vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 5 months ago to ai

I asked #Bing if Bing is reliable.

#AI #BingAI

vwbusguy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linux

A VM vending machine at #SCaLE21x! You put in a dollar, select your distro, and it creates a VM you can ssh into.

Edit: @dualdflipflop was behind this. Go follow him.

#Linux

vwbusguy, 1 year ago to fediverse

#Mastodon #fediverse #Calckey #BlueSky

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, 7 months ago to random

All the cool kids are checking their email with @thunderbird. Spread the word.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago to fediverse

Some tech bro skeptics: #Fediverse is unsustainable because no one wants to host it and it's not #Twitter. Find me on #BlueSky.

#Fediverse people: Have you seen #Calckey yet? I just spun up an instance over the weekend adjacent to my #Mastodon and #Pixelfed instances! This is so cool!

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

Because of the @Tusky storm in a teacup recently, I want to personally say that for any #opensource project I've donated to, including Tusky, that I am entirely, even enthusiastically, in favor of using that money to fund hiring and training junior developers, regardless of whether their PRs end up getting merged or not. I love that Tusky used the funds in that way and hope they, and others, will continue to invest in mentoring junior developers. #programming

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

Little boxes on the hillside
Where there used to live a family
Little boxes now a museum
That you can tour with AirBNB

And the people went to school
And then to the university,
Where they all got into debt
And couldn't afford a little box

Little boxes on the hillside
That were bought by an investment firm
Little boxes, little boxes
Sitting vacantly there

(The 2023 version of the Little Boxes song)

vwbusguy, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

For my 40th birthday, I'd like for you to consider donating to one of these things that regularly makes me happy or one of these causes that are worth supporting:

Open Source Software

• @keepassxc - https://keepassxc.org/donate/
• @Tusky - https://opencollective.com/tusky
• @thunderbird - https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/
• @lutris -https://lutris.net/donate

Good Causes

• Eden Projects - https://www.edenprojects.org/
• Set Free Movement - https://setfreemovement.com/donate
• IJM - https://www.ijm.org/

#opensource #funding #birthday

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to linux

"An #AlmaLinux contributor (who was formerly an ArchLinux user) was so fired up by our community that he now maintains over 600 Fedora and Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) packages, including some widely-used ones like certbot, brotli, iperf3, imapsync, and countless Python libraries, many of them as the primary contributor maintaining them for the greater Fedora and Enterprise #Linux ecosystem. EPEL is tremendously important to both Red Hat and #RHEL users."

https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to random

OH: Parents don't go on vacation. They just watch their kids somewhere else.

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to opensource

Ahem. #opensource

vwbusguy, 1 month ago to random

A lot of people in the Redis community are now learning about the difference between permissive and copy-left licenses.

If you contribute code licensed with MIT or BSD, anyone can use that code in proprietary software, never release the source or modifications to it, and the only thing they owe you is publishing the BSD license text notice somewhere with the software. You still get attribution, but redis can absolutely legally do this.

vwbusguy, 14 days ago to opensource

Do not include AI generated code in your software projects without following up to get the AI sources and applying the relevant licenses. Do not use AI generated code from copy left or proprietary sources in repos under a permissive license. Give attribution in any case.

#opensource #programming

vwbusguy, 1 year ago to random

Tech problems are fundamentally people problems.

Don't hide behind the algorithm and the protocol when people aren't being treated well. Conway's Law exposes that the algorithm and protocol are a product of the people, communications, and intentions that built them.

If people are telling us they don't feel welcome here, then we need to listen and be open to changing that. If we don't, how can we claim the tech behind our social media is worthy?

vwbusguy, 16 days ago to random

The Mute feature of Mastodon is truly a wonderful thing.

vwbusguy, 5 months ago to fedora

This weekend, you can upgrade your laptop, desktop, or server with #Fedora #Linux with incredible discounts of 100% off the normally free sticker price! Quick, snag your discount and download it today for you and a loved one!

https://fedoraproject.org/

vwbusguy, 16 days ago to mastodon

Mastodon is more than the Gmbh. The fediverse is bigger than Mastodon. There are already popular community server and client forks of Mastodon. The 501c3 board in the US isn't a bad thing. ActivityPub is a w3c governed spec, and there isn't nearly the same level of scrutiny around w3c's board, because it hasn't been an issue. All that to say, I'm not at all concerned about this.

#Mastodon #fediverse

vwbusguy, 7 months ago to linux

Very happy user of #AlmaLinux in my dayjob and am very honored to have this opportunity to write for their blog! Here's an article of one of the use cases for it. #Linux #DevOps #Jupyter #DataScience

https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-09-26-almalinux-jupyter/

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, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to sysadmin

#UCSB is hiring a #SysAdmin for #datascience environments. Boosts appreciated.

https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=31&JobOpeningId=65160&PostingSeq=1

#fedihire #fedihired #Linux #python #containers #RLang

vwbusguy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

There's no one near #SantaBarbara interested in trading a working Apple CRT monitor in original box for a working Commodore monitor or 13" Sony Trinitron or comparable color CRT with RCA and coax, by chance is there? It's a Mac-2 era with two row DB-15 input.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #Apple #Mac

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to linux

"2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop."

Tom's Hardware: #Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/linux-is-the-only-os-to-support-diagonal-pc-monitor-mode-dev-champions-the-case-for-22-degree-rotation-computing

vwbusguy, 8 days ago to random

RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.

I haven't said it enough times, but I hope someone who needs it will get this message before it's too late.

• Someone who has had to troubleshoot 3 failed RAID5's in the last week in his dayjob

#storage #sysadmin #raid

vwbusguy, 1 month ago to linux

#AlmaLinux and #SUSE SLES are my current favorite #Linux server distros.