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I just read an a post on Mastodon with some welcome illustrations to promote the Global Switch Day on the first of Februrary 2025. There are a lot of Fediverse based alternatives for services that are by now heavily affected by enshittification. Here is a list of the replacable commercial platforms with their Fediverse alternative and (if you are interested), where I live on them. Plaform Fediverse Alternative My Home X/twitter/bsky/threads Mastodon @maub@23....

Here’s the law in full rescued from its original wiki page. “What you don’t know, you don’t know - and you can’t make it up”. This law is attributed to former Raytheon vice president Bruce Dunn. Although Bruce used it in the context of evaluation of evidence for scripture, it is highly applicable in the case of cluster failure where all that is observed is inability to communicate. Because in this case, one knows very little - except that we can’t communicate with the given node....

It was about two weeks ago when one of my coworkers asked me, if I was already replaced by AI. I was baffled. Jan.ai looks quite like me, it is friendly, it uses the waving hand emoji (👋) as a logo and it genuinely seems a great way of experimenting with a lot of different open source LLM’s. So i tried. I have used this as a soundtrack: Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself (Youtube)...

Today I watched a German reaction video revolving around several unfortunate developments in the gaming industry. Whilst a lot of absolutely valid points were made, one of them was “the server costs of twitch can’t be that relevant to their business”. Now, I’m working in cloud infrastructure and I know, that live video streaming is one of the most expensive digital services you can offer. So I did a bit of research and a few calculations....

I have just watched a video about a narcissist made by somebody exposing that person together with the person the narcissist copied and then had the audacity to hint to her followers on multiple occasions that it is the other way around. The thing I’m taking issue with is not anything the creators in the video are talking about. It’s one of those stupid duty calls moments. It is that @nerdcity at one point in that video - very likely on accident - says the word ‘imposter syndrome’ to describe the behaviour of the narcissistic person....

So, a few years ago I made a small flask-app, just to keep myself entertained. This was a few years after I did another minimal webapp in React. Since I just migrated to a new set of servers I thought, I fluff those apps a bit. Bring some color into them, upgrade to the latest versions, fix a few bugs and so on. Now I’ve got a set of interesting applications, all managed in the same flask-container, delivering some features that you might find useful....

UPDATE 2023-08-28 The bug is now fixed, you only need to update to the newest version of docker on affected systems! ORIGINAL TEXT Yesterday night I have tried to build a container running a python-application as non-root user and I stumbled onto a bug currently tracked as #2029523. Example Dockerfile: FROM alpine:latest ENV BUSTCACHE=2 RUN adduser -S -D -h /home/test test && ls -al /home/test WORKDIR /home/test COPY --chown=test:nogroup foo.txt foo....

Hi, This is my first post on my new Hugo website. I’ve relaunched this old PicoCMS page in favor of probably the most used static generator at least in my corner of the internet. I included a few old posts from my old blogger.com blog called ‘iamnodev’, since I am planning on retiring that one. I fiddled a bit with this theme in particular to get things going and I am quite pleased with the results....

Nowadays I have to check ssl-configurations quite often and have to accomodate a blur of different CA’s intermediates and wildcard certs. So for the most basic stuff I reccomend taping Julia Evan’s openssl cheat sheet somewhere in plain view until you can type the commands from it blindly. But in some cases I needed to… verify a certificate from your disk against your systems CA You download or receive a certificate from somewhere, but before installing it, you want to see if it really works:...

My days as a BigData engineer grew darker in the past few days. Now almost all critical data that our aggregations, partners and customers want to access is located in a bucket on Amazon’s S3. Since that gets horribly expensive for the vast amounts of data we create on a daily basis, we lean towards not keeping much more than a month of active objects in the bucket, to meet our SLA’s regarding backup and recovery, we keep them for about a year in Glacier afterwards....