When in office, you at least have the stress of many loud people around to distract you from that.

You hear yourself and you can spot the issue, right?

They have a really good racket going on and want to make sure people keep giving them way more money than is necessary. It’s simply not true that Infosec.Exchange requires $5000/month to operate unless they’re doing something very wrong or just straight up lying.

Yes, internet rando. I totally believe your solid calculations based on … vibe?

I support ads.

Oh, calm down. I don’t support the ad level of Facebook, nor the targeted ads, nor the algorithm.

And we, as users, get to decide when too many ads are too many, with our feet.

No. Their reward for having users is that they’re in control. Expecting users to then pay them for that control is fucking stupid,

You DO realize that not everyone works to attain power over other people, right?

but I don’t expect most people to realize it.

The reason people don’t realize that site owners’ reward for forking over half a salary in hosting costs for some nebulous power to hold other people in their clutching fists and cackle maniacally is because that’s not the motivator here.

I look forward to when you can see that.

You’re not wrong. The gangly stacks of orchestrated black-box containers at a pubcloud beholden to shareholder whim is going to be a huge factor. Sorry grandma can’t get her pills, but - phew - the number will still go up.

I know someone at a company that built and sold a Linux phone 19 years ago.

You’re not upset you can’t find a Linux phone: you’re upset you can’t find one anymore.

Phone books from outside my region were available at the library; that place where they store a consolidated collection of books for just anyone to sign out and use.

Emotional? No. Rational.

Use of Ai is showing as a bad idea for so many reasons that have been raised by people who study this kind of thing. There’s nothing I can tell you that has any more validity than the experts’ opinions. Go see.

Yeah. A gov; be it the UN or a country.

Having worked and then contracted to regional and Muni govs, and worked for dotcoms, I can tell you one of them follows way, WAY more of the regs than the other.

It’s like transpo & highways vs private roads and rail: one of them is way better-maintained when there is a comparison.

Watch this thread from here on in carefully separate the idealists from those who know what defence is like.

• yes, open-source is the goal of everything that can be opened.
• no, defence code isn’t on the list of what can be opened
• yes, obscurity isn’t good as a sole effort
• yes, defence in depth
• no the funding to get it to where it’s safe to open for randos to submit changes isn’t there today

Anything I missed?

Yes, Virginia, it’s better to open all the things right now, but there are risks you haven’t taken into account because you’re not aware of them. The pros are; it’s their job and their work, so listen to their expertise no matter what the oppositional/defiant disorder suggests otherwise.

10 of these in a raid6?that’s 4x speed and 400tb.

Do you have time to talk about our Lord and Savior FACTORIO? Here; just have a quick taste.

Please, for the love of god, look at other things instead of Ansible.

Definitely do openTofu for infrastructure and deployment, but for configuration of VMs please learn about puppet, saltstack, chef(cinc.sh) and especially mgmtConfig .

Ansible, by comparison, better matches what we were doing in 2002 at 1/10th the speed, and it’s like pascal levels of wordy.

Learning about options and finding one that works well for you will often give you a much better experience than fucking Ansible.

If you do abandon all hope, though, then go ahead and do Ansible; but remember if you do: there are better options, and hating Ansible doesn’t mean you hate automation.

Is immich still container-dependent?

Didn’t lennart also do pulse-audio as well as his systemd cancer? I’d not be surprised to hear that one crutches on the other and excludes choice.

a software

Nope. That word doesn’t work like that.

How about no?

I’m more worried about the gratuitous comma and what it means for the state of education.

I maintained an open-source app for many years. It leveraged a crypto library but allowed for different algos, or none at all for testing.

Some guy wrote a CVE about “when I disable all crypto it doesn’t use crypto”. So there’s that. It’s the only CVE we got before or during my time.

But even we got one.