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Linux

• Our slow turnover of servers and server generations :: Wandering Thoughts

  We have long had a habit of upgrading machines between Ubuntu versions either every two years (for most machines that users log in to or directly use) or every four years (although the past two...

• How I wish I could organize my thoughts :: Drew DeVault's Blog

  I keep a pen & notebook on my desk, which I make liberal use of to jot down my thoughts. It works pretty well: ad-hoc todo lists, notes on problems I’m working on, tables, flowcharts, etc. It has...

• "Zero trust" is being hijacked by the big corporate hype machine :: unixsheikh.com

  The term zero trust is a security model, also known as "perimeterless security" that has been known for a long time and that was e.g. implemented internally at Google in 2009. In recent years,...

• dgplug mailing list has a new home :: Kushal Das' Blog

  We were using the mailman2 instance provided by Dreamhost for many years as the mailing list for dgplug. But, over the years many participants had trouble with receiving emails. In the last few...

• How to look up a Nix package's Nix store path from flake inputs :: Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill)

  Image generated by MidJourney -- The fall of the Archons, colored pencil drawing, fireball spell, bright sky, digital art, lake of fire Sometimes God is dead and you need to figure out what the...

Homelab

• VyOS and Mikrotik – VLAN-a-rama :: blog.kroy.io

  For the novice networker, VLANs are easily one of the most misunderstood concepts. In this post, I’ll go over some basics and demonstrate how to make the jump from separate interfaces and switches...

• VLANs with Linux, NFTables and Ubiquiti Unifi :: OXcrag.net

  While setting up my new Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi access points, I spent more time than I’d like to admit troubleshooting my new guest network before I got it to work, so that topic is the basis for...

• Quick Project: Splitting Docker Compose Projects :: Blogging to Nowhere

  Way back in the when I first started using Docker in earnest, I wrote about my web hosting stack. Recently, this has undergone an upgrade as I’m working on a new website which will be served from...

• Parsoid 0.9.0 update brings 406 Not Acceptable docserver error in VisualEditor REL_30 on Mediawiki 1.30 :: Defend the planet

  Some of my mediawiki instances broke when editing a page with VisualEditor on REL_30 today bringing HTTP 416 Errors related to Parsoid. Strangely this error only occured when editing existing...

• Coming soon :: JankScale Datasystems

  This is a brand new site that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new...

• Using a dynamic libvirt inventory with Ansible :: Just another Linux geek

  The Ansible community libvirt collection provides a method to interact with QEMU and LXC (if that interests you, please come and join us!). Along with support for libvirt tasks such as managing...

• Home and Personal Infrastructure Overhaul: Part 7 - Using Drone with Terraform :: YetiOps

  This post is the next in the series on how I overhauled my personal infrastructure to make it easier to manage, make changes and integrate new applications. Previous posts in the series are: -...

• Some ideas I picked from the electromagnetic fields :: Adventurist Blog

  I made it to and from the Electromagnetic Field . It was quite an experience to return to a hacker large event after so many years. A real review of the event will appear in the FreeBSD Journal...

OpenBSD

• How to get NixOS hosted at OpenBSD Amsterdam :: Solène Rapenne

  # Introduction In this guide, I'll explain how to create a NixOS VM in the hosting company OpenBSD Amsterdam which only provides OpenBSD VMs hosted on OpenBSD. I'd like to thank the team at...

• Making it ping: PMTUD, IXPs, or why that website just won’t load… (Part 6) :: Doing stupid things (with packets and OpenBSD)

  OpenBSD version: 7.1 Arch: Any NSFP: Uhm... Something something MTU The Internet is a network of networks. Networks tend to be connected over links. Packets flow over these links. And very much...

Other IT related topics

• How to prepare an AWS EC2 image for PyTorch :: Data, tech, and sometimes Nutella

  I’ve been getting started in open-source development with PyTorch, starting with running and testing the examples for Pytorch in distributed mode. Big thanks to Mark for reviewing and merging my...

• Putting Software in the Public Domain :: /dev/lawyer

  Perhaps once or twice a year, someone asks me about “putting software into the public domain”. This is a thing some programmers want to do. But an increasing number of them have read into, or...

• How's it going? Social interaction levels :: Technoglot

  You walk along the street and you see someone you know to a certain extent. Enough to recognize their face and name and, perhaps, a couple of things about them. You say "how's it going?" but...

• Things I learned from my parents :: The Webb Blog

  When you're a kid, the people you look up to tend to be your own parent(s)/ legal guardian(s). The older you get, the more you realize your parents and other adults are very much floundering,...

• Twitter Spaces, a few weeks in :: Bryan Cantrill and other blogs at DTrace.org

  As a kid, I listened to a lot of talk radio. This was in the 80s, before the internet — and before the AM dial became fringe. I have fond memories of falling asleep to the likes of Bruce Williams...

• Why aren't there more effective altruisms? :: Monomythical Newsletter

  In my last post, I wrote that "effective altruism, despite its popularity, cannot singlehandedly meet the civil purpose of philanthropy.” I thought I was being coy, but a bunch of people have...

• Idea machines :: Nadia Eghbal's Blog

  Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished?...

Politics

• Has Technological Progress Stalled? :: Scholar's Stage

  Or Comments on the Thiel Thesis, Part I Last week Mary Harrington published a long interview with Peter Thiel in the online magazine Unherd. Much of her article centers on Thiel’s conviction that...

Uncategorized new blogs

• why had I not heard of horse bread? :: maya.land

  …n which English society relied. Horse bread, typically a flat, brown bread baked alongside human bread, fueled England’s equine transport system from the Middle Ages up until the early 1800s. It...