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syslog

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Sysadmin in Vienna, Austria.

https://blog.syslog.at

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syslog··on Tmux is worse-is-better
„If you want to walk the path of true digital minimalism, vanilla Vim and tmux or its spiritual grandfather screen are all you need.“

I think I‘ve been walking this path for twenty years now.

syslog··on Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car
Ad 1: the glass roof might take care of that.
syslog··on Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust
This is really an unfortunate name - literally „snot“ in German.
syslog··on Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance
My guess is „Lennart Poettering“.
syslog··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

syslog··on HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale
Oh god.
syslog··on Incident report for February 21st, 2024
How does immutable work in regard to databases? As in „we need to add a column“?
syslog··on Interesting Uses of Ansible's ternary filter
If you try to use a hammer like a screwdriver, you’re going to be frustrated.
syslog··on Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
I still deploy Apache httpd, because that’s what I know best, and it works.
syslog··on AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
Private Relay does work, but it circumvents the Pihole (so no adblocking).
syslog··on We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is
Any server that must not fail is just not important enough.

(Build your services with HA in mind, so you don‘t have to worry about a situation like this one.)

syslog··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Just here[0] they say that that’s a myth. I don‘t know what to believe anymore.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156692

syslog··on The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
Exactly my thoughts. The Bialetti wouldn‘t have been the success it is if you had to make a science out of it.
syslog··on How I destroyed the company's DB (a stupid SQL mistake)
A decent database has transactions, so you can rollback your fat-fingered queries.
syslog··on WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
At first I thought I had an unusual amount of very small hair on my display.
syslog··on You don't need JavaScript for that
From the UX point of view I very much prefer the oldschool way of „ticked“/„nonticked“ instead of „left/right“ switch.
syslog··on Welcome to Datasette Cloud
I was hoping for the same. Still have the 1531 lying in the attic (next to the C16).
syslog··on The Plumber Problem
Had the same issue with „Before Sunrise“, set in Vienna. Hawke and Delpy walk from one cut to the next in minutes, what IRL would have taken them half an hour on public transport.
syslog··on The future of AlmaLinux
Yes, that‘s correct.
syslog··on A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]
Similar vibe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35040547
syslog··on Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances
And then Google decides for no discernable reason to lock your account, making it impossible to login _anywhere_.

I get the convenience and also the security benefits, but there‘s a whole lot of risk, too.

syslog··on A response to the git.centos.org changes
I honestly thought distro wars were a thing of the past and settled a decade ago.

And by settled I mean "who cares as long as it's not Windows?".

syslog··on A response to the git.centos.org changes
re 2) - we once fell into this marketing trap of "Oracle runs best on Oracle". If it only were true!

We had Oracle databases running on Oracle Solaris running on Oracle SPARC servers, because the bosses were convinced of the synergies. When the problems started (with Solaris zone clusters) it was a happy merry-go-round of fingerpointing between Oracle support groups.

Oracle is on a rather short list of companies I'll try to avoid doing business with if at all possible.