@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe yeah I see a lot of bigger accounts have to put "boosts are not endorsements" as a disclaimer

@stefano With my fellow #SysAdmin hat on, I hate Docker for software installs with a passion. I love it for building software, but that's it. That's where it belongs, in CI/CD.

@stefano
If it is NOT documented officially, like casual standalone usage of poudriere.😅

@acirep Thank you! 🎉

@acirep and thank you for the Ko-Fi(s)! ☕

@acirep @stefano
The #BSDcafe is alive and well!

@nicdercole Abruzzo ❤️

@justine Congrats! You know you’ve got a good relationship when those things aren’t an issue.

@justine Congratulations!!!
Being together for such a long time is a great, great thing.

@justine Many congratulations to you both. 🍰 or 🍾 ?

@Ruth_Mottram I'm like right on the edge and it's horrifying, many of my classmates (college students) don't even know how to use email

@Ruth_Mottram I concur... before I stepped away from permanent employment I ran a Stage 1 IT module. Over the 25+ years I can't say I noticed any significant change in student abilities. Even in the 'standard' packages that everyone 'knows' how to use...

@Ruth_Mottram
There was a time when schools IT was Nicrosoft and Spreadsheets. I remember parents in IT coming in talking about coding.

@sourdough2021
Pretty hard to go wrong in Switzerland! 😍

@carnage4life @mastodonmigration I wish I could be surprised by something like that anymore. 😮‍💨 I know the Fediverse isn’t exactly immune to hate groups, but at least we have ways to do something about it before it grows and festers and poisons everything around it.

@carnage4life the direction of travel was clear from the get go… not sure how to feel about the people that remain there.

@carnage4life

Congrats on your act of self care.

@stefano what would you recommend as an alternative to Discord where you own your own data?

@stefano yes, and I wrote about this same thing! https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/15/fediverse-for-freedom/

@stefano

I can highly recommend to migrate away from discord uaing https://keet.io today or at least to mirror all discord communication using bots to something like https://cabal.chat 🙂

@stefano back when I worked at a university, we had a backup server running an ancient customized version of Linux. Was not on the internet so we didn’t reboot it in over 5 years and we only did so to replace a hard drive.

@stefano
I would extend the same concept to programming languages, but apparently, this is not a popular point of view. So, we now have a group of prime-time hypertrophic languages and frameworks with tons of new features (often not back-compatible) introduced at every release to cover the whole universe of applications and beyond (at least in the minds of the their teams).

@stefano Great article. Unfortunately it is very hard to convince people to move from Linux to BSD. I often hear people saying that BSD is something they have heard about but they would never consider installing it. Simply because they don’t know it, but they know Linux. And why would they use something else instead, when hardware support is better and they get a system running a desktop environment out of the box? And when there is Docker and everything they think they need…

@GrahamFluster cute