moonpiedumplings @ moonpiedumplings @programming.dev

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Have you seen xcp-ng and xen orchestra?

Was watching a twitch streamer learning linux, and chat convinced them to open vim for the first time. Not a single person gave the real answer of how to exit, all joke answers like "Power off," and it was hilarious.

No I swear, I was gonna do more than that.

Maybe like, a static site as well. And a backup server. Y'know, things you need openstack for.

*looks away guiltily*

https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/projects/build-server-2/

You know what can also test destructive changes?

Cockpit's networkmanager interface.

It literally has no benefits, and is only a pain to use.

Actually, it does have one benefit: it integrates with Canonical's other tech. For example, MAAS uses ot for networking, and I bet lxc uses it somehow.

(There is a learning curve to packaging stuff yourself.)

"Learning curve" is an understatement. Nix is one of the most poorly documented projects I've seen, next to openstack. Coming into it with no background in functional programming didn't help.

Maybe I shouldn't have tried to package openstack on nix.

But I've tried to package other stuff, like quarto, and that was a nightmare. Nixpkgs didn't have an updated pandoc and I spent an eternity asking around for help, to try to package it. An updated version just got pushed to unstable a few days ago. The same matrix channels I joined to ask for help have been discussing this since then. Props on them for getting it working, but anyone who says that you can easily package anything, is capping. You need to have an understanding of the nix language, nix packaging (both of which are poorly documented), and a rudimentary packaging ecosystem of what you are trying to package.

Don't even get me started on flakes vs nonflakes.

I still use nix-shell for all my development environments, because it's the best way for reproducible environments I can share I've found.

Nothing in the cloud.

We have a proxmox cluster, which is where this would probably go, but I would prefer a non-integrated solution, rather a single thing I can either put within a proxmox vm (nested virtualization) or on an on premise piece of physical hardware.

You may be interested in nix's home manager. It allows you to manage all of your home directory configs (dotfiles), as nix code. It has built in rollbacks, and can be git tracked.

You can then find other people's home manager configs on github.

If you use pacman you are using Arch repositories.

Incorrect. There is manjaro, but there also is msys2, a windows program with the goal of making linux tools available on windows by recompiling all of them. That's very far from the arch philosophy and repos.

And ubuntu and debian have massively different repositories. One of them gives you the actual firefox package, and the other installs firefox via a closed source backend, app store called snap, when you attempt to install firefox using apt.

And then there is also the version differences, like debian stable is going to have much older software than ubuntu.

I heard obfsproxy

Yeah, tor obs4 bridges.

But somehow, my high school managed to block those. My high school was literally more locked down than the great firewall of China.

I set up: https://github.com/cognetwork-dev/Metallic

At first, then I eventually switched to https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core as metallic struggled on some things. Both v2ray and xray are built for the great firewall of China, and iirc, they use the same tech.

It's not too fast though. That privacy comes at a price. This may be the slowest proxy/vpn out there (although it's speedy enough for normal web browsing), whereas wireguard is the fastest. Maybe you want something in between? It depends on your threat model.

Yes.

Ubuntu and debian both use apt, but differing repos. Different versions of ubuntu/debian use different repos, with newer/older software.

My problem with this is, what stops people from simply violating the license anyways? Is futo going to go after every license violator? Do they even have the power to do so?

I've seen people make adware versions of closed source apps as well, so even not having the code public and online doesn't stop people.

Sometimes whatever you are working with will have outdated or really poor docs, so an advanced internet info aggregator is useful in that sense.

I started learning nix before chatgpt and it was a nightmare. I had to continually ask for help on discord, of all places, for things that should really be in the docs.

Chatgpt makes nix easier, except not really because it's info is outdated a lot of the time.

For example would you visit a website if it was hosted on Windows server? If they use ESXi? Or if user account are managed with Active Directory or firebase?

No, and I visit cloudfare websites too.

But I still agree with everything OP says. Like the warnings in the F-Droid android app store informing users that an app promotes non-free services, but it doesn't stop me, or anyone else, from installing them. I simply think people should be informed that services are less free than they can be, and made aware of the many risks that come with non-free services. It's an idealist stance, a goal to push our reality towards, rather than a way of life for most (those who treat it like a way of life are very, very rare).

But this is a false analogy anyways. Windows servers aren't banning users behind tor, or cgnat for no apparent reason like cloudfare is. I think we should discourage the use of nonfree services, but it's not a yes/no binary. Certain things are more free than others, and we should encourage people to choose the freer option. Cloudfare tunneling a linux service is more free than hosting your website using vendor locked cloud tech (AWS s3, lambda, dns, etc). Hosting your won website on an windows server is still not free, but arguably more free than vendor locked cloud stuff. Linux deployments using only FOSS is arguably the most free software you can get, but you still have to deal with nonfree hardware and drivers.

I still use GitHub. But I hate that it has no ipv6 connectivity, meaning that those who don't have ipv4 are excluded, and it's absolutely unacceptable for a tech company of all things, to not keep up to date. The moment federation gets added to forgejo or another one of the self hostable git forges, I will switch (but probably mirror stuff for recruiter purposes), since that's more inclusive than github, but right now, they are not more inclusive than github because instances are small and do not interoperate.

The screen uses the most power out of any other piece if thr system, for daily use (on laptops which supported driversets for the OS)

Just turn the brightness down, and that will save you more battery life than tinkering with anything, unless you know a specific piece of the system (nvidia gpu) is killing your battery life.

You can just run it from your local computer. I did that because I wanted it to be available offline.

Zram (compression), uksmd (deduplication) and swap.

For a different project, but in my blog I document how to set those up: https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/projects/setting-up-kasm/

Somewhat related, there is a site I follow called royalroad. Royalroad is a site for web serials, which are basically books uploaded to the internet chapter by chapter.

Although royalroad used to be only google ads, at some point they started accepting user submitted ads. (Also, ads on that site have always been unobtrusive).

I like these ads much better because they are more privacy respecting (literally an a image and a link).

Also, they are really funny. User's with no art skills will make memes, or doodle stick figures, and I clicked on that one anyways, and the story was soooo good.

If you have multiple firefox profiles, then you have to create an sync account for each one if you want to sync. Not a good idea if you have 5 profiles, some of them using a main email (like a corp or school) that won't be around forever.

Being able to sync multiple profiles with only one account is convenient for me.

You want webtop: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop

But just like with kasm, not all software will work, although I think most will.

About kasm:

Not really. I don't thing the default kasm images come with sudo or a root password, so you cant "sudo apt" or the like.

If you do create a software image with sudo, them yes, but only for a single session, if you keep it long running. Every time you destroy the session completely it will be reset.

Although, If you need software in your images, it's better to just build your own docker images for use with kasm, that have everything you want.

Also relevant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Internet_sharing

Important to note from that article: docker (the "docker" one, but not podman) edits iptables rules so you have to run different iptables commands if you want it to work right.