corsicanguppy

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corsicanguppy,

compostable or biodegradable plastics will no longer be allowed to be sold

This is needed both in the short and long term

If you hate biodegradable and compostable things, you’re the baddie. The math seems solid.

corsicanguppy,

The circle of life is harsh. We don’t get to play God.

I choose Right over Good. Sorry everyone.

corsicanguppy,
  1. Thank you for the archive.is link
  2. When I was in the army, this is kinda what we knew to expect our peacetime lives to be: sandbags, rakes and shovels, coordinating and assisting log-Os with moving people out and/supplies into a zone.

Because when we don’t need to be armed, we’re still a coordinated labour force trained to mobilize quickly .

corsicanguppy,

Now I’m curious as to why they are blocked?

We can’t confirm whether or not you’re curious. Only you can decide that.

corsicanguppy,

Same. I’d like to ‘just’ start them, but with two jobs and a family Im tapped out but for sniping comments about people’s spelling and occasional Linux help.

corsicanguppy,

I have an answering machine’s microcassette stashed in case a psycho comes back to haunt me. This shit DEFINITELY existed 30 years ago, just in a different form.

Any Canadian's considering moving to the USA?

I’m kind of in a strange boat right now where I’m really comfortable in Canada yet I can’t shake this feeling I need to get over to the US of A in order to take advantage of that strong USD. I, like many Canadians, work for an American firm and have a TN visa. Recently, my employer offered to sponsor me for a green card,...

corsicanguppy,

I went to the US for y2k , and was there for 5 years.

I came home with the exact same amount of money as I had when I left. And I also got a deep understanding for the absolute depths of cruel poverty in the US and for safety nets they don’t have.

Do it. You’ll never be the same, and you’ll really appreciate Canada better.

corsicanguppy,

always a bit terrified of actually ever using any medical services.

That’s kinda the problem: in America, ‘preventative’ care is only talked about in past tense, like “wish he’d’ve gotten looked-at before it cost him his 401k AND house as well”.

No one goes for testing, no early warning.

corsicanguppy,

Increase the speed of shitty bungalow builds? That’s gonna help.~

corsicanguppy,

As an out-of-band software delivery method and supply chain that

  • breaks single source of truth
  • defeats/breaks simple enterprise-style (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName) inventory
  • enforces/uses alternate dependencies

It has ab-sol-ute-ly no value to me, and only security risk after security risk.

Apologies to those who’ve spent time on them, but I’m happy to not see them as their value within the scope of my workday fell off a cliff in about 1996 - maybe before they even existed - with the advent of something better.

Again, sorry. I’m only speaking as someone who used to manage OS security on Unix and has spent 20 years in the leviathan-enterprise space as rehab. Your mileage with glitter may vary.

corsicanguppy,

A […] Software

This isn’t actually the way that word works. It’s like saying ‘a traffic’.

corsicanguppy,
  1. a few minutes. Usually I expect 2, claim 5, but when updating gitlab or something equally bloated I’ll need 7-10 for the patch-and-bounce.
  2. no one cares whether it takes a minute extra while you’re getting coffee or when it’s in the middle of the night. The #1 selling feature of systemd is thus moot and it’s truly just a piece of hot garbage.
corsicanguppy,
  1. systemd hasn’t become a better project built by better, smarter people to deliver a better set of features. It’s still hot garbage.
  2. it’s okay to continue pointing out it’s hot garbage, in the hopes we can go forward or back or just get on something better/else (same thing).

I don't find any value in Red-Hat but I see their corporate thinking. Who really need them and why?

I see all the drama around Red-hat and I still don’t get why companies would use RHEL (or centos when it existed). I was in many companies and CentOS being years behind was awful for any recent application (GPU acceleration, even new CPU had problems with old Linux kernels shipped in CentOS)....

corsicanguppy,

CentOS being years behind was awful

You’re not doing it right. There’s absolutely a reason why enterprise linux works with a version that’s more-or-less locked in place (but for security updates, like a maintenance fork). You need to understand the value you’ve been overlooking.

  • ten years of a stable platform. Because, yeah, it’s not this week’s release with the glitter, but it’s also not a moving target of broken suck you have to constantly chase, and you can actually do dev.
  • dependencies are figured out
  • updates are trivial when security stuff comes out. Honestly – yum+cron is so stable and reliable, and the compatibility is part of the guarantee; so you - and your customers - don’t have to worry or - please god no - delay updates to gauge risk. Since updates are 99% of the work to avoid exploits, this goes from ‘huge risk’ to ‘no-brainer’. And you don’t have to worry that your dev environment is non-trivial to replicate on the daily.
  • your requirements for your software becomes ‘EL7’; maybe ‘EL7+EPEL7’ or so. Your installation process becomes ‘add repo RPM which pulls in other repo RPMs. yum install’ , and you’re already onto mere config work.
  • validating the install isn’t ‘did you install this ream of apps from this particular week in time, then run some wget|sh bullshit? Now run this other set of commands to confirm your installation’ – but in our case is just ‘rpm -qa|egrep’ or even an snmpwalk.
  • not working? Give me your one config file and your rpm-qa and we’ll replicate here trivially and find out why. (I didn’t work in support, but I liaised with them a bunch in the security work, and that was common practice) Tossing 4 lines and a <<EOF construct into a vagrant config is just so easy, now, and gives the entire machine to play with.

As someone who used to dev a notable app in the past, cross-distro problems alone made so many of the fringe OSes impossible to support, and so we didn’t. EL was the backbone because we respected what we had.

I just can’t figure out why this-week’s-glitter is more important than losing the install/support/update/validate burden by choosing a stable platform to work within. Life’s too short to support dependency hell or struggle just to replicate a failing setup in your lab for testing. Do you just not support customers?

corsicanguppy,

Nope.

But it could give us a stop-gap until new housing code is designed around heat dissipation and central cooling.

My building has a central heat pipe used to provide cooling for the units… which the landlord has set on HEAT in June, because he has no idea.

corsicanguppy,

You don’t need to leave Fedora.

RH will just cut them out soon enough, if you believe the trends.

Best have a plan to move on FROM them, though. Look into parallel porting to PCLinuxOS for now, as it’s a VERY similar maintenance routine, and it has a very wide app support window. Their unattended install (ie packer for vagrant or ovirt) is absolute ass, but that’s their achilles heel. Ultimately, that may not be a problem for you.

I’d direct you to the PCL/OS lemmy sub, but I think there is none yet.

corsicanguppy,

They just announced CentOS is the beta platform.

corsicanguppy,

I’m not low-income, but I’m feeling very vulnerable.

I’ll await delivery, each day until 3.

corsicanguppy,

Well, this is completely normal for any case of child abuse in the foster system that the minister immediately resigns, so, yeah, that’s fair.

corsicanguppy,

headline: IBM STILL DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ITS RESPONSIBILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

Nothing much more to see here; just, the spots have finally come in on the leopard.

But, as IBM isn’t responsible for systemd, ansible and similar trumped-up barely-capable competitors, it’s not all IBM’s fault. Let it sell crutches as long as it can.

corsicanguppy,

RHEL is not their main product anymore.

RedHat losing the plot is their own mistake to correct. I’ve been telling my OS TAM as much for a decade.

Everything is about Openshift and [its] Ecosystem. But Openshift is expensive.

And oVirt competes well.

But when your entire business is based around massively hyped bags stapled to the side of a badly-managed central product you don’t mention or promote, what’s the expectation?

RedHat was solid for the very thing that made centos a popular option. But then it had to have more; more, more more.

corsicanguppy,

affecting the wrong crowd, RH workers, who are receiving directly and indirectly the backlash, mostly snowballed by clickbait and plain disinformation.

I know many former SCO employees now working for RedHat. Ironically, now they’re facing some misdirected backlash after IBM was overly grabby about source code that wasn’t proprietary.

corsicanguppy,

This question is just going to draw a lot of “hey what’s your favourite distro” responses.

But if you want something EL-like that isn’t RHEL, consider the bastard child of Conectiva and Mandrake, long ejected from the RedHat family but still very similar – PCLinuxOS. It has the superior signed packaging format, and it has much of the same workflow. Its packer compatibility suffers greatly from its mageia times - I think - so they’re still a bit ghetto about anything at scale, but that’s almost the only thing they don’t have nailed-down. Their massive compatibility window delivers on everything AppStream claims but cannot.

For minimal stuff, consider AlpineLinux, which also is free of Systemd and still manages to run really well for reasons Lennart’s fans simply can’t understand.

corsicanguppy,

they wanted Red Hat for a reason.

They were dying and they needed a cash cow to milk. The only way that was gonna work is if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it. And they can’t stop, so they’re just kicking away.

corsicanguppy,

I’m absolutely not surprised that NASA took CentOS-in-more-than-name over the people who are trying to kill Enterprise Linux.

corsicanguppy,

True. And, if you believe the workmates, the real estate market is a buyer’s feeding frenzy. Get some summer houses – some are there, and some are there.

corsicanguppy,

That bar is so low that even Futurama’s Hermes couldn’t limbo under it. ;-)

Is “not the dumbest idea ever” enough to justify the continued both-feet investment into its extraction and export for cash?

corsicanguppy,

The “government funded source” thing is Conservatives forgetting that Canada isn’t like America: our ‘government funded’ stuff has an arms-length position like the CRTC and the RCMP. And while the former forgets its mandate, we all (should) remember that none of them serve at the express pleasure of any particular prime minister

… even the ones who want to run the country and can’t take some hard questions from a media they don’t control.

corsicanguppy,

I don’t know man, Oxford Dictionary …

Tells us what’s popular; sometimes also what happens to be correct.

corsicanguppy,

Kids hear “should’ve” and repeat it phonetically,

This is the failure of “no child left behind”; it seems that’s all it did !

corsicanguppy,

Entitlement is intoxicating. Being classed as a mere gathering is insulting because Jesus.

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