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A very simple fix for that is to use the systemd log driver to send all the container logs to journald. Then you can set a size or time limit on journald.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/logging/drivers/journald/

I believe Podman can do something similar.

It could give you a rough idea, but it's far from precise. The delay added by a single router could throw you off by several KM.

It's much more effective to just go through satellite imagery and land title records.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=0.01+ms+at+speed+of+lig...

Oooooh that's really bad. Wordpress on Cpanel sites is like the Dark Matter of the internet, it's everywhere and you don't see it until something bad happens. Libations for the sysadmins patching & cleaning up this mess.

It feels like people are more willing to give their agent a prompt than search the web for existing solutions.

I've noticed a crazy amount of clearly AI coded projects that do a small subset of an already existing and very trusted open source project. Comments usually point this out, and the OP never responds. I'm not sure what the end goal is, but the whole thing feels like a waste of time for everybody involved.

The folks that run the colo I keep our servers in would beat me to death with a shoe if I did either of these things:

- Mount something in a rack not firmly attached to brackets or a shelf

- Install anything with a battery larger than you'd find in a RAID card

Not to mention all the other ways this is sub-par in terms of airflow, density, serviceability, out-of-band management, etc.

I get the allure of it, but I wouldn't really want my gear anywhere near a bunch of laptops stuck in a cabinet.

That kind of seems crazy to me, considering OpenBSD has worked perfectly fine with every wifi capable device I've tested it on. Granted, most of them were older machines.

Is this just an artifact of FreeBSD primarily focusing on server hardware rather than consumer/end-user stuff?

Ah very true. It comes in third in terms of "cool" factor, looking more like something a local retirement home would take to bingo night than something deserving the astrovan name. But I respect it nonetheless.

Astronaut Transfer Vehicle, aka THE astrovan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut_transfer_van

Notably, not the Chevy Astro / GMC Safari van.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Astro

Both are iconic, but one more than the other

A classic example is Docker inserting its firewall rules before everything else, causing any "published" ports to be wide open even if a firewall ruleset was configured. They might have fixed this, or doubled down on their design choice. Either way, that kind of complexity can really bite you if you're not careful.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/#published-ports

It would be something a bit like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115721630079

Before Thunderbolt was common, people attempted to use external GPUs with this sort of expander, but it worked really poorly.

Hey, op here, this was almost a decade ago, but I'll try to describe what's going on here. It's kind of a crappy picture.

* WAN connection comes in by coax, into my cheapo cable modem (off screen), and then by Ethernet into the franken-NIC sitting on top of the laptop.

* The NIC on top is a normal PCIe card, but with the bracket missing. The ExpressCard riser [1] is connected by a mini-HDMI cable, the flat black cable, which curves up, around, and back in from the left side into the laptop

* Then, the blue cable on the side of the laptop is a VLAN trunk going into the Cisco switch on port 23/24, outside the picture.

* From there, another port on the switch is setup as an access/untagged port going into one of the LAN ports on the D-Link acting as the access switch

I don't think it was set up here, but at one point I also had a dock under the ThinkPad, with the serial adapter wired up to the switch's console port so I could manage everything by ssh'ing into the router.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/115721630079

Also note that all the cables were hand-crimped because I was too cheap to buy new patch cables at the time.

I was in college, and truly had more time than money back then. it's the kind of doohickey made by only somebody very young, very crazy, or a bit of both. ;)

A good QA team will be the definitive experts on a piece of software. They have more complete and in-depth experience than sales, engineering, or anybody else. A single software engineer might know their specific piece, but your QA tester will know everything.

Even easier, just throw together some iptables rules & install dnsmasq. Obviously out of reach of most non-techy people but it's not much worse than most self-hosted things people build. I've even done it with USB-Ethernet dongles.

Maybe "whitebox" stuff will have a moment here. Buy a ARM based "computer" that just happens to have a built in switch and 802.11 radio, and separately purchase an SD card with the OS on it.

Or, perhaps this will be VyOS's time to shine... https://vyos.io/

Can't really see anything really happening in the consumer space, but maybe business/enterprise will move in one direction or another.

Yeah, considering the number of corporate IT products that count anything from a port scan to requesting /wp-admin a "thwarted cyberattack" I can see this going very poorly when every cowboy IT manager gets their sheriff badge.

There have been plenty of inflection points like that throughout history. Famously, Jimmy Carter installed solar heating on the roof of the white house. Reagan took them down shortly after.

It seems like we never quite learn our lesson about energy security...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House...

It's kind of funny how the US military, the largest single consumer of fossil fuels on the planet, didn't consider that disrupting the largest source of fossil fuels would impact them.

I also love https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

They also compress the hell out of the images, so it all loads shockingly well on poor connections.

The next generations of accidents are going to be even more looney-tunes in nature.

Maybe they should give the trucks a "turbo boost" button that lets them increase speed by something like 5 KM/hr for 120s every 30 minutes. Just enough to allow truck drivers to pass now and then without causing these types of log-jams on the highways, without causing safety problems. I'm sure there's a more correct combination of speeds and times than this.

Sort of like the silly "boost buttons" on the Honda CR-Z [1] or the Elantra N [2], but just lifting the speed limiter for a bit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CR-Z#Powertrain

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Elantra#Elantra_N/Avan...

I'm probably a bit younger than the gp, but I can confidently say that all socializing has moved almost entirely off "social media" and onto group chats. Most people have a dozen or more combinations of friends and families on multiple apps, all trying to replace what was once easy.

I'd love if somebody would make a site based on the ~2010 expectations (not reality) of facebook. Ban any commercial activity and make people pay for it. I just want to talk to my friends and say "happy birthday" to somebody I haven't seen in years, not look at ads and slop posts.

Specifically talking about USAID, that's the biggest erosion of US soft power in the country's history. All that "foreign aid" wasn't for charity or the goodness of anybody's heart, it was to keep the "3rd world" aligned with US foreign policy objectives. And to set a price floor for agricultural products.

Frigate is very good: https://frigate.video/

Personally, I use Zoneminder: https://zoneminder.com/ Zoneminder is very "janky" but predictable.

I set mine up about three years ago, and it's been nice and boring since: https://nbailey.ca/post/nvr

IOS 26 has been a massive dissapointment. I was strong-armed into updating this week with the vulnerability they refused to patch in 18.x, and it's what I would describe as "Gen Z's Vista"

I don't see what value the LLM would add - writing itself isn't that hard. Thinking is hard, and outsourcing that to an LLM is what people dislike.

I have great compassion for the people who sort these things out. It takes a lot of skill and experience to pick up the pieces of something like Github and get it working properly again. I'm sure it's exhausting having problem after problem, endlessly chasing down sev-0 bugs in production.

But I have nothing but disdain for the management that won't listen to those people.

The interior of my Mazda looks more high-end than this... Yikes, Ferrari.

Best of luck to you and the team! I really, really hope it's successful :)

My team started using Matrix/Element after years of frustration with Teams and Slack. It's far from perfect, but using a simple application with no built-in ads, AI, bloat, crap, etc is wonderful.

I really hope the EU throws some serious money at them to get the bugs worked out, add some minor features, and clean up the UX enough that an "office normie" can onboard as easily as MS.

My dream is that Matrix can do for intra-org comms what Signal did for SMS.

Stuff like this is why I consider uBlock Origin to be the bare minimum security software for going on the web. The amount of 3rd party scripts running on most pages, constantly leaking data to everybody listening, is just mind boggling.

It's treating a symptom rather than a disease, but what else can we do?

They struck out with food, so it's only fair they got a free money machine from hydro, wind, and oil/gas ;)