Accidentally hitting reply-to-all on a company wide email and more or less stating that I wanted to be transferred to another team.

There was a new team forming elsewhere, and in fairness, it was a great opportunity in a lot of ways. But… I didn’t get the transfer until another batch of jobs opened a few months later.

That… was a long few months.

I’d get in the car and start driving. I’d go and have the conversation I’ve been afraid to have for years

… or I’d be paralyzed with fear like I’ve been for the rest of my life.

… or if I’m being honest, I’d most likely grab a bottle of tequila, fall off the wagon, and find out what I actually want to do that way.

About 15 years on, I’m still so happy I got good coursework marks for the route-finding equivalent of a bogosort. Picked a bunch of random routes and pick the fastest. Sure, that guy who set up a neural net to figure it out did well, but mine didn’t take days of training, and still did about as well in the same sort of execution time.

Aah, DevOps as a separate role… Now that’s a dream I can get behind…

Glad someone made this point. My next printer will definitely be a tank printer. It’s basically flipping the business proposal back to “pay for the printer up front” instead of “pay for the printer whenever you buy ink”. My current printer was cheap enough that I basically spend enough on ink to buy a new printer every few years, given degradation of cartridges when they’re left after opening.

That’s 102 stars more than my best… Nicely done :)

The protocol would seem unlikely to satisfy the concept of “necessary”. It’s entirely possible for the protocol to be impossible to implement whilst not complying with GDPR. Might require the development of something more sharded - data pulling in real time, etc.

In the 13 years I’ve had a Reddit account, I made 40 comments, and 4 posts.

In the 15 days I’ve had a Lemmy account, I’ve made 28 comments and 1 post.

Now I wouldn’t want to be one for extrapolating from data of different timescales, but…

I, a real normal human person, would consume the turtle with my regular bone teeth, in the usual fashion.

… but every page becomes blank just before you touch it.

I really want the Vim/VS Code one - as someone who professionally devs in an MS stack, but would choose Vim as a primary text editor otherwise… it speaks to me deeply.

LMS has been on my list of things to check out for a while, though looking at a few other suggestions, mopidy is looking like a strong choice - if I can get it set up both look at Jellyfin (starting a slow migration already…) and accept streams over DLNA, then it should cover a good portion of what I’d want.

Thanks for the heads up! Notification set, interested to see what’s shown…

Ditto with Caddy. Been using it for a couple of years now and it’s made life a lot simpler. Config format isn’t always obvious, but for most of the cases I’ve needed, a standard 3 line snippet gives you a reverse proxy with automatic working HTTPS with valid certificates.

Haha, yeah, I totally have proper backups…

Up until now I’ve been using docker and mostly manually configuring by dumping docker compose files in /opt/whatever and calling it a day. Portainer is running, but I mainly use it for monitoring and occasionally admin tasks. Yesterday though, I spun up machine number 3 and I’m strongly considering setting up something better for provisioning/config. After it’s all set up right, it’s never been a big problem, but there are a couple of bits of initial with that are a bit of a pain (mostly hooking up wireguard, which I use as a tunnel for remote admin and off-site reverse proxying.

Salt is probably the strongest contender for me, though that’s just because I’ve got a bit of experience with it.

The language in the article does seem to forget that plenty of early smartphones had replaceable batteries… Yeah, it might add some bulk, but it’s not exactly going to be a major hardship.

… but it seems like a good reverse step to me. Any consumer replaceable part is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

Two main points personally:

• with self-moderation, you can’t really say “I don’t want to see this sort of content”, you can only say “I don’t want to see this content again”. A well stated set of rules for a community let’s you know what to expect, so you get to make that choice if advance. This is a massive difference in preventing distress and general unpleasant feelings. It’s not absolutely necessary, but it’s a lot nicer.
• it avoids massive duplication of effort. If you have a moderator-to-reader ratio of 1000:1, you’ll be saving the vast majority of self moderation with those people would be doing. Yes, reporting exists, but it’s a tiny fraction of the time one would spend “moderating” for yourself

Fun fact: your known bug count is super low if you don’t test properly.

I’ll get QA to update the test plan