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ripienaar

@ripienaar@devco.social

Systems Architect, Automator, Coder.

I am a consultant working on very large scale automation backplanes specialising in highly distributed server estates with 100s of thousands or millions of nodes.

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Nice by February the Baltic states will disconnect from their current Russia/Belarus only power grid

Pretty serious preparations and all 3 countries have to cut over simultaneously apparently. What could possibly go wrong.

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/23.05.2024-latvia-receives-massive-power-device-to-connect-to-europes-network.a555074/?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=links

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folks, recommendations for people/companies who can sort me out with a will, without having to come into their office physically, gratefully received. Video call/email/digital signing etc etc.
A business that acts in this century, not the last.

ripienaar,
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@coldclimate Don't they have to be notarised? Requires them to physically verify you.

ripienaar,
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@coldclimate ah, well you can buy a will template from Tesco :P

But imo tbis is one time where dotting all the i’s etc really is worth it. You gotta make this shit easy as possible for loved ones when you are gone. So go expensive actual qualified legal type of at all possible and do it the old known way where no1 can contest it.

ripienaar,
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@coldclimate guess when the laws are from :P

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"Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content"

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

ripienaar, to random
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TLS 1.2 in pure Bash.

Holy shit.

https://github.com/gh2o/bash_tls/

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    ripienaar,
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    @lkanies @jpmens my gripe with sudo is mostly the proliferation of passwordless sudo to do everything

    Not the tool, the silly things we do with it.

    ripienaar, to random
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    Be like Latvia where traffic offences results in your car going to war against Putin.

    “The Latvian government has given Ukraine nearly 300 cars that used to be owned by drunk driving offenders. Another 34 vehicles will be delivered soon”

    ripienaar, to random
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    This is great. I am not a fan of software foundations but would gladly back one set up specifically for the purpose of maintaining relicensed OSS projects. Well funded. Huge backers. Strong legal teams to defend the forks.

    Fuck the relicensers stealing community work. https://fosstodon.org/@horovits/112287575859735372

    ripienaar, to random
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    Quite enjoyed the Fallout show, didn’t know anything about the games so was quite interesting and all new.

    ripienaar, to random
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    Still looking for a solid option to port my UK O2 number to a useable VOIP provider that does sms termination also

    I spoke with aa.net.uk and their support/presales just didn’t bode well

    Paying O2 monthly is fine but changing phones is horrible as they are just idiots when it comes to swapping the esims

    ripienaar,
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    @bert_hubert @revk which is fine and has its place. Just rubbed me up on the day a few months ago when I asked

    ripienaar,
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    @revk @bert_hubert no a voip app is fine - currently on o2 eSIM and they make changing phones while abroad very hard

    So looking for pure VoIP options that terminates to app on phone and gives close to phone experience.

    Support won’t recommend or suggest apps just link to wiki. Like who has time to test it all?

    ripienaar, to random
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    ServiceRouter: Service Mesh at Meta

    “ServiceRouter supports embedding inside Meta application code, significantly reducing cost from the common pattern of running separate “service mesh” infrastructure - the paper suggests that a separately deployed service mesh at Meta scale would need the equivalent of 1,750,000 AWS t4g.small VMs.”
    https://www.micahlerner.com/2024/03/28/servicerouter-hyperscale-and-minimal-cost-service-mesh-at-meta.html

    b0rk, (edited ) to random
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    poll: if you use git stash, do you use git stash pop or git stash apply to retrieve your code from the stash?

    ripienaar,
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    @b0rk @Paxxi easy to mess up from git's hard to understand failure modes :) Also since you cant (afaik) give stashes names its not hard to rm the wrong one

    ripienaar,
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    @Paxxi @b0rk ah will check about -m thanks.

    Without descriptions dropping the wrong one is easy - tested -m and that’ll definitely help. I personally make like stash/foo branches and commit stashes there, stash -m might help avoid that

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    @Paxxi @b0rk A lot of the “dumb" things I do with git is because its so inacessible, I will rather keep to 3 or 4 core patterns I use for everything (like making branches over stash) than try to remember all the weird edge cases of more features which when I dont use them often will just cause to user error.

    Much like bash language I think the design of git actively promotes user error.

    ripienaar, to random
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    I learned yesterday that Go sets TCP Keepalive to 15 seconds (down from usual 2 hours) on all sockets and wtf?

    That’s just crazyness. I like Go but stuff like this and their cowboy handling of things like json and TLS is quite annoying.

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    @johnl Thing is though, these are WELL KNOWN defaults. Changing them kind of silently and (as was initially the case) not exposing ways to adjust those back to normal levels is just shitty.

    ripienaar, to random
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    So what actively maintained thing replaces graphite?

    ripienaar,
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    The answer is apparently VictoriaMetrics - it support Graphite ingest, push etc, but also Prometheus and more. Looks pretty good.

    Things I need that's not in Prom:

    • variable retention
    • push
    • easy backfill

    It's for IoT use cases where I want longer retention and different models than pull

    ripienaar,
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    Trying out Victoria Metrics: popped into my little container manager, copied my prometheus scrape configs, updated Grafana and it all just works exactly as it did before?

    Too easy.

    ripienaar, to random
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    Been chasing some spam PRs on my free-for.dev list. Well I say spam but really its obvious it is people learning git.

    But why would they pick a 80k star 1600 watcher repo so practise on?

    Finally got one of these people to respond - it is a university that has a list of big repos to open merge conflict PRs against as part of their passing criteria.

    Arg.

    ripienaar, to random
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    Accidentally deleted some keybase proof, and I wonder if this thing is even worth borthering with?

    Whats the point sigh, i am generally quite uninterested in PGP based stuff - mainly because of the god awful UI that makes it all a little clique of nerds rather than something useful.

    ripienaar, to random
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    Is there some tool or something that can export a Wordpress blog to static files for archival that still keeps it browsable at least from the export?

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