It’s nice to see open-source things copying what dot-coms do when they’re bored.

Wait. No it’s not. It’s actually worrying.

I worked for a company named essentially “The Portland Office”, and it had that name for 30 years; because, honestly, who cares about a name? The product should stand out.

why I am so puzzled that it also does full rescans

Because they’re not so foolish as to believe that inotify is infallible and complete.

Seems to be container-dependent. I did too much security for that. Thanks, though.

pipeline schedules

Ah. Cron but from inside the garden. Okay.

No need to talk about containers. Having worked security (and build/rel) they present no net value.

I can clone external repos on a schedule

Some cron deal?

Woodpecker CI.

Fucking YAML. Nope.

Thought this was abandoned?

We can’t answer this question as written. Only you can confirm what you were thinking.

GitLab which I don’t use anymore self-hosted

This. Gitlab swapped out the performant webeditor for a VCS clone that runs like a fucking dog all.the.time, and they’re in a phase where they just can’t control their memory consumption while they focus on whole-sale vendoring of shit projects inside the code – they’re actually considering bringing in pulp as if they can figure out 20 kind of artifact storage but RPMs are a special snowflake requiring the worst bloated pig of an add-on ever.

I need gitlab to get better as I really like their CI specification and how not-fucking-YAML it is.

What is a bash script?

At this point in time, I need to stop you.

There’s a massively-increased risk of you being misled by someone else’s agenda without knowing it’s not the simplest and most effective solution to your problem because there’s a lot of technical stuff you may not know and can’t pick from available options based on their nuances. So:

1. find a real person you trust who knows this
2. ask them

Whatever they tell you, they’ll be able to support. Ensure you’re the one typing so you learn things, and ask every question you think of all the time.

Stop asking random strangers which solution is best, because you’re going to get a lot of short-sighted clique answers that DO NOT HELP YOU.

I’m going to mention Ansible

Oh for the love of god, don’t. Ansible is 2002 technology used in 2024. It’s so clunky and janky that I’m relieved I can get chatgpt to boilerplate my stuff and save me time actually staring at fucking YAML all day. Use Anything Else before your brain rots.

source: it’s like half my day job now and I should’ve charged more.

replicable.

As someone who spent time in OS Build/Relmgmt before security, I have a pressing desire to play the “how do you know” game, here.

The only thing is that I would want the way I’ve configured Gnome, Joplin, Thunderbird, Gnome Calendar (only for the widget), my Gnome extensions, what program is automatically opened on what workspace, etc to be saved so that it could be reproduced on another computer easily.

These sound like user settings that don’t even exist outside ~/ . Rsync is your friend. So is git, gluster, syncthing, resilio, and a good bunch of others depending on how often you want synch to occur and how much time you have to spend.

you need to fix the UUID

Don’t use UUIDs. They serve a very specific purpose, which you’re now trying to defeat (for all the right reasons).

Fix your mounts and then carry on.

I keep hoping someone will come up with a half-measure that looks like ipv4 with an extra octet and writable in hex.

• Let people stew a bit on their 00c0a8011f IP which is like a 192.168.1.31 IP.
• increment the big number. Oh shit, we’ve got lots.
• repeat
• start adding the cool parts of ipv6
• moar
• add a 00 to the end that old shit just skips
• somewhere in there, switch the engine

We can either take yeeeears to do it well, or we can take more decades to try and big-bang it. This ain’t 1983.

Removed by mod

But … It’s an increase, right?

Are we okay with incremental improvements, or will only big bang headline news story type improvements be okay?

Thank you for the archive link.

I see Bloomberg is joiningwords outof theblue, showing it’s just a follower there; and that’s sad.

I also think it’s sad - of course - how long this thing has been going on. Had we funded and equipped them properly, the belligerent invasion of Ukraine would have been over in three days but not in Russia’s favour.

I hope VP Harris - if she ascends the presidency - will change the theme of Ukraine’s defence with vastly more funding. As a champion of rights and laws, she could stay true to form and really help Ukraine and Russia get to the Reparation phase of this before Russia has nothing left to sell …

… except land.

rightaway

Not a word. Spell-check should have told you.

Twice.

If it’s only GNU Linux - and not regular Linux - then we know it’s not the Linux where the issue occurs. ;-)

(Just analyzing what’s said. It’s probably all linuxes if it’s not a glibc issue)

It won’t effect the core.

You sure that’s the right effect/affect? Left behind?