I did this and the fun thing about it is that your runner can access things inside your network that a regular GitLab runner can’t. I’ve used it to manage a k8s cluster that isn’t exposed to the Internet at all.

I don’t think it necessarily needs to be either or. Organizing the playbooks and folders myself can be stressful so an extra layer of organization might work best for you. There are other tools like Semaphore that are specifically built for Ansible executions though. Might need a lot of duct tape for Jenkins to run Ansible.

And if you’re not a fan of yaml you can always nope out and embed shell scripts into your Playbooks. You can even put Docker compose yaml inside a playbook but it’s a bit inception-y and I don’t really recommend that.

I don’t think saying anything is necessary but if you don’t have the conviction to back up your words with action then you’re better off keeping your mouth shut. I would think a betrayal to be worse than to get the impression the support was never there in the first place.

Very good point about illegal activity. I don’t know much about that world thankfully but I guess one of the biggest issues (to completing a transaction) is connecting the buyers to the sellers.

Not to hijack but my dad is a pretty staunch Trump supporter and I still love him dearly. I blame the pundits, the propagandists, and Trump more than I blame him. I’ll never forgive them for planting the thought in my brain that the world might be a little bit better without my father in it. There are definitely evil people in the MAGA ranks but a staggering number are just easily duped.

Does anything in the Fediverse have e2e encryption? Shouldn’t be hard to implement chat and a basic self advertisement, but I think even most people wouldn’t dip in their toes if any server admin could easily read convos. Of course chat could always happen over text or whatever but you still need to securely exchange details.

I consider it an “open source idea” but I did post something similar: https://lemmy.world/post/23359286

Ansible is nice but I’ll repeat (as I said in another thread) it’s kind of advanced and gives a much better return on investment if you manage several hosts, plan to switch hosts regularly, or plan to do regular rebuilds of the environment.

Programming is generally not needed when self-hosting. At best you might learn Ansible, Puppet, Salt, or Terraform, but that’s for advanced scenarios (e.g. easily shifting the workloads between machines or into the cloud).

Learning the ins-and-outs of containers will get you the biggest return on investment. They’re not strictly necessary but most tools will expect that is the common use-case and the community won’t be as much help. Until you know more about containers I would also recommend Docker over Podman. It has a few more “conveniences” than Podman and orgs like LinuxServer will target Docker as the engine.

Thanks for this. Maybe I didn’t have it configured right before but after installing this engine I finally got TTS to work.

Infinite? Nah. I’m sure I’d use the money for good but even well-intended I do think there is such a thing as too much intervention.

I don’t think I encrypt my drives and the main reason is it’s usually not a one-click process. I’m also not sure of the benefits from a personal perspective. If the government gets my drives I assume they’ll crack it in no time. If a hacker gets into my PC or a virus I’m assuming it will run while the drive is in an unencrypted state anyway. So I’m assuming it really only protects me from an unsophisticated attacker stealing my drive or machine.

Please educate me if I got this wrong.

Edit: Thanks for the counter points. I’ll look into activating encryption on my machines if they don’t already have it.

Debian with XFCE works well on my old netbook (~15 yr old).

From other replies it sounds like this isn’t guaranteed. I tried logging into pixelfed using my Mastodon info and it didn’t work (stopped me as soon as I gave the instance).

Played computer games for a few hours in a non-ergonomic position and instead of taking breaks or resetting my position I just powered through. So off and on for the last 6 years I’ve had chronic pain in my elbows.

I love coding in JavaScript but most other aspects are atrocious. ESM and CommonJS basically splinter the entire ecosystem, node_modules and dependency resolution is a mess, the heavy use of Promises make control flow difficult to follow, and the use of native code is complicated so vendors are less inclined to support JS drivers (i.e. they’d basically hand over the source code).

I assume this is a mix of AI stuff being a more common Oracle for this stuff and StackOverflow clinging to old answers and questions as being forever relevant.

Nah, that’s where the puppets live. The puppet masters are all over the place.

As long as you use bash in your shebang you won’t know the difference. Fish even has conventions for applying environment variables to be available in both shells. I’ve used Fish for a couple years and my biggest gripe (which is still minor) is that command snippets off the Internet don’t always work. In those cases I either switch to bash temporarily or fix the command to work in Fish.

Most smaller brands don’t have the excess funds to lobby, etc.