“unchanged” isn’t “unmaintained”. Wow, that’s a really short-sighted take.

You’re starting to understand the accidental wins in Enterprise software

I don’t prefer proxmox, but I will say that when you have even a machine with 8 or 16gb RAM, virtualizing a workload on it just makes sense. At that point the cost is 12% resources, and the benefits IMHO farrr outweight that.

Problems? ‘old’? I seem to need a little clarification.

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But the lack of verification and validation is a huge risk to flatpaks. As someone formerly involved with securing OSes, this kind of thing was scary back then and doubly scary since it entered its “don’t confirm; just get in, loser” phase.

I honestly prefer Ansible.

I use Ansible all day. For work. Oh, god, is it sad compared to everything else in the space. RedHat had the choice between two in-house products and they chose poorly.

It can do lots of configuration and [set up] and install flatpaks.

We had that 20 years ago, just with a different product. The state of the art is now two generations newer.

I’m gonna be honest I’ve never had a flatpak version of something ever work properly.

As someone once involved with OS Security, I beg you not to use FlatPaks.

Somehow Lennart is behind this further cancer, despite pupating into a Microsoft Employee as expected.

a security specislist.

I like how you highlight one of my pet peeves there.

Docs like this should be living so they can be fixed.

In 2001 we examined the packaging format of debian and found it lacked a validation feature available in RPM. This killed debian and all derivatives as an option by the build group of the unix vendor I worked with – please tell me you understand why validation is a pivotal feature for build. The fact the validation carries hard sigs all the way down made the security group happier too. This hasn’t changed.

So I’m running CentOS now, Rocky later, and PCLinuxOS once they get a good packer template.

The best kanban is the one you already have. It’s like “the best camera is the one you have with you” – Annie Lennox, I think.

For me, that’s gitlab on-prem.

I think anyone who’s been in the field for long enough knows you weren’t really slamming all of it. Beaking off is totally okay.

The best devs Ive worked with are all “barn cats”. They yell, they challenge, they curse, they gesticulate, but they never offend.

(The f’n Workplace Sensitivity thing I just took outlawed so many behaviours that I know would exclude every superhero I know. What’s happened to the industry?)

When you walk, the risk is you’re still confirming and not asking those questions. The duck is awesome.

I have great colleagues who still bust out this kind of cross-examination when we’re trying to figure out why my code is a bag of poo. I have some friends I’ve known 25 years who will do this, and it’s every bit as annoying and infuriating as it’s invaluable help.

I suspect there’s a long tragedy about this, the likes that would give The Odyssey pause.

Watching this YouTube clip, I couldn’t help but remember the other YouTube clip that shows a red panda leaping against a door and trying to reach the doorknob.

I worry you’re artificially limiting yourself, and I hope you have the comfort to overcome this phobia one day.

I’m curious. Microsoft is in a similar position with its open-source-like work. It’s been great for PR but MS has a bad history with Open-Source and with its customers (1999-doj-vs-ms). It’s one of the very few companies so bad they were actually sued by the doj.

If you feel this way about Oracle, what’s your feeling toward Microsoft? Does it colour your use of c# or dot-net knowing that a company with a track record of rug-pulling and secretly thumbing the scale is still in control of the tools you choose to use?

even 1 employee using an Oracle JVM had to pay for every employee in the company

Before that one, they were using a “if one core can run it, all cores must have a license” model.

If you want to see how well that model did, remember

• Oracle moved off its success onto this one
• VMwareCom is now using it
• Microsoft is using it (want to run a single 2022? License every core in your cluster)

It makes the SuSE AND SCO seat-license deal look tame.

I’ve only seen this switch go really well. The odds are good .