Old version docs tend to offer you a redirect to more recent docs
Sadly, the docs, I’ve worked with (openstack and ansible) frequently, don’t do this. They have a button to go to the latest version of the docs, but not to the equivalent page on the latest version. This means I have to find the equivalent page again, from the integrated search usually.
And yes, a lot can change between versions. New features can get added that solve your problems or older stuff can get removed.
What stops companies from having a shell corporation use the code, and then that shell company rents “services” at a very low cost to a large corp?
I’m thinking something of the opposite if what Google does, where Alphabet (““located”” in Ireland) rents the Google logo to Google, allowing Google to say that their revenue is much less than it actually is.
EDIT: After some research, it seems that they stopped doing that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/01/google-says-it-will-no-longer-use-double-irish-dutch-sandwich-tax-loophole
But a similar scheme being applied to this license does concern me.
Why? In case authentik goes down, so you can recover data? Or something else?
I am settting up authentik and other selfhosted services right now and my plan was for authentik to have all the accounts.
I used to spend a ton of time helping people on reddit with linux and related things, and the “why” matters immensely in that case.
XY problem was extremely common, where someone was trying to achieve a goal through “incorrect” means.
I also saw many, many people’s issues where they wanted something, but were referring to it by a different name, ending up confused and lost. All I had to do was say “you actually want Y” and point them on their way, and they would be happy.
And then of course, sometimes people try to do something that’s simply not possible (or more usually, not implemented in software.).
But in general, it’s very difficult to help people who don’t make it easy for you to help them, and part of that is explaining the “why”, in addition to their issue.
I usually use nix to manage my development environments.
At the root of the git repo for my blog, there is a shell.nix file. This file, shell.nix, declares an entire shell environment, giving me tools, environment variables, and other things I need. I just run nix-shell while in the same directory as the shell.nix file, and it creates that shell environment.
There are other options, like VSCode has support for developing in a docker container (only docker, not podman or lxc).
I think lxc/incus (same thing) containers are kinda excessive for this case, because those containers are a full linux system, complete with an init system and whatnot. Such a thing is going to use more resources (ram, cpu, and storage space), and it’s also going to be more to manage compared to application containers (docker, podman), which are typically very stripped down and come with only what is needed to run the application.
I used to use anaconda, but switched away because it doesn’t have all the packages I wanted, and couldn’t control the versions of packages installed very well, whereas nix does these both very well. Anaconda is very similar in usage though, especially once you start setting up multiple virtual anaconda environments for separate projects. However, I don’t know if anaconda is as portable as nix is, able to create an entire environment from a single file of code.
You could write the entire program in awk,
I use https://quarto.org
Pros: Markdown, easy to use. Docs are very good. Also, despite being a a static site, it comes with fulltext site searching, all done locally, enabled by default:
https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-search.html
It uses pandoc under the hood, so anything that works with pandoc works there.
Cons: No support for any kind of template engine beyond simple variable replacement, as far as I know.
python -m http.server has been a very useful tool to me, to test if a server is accessible.
You forgot “squeal”
The security implications on this page concern me: https://forgejo.org/compare/#better-security
pretty much the only character with real, proactive agency in this story is Quirrell
I stopped reading it halfway through, and was too lazy to figure out why.
This explains it.
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This one is good, but I read right through it — although reading out loud would probably make this more difficult, it really depends on the streamers familiarity with the words. Possibly they might be tripped up, and possibly they would struggle.
This does give me an idea to use words which are hard to pronounce, like gif (which is actually pretty easy, just use the G in GiGantic). And then force them to pronounce them, or argue about pronunciation.
Once federation gets added to one of the FOSS, self hosted alternatives, I’ll probably switch. I’ll mirror stuff to github probably, for resume/recruiter purposes, but the CI/CD, website deployment, and main development will happen on whatever alternative I chose.
This is about python packaging, like making/getting libraries/apps rather than compiling binaries, but it’s pretty relevant here:
https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-python-packaging/
This could be weaponized incompetence. “Oh I keep having issues with my computer that interfere with my work, so I can’t work and IT is incompetent and can’t help me, look at all these tickets and how long IT takes. I just can’t get any work done!”