dmwilcox

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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Love it. Except the whole driverless cars fantasy dream though which I would doubt they would help in any fashion. Unfortunately if we care about our ecosystems, communities divided by roads, and the constant noise and air pollution I think
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I had to keep reminding myself this was written in the 1930s (because of already mentioned confusion around the word "liberal" in the US). But it's a sort of sweet story tracing the liberal ideals of Jefferson and company thr
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Long live the philosopher king?? I mean only somewhat in jest this is precisely the debate going on since Plato's not so subtle critiques of Pericles' Athens circa 400 BC
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Love Tails, but I haven't used it in ten years. I have had Tails and Qubes disposable VMs on my mind though. I switched off of Qubes last year to my own Alpine chroot with a hand crafted kernel and initrd that lives only in memory. I f
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by dmwilcox 6y ago
Agree with the sentiment but, one CSS preprocessor (!!) Lol I must be getting old, CSS3 is amazing why do you even need one? That's a totally optional component that now needs to be updated, used in your build pipeline and Lord help
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by dmwilcox 6y ago
Enterprise version has all of those things ;) For my personal use I don't need them and for a business Enterprise won't break the bank. You'd be surprised how much your management might be interested in having an escalation
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by dmwilcox 6y ago
Interesting, I went the other direction recently, from systemd to Nomad. I was motivated by a move away from config management in favor of commands wrapping Nomad API calls. For a "devs on-call" model this was preferable to being
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by dmwilcox 6y ago
Not associated with CloudFlare but I've built similar stuff with Nomad. The cost/maintenance trade-off works when you have more SPOF management hosts than Nomad servers (5). You decrease host images down to 2, Nomad server and cl
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by dmwilcox 6y ago
Having worked in several declarative config systems at a big tech company that tried to provide these guard rails. They errode!! And it makes sense. As we demand more flexibility to not repeat ourselves (DRY) we get clever and add little
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by dmwilcox 6y ago
The Internet offers free fuzzing to open ports j/k that actually looks useful ;)