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@fastidious π
Sounds like you're hella marketable. Thought about a change?
@fastidious Man, you'd hope to be well compensated, with those responsibilities, and on call in holiday time. I'm with @prologic: why so much less than your peers?
@lyse Ah, interesting. I didn't realise there was training involved.
I'd recommend the article. That's a link shared with permission, btw; a capped means of promoting the publication. :-)
@movq lol, yup, definitely counts. ;-) I'm on vacation too now! Whoop!
Preach! π
> ... If a company is building an important product or service on a piece of free software, it behooves that company to ensure that said software is well supported and, if need be, step up to make that happen...
> ... Even a project like the Linux kernel, which has thousands of developers who are paid for their work, struggles to find support for maintainers. Companies, it seems, see maintainership work as overhead at best, helping competitors at worst, and somebody else's problem in any case...
"The party's over." A line for the history books, Johnson! π
@prologic Whoop! π One more day, for me. π
@xuu Damning! (And I learned something too.) π
@darch Oh, phew! That wasn't supposed to be passive aggressive or anything lol. I just had visions of you having plowed through loads of reading overnight (for me) only to find the items all unread again a few hours later!
@darch Hey, just fyi, I moved the Miniflux service off my desktop to a more proper set-up (i.e., in a Docker container running on my server). I was feeling a little off from my jab, so there were quite a few hours between when I took the database snapshot and when I actually fired up the new service; hope it hasn't inconvenienced you too much.
Love the addition to your avatar, btw! ππ
@ionores Yup! I realised afterwards that I didn't ask what I was getting, and they didn't give me one of those cards. I'm guessing Pfizer; that's the booster my wife got, and both my previous jabs were AZ.
In the queue for a booster! πππ
@prologic Becccaussse... I'm still learning that process. ;-) But, I spent some time on it today, and now that very thing is working, and I actually understand why (mostly). ^.^ It's the first time I've published an image and then pulled it down through Portainer; only one failed deploy, which I figured out fairly quickly. :-)
@fox Oh, wow! Looks great!
_sigh_... Managed to simplify running Node.js projects, with nvm. However, for automating said projects? Not the best option, it seems. And who knew there were so many options!? I think I'll try nvm-exec, along the lines of this example, and hope for the best.
@prologic Horrific metaphor for the state of work (for many) these days, re hours / conditions / their humanity. π
@xuu I assumed there wasn't more than hours' warning (if that), and they'd already started shift. Families couldn't contact them, and their management... forgot about them? π€·ββοΈ Dunno.
Just awful.
@pbatch Thanks for pointing out that rabbit hole! Ended up buying his short book. π
@prologic πππ We're _getting_ there. π
@fastidious Love the geometry in this! Back in Flickr's heyday, that library would've occupied me for hours, I bet. ππ·
Genuinely might be the essay of 2021, for me: COMMENTARY: 8 things US pandemic communicators still get wrong
Warning: I _may_ have managed to traumatise myself all over again, reading this in the same week as the UK Gov 2020 Xmas parties revelations.
Someone needs to infographic this for the toilets of all public-facing institutions, globally. Now.
@lyse lol. Alcohol impaired attempted earmuff wearing, no doubt. It's from a few years ago, and I honestly don't recall. :-)
@fastidious Nah, just a filter. I can't resist messing around with GIMP. :-)
@prologic Already a step ahead of you, my friend! (Possibly foiled by caching somewhere...)
@lukas Long story. :-) Felix is... not entirely happy with this project. :-)
First test of my Peer Calls instance, call.nfld.uk, went well! Need to stand up some monitoring for it now.
@xuu Ha. Neat. I did wonder. :-)
Well, I think I might be hooked. Not my preferred writing style, but, even knowing what coming, I thoroughly enjoyed the chapter _An Offer and a Gift_, a hundred or so pages in with _The Blade Itself_.
My fantasy gotos are last century; happy this was recommended to me.
@prologic Nor me, when it aired; gave up in the second season, as I recall. Might end up competing for top spot, once all's said and done, none more surprised than me.
Same with Voyager. Enjoyed it much more as a 'mature' fan. ;-)
@prologic Got a bonus last year, and there were hints of it being an annual possibility. π€
Had a great performance review today. Hard to believe I was paid to wipe bums two years ago.
Extraordinary that I've managed to avoid DS9 spoilers for twenty years. Really enjoying this final season, so far.
@thecanine It needs to be a public service. Like the actual telephone, back in the day. Government funded, appropriately, for required uses. And, to confirm that that's the case, the code needs to be public too, absolutely.
publiccode.eu
There's just too much at stake to leave this to market forces, informal communities (however well funded), etc.
@fastidious Isn't this just game theory? Tipping as a universal concept has evolved to attempt to solve local, systemic problems, as you've hinted at, and no longer resembles that sentiment you desire in any of the countries I've ever visited; I've had to do that as an extra, on top of local custom, without exception, to the best of my recollection. A daunting task, as @prologic says!
Ah, my pod shows up twice now, post upgrade: one as seen a long time ago, and the other, seconds ago.
@prologic I was gonna say, I run afoul of those rules on a regular basis. π
And have now again! π
I'm running it now too. :-)
@prologic Agreed. But the details escape me. :-) I'm sure it would become apparent if I looked at it in the context of the 'roll'. ;-)
Can't remember where this one was taken. Vienna, again, according to the metadata.
@lyse Lovely. Really stormy here.
Looking forward to a fancy meal, with Granny here to babysit. π
@lyse Yeah, I just love it: the easy step through to mount (on mine), not having to faff with lights (other than turning them on when it gets dark ;-) ), and, well, the gears are much fancier and smoother than the ones on my older bikes.
I still felt it in the hardest parts of that commute -- Leckhampton Hill climbs over 500ft(!) in a few miles along my best route -- but it meant the difference between walking my bike up most of it and staying on the whole time. :-)
@prologic It was the source of tech news back in the 90s. But CmdrTaco left a long time ago. π
Found some stinkers too, of course. π
@lyse That's been a silver lining of my hardware failure: using an app associated with my newly-acquired Synology DiskStation to generate random playlists and rediscover old gems. My collection has been too big to host in one place for many years now, prior to this.
@lyse Yeah, not reality. :-)
Really forked out for an e-bike. French model. Don't have the details to hand, but it's worth half my current car! Such a good purchase, for commuting up a mountain four to five times a week. No wonder I'm so chubby, Mr DevOps now, not riding much or pushing wheelchairs lol.
Got myself an old Triumph secondhand for the kids' trailer, and just generally leaving it in my light-fingered town. ;-)
My old Rayleigh Wayfarer, which I traded in a few years ago for almost twice what I paid for it(!). A good steed.
@lyse π€£ Too right!
One shot. _"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"_ π€£
@news Speaking of which, sorry @l4yer! I completely missed your joining my pod; a very belated welcome to you! :-)
@prologic Just upgraded after... a week? Wow! This looks great! Well done, indeed, all!
Vienna (2016)
@movq Same; daughter's full of flu and barely sleeping. πͺπ΄
@prologic lol. Indeed. A bazooka in a knife fight. π€£
@prologic Neat! I mean, really, I should be using HashiCorp's Vault, to keep me sharp in the day job. ;-)
Just read this yarn again... My command line workflow is rubbish compared to many of you. π Going to look at using the official Bitwarden command line client, and maybe some aliasing... Wonder whether I can use bw get password to seamlessly pass secrets to commands?
It doesn't happen very often, mind; I use keychain to persist my SSH agent. Still... H'm. π€
@prologic lol. Is this close to yours then? A daily pick me up. π
@will I self-host Vaultwarden, then point the various Bitwarden apps (or my browser, if that's all that's available) at it. Auto-fill functionality in general does the rest. π I've only had one passphrase for years now, and any breach notifications I get are dealt with in seconds.
You can create an account on mine, if you want to try it out. π
@stutteringsteve I stepped out of IT from 2013 to 2019 to do care work. I'm now pretty much full-time devops. I feel your pain: what the hell happened?! π
Vienna (2016)
@prologic I'm heading to bed soon, but I think I've now challenged you to a Correspondence match. :-)
@prologic Ha ha. Cool! I'm jlj7; we should play!
@prologic Lost my Jitsi Meet server to a hardware failure. Decided to try Peer Calls instead: call.nfld.uk
Not sure my config is top class yet, but it seems to be working. :-)
@lyse Loving this. Reminds me of home. :-)
Cotswolds (~2014)
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@fastidious I would _like_ to say that that was the last time I got completely smashed (with a couple of Aussies, come to think of it), but my bro-in-law is a Kiwi...π»π₯π₯³ At least parenthood (and age!) have tempered us!
@fastidious I did report it, yeah. I was, ahem, very drunk at the time, π in Edinburgh. As I recall, this was the next morning, geo-located to a services near Carlisle. I think. It's almost a decade ago now!
_Crusade_ -- a lesser known JMS (of _Babylon 5_ fame) show from the 90s -- Easter egg! That island, top right, was where I grew up. π¨π¦π Google Earth backdrops on a shoestring budget, I guess?
Vienna (2016)
The last image captured by my stolen SIII, before I remote-wiped it.
@alexp Classic! (Rummages around for his copy...)
Faro, on the other hand, was 17β today! :-)
