OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!
I have long loooooong ago given up on distro hopping because, at the end of the day, most distros are close enough to each other that it doesn’t really matter which one you choose at the end of the day. These new immutable ones though… They seem cool as hell. I need to give one a go someday.
after a grueling 4 years of school and a bit of time at a fintech company ive lost almost all the enjoyment i once had for computers in high school. what kind of projects or whatever can i do to have fun again without feeling stressed....
Don’t program (as much). Point yourself towards DevOps, SRE, and/or Platform Engineering. You’ll be designing complex systems and will have your hands in dozens of different tech stacks.
Sometimes I think a straight dev job would be interesting but I legitimately love the SRE space.
We focus a lot more on production than the average developer. It’s our job to make sure whatever devs build is run quickly, efficiently, safely, and scalably.
You will work with a lot of kubernetes, Argo, terraform, Prometheus, grafana. You’ll design build pipelines and software rollout strategies. You plan for zero downtime migrations and upgrades, database maintenance… You’ll have your hands in everything from capacity planning to security to cost optimization to developer support… User permissions, infrastructure, networking, observability… You will write RFCs and setup POCs for new tools. You define and track error budgets and figure out how to keep your org under those projections. When there is an outage you will be involved in writing post mortems.
The days are so varied and unpredictable that it keeps things interesting. The landscape changes so often you’re never really stuck doing the same thing over and over.
I genuinely love it.
EDIT: The SRE Podcast from Google is actually really great for learning about this world. The first season talks about what you’ll be doing and why (based around the SRE O’Riley book). The second season talks about what to expect in different stages of your career progression.
FWIW, I’ve been traveling more or less full time doing the digital nomad thing since 2017… You can keep working and live like a king factoring in cost of living and tax exemptions. I promise you’ll still see plenty of the world… You don’t need to quit.
Some friends have websites. I encourage them to do. But they have them only to publish contact info, opening times, and a couple of photos of their business. What would be the best fediverse platform for this? Of course being able to post/toot news every now and then, is also a good feature.
Spotify has removed offensive imagery associated with a controversial song by Christian rapper Tyson James and his 11-year-old son Toby James, following a complaint by GLAAD....
I used to be in love with Awesome but I think it’s been more than 10 years since I used it last. I remember the software being wonderful and the people in the people in the community being stereotypical, smug, “rtfm” types… That was more frustrating than anything else about Awesome.
I don’t drink coffee at all but I do live outside of the US. I have noticed that in MANY places in the world, instant coffee is the norm. It’s not normal to see coffee beans in the grocery store at all really where I am now. I would have to go to a more upscale place or to a specialty spot to find whole or ground coffee.
Hii, I am trying to get into reading books but don’t know what to read. I like programming, tech, DIY stuff and science and would love to read about it....
Hi, I’m 46 years old and have had a diagnosis since childhood ( was call add then). And without getting to much into it have had many challenges throughout my life. I’m in a good place now where my own Strahles coupled with therapy and medication help me manage things. Up until very recently i felt like this was something to...
Is this in a software context? If so, mandating structured RFCs will help a lot. It will channel random streams of thoughts into constructive, actionable proposals.
Have your first RFC be about how to structure an RFC. Make a cost/benefit analysis (in real money if possible) be a mandatory part of the proposal. Commit all of them to a main branch in git even if they are rejected because you would preserve the original discussions around that particular proposal.
Basically anything that can be an epic ticket can and should be an RFC first.
Hi. I’ve been using powerlevel10k for a long time, but a few days ago, I decided I wanted to customize it a bit. I opened the .p10k.zsh file, and I was shocked. It’s really massive, with TONS of options. I’ve been digging through for a few hours already, and it’s absolutely amazing how much you can customize it without...
FWIW, once I got deep enough into it, the thought of going back to the old way seemed like a crazy idea. I don’t want to manage servers like that again if it can be avoided. YMMV.
I know the question is rather awkward at first and I am possibly overlooking something, but I would like to know something I really don’t understand....
Not scrolling through all the comments to see if someone mentioned this yet or not but every December I check what is on the best albums of the year lists… Generally I check per-genre that I’m into. Like best black metal of 2023, best jazz of 2023, etc etc…
Other than that, bandcamp and YouTube are the biggest. I honestly buy more on bandcamp these days than I torrent though. It’s such a great site.
I love horror movies especially the cheesey type of horror movies that are so stupid that they are great. I do prefer the ones that would always appear on SyFy, but any other type (that is not like the ones on SyFy and look a lot better) is fine too.
Legit had my latest covid shot yesterday at Wallgreens. I was waiting for half an hour and, while waiting, I heard someone talking to a different customer on a phone call. They said they had a backlog of ~600 prescriptions and that they shouldn’t rush to come pick up theirs.
When I finally got into get my shot, they legit had to move garbage bins out of the way… Like literal garbage next to an injection site.
Basically if you earn a certain amount or have a high enough net worth, you must pay a tax on all of your assets as if you were selling everything you owned. You are charged this amount even if you are not selling anything.
This is the only wealth tax in America as far as I understand it.
My issue isn’t so much with the tax itself as it is selectively enforced. If those assets remained in the US and the person never renounced, they would never be taxed. Or at least not taxed at the same rate.
So it’s important enough to make sure rich people don’t run away but, as long as you don’t try to run, you don’t owe us anything… So the rich in America can continue getting richer…
Also, the income threshold is pretty average for any senior level software engineer. You don’t need to be astoundingly rich to be on the hook.
For example, two people each own identical houses. One lives in the US and one lives outside. Both decide to keep it until they die. They both owe property taxes. If the person living outside of the US renounces their citizenship, they owe an exit tax even though they did not sell the property. The value of the house didn’t change. It’s location, owner, property tax obligation… Nothing changed.
There is nothing wrong with this. It should just be applied equally. If there is going to be a wealth tax, I want it applied to wealthy Americans even if they don’t renounce their citizenship.
An RFC that essentially boiled down to saying, in excruciating detail, that I am qualified for the job I was hired for and that I can be trusted not to break the website.
The US was able to make smoking cigarettes seem uncool. Compared to a lot of other parts of the world, they seem to have made real progress in cutting tobacco use.
Agreed. I could run water sensors and solenoid valves for my basement water heater off of an arduino or rpi. I could also use a commercial product that has a warranty and a product engineering team and a QA department and etc etc…
I’m going commercial. The potential for damage to be done is too high for some hack job.
I’ve been in FOSS software for more than 20 years but honestly find the absolutism insufferable. It’s not always practical and there are more important hills to die on.
It is possible to build trains/stations in lightly populated areas and have modern building codes in place to encourage modern, efficient towns be developed around them.
Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....
I used to have that really common thought of “I don’t care what you believe in. Just don’t try to push your opinion on me.”
No. It’s bullshit.
The very existence of religion is a psychological drain on society. We are all worse off the longer it stays around. There is no such thing as a good religious person and anyone who says they are religious I immediately distrust.
I’ve known extremely religious people that were very kind to everyone around them, only focused on doing good in the world
Being religious is not a requirement for doing good in the world. If the religion did not exist these extremely religious people you know could continue to do good in the world while not simultaneously supporting organizations that enable corruption, abuse, dishonesty, violence, oppression, etc, etc…
If anyone is still believing in these hokey stories or exploitative organizations they are either willfully ignorant to the world around them, gullible rubes who are victims of a centuries old scam, or actively benefitting from that exploitation.
I stand by my statements. Religion is a virus. It’s a net negative in the world that stands in the way of all human progress.
I’ve been using Fleksy for years but there are some apps that don’t work well with it. Notably, Connect for Lemmy. Backward swiping for deletes only does one word at a time and up/down swiping for managing autocorrect doesn’t work either.
There are a few other apps with their own quirks as well. 90% of the time it’s great though.
Yeah I agree. It was rolled out pretty early in its development maturity so it undoubtedly left a bad taste in some people’s mouths. Overall it’s a net positive though. I don’t want to go back to the old way.
The unix philosophy is about what runs as processes at the system level.
I don’t know what you mean by “system level” (cat is userspace) but I don’t believe there is any clarification about what kind of applications should apply to the unix philosophy or not. It doesn’t say that applications “should do one thing and do it well only if it is a system process or terminal based program built for purely shell environments.”
Also, if the argument was exclusively about OS processes, dbus should be in the firing line of everyone in the anti-systemd camp too. That never gets the same level of hate.
The unix philosophy is old and, while nice to have, is insufficient to fully address the needs of the modern world. It’s not as simple today as it was in the 1960s and 70s and we need to embrace change to progress.
Usually the only tricky part of compiling from source is tracking down dependencies. The package manager does that for you normally but you’re not using the package manager when compiling from scratch. The actual building (even compiling a kernel) isn’t all that complicated.
If you need the python header files, depending on your distro, you may need to install python3-dev, python3-devel, python3, or some other variation on the name. For a novice, this might not always be obvious and they might not know things like apt-file are helpful for figuring it out.
Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation (projectbluefin.io)
OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!
i wanna have fun programming again
after a grueling 4 years of school and a bit of time at a fintech company ive lost almost all the enjoyment i once had for computers in high school. what kind of projects or whatever can i do to have fun again without feeling stressed....
Do you have any "quirks" when you're drunk?
I’ll start. I have to be careful drinking around other people, because I can get intensely motivational....
What's your opinion on life? Do you think it's worth it? Spanish
18+ Filters off, where do you really see yourself in 5 years?
Looking for fediverse platform for a minimal corporate website.
Some friends have websites. I encourage them to do. But they have them only to publish contact info, opening times, and a couple of photos of their business. What would be the best fediverse platform for this? Of course being able to post/toot news every now and then, is also a good feature.
Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry (www.advocate.com)
Spotify has removed offensive imagery associated with a controversial song by Christian rapper Tyson James and his 11-year-old son Toby James, following a complaint by GLAAD....
[Awesome WM] My First Customisation (feddit.nl)
I tried AwesomeWM two days ago, and after two days of hard work understanding the API reference, I came up with this. More screenshots are below....
Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?
For some reason I think of it as an older concept. Now Starbucks and coffee chains are popular....
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Which book should I read?
Hii, I am trying to get into reading books but don’t know what to read. I like programming, tech, DIY stuff and science and would love to read about it....
Ladies of Lemmy, what cheese are you easily fascinated by?
Adults , how do you deal with other professionals
Hi, I’m 46 years old and have had a diagnosis since childhood ( was call add then). And without getting to much into it have had many challenges throughout my life. I’m in a good place now where my own Strahles coupled with therapy and medication help me manage things. Up until very recently i felt like this was something to...
[Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?
Hi. I’ve been using powerlevel10k for a long time, but a few days ago, I decided I wanted to customize it a bit. I opened the .p10k.zsh file, and I was shocked. It’s really massive, with TONS of options. I’ve been digging through for a few hours already, and it’s absolutely amazing how much you can customize it without...
For those who pirate songs, how do you discover new music?
I know the question is rather awkward at first and I am possibly overlooking something, but I would like to know something I really don’t understand....
Can anyone recommend terrible horror films?
I love horror movies especially the cheesey type of horror movies that are so stupid that they are great. I do prefer the ones that would always appear on SyFy, but any other type (that is not like the ones on SyFy and look a lot better) is fine too.
What popular quote are you tired of hearing?
Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
Walgreens pharmacy staff walk out, citing unsafe working conditions (www.washingtonpost.com)
Slackware is so boring, it just sits there and *works*. (lemmy.ml)
Ex-Americans are suing America to get back some of the money they paid to renounce their citizenship (www.insider.com)
What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?
18 month project is winding down. I suspect it will have 1 use in the next 4 years we are supporting it....
Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting
what did your government do well in the near past?
In politics most people just critizise each other, but what did your local government actually do a good job on?
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"We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" (www.youtube.com)
America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)
Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....
What do you think is the most entertaining wikipedia article?
What UI design trend do you hate the most?
I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
Looking for an alternative Keyboard app
Hi friends. My quest to remove Google products from my life continues....
i find it's a great tool. (lemmy.world)
And Gentoo as well, but shush (lemmy.dbzer0.com)