Tablaste

joined 2 years ago
 

My area has been plagued with forest fires over the past few months. I was looking at tools to contribute air quality reading.

One service I found was called Purple. But here's the kicker - You contribute data for free. But they CHARGE you for API calls.

After all this setup, I was furious that some company was going to profit. I immediately returned their kit and got a open source one that contributed to OpenAQ.

 
 

The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China

 

...due to seemingly installing adware on PCs and telling you to warn guests they may be recorded by AI features, to comply with 'wiretapping' laws

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 5 months ago

The average person isn't using it.

Who does?

Journalists.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 7 points 5 months ago

That's the level of incompetency that needs to be booted

 

I saw this post on r/Linux and wanted to share it here

 

Not to be confused with the University of Oregon, OSU set up its Open Source Lab in 2003. Since then, it's done a great deal to help multiple FOSS projects. As Linux.com reported in 2006, it gave critical help to Gentoo and Drupal, along with providing one of the first hosting sites for the fledgling Mozilla Foundation.

As the Drupal team reported, the OSU OSL was serving 10 TB of data per month for them – in 2012. Seven years later, LWN reported on a talk by Albertson at SCALE 17x, saying that "role of the lab is to be a neutral hosting facility and to foster relationships between FOSS projects and companies."

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago

My goal last year was to rank in the top 100 of my country.

I'm proud to say I'm nowhere near it. There's others who have taken the challenge, and I'm all for it!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 4 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of the PowerPoint my company had.

It was this graph showing how many tech people they have since 1960, and the numbers kept multiplying.

How they rated tech people was someone who works behind the computer. So yeah, as we gain more employees, we tend to put them behind computers to do work?

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 21 points 2 years ago

Lots of comments here saying it feels like work. And yet all the simulator games exist? People literally build rigs on their living room to play Truck Simulator games.

I don't work with rest apis enough and looks great. My only concern is that like everything I do, I end up building a UI and automation. Which might be the point!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"excessive promotion", right.

You're doing great work.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I went back to school in my early 30s.

I have a coworker who went back in his 40s and is changing careers (from tech lead to management). And another who is nearing 50s who just wanted that piece of paper. (IT guy who wanted a fine arts degree)

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago

Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.

Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.

I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It's beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.

Since I can't pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're not wrong! Devops made me lazy

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

I published it to the internet and the next day, I couldn't ssh into the server anymore with my user account and something was off.

Tried root + password, also failed.

Immediately facepalmed because the password was the generic 8 characters and there was no fail2ban to stop guessing.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, I did the same thing recently! Set it up on my own server, and after a week, I'm starting to see new accounts being added to my explore feed. But there's no user count.

It's an annoying experience and I'm not fully sure how to resolve it yet, nor have I dung into it.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 5 points 2 years ago

Probably overkill and I agree with you.

K8 is for scale. Like managing a whole fleet of servers. Even with my devops team, it's quite a lift to suggest it to someone who is getting their feet wet.

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