Jochen Breuer @brejoc@fosstodon.org

Last weekend the two rack servers of my #basementrack where finally reinstalled with #Proxmox and now form a small cluster with shared storage from my NAS (via NFS). This means that I can freely move VMs between the two nodes. I'm still amazed how fast booting and working with VMs from NFS shares is.

It was a bit tricky to get Proxmox working with DHCP, because it's not supporting this out of the box. Pro tip: Pin the IPs for the interfaces first. Then you don't have to edit config files later.

This is the prime example for why you need to be able to at least open devices. With devices where everything is glue you can't even remove the dust. And oh boy was that necessary! #RightToRepair

This was the Chrombook of my mother. An ASUS CB5-311 with an ARM CPU. This thing is pretty fast and can be used for 12 hours straight on one charge. But Google decided to EOL it and not release updates anymore.
I'd like to not throw it away. What options are left? Chromium OS builds seem to be tricky, because of the ARM CPU. Is there a way to install a "normal" Linux? I mean a proper installation not chrooted with crouton.

Do you know NixOps? The thing that lets you spin up NixOS machines from a simple configuration file that defines setup, software and configs. This is pretty much like that, but for GUIX!

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/managing-servers-with-gnu-guix-a-tutorial/

#guix #Linux #Lisp

That’s what you get when you let a software developer have a soldering iron.🔥

This is the German version of „Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams“. This book was first published 1987 and then got the last update 2013. But it’s funny that the problems are still the same. It’s like people didn’t change that much. 😉

New blog post: "How to secure a Go application with seccomp"

https://brejoc.com/2019-11-20-how-to-secure-a-go-application-with-seccomp/

#golang #go #security #seccomp #programming #blog

I'm a bit confused. Will #angularjs be discontinued?
https://blog.angular.io/stable-angularjs-and-long-term-support-7e077635ee9c

#Angular #Google

I’ve released an update of teampulls today. Now you can filter by users: teampulls -u user1,user2

https://pypi.org/project/teampulls/

What is it? teampulls lists all of the @github pull requests for a list of users and repositories. The old ones are printed in red. 😉

Microsoft Japan tested the 4-day work week and got great results. I remember seeing similar results from other companies that tested that or even sticked with this. Could even be better for the environment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/11/04/what-microsoft-japans-successful-4-day-week-suggests-about-work-life-balance/#4905ab1e662c

And here is the solution: https://twitter.com/foursixnine/status/1188923350225244160

In case this is still needed: https://developer.github.com/v4/object/pullrequest/#fields isDraft :) a friend of mine asked similar question few days ago :)

Is there no way to see if a pull request is a draft with the #GitHub GraphQL API? #askingforafriend 😉

Yesterday I've been packaging a little #Go app and I have two findings to share:

1. Go Modules makes packaging Go pretty easy – also for older Go versions because of vendoring. Of course vendoring causes other problems, but let's not talk about that now.

2. Working with the @opensuse Build Service (OBS) on #Fedora 30 is completely seamless. Everything works just out of the box (dnf install osc). You can test-build locally and then commit everything to OBS. Awesome!

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:brejoc:gosgp/gosgp

Right now only @opensuse Tumbleweed has a #Clojure package out of the box. But you can also install the same Clojure (and Leiningen) on Leap 15.1.
👉 https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=devel%3Alanguages%3Aclojure&package=clojure

Everybody dealing with free software should read this. A little history lesson is also included. 😉

https://subfictional.com/open-source-licenses-and-the-ethical-use-of-software/

I had to read about the cookie foobar we have because of the #GDPR. This page seems to be useful: https://eugdprcompliant.com/cookies-consent-gdpr/
So websites that only have "essential" cookies, that are used to have a working webpage only need a warning that cookies are used. That's good! Annoying, but at least you don't have to have full blown cookie mngmnt in this case. Because there are some frameworks out there, that won't let you disable all cookies… and if you need CSRF tokens, aso, you probably can't disable it.