With enamel regrowing constantly after the smallest scratch, cavities cannot get to where they form.

This hokum story is promising no more cavities ever.

People who keep their kids inside but let their pets play in traffic are psychopaths.

I know what I said.

Yep. But owncloud went from old and idle to active again. It seems to be a more LTS take on it where NextCloud is your All Features Faster mandate.

Just show me the one that doesn’t rely on containers, venvs, npm or other supply-chain risks.

Yep, two reasons I’m out.

They don’t realize the colors are arbitrary. Many don’t realize the internet spans the world.

Socialism and democracy are good words in some countries. Socialism is how my sister in law gets to retire at 55 and in excellent health, and democracy is how they got that.

should be a right, absolutely if you’ve done nothing wrong.

The loss of privacy happens before the determination whether that person has done anything wrong. If the person’s criminal case goes well, do you have a time machine to go back and not invade privacy?

I dearly wish to use and support this app.

But here’s the thing: containers - like so many other mechanisms - suffer from supply-chain risks due to reduced validation to the degree assumed and required compared to, say, good packaging that integrates with the resident source of truth on a given system. Containers, like so many other risky mechanisms that dates back to CPAN or earlier, cannot exist in a secure environment.

For those of us working where we can to minimize repair/recovery work through best practice, Immich cannot be run.

I know there’s a homebrew workaround, but given it’s external to the dev effort it’s a risk that it won’t suddenly work as a reliable update resource; and that risk stymies uptake for us.

Now, I know I’ve suggested there’s imperfection in a number of favourite technologies and methods, and that’s fine. If downvotes is how you defend these sacred cows, I understand.

Correct: it’s like trying to equate “correct” with “popular”, and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

But it’s good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.

Anything docker-free?

Some people have test environments that aren’t their prod environment.

Others stick with a distro that has better validation and/or long-term support.

Please don’t blame the kernel devs.

Still crutching on containers?

Yum-cron. Daily. Rolling bounce on a schedule.

It has been rock-solid for 20 years, but lennart’s cancer and the growing amount of shite they’re shoveling into EL has caused a few issues here and there with 7, 9 and 10. (Skipped 8 because f that)

But, today, it works. So that’s year 23 and 8 months.

There’s a huge gulf between pub clowd and shitty on-prem. My daytime contract is with an organization almost completely on-prem for privacy, although on-prem to them means priv-cloud. Space has been rented. Redundant everything piped in. Redundant everything set up. We run VMs by terraform. Wheeeeee

Point is, posing shitty on-prem as the alternative to the clowd is moving the goalposts a bit.

The fact that Cisco has been able to triangulate your phone’s wifi mac position in 2d space for a decade is unrelated. It’s how protesters are being tagged and tracked on the day.

Select all, change to consolas font. And cry.

Slippery slope surveillance.

I worked at a shop where the boss was very curious when people went idle. So, if you were white-boarding a problem with a peer, you’d both get asked later where you were – since your mouse was idle.

It got tiring. it was one of the reasons why I left.

But those people are out there, and they’re hindering the career of people who appear idle because #goodhartsLaw, and sometimes you don’t know they’re doing it.

All hardware people buy smart locks because they know locks are super easy breakable and pickable.

All software people buy keys, since they know software has bugs and you can get in easily.

My bro bought my mom a smart lock. It has a bypass key. Worst of both worlds?

We’re still suffering from the skills lack after we fired our mentors and documentors after Y2K. We’ve been 20 years without proper mentorship already, and now the last of the mentors will leave the market to the lost boys.

That’s neat how that’s been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.

(Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I’m looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)

Based on how often it happens, “curse and find whatever f’n tab is now making the noise” is my favourite game.

Fuck this “web as app” shit.