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digdilem

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  • SUSE plan on forking RHEL and make a RHEL compatible distro available for everyone

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  • More choice is good.

    Suse are a decent company (despite some history under different owners) with some excellent engineers who already support foss projects like Uyuni. I don't know much about their new CEO but this might be a pivotal point in their history.

    Redhat are proving themselves unpredictable, and that's about the worst thing any company wants to work with. No good having a stable product if the organisation itself is erratic and makes bad decisions.

  • SUSE plan on forking RHEL and make a RHEL compatible distro available for everyone

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  • We've got over two hundred Rocky/Centos vms. all of them 'pets' that would require manual migration of lots of very different services, many of them bespoke. That's quite a lot of work.

  • SUSE plan on forking RHEL and make a RHEL compatible distro available for everyone

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  • They announced something similar back in 2020 with a working title of "Liberty Linux", so maybe that.

  • Red Hat: why I'm going all in on community-driven Linux distros.

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  • Excellent summary and conclusions.

  • Email is Dead

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  • As long as you set up SPF and DKIM records on your mailserver, you’ll never get marked as spam.

    Sorry - that's factually incorrect. If your IP is on a residential block, you'll be downscored. If you're on a dynamic IP, same again, but weighted even more harshly, by pretty much every antispam service. In addition, every commercial service is very secretive about what methods they use, for good reason, so you cannot claim with any accuracy that "you just need to do this $thing to get read". (Although I do agree the original post is not well researched, knowledgeable nor particularly useful to anyone)

    SPF and DKIM are essential to getting your email out, but it's not the only thing, and sometimes no matter what you do do, your hit rate is going to be low.

    Source: Me. Been running mail servers privately and commercially for over twenty years. Before then, I ran fidonet and netmail services through the 90s and into the tail end of the 80s. There's many things I know bugger all about, but email is not one of them. (And if anyone's interested what I do for personal email now - I use gmail, because it works and maintaining it is somebody else's problem)

  • Email is Dead

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  • AI's been in use in commercial anti-spam for quite a while now - and on the flip side is also being used by the spam senders. Just another front on the unending war.

    But spam (and phishing, and all malware) happens because humans get fooled by it. No reason to think AI will be any smarter.

  • SUSE announces hard fork of RHEL: “At SUSE we make choice happen”

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  • Hahahahaha. Hahahahaha.

    <breathe>

    Hahahahaha.

  • SUSE announces hard fork of RHEL: “At SUSE we make choice happen”

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  • Mate, it's been running since RHEL announced the premature termination of Centos Linux 8, back in 2020.

  • Programming languages like PHP and JavaScript get a lot of valid criticism, but I feel that we do have to consider the fact that their ease of use got A LOT of people into programming.

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  • Nice quote - but I don't think it does hold up as truly as it did in the 80s. There is an unimaginable wealth of systems and design tools available now that were not around then. Even something take for granted like a gui schema designer - hell, even SQL itself wouldn't be around until almost a decade later, and that was partly designed to simplify database queries. Every step like that has simplified what we do today. Debugging tools are light years ahead of when I was writing C in the early 90s. Debugging then was pretty much "try and compile it and then fix the errors". Now there's linters, memory profilers, automatic pipelines and all the rest of that. Much of that is offset by the fact we do far more complicated things than we did, and that those very tools mean there's a lot more to learn and master beyond the mere language.

    I do concede and agree with your last paragraph. Design is more important than implementation, and elegance of code and concept is a timeless beauty. One of the hardest things I've had to learn is that thinking about coding is often far more productive than actually coding, and too many times I've been a busy fool, re-writing and starting over many times because I later found out a better way.

  • Programming languages like PHP and JavaScript get a lot of valid criticism, but I feel that we do have to consider the fact that their ease of use got A LOT of people into programming.

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  • I disagree completely.

    Great! It would be a boring world if we all thought alike.

    Programming is inherently difficult,

    That's where we differ. I don't think it is - and I'm not saying that because I think I'm good, it's because programming is just a different way of thinking - that's why there's books like "Zen and the art of computer programming" and "The Tao of programming". (I haven't read "No Silver Bullet" but I'll keep an eye open. I was actually writing code back in 1986 so it might be interesting to compare because I think programming has changed a huge amount in that time)

    Not all programming is easy, just as not all of it is hard. The range of this subject is massive, and blanket statements, pro or anti, just don't cut it when you dig into it.

  • Programming languages like PHP and JavaScript get a lot of valid criticism, but I feel that we do have to consider the fact that their ease of use got A LOT of people into programming.

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  • I've heard that a lot, but I think it's an outdated view.

    Programming should be easy, or at least easier. That's a view shared by everyone who writes and contributes to documentation on all languages and also those who develop the languages as well. (With varying success).

    Every damned one of us was a shit coder when we started, that's part of the process - not least amongst us who are self taught. Yet some go on to do great things and be wonderful coders (including yourself, no doubt).

    You had a bad experience, fair enough, but it's a big brush to tar everyone with. I think everyone should be a programmer. If nothing else it teaches them a little how software actually works and that's a good thing.

  • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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  • Me too, but I couldn't eat a whole one.

  • Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

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  • And they've not broken that, RHEL subscribers continue to get access to the source. It's everyone else they've shafted.

  • What's a single player PC game you can't get enough of?

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  • War for the overworld. I have thousands and thousands of hours logged.

  • If you had to redo your self hosting setup, what would you do differently this time around?

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  • Run the cables more neatly.

  • Twitter accuses Meta of hiring former staff in cease-and-desist letter

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  • Musk is not a likeable person, and I'm definitely not a fan - but he has changed the world. Not many people can say that and Reddit's distaste for him has spilled over here recently.

    Paypal - first and still biggest widely trusted online payment handler.

    Tesla - Started a ground-breaking electric car market that's changed the entire face of motorised transport, and is still the leader in the sector. Their motors and battery packs are still way ahead of anyone else.

    Starnet - Bringing low latency, high speed internet to remote locations around the globe. Even in the developed western world where other technologies have deemed it unaffordable.

    SpaceX - Seriously, who can fail to be impressed by seeing a rocket LANDING intact?

    All areas where other companies dicked around and really achieved very little through lack of vision, drive or funding.

    Yes, he's had failures (Boring Company, Twitter) and yes he's a category ten arsehole (accusing people of being paedophiles without grounds, manipulating stock prices illegally, pot smoking on live tv, having complete disregard for human beings' feelings and lives, etc etc) . Does that give him a free pass to act like a knob? Of course not, but the man has actually achieved genuinely amazing things.

  • TikTok Ban on Australian Government-Issued Phones Should Also Apply to Other Social Media Apps, experts say

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  • Any work-issued device should be used for just work, right? Surely that's common sense?

  • the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes)

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  • I know what you mean about "it feels a bit ruined" - I had to post something for work there today (a technical question that I felt was best suited there), the first time I've been on for two weeks. It kinda felt like I was visiting a porn site - that same shifty feeling that I hope nobody notices it was me.

    It is a real shame, but when you sit back and think about it - it's just a website. It's not really that important compared to other things, so I'm generally finding better things to do, like you are. Doing that, for whatever reason, is a good thing.

  • Today we celebrate no longer being responsible for the USA.

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  • This is the true internet way. (I stole it from someone else too and am cheerfully passing it off as mine)