NostraDavid

We used to say that people who made vertical videos had Vertical Video Syndrome. It was a terrible time.

This blog is my favorite Linux blog!

I love Robert and his YT antics - his whole “The X command is my favourite Linux command!” shtick was both funny AND informative!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

Remember, kids, “less” is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas “fewer” is for countable things (like apples).

It’s one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.

If I install a package, I don’t even know what it installed and/or where.

I can’t believe Linux can’t even tell you what it installed where - even Windows can do that.

Programming.dev represent! o7

This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.

OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?

Ubuntu is a gateway drug to Arch.

Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port

Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)

Have you found appdata/local/Application Data? It’s a “conjunction point” that you can only find via the command line, and only exists for backwards compatibility. It points to appdata/… Do not EVER try to gain access over all your files in appdata/. It’ll break due to that conjunction point.

I hope you can install Firefox, because The Googs is pushing for Manifest v3, which means no more functional adblock.

Linux or bust, babyyyyyy

I unironically prefer apt over pacman, simply because my monkeybrain got addicted to running pacman -S (that was how to update, right?) and I dropped in productivity. apt is just “nah fam, there’s nothing new for you” most days, which gives me the quiet time I want and need.

I ran Manjaro BTW. It was nice while it lasted, but Debian is my new friend now.

Probably not often, but as a Debian user, it’s a PITA to get back to where I was before I fucked up my system. Nix(OS) sounds like a future investment to me, just in case I ever fuck up and need to get back to where I was ASAP. Been there once already and it was NOT fun.

That was from a professional standpoint BTW, privately I’m still a dirty Windows pleb, because that’s what I’m most familiar with.

PS: I’m already using a dotfiles repo, which already saves me a ton of time in settings things up.

I’m slowly learning Nix, and I’ve learned that Nix has more packages available than any single distro could ever deliver: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs.

It even has more than AUR (Arch User Repository, BTW)

Oh, oh, oh! I got one not mentioned yet:

ELK.

Well, not the whole of the ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash and Kibana, though the full stack size is much larger nowadays), but their watchers. A watcher is a piece of JSON with some search specifications on when to trigger and send an alert to email/slack/teams/whatever. We’re basically abusing it as an alerting system, and generally it works… Fine… Presuming Filebeat actually ingests our logs (which is partially our fault, as there’s a fix, but it takes too damn long to drag 3 teams along to implement what needs implementing to fix that problem).

Anyway, the problem is not the watcher itself, even though it is painful (heh) to learn the structure. It’s “Painless”, the JVM-based scripting language available in a watcher. It’s anything but. It is SO painful to write code, inside of a JSON object, making sure everything is exactly as it should be, having to use the DevTools in Kibana to try and trigger it, wait to see what enormous error comes out while praying it works. No IDE, no nothing. Ah, I lied. It does have Syntax Highlighting, for non-Painless code, IIRC…

Oh, having to dig information out of the data you get is super unintuitive too.

At least the UI/Kibana is good, and Elastic is pretty good too. Fuck Filebeat though. And Painless.

The background noise surpression of Teams is peak quality (vs Webex and Slack, though Webex is somewhat good)…

Did you check the calender in Teams? Not to be confused with the calender in Outlook, which may or may not overlap.

I’m pretty sure you can disable the bleeps and bloops people are complaining about - get a tool, then don’t spend any time to learn it and then suffer using it.

Look at mr fancy, with his interface that can search through topics - we’re just flying by the top of our head >_>

At least we were smart enough to just generate a CloudEvent and jam it into a KafkaMessage before sending it, so that’s pretty standard.

We just use it as a messaging bus - we’re not sending “big data” through Kafka. We tried, failed, and immediately gave up, lmao. Now we just save data on HDFS and send where we stored said file (effectively a “claim-check pattern”, if you’re into design patterns)

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.