(2/2) Bannockburn Sluicings, Cromwell #Otago. The loop walk overlooks several vineyards nestled along the flats beside the flooded Kawarau River—part of Lake Dunstan & seen here with purple thyme (📷1) & red sorrel in foreground (📷2). The original ground level of the Carrick (alluvial) Fan indicates just how much gravel was shifted (📷3). An example exploratory dig (📷4).
Some of you might have noticed my absence from Mastodon for the last few months. I'm home now after extensive travels; and will attempt to resume my regular posting.
Here is a shot of a Mongolian nomad and her daughter carving reindeer antlers for sale to tourists.
After a last look at (fully exposed) Mitre Peak (📷1) in Milford Sound, back to DOC’s Cascade Creek Campsite. A pleasant evening (📷2) was followed by a pleasant morning (📷3); these views from pitch are hard to top. We made a third attempt to find the elusive mohua that lives in the beech forest here; only the NZ robin/ Petroica australis was breakfasting in public (📷4).
Milford Sound | Piopiotahi cruise (6/6), #Fiordland. Perhaps the most enduring memory of a Milford Sound cruise won’t be of specific features, nor anecdotes told to tourists, but of the sheer cliffs. Looking upwards from the foot of a 2,000m wall of rock that disappears into the clouds can’t help but rescale your world. Amazing plants manage to cling to smallest footholds.
Milford Sound | Piopiotahi cruise (5/6), #Fiordland. Harrison Cove is a safe harbour, flanked by dark shape of 1,302m The Lion (📷1). Some tours call at the underwater observatory here, while others have an overnight option. Mt Pembroke at 2,015m & it’s glacier sit behind (📷2). The steep Mitre Peak at 1,683m is iconic (📷3); we got only a fleeting look at the summit (📷4).
I am really excited to attend Hashiconf in San Fransico for the first time! As a long-time user of tools like Nomad, Vault, and Consul, I cannot wait to meet the teams behind the different tools and learn more about them. Nomad has powered the @bitexpert internal infrastructure for a few years now. Vault & Consul perfectly complement that stack.
Taieri River Track is 4.5km to picnic area, or 3km/ 1h to a seat with views (📷1). Initially only few glimpses of the river (📷2). As it was slippery we stopped at the seat, before a steep descent. View upriver to Māori Leap w/ Pseudopanax ferox in foreground (📷3) & downriver toward sea (📷4). Met 5 large 🐕 (none allowed); must terrify wildlife—when not maiming or killing it.
More images from Pūrākaunui Inlet, Ōtepoti/ #Dunedin. A still evening as the tide returns (📷1). Elevated view from green fields of a muted sunset (📷2). Telephoto view of boat sheds reflecting in fading light, Mapoutahi Pā beyond (📷3). Sacred kingfisher/ kōtare/ Todiramphus sanctus, looking for estuarine edibles on the morning tide (📷4); earlier observed dispatching 🦀 crab!
Serious question, no offense or provocation intended: With this stuff being baked into Hubzilla and, apparently, also design-wise into Bluesky / AT, can anyone out here involved with the #ActivityPub outline why nomadic / easily portable identity isn't built-in here by design? Looking at the (to-be-expected) dynamics of instances going up and down, blocking each other or moving to newer, different pieces of software, this seems an absolutely obvious requirement, so I wonder why this has been left out of the standard / spec?
While this is true, there's more history. At the time #ActivityPub became recommendation the people involved knew that important improvements were required in future iterations. This just never happened. Specs never evolved and projects created their own solutions.
For many years, what's now #Streams and #Nomad protocol, created by @mike has had nomadic identity. Why this hasn't picked up by other projects? Idk, getting such adoption is likely just as hard as evolving specs.
@smallcircles Yes, exactly, something like this was bothering me here while thinking about that, too. In quite some fields (including this, including, too, particular aspects of message delivery as seen in example in SMTP), it seems quite some interesting aspects of pre-existing technology have been omitted or ignored in #ActivityPub, and I'm trying to understand the reasons for that. Why not build on things and learnings that already have been made? Are/were, in example, the #Streams / #Nomad implementations or designs too complex for building on?
Kuala Lumpur is consistently ranked a top Southeast Asian city for expats—let's look at how to get a digital nomad visa and what to expect living here!
Lake Rotoroa (“long lake”) is largest lake in Nelson Lakes NP; water taxi runs from jetty (📷1). View south down lake to Maniniaro/ Angelus Peak 2,075m in the Travers Range to E; Mt Misery 1,601m to R (📷2). On western shore, Braeburn Walk 5km/ 1.5h thru beech/ podocarp forest (📷3) leads to waterfall. Source of Te Kauparenui/ Gowan River (📷), draining lake into Buller River.
🎵 “If it weren’t for your gumboots where would you be?”* The devil apparently left theirs either side of road nr. Rockville in Golden Bay. The Devil’s Boots are made from 34–24M yr old limestone that has eroded into upside down gumboots. Here’s our vanship “Curiosity” between them for scale. Rd to Aorere Goldfields hell.
I am on a family trip and in the downtimes I would love to #gamedev and experiment.
I didnt bring my laptop because is cumbersome, specially when you travel in buses, trains and by foot.
I wonder, is there a good IDE that runs on Android? are there shells to transform my android phone into a small laptop? recomendations for good portable bluetooth keyboards?
(4/4) Abel Tasman NP, Torrent Bay/ Rākauroa to Onetahuti. A stunning introduction to Onetahuti beach (📷1). Off the beach’s south end, Tonga Island contributes to the Tonga Roadstead/ sheltered anchorage (📷3). Views north (📷3) before our taxi pick-up (📷4). A 46km journey over 6h 20m, of which 14km/ 4.5h hiking—but felt under time pressure, meeting taxi with only 3min left!
I have a #devops (or what we used to call #sysadmin) question...
I like Docker Swarm for its simplicity and apparent "lightweight" nature. From a user standpoint, you can simply define a set of services and it's not that much of a leap to go from a docker-compose file to a full blown distributed system for a small number f nodes.
The problems are that Docker Swarm only appears to be offered by Docker (tm) and requires the real Docker (tm) stack, as opposed to the solution most distros use today, which is to use podman as a Docker replacement (for many good reasons).
And the fact that Docker is owned by Mirantis, Mirantis's future seems uncertain is good reason not to stay.
Is anyone still using Docker Swarm? If not, do you have a lightweight alternative (not Kubernetes)? I've heard not-great things about Nomad.
I feel like this is a huge missing area in the orchestration landscape.
If #kubernetes is too big for you or you just don't like it for any reason I can wholeheartedly really recommend #nomad it is actually quite smooth and (comparatively) easy AND even has more flexibility in certain places.
Hello #homelab and #selfhosted community! I want some basic orchestration for my homelab and in another toot some users told me they`re using #nomad.
How are you using nomad? My idea was using a single VM for server + client agent, but there's minimum resources about this deployment, I don't enterprise high availibity as I'm running a homelab, but maybe I can run a VM for host and another for agent? So I have better allocated resources?