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by sjellis 4y ago
PSA: If you are using AWS, you should be using Session Manager for remote access to your EC2 instances if possible - it is free and trivial to enable. Azure offers Azure Bastion, which is exactly what it says. Both of these can keep hostile
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by sjellis 4y ago
I expect nushell to massively change how I work: https://www.nushell.sh/ It's a shell that is actually built for structured data, taking lessons learned from PowerShell and others.
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by sjellis 4y ago
> And let's not forget to be grateful towards for-profit companies that contribute to open source. The main sponsor of WINE is CodeWeavers, who have been paying folks that work on WINE for a very long time, and are involved in Proto
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by sjellis 4y ago
I am currently evaluating dsq and its partner desktop app DataStation. AIUI, the developer of DataStation realised that it would be useful to extract the underlying pieces into a standalone CLI, so they both support the same range of source
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by sjellis 4y ago
I've been experimenting with Hatch: https://hatch.pypa.io/ The USP of Hatch is that it uses the latest generation of Python standards and tech under the covers, so you have a unified tool that's less quirky than p
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by sjellis 4y ago
The Python Packaging Authority, the team that maintain setuptools etc. for core Python. There's a discussion here: https://discuss.python.org/t/hatch-1-0-0-is-available/15359
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by sjellis 4y ago
The maintainers of the Python packaging have just officially adopted Hatch: https://hatch.pypa.io/ Hatch aims to do what Poetry does, but is strictly compliant with Python standards.
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by sjellis 4y ago
There are a few projects that take inspiration from PowerShell, but they haven't got mass adoption. I have hopes that Nushell will be a success when it gets to 1.0: https://www.nushell.sh/
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by sjellis 4y ago
FWIW, AWS now have an official SDK for Rust in beta: https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-rust/ There are people at Microsoft working on a Rust SDK for Azure, but it's explicitly a volunteer effort with no support guara
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by sjellis 5y ago
I use Joplin, which has a similar feature set but also mobile apps: https://joplinapp.org/ It supports various types of file stores for syncing between devices. I've used OneDrive and WebDAV. The project has also recen
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by sjellis 5y ago
The wheels started to come off with .NET back when ORMs became a thing, slightly before Rails. Look up "ALT.NET" movement for the history. TLDR: Microsoft wanted .NET developers to only use tech from Microsoft, used various tactic
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by sjellis 5y ago
These days, I am really impressed by the MATE desktop environment: https://mate-desktop.org/ It does the stuff that you need without excess weight, the look and feel is flexible enough that you can make it look like other s
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by sjellis 5y ago
Red Hat's business model is that they ship a defined set of components and patch those components as needed for years without breaking compatibility. Red Hat explicitly will not ship a component unless they can build it from source and
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by sjellis 5y ago
I installed Podman 3.3.1 on a Mac yesterday from Homebrew and volume mounts were definitely an issue, but it otherwise worked as advertised on the command-line. The bugs cited in the article are already fixed in the code, so I don't ho
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by sjellis 5y ago
"Peter Pan versioning" This really should be the term for projects that are perpetually releasing 0.x versions. Maintainers are free to release their software under whatever terms that they wish, but if you actively encourage peop
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by sjellis 5y ago
No questions, but a huge "thank you". I have not been this delighted with a tool since discovering Git. Once the little initial learning is done, it's so fast, powerful and easy to hand that it already feels like an indispens
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VisiData – open-source data multitool(visidata.org)
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by sjellis 5y ago
The author of this has been running with it for a couple of years. Previous HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Flatpak%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Secu... The tone and varied assortment of alleged issues makes me feel like he
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by sjellis 5y ago
"solutions journalism" is an really interesting effort to adapt journalism to current realities in a positive way. "It investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, examples of people working toward solutions.
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by sjellis 5y ago
Yes, for me the sandboxing is not the immediate benefit. The instant value is providing channels for developers to ship apps to their users without either side having to mandate the OS that the other uses. Right now, even well-funded projec
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by sjellis 6y ago
Joplin is everything that I want in a note-taking app, and I use it constantly. It actually does support linking between notes.
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by sjellis 6y ago
Fastmail provide email, address book, calendars, and file storage for $3 per user per month: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/
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by sjellis 6y ago
This is the issue: > unless there's some particular piece of software you need which isn't supported. Lots of people need to run very specific pieces of software for their work, or their pastimes. If you want to switch to Linux
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by sjellis 6y ago
Snap is an Ubuntu thing. It's basically a client for the Canonical app store.
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by sjellis 6y ago
Yes, restic would be my pick: easy to deploy and use, well-maintained. If you want some assurance, CERN are deploying restic: https://indico.cern.ch/event/862873/contributions/3724442/
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by sjellis 6y ago
> as soon as I stop paying, all those memories are gone, lost in time like tears in rain. Sure it is really nice and convenient software and the user experience is fantastic but if I stop paying, it's all lost. Yes, this is why I ma
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by sjellis 6y ago
I use Joplin heavily, for media queues and all of the information storage that I can. I even keep Web addresses there, rather than in the favourites of my Web browsers. It's an Open Source note-taking app that stores Markdown and Web c
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by sjellis 6y ago
Walter Jon Williams, author of the cyberpunk classic Hardwired , also wrote two books in a setting that fuses cyberpunk and fantasy: Metropolitan and City on Fire .
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by sjellis 6y ago
Version control is one of those things where a lot of the value comes from using what other people use. By definition, version control is for collaboration, so using a less well-known version control system impedes the regular work of your
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by sjellis 6y ago
Sourcehut is a really well-engineered and well-run project. The architecture is SCM-independent, so Mercurial is not disadvantaged. The lead developer goes out of his way to support less-popular systems, such as *BSDs and Mercurial, so if y

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