chas

chas, 4 days ago

@feld @antranigv hi, I've written terraform providers before. By and large the two heaviest lifts are: defining the data model and managing the tf data <-> api data relationship, and defining/maintaining state against the remote

In short what you'd need is:

1. jailer API client in go
2. tf provider using API client and mangling the data to tf Schema
3. tf provider would need configurable against dynamic backends (since jailer isn't one big public API)

non trivial but non impossible

chas, 4 days ago

@feld @antranigv I'd take a swing at it but don't have any freebsd ready to go, it would be hours of authorship just to bootstrap it, and I've already gotta prep a codebase for my team's consumption before tuesday 😂

It's not a "I'm going to throw this together in a weekend" thing

chas, 4 days ago

@feld @antranigv I could write the go client API for jailer pretty quickly tho if I set up a freebsd system to test against

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld for a terraform provider there would have to be a go client, given tf is written in go.

but I mean otherwise, no lol

I could write a vastly, vastly superior CLI interface to that shell script in go tho (hell, even a TUI)

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld I'm not knocking your shell either, I still write a lot of bash and Make

ultimately it would come down to what you want anyways? you know?

I only jumped on this because go professional and saw terraform providers mentioned hahaha

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld portability isn't that big of a deal too when you can just matrix your builds in github actions and attach them to releases xD

https://github.com/asciifaceman/line/blob/main/.github/workflows/release-build.yml

if you made a jailer go API lib (just pure comms) it would be easy to import and write a frontend for it (TUI or just fancy table prints etc like you did in bash)

tbh stuff like this always ends up useful to someone

I don't touch bsd often so I don't know the ecosystem or who the target audience for jailer is

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld I'd possibly tinker on a lib and tf provider if I had a bit more time right now, but I'm already attempting a herculean lift at work (ever change architecture, language, infrastructure, and have to do it in a few months?)

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld that said, it's always tempting

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld this actually dredges up memories of a project I started called Hobo. I was building a manager for dev/test environments meant to replace Vagrant - basically one CLI tool that let you manage projects across your system. It used a light file db (bbolt) to store environments and you could interact with them anywhere (like standup another project to reference it from your current project without moving around)

I bet you I could reuse large portions of that abandoned project

chas, 4 days ago

@antranigv @feld I had written this entire profile system that would manage provider/provisioner (like aws+ansible for testing etc) that could probably be pretty easily adapted/rewritten for the concept of remotes + jails

chas, 1 month ago

@elysegrasso would you happen to have any server recommendations for the general authorship/reader/book community? I'm thinking of creating a profile for my writing pseudonym

I'm not a fan of long lists of rules - mostly because I don't like being told not to do things I wasn't already not going to do (or being told to do things I was already going to do 😂)

chas, 3 months ago

I've started documenting everything I've learned about the Sony Eyetoy through blind reverse engineering

I am slowly writing a project to interface with it, but I haven't learned enough to get any actual data yet

https://github.com/asciifaceman/scwvision

chas, 3 months ago

I don't know the extent of what I've done yet or how, but I've managed to change state in the eyetoy in my #golang project

I'm stepping through some C OV519 drivers to figure out the register calls for gousb (libusb)

It's progress

#reverseengineering

chas, 3 months ago

I'm getting USB packets now!!!

chas, 3 months ago

@synlogic yeah, 0xFFD8 is the start of a jpeg/jffif file. and then there are other jpeg encodings. However the dump I got had no 0xFFD9 indicating file end.

I need to back up and rewrite what I have to make it cleaner to take the next steps.

I can toggle the red/recording LED off and on now, so I am definitely making progress.

chas, 3 months ago

@feld @synlogic at least the one I have (SLEH-00030) is an older one, first generation model and it only has a jpeg/video/audio

chas, 3 months ago

I would literally rather use bash over ssh from my phone on gboard than PowerShell on my laptop

chas, 3 months ago

@heaths I think it's fine to publish as long as you don't kind of brand it and make it seem like an active public project you are maintaining.

A lot of people get wrapped up in making nice banners, release processes etc for projects they are going to abandon

that tricks people into using them 😂

chas, 3 months ago

@heaths oh when you said publish I interpreted that as public github - not package repositories (which are notoriously consuming cool names at the same speed we destroyed ipv4 space)

chas, 3 months ago

@heaths I am rather a fan of go's usage of git host paths as part of the package name, it works really well for my brain for some reason (and for uniqueness)

as well as the ability to rename an import on top of that if you DO run into simple conflicts

chas, 3 months ago

@heaths back to your original point - I've even been guilty of publishing "meme" libs before (usually to prove a point, like a library on npm that removed eval from javascript because I was mad at someone for abusing it)

But I'm older now 😂