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this yarn has made me want to start archiving .dotfiles anyone care to share a repository so i can store your configurations on the ark along with seeds, precious cargo, and slackware disks?
@lyse
i'm one of those operators that moves very slow and is change-resistant until either a.) i've hit a wall or b.) the wall has fallen on my head i3 really fits the bill, but now i'm focusing on erasing what seems like an aeon of muscle memory. but on the + side i can easily customise it to make it more me.
@lyse i too had started on kde circa 98 and for many years hopped back and forth to it. there was something i wasn't really happy about and i think it was at the time i was on a very minimal machine and it felt a bit sluggish. also the default file manager i had some sort of grunt about.
xfce is configurable to an extent, but you really have to dig deep to make it do your bidding.
gnome to me is not terrible but it seems to be following a similar pattern to macos in that every desktop looks and feels the same and the deep customisation is pulled far away
@justamoment i do recall quite well, fluxbox it's minimal approach to things really made me smile. but i stuck with xfce simply out of old habits, which i'm trying to break and develop newer ones. :-)
@adi i thought you already had your laptop? or is it still en route?
@prologic
this is a matter we should discuss. like you, i deal with optical issues. and that's one of the problems i've had with xfce throughout the years. bloody hard to customise to where i can see well. that's another reason why i've been moving towards i3 and exploring other tiling window managers since it's mostly terminal base and i can customise the geometry of my layout and visuals a bit better.
weekend checklist:
- buy domain
- setup public mesh, steering, and out-of-band auth infrastructure
- soft-launch yarn pod
- rack boxen
- sleep optional
@adi are you using crux as your distro?
@lyse this is a lovely yarn. i've been on xfce since the beginning, been hopping between i3 and and xfce the last few years. trying to pull in some of the things i'm muscle-memory-bound to into i3.
i hope to make a final leap soon. for years we joked about distro-hopping now it's wm/de-hopping :-)
@adi good general survival technique.
@mckinley it's one thing for cloudflare to be a proxy-mitm (which is how it works, and most people complain but yet lack the understanding of reverse proxy and tls termination) and a whole other thing for them to be absently censoring or using dark-pattern ui to hide features they think are useful.
@mckinley you're right, they don't. they steer traffic for a the majority of the internet. this is not how we got started on the internet and still makes us dependent on certain services and endpoints to join themodern internet
i used bind out in the wild for my infrastructure, cloudflare is a polr point of last resort in case my network(s) start chewing concrete
@nexeq you were deleted or you deleted?
@mckinley
cloudflare has been an interesting service to say the least. in the beginning they were neutral but in recent years seemed to have fallen into censorship situations.
this reminds me of the adage, he with the most toys wins
cloudflare has a metric tonne of toys.
@adi at this point the tests are touch and go and don't always detect a viral load. best to just hibernate for 5-7 days and see how things go i suppose.
@mutefall aye, this thing can really take a lot out of you. i tend to avoid vaccines, not because i am against them but i prefer building natural immunity and have had poor reactions in the past. but i did get the jab as this bug was pretty nasty and wanted some kevlar in my arsenal, biological as it were
@mutefall indeed it can. i ended up donating them to libraries and charities so they did not go to waste. and obviously did not set anything on fire :-)
@jlj keep your hydration and electrolyte levels up. rest is good but moving about will help. bump your d3 intake up and add some zinc.
been nailed hard by this bug twice already. id like to think the jab helped but those were equally unpleasant
@jlj there was a point where i acquired quite a few dell sff machines from the e-waste facility. their power and cooling systems are a bit inefficient to which my office became known as the inferno
you've seen my network rack in all of its pasta-like glory.
@prologic
nope.jpeg
i'd have set my fvcking haus on fire by now :-)
@xuu good point regarding markdown. possibly could defect common markdown tags and break by default above it.
this would work. and your example makes sense. could parameterize the length integer but have a validator that keeps it within and lower and upper boundary
ultimately having a small datacentre has been a rich and satisfying hobby
oh ffs. who am i kidding? i've blown las vegas cokehead time and resources at this.
what to get to a point where my clusters aren't trying to eat their own face 
this has me thinking about a talk i watched from chad fowler regarding immutable infrastructure.
long-term lift will be conducting chaos experiments to determine spofs and how to better design interfaces in services.
but on the + side of things i nearly have seaweedfs where i want it. hooked up the test cluster to drone. all operations are executed in pipeline.
2022. the year ssh goes away in my lab.
something tells me i am feeling ill. yes. may need to take a sick day. rest and recharge. so my lab, err i can recover. :-)
as well i had to put on my firewall dentist costume and freebase my own nitrous to write the proxy and gateway configs.
3 hours of my life playing network plumber i'll never get back.
time to reboot
@david knowing myself well, i'll go on a hunt for the apparatus :-)
and i fully agree, tea is very much an experience. coffee can be too, but something about tea...
@prologic it was either this, or take a proper piss on the laptop...
@prologic and cpu-god forbid that one might complain about it. you're seen as weak, while the rest of the staff is pushing 20hr days because loyalty
@prologic aye, and forget this fairy-tale concept of we're like a family here
my family never gave me performance reviews or told me to wait for a bathroom break because meetings...
@movq what'd you make of this? any progress?
this story has some hold in reality, to be honest. i was traveling quite a bit from .eu to .us and needed something sturdy to carry my laptop and drives in. bought one of those hard-case setups. went to bed one night and couldn't sleep. asked myself what if i could have a portable datacentre?
a hard case, several laptops, and some pvc pipe later, i'm either going to build something ace or make a total mess.
@prologic bookmarking for the weekend's call.
@david coming back to this one. just made myself a london fog. watched the sun walking away. was amazing. the only thing i was missing was my crushed velvet smoker's jacket and my monocle with obligatory top hat.
@adi give some of his videos a watch and see what you think :-)
@tkanos oddly enough i felt the same. and i dislike the like buttons.
@Rob when i first saw this trend i thought it might be some sort of accessibility bit. seems to be more about how to squeeze 87hrs in the 24hr day. myself, i'm hitting the breaks and slowing down. if something is well-written, it deserves some respect and attention. sadly, several people in this age lack one or both.
@prologic in other news. if i hear okr one more time i think i'm going to start eating alka-seltzer tablets during the meetings and pretend i have rabies.
seems like a legitimate strategy, no?
@prologic i always told myself that if or when i ever start a company, work will have meaning and be satisfying. it won't be a compilation of line-times, velocity/burn-down charts, or circle-jerk meetings that derive no value.
entrepreneurship can be a long and lonely road. but you either fit in or stand out. it's up to oneself to decide where they sit.
@prologic in the meantime they turn the screws on us to push harder for less coins in our pay bucket.
i theorise the concept of capitalism will never vanish. but you can deploy ethics while still making a good living. treat your staff and colleagues properly, pay them a fair wage, give them headroom to breathe, in return you'll have happier teammates given that they are able to tolerate trading heartbeats for dollars.
@adi cheers to that! compute how you like :-)
let me go fire up templeos
@adi i've yet to really embrace void. tried it for a bit on a vm but i'm one of those strange mutants who isn't protesting systemd yet
@david indeed. i'm just trying to find something to settle in as a regular staple. will try what you suggested.
stop me if you've heard this one:
a man walks into the bar carrying a big black case.
bartender: what'll it be, sir?
man: i'll have your finest lte or wifi, whatever is on tap
bartender: i'm afraid we only have have beer and wine, and our wifi is down
man: well shit...
bartender: there is a grocery next door with open wifi
man: excellent, i'm online
bartender: all i see is that black case?
man: precisely, this is my datacentre
to be continued.....
@adi i have an aging radeon in a desktop that runs arch (soon to be nix) which never had played nice with any of the bsd(s)
i'm not a gamer either, it's just what i had laying about. without an apu in the desktop i'd have to rely on psychic ability to see things :-)
@prologic i really like where you're going with this one. but you're right regarding mirantis. they are indeed trying, but the mass pull is for kubernetes and full cncf compliance.
@prologic i'm still fascinated with the concept of having your own dc. but it seems like you have a good strategy. acts like a pingdom without the fuss it seems?
now there's yap yet another project we could work on. distributed external monitoring of endpoints.
@david does anyone still drink the classic early grey ala london fog?
@prologic is this to hit endpoints from the outside in without having to purchase a service or vps? i've not used this service instead have an uptime monitor sitting on a lowend box out in the wild.
@lyse that would be a great project to see come to life. do keep us posted?
@carsten this is a nice listen. a bit too slow for my tastes. when i slow down, it's dark ambient.
@justamoment i've always enjoyed black tea. i still have to watch the caffeine content. i picked up some rooibos tea recently and have enjoyed it.
@adi if you're okay with sticking to a subset of hardware, it's very usable. some of us have these esoteric devices called gpus :-)
@prologic i was watching a recent mirantis video where they discuss the state of swarm and that it's still on their plate and they are not letting it die. even if they discontinued swarm tomorrow, we'd still have a usable system for the unforeseeable future. it's about 70-80% in parity feature-wise with k8s and does a better job than nomad.
it's interesting to see this dead technology being resuscitated.
@novaburst @prologic i've found when no other option in the workplace, macos is a decent compromise. it's not the system i would use for work or personal tasks but it sometimes is a necessary evil.
i was given a screen-cracked iphone8 which i had repaired, it is for experimentation. retail these things are pricey. considering i rarely use a phone for anything other than signal/encrypted messengers i stick with used pixels and load grapheneos
@justamoment i'm having to exit the coffee game. may explore some herbal teas. appreciate the link!
@novaburst thank you! something new to play with during meetings :-)
@justamoment great idea, thank you. i'll give this a try when i'm not trying do 74 things without coffee
@movq that's one of the main gripes i have over managed k8s. no true control of your masters.
@novaburst what do you use?
@prologic i also use pass and gopass but i also use keepassxc with syncthing on a mesh.
@carsten i also host vaultwarden internally for ease of use in the haus.
you could say i'm vault of vaults :-)
@movq what's your cni plugin you're using? calico, cillium, etc?
rules should flush when masters get in sync. if you have any drift between the masters and/or latency/divergence in state this can happen.
k8s is a nasty bit of kit. i do quite a bit of this at the dayjob
@david worth learning if you use it or simply interested in distributed computing :-)
@david had you ever thought of printing these out and making a collage of sorts?
@justamoment brilliant thought! or plug in an old scratch ssd as a boot disk :shrug
@prologic expertise can come in all forms. so long as we're not building whoopee cushions, should be a good chat
@novaburst that's sort of what we were tossing around in the idea pool tonight
bookmarking this, let's chat on it as group this weekend? @prologic
@novaburst @prologic love where this is going. the email/delta chat model wasn't optimally executed. but something to where you could have a proofing lighthouse that would house key proofs/sigs. then once the key is grabbed maybe you could generate an encrypted wormhole-like thing so both clients can talk.
need to think on this...
@novaburst if not, could be with a bit of elbow-effort
the random connections you make, what if they are not so random?
@adi absolutely fitting :)
@justamoment i'm very close to switching. userspace configuration is all there, but need to work on some of the network plumbing (i've got multiple meshes) and some overall hardware bits. as silly as this sounds i may take a day off this week to make it all work.
i did the same prep work as you did in kvm. took me a while to dial things to a usable state. but it works pretty well! very lightweight which is nice and super easy to swap wm/de
@lyse no words besides breathtaking.
@deadblackclover i noticed on your codeberg profile you had a repo for guix. are you using it? i had stumbled upon nixos a few years back and really enjoyed it. to me it's more granular control than arch which i currently am riding on. i was planning to switch a while back but having one usable machine with the hardware i'm using was limiting.
@prologic whereas i'm sitting here thinking how i can devote a full stick of ram to my own :-\\
@ullarah just discovered it recently having to seal my attic port as to not let hot air into the main of my space. stuff hardens quite well. could be a solution to the lackrack hollow-leg situation.
@prologic i meant using the timestamp as a poor-man's id and using the time whichever is oldest is the genesis type of thing. was thinking out loud, doesn't meant it's coherent :-)
@tkanos i'm a poor hacker. i can't afford the luxury of hot yoga in exotic places while sipping on the finest tea bitcoin can buy.
but i will note we've met...
@ullarah that's a great signal method. could have a little hover over the pencil saying this post may have been edited, we're working to confirm.
don't mind me. i'm still bewildered by lorenzo lamas and how his hair can stay in one place.
@ullarah i also made a trip to the land of esoteric instruction manuals to pick up two of these for this very purpose. i've yet to find wood that can fill the hollow legs. going to the hardware store and speaking to them in metric is like a really bad improv comedy hour.
i wonder if i could fill these things with spray foam that hardens?
you know you're aging when you put on a movie and rub your hands together saying fvck yes, lorenza lamas and christian slater, this is going to be ace!
@prologic
given rfc 3339 timestamp, that could be a starting point if given n(x) similarities the one with the greater distance from current time could be considered the genesis perhaps?
life is becomes tricky without int || bigint ids :-)
@prologic cheers, those are nice! i'll post my specs once all 3 nodes are online. remind me in ~2wks :-)~
@prologic all kidding aside. that's a clean setup. i see the mikrotik my inner-mcre/mcna is stirring. but what are the black pizza boxes? you mentioned them in a chat before but i don't recall the details. meanwhile i'm sitting here in a pile of itx boxen cursing the madman who invented this nr200 chassis more blood tax
@prologic the rack looks similar to the one i just sold to a local because i have this idea i can build one out of pvc pipe. did you pay the blood tax? i've got scars from this rack. i swear that damned thing was possessed.
next up, coffee-free weekends.... runs....
@prologic i noticed this in my own testing. definitely something that would be good to address. the doorslam method would be a prompt are you sure you're not knackered? then pod member posts. reminds me of google's beer goggle feature.
building datacentre, nothing to see here. stacks upon stacks are swarming about.
@tkanos
> BUT the ability to be able to edit a post (impossible in twitter) makes it hard to have a big redis cluster.
you've no idea how close to home this is for me. one day i'll explain why. :-)
@prologic indeed, but was trying to ease into an unpacking and ran out of characters before i blacked out.
@justamoment these are great! the third wireframe for the profile really sits well with me. great work.
@off_grid_living we have a rather aggressive bone-stripping ant in our parts. they tore up my backyard something awful. i did find a way of taking down a couple of large nests. go to a local eatery and ask for the fat from their grease trap. heat it up till it's boiling. pour into the spout of the nest. oil will cook them, what's left over will smother their exo-skeleton.
these things also thrive in hot weather.
@nexeq do you have the specific link without having to signup for telegram? i'm all out of sim cards.
@prologic i've got it programmed into my palm-pilot, so i'll be on time next week. apologies for missing the pod members who showed up.
@mckinley this is your website, yes? i was smiling over the toughbooks. had quite a few in my days.