vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to RedHat

Hot take: RHEL "rebuilds" were never about actual 1:1 RHEL compatibility for most users but "close enough" with less drama and overhead. When you needed better than "close enough", you bought #RHEL. Simple proposition. The threat seems to be that the new community rebuilds were just too good at that "close enough" with RHEL security patches hitting them before they were in CentOS Stream. This change specifically impacts those security patches that hit RHEL first. #Linux

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to mastodon

If your #Mastodon server enforces a colonialistic "English-only" rule and forbids languages like Irish and Welsh (or any other minority language) from being used, consider moving to a more inclusive server (and keep posting in your language!) #Fosstodon

vwbusguy, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Car tech I wish would make a comeback:

• Turbo diesels
• Manual Transmissions
• Mechanical fuel pumps and injectors
• Full service repair manuals
• Normalized owner maintainability from new
• Full sized spare tire with jack included
• A radio that supports physical media and requires no subscription/login service of any kind
• Analog guages for odometer, oil pressure, oil temp, water temp, turbo boost, battery voltage, etc.
• Built to last 20+ years

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to PostgreSQL

Sometimes #postgresql feels like the #emacs of #databases. It has so many crazy features and yet I've never had comfortable muscle memory in it, so it always takes me longer to do about anything vs some flavor of #mysql (or #vim, depending on which tract you followed to get here).

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to fedora

My #nextcloud on #Fedora #Linux install* turns 10 years old this year.

• It was migrated from ownCloud to Nextcloud and both Nextcloud and the OS have been kept regularly upgraded to supported versions throughout that time.

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to RedHat

As much flack as I've given #RedHat over #RHEL source shenanigans, they've kept #Ansible AWX #opensource and available to the public, very much to their credit. Tower was proprietary when they bought it and they opened it and kept it open.

And yes, this post is really about #Hashicorp. Don't do false equivalent arguments. Hashicorp definitely did the worse thing.

vwbusguy, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fedora

I just want to clearly say that the #Fedora telemetry discussions are not a "Red Hat conspiracy". I know tensions are understandably high right now, but this is legitimately a proposal and unlike most changes in RHEL, there actually is an opportunity for community input, and not just for assent or dissent, but also alternative ideas for improvement.

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to programming

Looking for a #yaml diff tool that spits out valid yaml but only including the parts where there are differences between the two. I have some helm chart values yaml files that have gotten unnecessarily verbose. #Programming #kubernetes #helm

vwbusguy, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

The hard center part of a cherry or a peach is called a

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to random

My first time actually 3D printing something today. I got the instructions off of thingiverse, sliced it to g-code, set up the filament, etc. Making something to store #Atari game cartridges.

Start of the 3D printing project

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to linux

A #NewYears resolution idea for some of y'all:

Make 2024 the year you move to an immutable #Linux, like #Fedora #Kinoite or #Silverblue, #OpenSUSE #Kalpa or #Aeon, etc.

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to mastodon

OK, people of #Mastodon, help me with this. On the left is powdered #Tang. It makes 15 servings. On the right is a very much smaller container of liquid Tang. It makes 24 servings.

Make it make sense to me.

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to linux

Really hoping that we can migrate this to another filesystem before then.. #Linux #filesystem #xfs

"xfs filesystem being mounted at /var/lib/jenkins supports timestamps until 2038"

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to mastodon

OK, #Mastodon, I have a #math problem for you. Explain to me how these calories make sense between Coke, Seven Up, and Dr. Pepper.

vwbusguy, 5 months ago to fediverse

Is there a good guide to #Peertube? What's a good #Android app? What's a good way to discover content? For example, how would I find guitar equipment reviews/comparisons?

#fediverse

vwbusguy, 1 year ago to random

Looks like some #retrogaming stuff I bought on #Ebay is "out for delivery" today 😁.

Hint: "It does what Nintendon't"

vwbusguy, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to internet

Without looking it up, which one of these four was not one of the original four nodes of the internet/arpanet? #internet #computerhistory #networking

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to random

It's January and we've already almost met our $3200 PPO deductible.

vwbusguy, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to RedHat

@geerlingguy did a great job here in expressing what's going on with #RedHat and #Linux right now from an #opensource contributor perspective.

https://youtu.be/kF5pyVUQBH8

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to random

After all the various employee harassment trainings I've had, I'm still not sure if Kentuckian jokes are legal or not.

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to fedora

Welcome to my office workstation, #Fedora #Kinoite 39!

#Linux #KDE

vwbusguy, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to javascript

My #Lenovo Thinkpad just got a firmware update to address a CVE in "jerryscript" - a javascript engine that appears to be oriented towards raspberry Pi's and hasn't had a release in nearly 3 years.

I'm afraid to ask, but why is there #Javascript in my laptop's BIOS firmware?

UPDATE: I am bad at Google'ing CVEs! The CVE details aren't released yet: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5058

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to opensource

One of the mechanisms that let #Hashicorp relicense their stack was the CLA. Whenever you see an "open core" shop (ie, they have proprietary "Enterprise" versions or extensions) and they require you to agree to a CLA before accepting a PR, be aware that the company may not be using #opensource in good faith and may relicense your contributions to be proprietary. Think twice about spending your time and efforts if such a move would bother you.

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to opensource

Idea: An #opensource #secrets manager, with a fancy web UI like #Hashicorp #Vault, that can organize secrets by folders and deployment target (dev, staging, prod) and the CLI tool can translate those folders, keys, and values into structured YAML or JSON output in addition to environment variables. Additionally, it can import secrets into new projects with structure YAML/JSON into the format.

Something like this for the data backend: https://github.com/smithjm/etcd-export

vwbusguy, 2 months ago to random

If you contribute or publish BSD or MIT licensed code, someone else can use it in GPL, AGPL, BUSL, SSPL, or fully closed source proprietary software as long as they include the attribution license with it.

If you don't want people to use your code in proprietary software, then don't publish it with a permissive license nor sign a CLA that reassigns the copyright.

Again, I'm not telling anyone not to use permissive licenses, but to understand it. What redis and redict did are both legal.