I want to say that I saw a post at some point about one of the popular instances (was it beehaw or lemmy.world?) not requiring users to answer a challenge question during signup. Does it seem like email verification is sufficient to mitigate bots or does a challenge question help too, do you think? Sopuli required both. Unverified users can apparently post?
the classic dilemma of drawing the line between free speech and anarchy. I’m not a fan of people being so toxic that something turns into a clique or some ‘holier than thou’ mentality, but moderating people to the degree of banning them for saying something you personally disagree with is also an issue. Regardless, this overall post is a plea, and a fraction of the community here will probably see it. Ultimately it’s up to all of us to decide for ourselves whether the moderation of any community is what it should be (subjectively), and to commit to ditching it if it isn’t.
And also, everyone needs to remember that mods are human volunteers and not employees. They have no power over you except that they can convince you to go to a different community to say what you want to say. If we all remember this, then the powermod issue goes away (or is minimized). Make peace with change.
Cool! Thank you. I appreciate the detail with which you write. I’m going to give this a shot, I think!
Thank you for your extremely thoughtful response. One thing I need to research for myself is how user data, configuration, etc. is handled with a rollback. In MicroOS, the system itself is snapshotted by default (/etc for example) but user data (/home) is not. I would assume that a rollback would not touch the user data, so an upgrade could break that (e.g. database migration performed by a package update).
If you’re always able to roll back, is taking the time to build and run a VM really worth it except for very critical maintenance windows? Does the VM just copy the nix config or the data too? Today, I use Vagrant for testing my Salt states. It does what I need.
I don’t come from functional programming, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out. Would have been nice for it not to have its own language, but I suppose that’s most efficient instead of repurposing / abusing another language in a weird way.
Ah, good to know, thank you. I hadn’t really considered that if the whole environment is scripted out like it is, then I wouldn’t get as much benefit out of them as I do otherwise. Good tip!
Sweet, thats’s a big deal for me as well. Nobody else wants to learn any kind of orchestration or anything, so I’ve been trying to get Salt to manage the containers I have, and it’s a bit of a pain. Having them configured the same way as the server would prevent some headache, I think!
Thank you! I’m lucky in that nearly all my servers have to run on-prem, so that’s not so much of a concern. I’m sure I could convince the powers that be to allow me to use a different cloud provider for the couple special cases if we couldn’t continue with what we use (Linode/Akamai).
openSUSE is more my thing, but ElementaryOS might be a nice one. I believe it’s a Debian fork. When I started, I used Ubuntu MATE and found it fairly intuitive, but it depends on for friend. Ironically, I’ve had more issues with Fedora breaking itself than Arch or Tumbleweed, so I don’t recommend or use it myself. That said, it’s pretty popular anyway, so I’m probably just special
Just a stupid American, DevOps / SRE guy with not much of a life and doesn’t even know what black metal is (so please give suggestions of what to try). But I’ll comment here anyway because you all seem nice. Some bands I listen to - Thousand Foot Krutch, Theory of a Deadman, Ra, Pillar, Cemetery Sun.
Absolutely could use some improvement. A good excuse, on my part, to maybe learn some app development!
Just noticed Zig with the 2023 StackOverflow survey. Stood out as a language people seemed to be happy with, and paid a lot. I tried elixir for a day and, like you, it wasn’t my thing. For what it’s worth (less than the cost of the electricity used in the process of posting my comment), I say maybe try Zig