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senorsmile··on PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions – Part 1: Jepsen Test and Patroni
It also mentions: > By default, the build options generate only the Apache License 2.0 binaries.

So, it seems like the proprietary builds are for the managed services that they host themselves, which makes sense.

senorsmile··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
This affected my company. Thet got rid of the "starter" tier at $6 / user / month. That meant going up to the premium tier at $19. Just a couple years later that has gone up to $29. For a company that already has other tools for all of the "extra value add" that they're bringing, it hurts. Gitlab really has a great feature set for the core git server + ci experience, it's not worth so much. I've asked several different folks to bring back a starter license to no avail. We want to pay, but we don't use any of the "premium" add-ons.
senorsmile··on Show HN: A Directory of Free, Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software
This is truly awesome.
senorsmile··on Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers
I read that there was in fact a meshtastic group that assisted emergency personnel.
senorsmile··on We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
Thank you for doing this. Added RSS feed.
senorsmile··on We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
Which devices and distros?
senorsmile··on Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs
They just released another "beta" not long ago. It seems like it's getting closer and closer to being daily driver ready.
senorsmile··on A reasonable configuration language
Kapitan sounds interesting. It definitely looks difficult to figure out. Even your blog post only gives me a hint, leaving me with lots of questions. I am going to o dig deeper.
senorsmile··on Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers
I've been using Hetzner for many years. I've had a couple maintenances on baremetal servers over the last several years. Otherwise, the only down time has been self inflicted.
senorsmile··on 5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq
The Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians) as well as the Sumerians we're all attracted to the Mesopotamian area in general due to it being between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They flooded on regular intervals, thus creating fertile land despite the general desert like climate.
senorsmile··on Call GPT-3 from Terminal
Might be able to use xargs
senorsmile··on Dotfiles Management
I use NixOS and do not use home-manager. I have synchthing managed by NixOS and it syncs all of my config and files between all my machines.

Btw, am I the only person annoyed at calling configuration files dotfiles? Not all hidden files/folders are configuration, and not all configuration files are hidden.

senorsmile··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
I've read about more than a few issues running Linux on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon. So, I'd recommend a 9th gen. My 9th gen has been running amazingly.
senorsmile··on NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
Would be cool to get new packages like this on nixpkgs.
senorsmile··on Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?
I only recently had this same thought. It's making me think hard about how to reorganize all of these services I have set up for my family.
senorsmile··on Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
Which two languages?
senorsmile··on Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
I mentioned this above, but I believe that the killer feature would be integrating with one or more existing front end CI/CD systems so that the dag created by dagger automatically maps to e.g. the pipeline steps of a Jenkins blueocean job.
senorsmile··on Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
What I'd like to see is integrations with existing systems. If I could somehow automatically map stages in dagger to the stages in a Jenkins pipeline, this would be ideal.
senorsmile··on Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
You definitely can in Ansible.
senorsmile··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
I highly recommend listening to this specific episode of the Peter Attia podcast: https://pca.st/episode/eafed9b7-a673-4b84-8dc3-46684eeba9ad
senorsmile··on Hard User Separation with NixOS
TIL too. This makes 3 now.
senorsmile··on Pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at scale
It should have at least become a role that could be called in the different contexts of the environment it was targetting. Ansible's real power is in the hierarchical inventory, which can be used to efficiently describe the state of all of the things (I use it for everything from cloud things to specific machine things).
senorsmile··on Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?
Which means that the open source upstream awx does as well?
senorsmile··on Poll: How Ambidextrous Are You?
I am right hand dominant and can rotate the cup clockwise and counter-clockwise > 10 seconds in both hands. This is definitely due to the fact that I have played the drums for > 25 years and have not only trained to do some beats in reverse, I have trained all of the fancy stick twirling I do to be equal in both hands.
senorsmile··on Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?
This was my first thought.
senorsmile··on Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits
I had a similar thought. If there was a little more automation here, that staging server could be shut down or even completely destroyed until the next testing/deployment window. The only reason I'd have multiple always on is to load balance for the same "color".
senorsmile··on Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
The "Learning Perl" book from O'Reilly is the best book to do this (and imho is one of the best written programming books).
senorsmile··on We want to make Nix better
> What I wish now is something like:

> nix change nothing (if my changes somehow don't do anything, like in my issue)

I miss this feedback greatly having used Ansible since 2013 and only this year diving into a single NixOS installation as my intro.

senorsmile··on Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?
I'm trialing fleetdm atm. It works on all 3.
senorsmile··on Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image
Do you have any working examples you could link to? Or better yet, a script that can be run to perform the aforementioned steps?
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