Cool, I haven’t tried either of those.

I’m the type of person who likes to upgrade my systems via the terminal because I like to know the detailed processes, but I’ve also burned myself numerous times; hence my preference for declarative and immutable/atomic solutions.

It’s (quite) a bit more of a hassle, but I’ve lost trust in GUIs.

k3s is fairly simple (as far as k8s distros go). Helm is good to start with but for the long run I recommend using kubernetes manifests directly (i.e. kubectl apply -f pvc.yaml, deployment.yaml, etc) rather than helm, because there are quite a few gotchas with helm which can cause trouble. Besides that, it’s good practice to use the --secrets-encryption flag on the server node(s), and if you’re deploying agent nodes it’s good to use bootstrap tokens (k3s token create)

Working on a split staging/prod hybrid-cloud k3s setup using nixos, tailscale, systemd-nspawn and fluxcd. If someone has advice for running k3s in unprivileged (mounts idmapped) nspawn containers, I’m all👂.

This will run

• (openwisp)[https://openwisp.org/] to make it feasible to provide lots of less tech-savvy people in the local community with secure, simple, privacy-respecting wifi using free software and recycled routers.
• Various libre software I’m helping community, unions and political orgs adopt. Notably Discourse and Peertube.

Jerboa crashed mid-comment so i’ll be brief.

Save yourself pain and increase your happiness by

• using btrfs or zfs (snapshots, checksum and self-healing is great)
• using declarative approach rather than imperative, and keep a copy of configs elsewhere (I accidentally nuked my system multiple times, you should expect to do the same)
• keeping backups. If zfs, https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid and syncoid are great https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/setting-up-syncoid-for-offsite-backup/1611
• have an extra tiny machine running the same system and workloads, where you test potentially risky stuff before doing so on the prod server
• metrics solutions like prometheus and grafana are your friend

Norway has pretty draconic surveillance laws regarding digital cross-border communication, allowing all comms (encrypted or not) to be stored in the servers of the intelligence service for years, with the vague hope of combatting organized crime and terrorism.

If you use post-quantum encryption you should be fine though.

https://rett24.no/articles/stiftelsen-tinius-tapte-soksmalet-om-lovligheten-av-ny-e-tjenestelov

This increase is too abrupt, I don’t trust its accuracy

Very engaging read

Wooo friend was that a good read!

To others who may be intimidated by the number of pages; regain composure, as only 17 of those pages belong to this specific story

…it’s gone. Was it short enough to recite in a comment?

Oh shit it Dutch? Didn’t intend to offend, friend.

I can usually kinda tell what a Dutch text says (am norwegian), but this time it was particularly difficult

That gen’d? Looks neat apart from text

Definitely the transition from QT5 to QT6. It Looks identical, but has better wayland support and performance.

There are also a few new and hot features which I can’t recount at the moment (it’s 4:30 in the morning), but the pointieststick blog should have the droids you’re searching for

Niceeeee! I’ve tested a few KF6 apps in a rawhide+nightly copr distrobox on Kinoite, and they’re quick

Aren’t most of those at best vulnerable as a leaf in the wind; and at worst literal hacker gateways to your home?

I watched the Sam O’Nella vid just now, and… I’m sorry he had that experience? I guess SM might be more shite abroad?

What’s up? In my household (in Norway) we’ve specifically sought out Swiss Miss for the past seven(?) years, because everything else (apart from home-made goodies!) tastes shite.

If I’ve lost out on something, lmk!

I’m working on free software to do real-time translation of speeches at conferences and such, from Norwegian to English or {insert language}.

Using Whisper and TTS on a server, and a web interface accessed on the participants’ smartphone/device.

True, although this can be alliviated by working in a worker-owned cooperative business

Real cool stuff! I have to ask, why is the project CC-BY-SA 4.0, which is suitable for free cultural expression (text, images, songs, etc) and not CERN-OHL-{P/W/S} which is more suitable for hardware designs?

I’ve also used a pinetime running infinitime for the past year, and I agree that it’s not exactly feature rich. I like it though.

I’ve heard that ‘bangle.js’ is an open source watch as well, with a decent feature set.

Great post! I’ve often used low cost as an argument for choosing open source software in my [IRL] communities, as the other advantages aren’t that successful when talking to people on a personal level. This post elaborates on those other advantages in a convincing way.