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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!

I do have some feature requests -- is GitHub the best place to submit those?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not sure where you're getting your information.

I work there, have worked there for nearly three decades, and I can tell you that it's not the case.

(Also, it's just NCSA for trademark reasons, without 'the' in front)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It did get a lot of funding from the NSF in the early days, but the federal government didn't start pushing for public access to research done through grants and contracts until 2013. Before then it was only work done by federal agencies that was non copyrighted.

The National Science Foundation also didn't start funding Mosaic until 1994, which was after CGI had been released.

NCSA gets a lot of its funding from the private sector with partner programs, the University of Illinois, and the State of Illinois as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Which women? What are their voting records? What experience do they have? Can they work with the other party if they need to? Are they respected by foreign leaders?

If it's this election, are we sure putting them on the ticket will survive certain legal challenges?

Too many questions without enough answers.

Generally speaking though, no, I don't think it would happen. I would totally support it, but I think there are too many misogynists out there. On the other hand, I never thought there would be a Black president either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I found the whole copyright thing at Wikipedia for this image pretty funny.

Even the simplest research shows that NCSA is a state-funded agency (through the University of Illinois system), not federal. If that image is in the public domain, it's not for the reason Wikipedia lists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Here they're pushing the "must be within 60 miles from the office" trope; I bet they'd say to drive in if it's after hours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Growing up we had two large mulberry trees in the yard, and every summer I was sent out daily to pick a bucket full of mulberries. My Mom made mulberry syrup, mulberry jam, mulberry clafouti, put them in fruit salad, and, of course, made mulberry cobbler.

This brings back memories. Thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My worst feeling is "I tried that two years ago but couldn't get enough people interested, so I dropped it..."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was a manager, and another guy was a more senior manager in another division. We both did IT. For some reason he didn't like me and/or was trying to get our services moved to him, so he went to our director every week for over a year to tell him made-up stories about me.

He eventually left after a lot of people realized he was a highly manipulative, but I still hear things that he told people as part of an explanation about why I was passed up "for this" or why I wasn't right "for that." It cost me a lot of raises, especially in cases where things were gossiped to other people and the source was lost. Now I'm only a manager in title, but my management responsibilities were taken away.

Unfortunately, I'm caught in a ticking trap -- another 1.5 years and I retire with a full pension for the rest of my life. Losing that by leaving isn't worth it (assuming I live long enough afterwards).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm a big fan of netdata; it's part of my standard deployment. I put in some custom configs depending on what services are running on what servers. If there's an issue it sends me an email and posts into a slack channel.

Next step is an influxdb backend to keep more history.

I also use monit to restart certain services in certain situations.

 

I guess I'm becoming a dinosaur, and now I don't know where to find out about new FOSS stuff being developed, when new releases are out, etc.

I used to get it all on USENET and mailing lists, and then later on sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net. Now I track some things on https://freshcode.club/, but I don't see much that's 'fresh'. Maybe new updates, but not too many new packages. sourceforge still exists, but it doesn't seem current.

If I know about a project I'll follow it on GitHub, but I'm looking for a place to find out about new things that I didn't know I wanted yet.

tl;dr: Where can I watch to see promising new FOSS software projects?

 

This may be old news to some, but maybe it will help a wayward soul somewhere....

Vivaldi was really slow when starting up, and it would stay slow with multiple cores pegged at 100% on my Linux system. Eventually it would crash and I'd have to start it back up again.

Slow in this case means delays in responses to clicks, scrolls, etc.

Anyhow, I discovered that scanning pages for RSS feeds was enabled. I disabled that and my browser starts up very quickly now.

If you have a lot of tabs and RSS scanning is enabled I believe it tries to load every page and scan the contents, but it was too much for my fairly beefy system.

tl;dr: disable scanning for RSS feeds if you don't use it.

 

I started migrating my servers from Linode to Hetzner Cloud this month, but noticed that my quota only gave me ten instances.

I need many more, probably on the order of 25 right now and probably more later. I'd also like the ability to create test servers, etc.

I asked for an increase with all of that in mind, and Hetzner replied:

"As we try to protect our resources we are raising limits step by step and on the actuall [sic] requirement. Please tell us your currently needed limit."

I don't understand. Does Hetzner not have enough servers to accommodate me? Wouldn't knowing the size of the server be relevant if it's an actual resource question?

I manage a very large OpenStack cluster for my day job and we just give people what they pay for. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this unless Hetzner might not be able to give me what I ultimately want to pay for, and if that's the case, I wonder if they're the right solution for me after all.

It also makes me worry about cloud elasticity.

Does anyone have any insights that can help me understand why keeping a low limit matters?

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