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Prison Mike

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  • Please stop

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  • I should be more clear: specifically I was rebuilding a Docker image based on Debian and needed Node.js for one build step, then Ruby for another as well as the final image.

    In the Dockerfile there were a ton of weird commands for simply installing Node.js and Ruby whereas on Alpine Linux I could simply install the needed versions from apk. I understand it’s preferable to build these from scratch but in the case of Node.js I was looking to simply compile a bunch of assets then throw away the layer.

    I could’ve spent a bunch of time figuring it out for Debian but I wanted a smaller image in the end anyway too.

  • Alcohol is my way to turn myself on and off again

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  • It doesn’t help that most password managers kind of suck, you have to do a lot of manual work as a user sometimes.

    I wish websites would start supporting Webauthn/FIDO2 sometime soon. I’m sick of SMS-based 2FA becoming more popular lately (like 10 years late).

  • Please stop

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  • I had to step away from it because packages are just too old.

  • Alpine Linux on NanoPi R6S

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  • I suppose what I could do is download a supported image (like OpenWRT) then get the image layout details from that in order to build my own image.

    I know I’m going about it the hard way but it’s something I don’t mind learning.

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    Linus Torvalds to Rewrite the Linux Kernel in PHP

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  • I get the optimization issue for sure. Crystal is a language that exists but it just hasn’t gained enough popularity; it’s a compiled language that’s very close to Ruby syntax.

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    Linus Torvalds to Rewrite the Linux Kernel in PHP

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  • I do! I am self-taught but now have a great career going in it. My only complaint is that once you start requiring very specific gems, you’ll find a bunch of unmaintained stuff. Ruby was hyped up a lot in the beginning, kind of declined during the Node.js fad but is becoming a lot more stable and continues to show a ton of progress.

    These days if you want to get your foot in the door you can find work upgrading Rails versions as a lot of companies seemed to have released apps a long time ago then lost track of time.

    Realizing most of this sounds pretty negative but it’s a beautiful language that I love working in every day. The language is so flexible/usable that outsiders complain that it can encourage bad habits simply by being so maleable — my recommendation is to really know the difference between plain Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

  • Alpine Linux on NanoPi R6S

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  • I’m familiar with writing images, but I’d be crafting it myself since there’s no official one from Alpine Linux for the specific SoC.

  • Alpine Linux on NanoPi R6S

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  • I’m simply interested in running Alpine Linux on it.

  • Alpine Linux on NanoPi R6S

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  • It’s exactly that, I’m simply interested in running Alpine Linux on it.

  • Can't use Crunchyroll via WireGuard

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  • Mounting S3 as a filesystem in your VPS for unlimited cheap storage

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  • What do you do if your hardware is housed at home with crappy residential upload speeds?

    It’s a genuine question because I’ve settled for hosting on Storj, but because my friends and family can’t be bothered to connect via its client I’m running a WebDAV rclone proxy on a VPS over Tailscale. So not only am I paying for the storage itself, I’m also paying for transferring the data and on top of all that, it defeats the point of Storj being P2P from and end-user perspective.

  • Truly.

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  • God this is a fantastic way to explain climate change

  • Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

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  • Shit, I’m a web developer and I’m fed up with all the ads, tracking and stalking that goes on. It’s so ingrained like “why not use Google for analytics?” or “just host it on Amazon.” 90% of the services we use at work I refuse to use at home (and go as far as outright blocking them).

  • Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan

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  • I just built a DIY router on Alpine Linux. I don’t want to deal with an entire web UI and all that trash. I just want minimal Linux and some ip6tables.

  • Stop use docker

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  • What gets me is people migrating from VMs treating it like an entire host machine.

    There is a lack of knowledge among developers regarding precompiling assets and classes (if interpreted), and people are trying to do too much in startup scripts.

    Another thing I hate is wrapping the entire process in a script because people want to kill the main process without restarting the container. Yikes!

  • Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan

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  • I can’t fault you for that. I’m not trying argue they’re perfect devices by any means.

  • Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch

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  • I use Beeper because I can’t stand all these fucking apps. Preferably everyone would switch to Signal but that won’t happen.

  • Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan

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  • I really love what Ubiquiti is trying to do, but I understand where you’re coming from. I ditched the EdgeRouter X because I just couldn’t do anything really advanced with it.

  • Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan

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  • I don’t have a Dream Machine nor a 192.168.0.0/16 network but my access point receives an IP via DHCP from a non-Ubiquiti router just fine. In fact, the controller running in Docker doesn’t even come up itself after a power failure so I’m really lost on what you’re talking about here.

  • What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago

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  • I use (paid) Apple News, and I really enjoy it. Are there no other “pay once” platforms out there?

    My only complaint is that some articles still show ads despite being subscribed, but that’s taken care of with DNS-based ad blocking (though you have to also block a a hostname pointing to an Apple DoH server which I find funny).