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housepanther

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I am an anarcho-communist and a lover of all things free and open source. I also love cats of all kinds. You can also find me on Mastodon at @housepanther

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If it does, then Ron DeSantis will have a lot of explaining to do to his sycophants when he reaches out for federal aid. I hope if that happens, his aid is held up until he reverses his fascist course.

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That’s what I was driving at. Worded poorly by me.

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Have you thought about building your own? You build a server out of a case like this IN WIN. What OS do you plan to use? Do you need Windows share ability? Are you willing to go with larger SSDs instead of spinning disks? If you give me some more details, I might be able to help you. I am not a fan of Dell.

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Oh I support Trump alright: For Prison! 😏

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That just read like a whole bunch of corporate whining. Looks like I won’t be using anything HashiCorp related. Don’t press on my back and tell me it’s raining. This BSL license is not free open source. Fuck off with that shit.

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Glad to hear it!

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I am not a fan of the way they do their setup procedure. I have no way of validating their install script other than to download it and go line by line to make certain it’s not malware. I think I’ll skip it. Hard pass but thanks.

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I am truly no fan of containerization. I only will containerize an app once I understand what it is doing fully. Otherwise, I think containerization is merely an abstraction layer for someone who wants to get up and running quickly which is I think is not advisable. That’s my 0.02 anyways.

But we used it at my last job!

They hired a new hotshot engineering manager (the kind that makes physical things). He hates the engineering software we run. I don’t blame him, it’s crap software. He constantly complains about how slow it its. He’s right again. Crap Software Vendor says it’s my platform that makes their software slow and buggy. I’m...

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Glad the big boss sided with OP though!

Moving external DNS server to VPS

I plan to move an external DNS server to a hosted VPS in the near future. I would appreciate advice on VPS specs for this purpose, or an other helpful feedback from others who have done this before. I’ve used a lot of low end boxes to host web services, and would like to do that with this project as well but don’t want to...

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Is this being hosted in a VM that would be on-premises or cloud hosted? Is this going to be Windows-based or Linux/BSD based? It generally does not take a whole lot of computational horsepower to handle a lot of DNS requests. If you’re doing to handle DNS using Linux and don’t need dynamic update capability, you would be just fine using something like Unbound or NSD. I’d recommend maybe 2G of RAM and minimum 2 cores allocated. Now Windows will be much different. You’ll need more horsepower than that.

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Okay, then I think you will be good with around 2GB and 2 cores. I cannot speak highly enough for using Unbound or NSD. As of about two or three years ago, an authoritative DNS capability was added to Unbound and I cannot speak highly enough of it. I’ve used Unbound in production reliably for that long. After moving my domains to Cloudflare though, I found DNS resolution to be speedier simply because the DNS servers sit on an isolated segment instead of mixing traffic so I went that way. But I would go back to using Unbound in a heartbeat if Cloudflare decided to do something stupid. Which is always a distinct possibility because, well, it’s Cloudflare.

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do ( thewhyaxis.substack.com )

Civil asset forfeiture laws allow police to seize cash and property from people suspected of a crime without charging or convicting them of anything. The onus is then on the property owner to prove their innocence in court to get their assets back. While intended to target large criminal organizations, in practice forfeiture is...

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Ironic isn’t it!?

Revoking the SSH Keys of a Friend Sucks

I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have...

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I’d like to apply because I am always looking for someone passionate about open source, Linux, and BSD - also networks galore. I currently run my own Mastodon and Lemmy instances. Please look me up on Mastodon at HousePanther. I am sorry your friend turned out to be an asshole and did you dirty. That’s not cool at all! There are good people out there.

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I’m really and truly all for not normalizing the grind and grind culture as I hate it. But right now, I’ve got to do it. I’ve got to put in time outside of work on this free online class on web development called The Odin Project because the thought of 20 more years in desktop support sickens me. So if I must grind out a year to improve my life, so sadly be it. I’m going to take a cat nap, recharge, and hit the books.

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I’ll take all the luck anyone is willing to offer me. Thank you!

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The freedom to criticize our leadership is cherished. This professor should never have been suspended for legitimate and legally protected behavior. I hope she seeks legal remediation for this.

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This is a neoliberal answer, which is to say a non-answer, to a serious problem. Rent increases still outpace salary increases so it still puts the renter one or two paychecks away from homelessness. The problem will not get solved this way.

Career advice: should I give this interviewer a second chance?

Yesterday I had an interview for a certain position. Last Monday it had been scheduled for one location but on Friday it got moved to another. At the last minute yesterday, apparently it had gotten switched to the original interview location, and I was not notified until I got to that second location and waited a few minutes. I...

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The apology, which seems genuine, speaks well for the company. I would advise you to reschedule the interview. You might find it an affable place.

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