “I don’t want to get back together but I miss hanging out. Lemme buy coffee” to usually good effect. If you’re compatible as friends still, it could be a very strong friendship. But you broke up for a reason, so keep that in mind.

But sometimes you’re really incompatible and a simple friendship isn’t even healthy for you two. That’s okay too.