Just had this discussions on Christmas. Jesuses teachings are pretty explicit that followers are supposed to be charitable and compassionate and give freely and help those they can. Talking to some conservative Christian about it they said they were finding it very hard not to be cynical and see every case of charity as just fraud.

To the point where not imprisoning people for trying to move somewhere for work is something they really consider charity.

It’s a sharp contradiction to me

The funny thing from what I’ve read the got the alot of raw audio files too so the people torrent probably are getting higher quality versions then what Spotify transcodes too

I don’t like that this was removed, but it is very ironic for a AI summary about AI hype fueling a RAM shortage. It was at least properaly labeled and attributes and an open source model.

Definitely overkill lol. But I like it. Haven’t found a more complete solutions that doesn’t feel like a comp sci dissertation yet.

The goal is pretty simple. Make as much as possible, helm values, k8s manifests, tofu, ansible, cloud init as possible and in that order of preference because as you go up the stack you get more state management for “free”. Stick that in git and test and deploy from that source as much as possible. Everything else is just about getting to there as fast as possible, and keeping the 3-2-1 rule alive and well for it all (3 backups, 2 different media, 1 off-site).

Fleet from Rancher to deploy everything to k8s. Baremetal management with Tinkerbell and Metal3 to management my OS deployments to baremetal in k8s. Harvester is the OS/K8S platform and all of its configs can be delivered in install or as cloudinit k8s objects. Ansible for the switches (as KubeOVN gets better in Harvester default separate hardware might be removed), I’m not brave enough for cross planning that yet. For backups I use velero, and shoot that into the cloud encrypted plus some nodes that I leave offline most of the time except to do backups and updating them. I user hauler manifests and a kube cronjob to grab images, helm charts, rpms, and ISO to local store. I use SOPS to store the secrets I need to boot strap in git. OpenTofu for application configs that are painful in helm. Ansible for everything else.

For total rebuilds I take all of that config and load it into a cloudinit script that I stick on a Rocky or sles iso that, assuming the network is up enough to configure, rebuilds from scratch, then I have a manual step to restore lost data.

That covers everything infra but physical layout in a git repo. Just got a pikvm v4 on order along with a pikvm switch, so hopefully I can get more of the junk on Metal3 for proper power control too and less IPXE shenanigans.

Next steps for me are CI/CD pipelines for deploying a mock version of the lab into Harvester as VMs, running integrations tests, and if it passes merge the staged branch into prod. I do that manually a little already but would really like to automate it. One I do that I start running Renovate to grab the latest stable for stuff for me.

Git lab CI is my goto for git repo based things (unit tests, integration tests, etc). Fleet through Rancher for real deployments (manages and maintains state because kubernetes). Tekton is my in between catchall.

Hopefully work on opensource firmware getting going like https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980. Seems more movement in the server side though https://github.com/ia74/roomba_rest980

Another option is hardware hacking it https://github.com/meech-ward/roomba/tree/main

Tbh the amount of cameras and microphones we have that upload to external unaudited servers (“the cloud”) is insane to me. This is just further worry about it since the scheme allowed their ownership over our devices and privacy, which means they can also sell that.

I know a person that swore up and down about it, but personally I didn’t see the appeal. I am biased towards containers though so Harvester is my Promo alternative I’m running

Worth paying for. Honestly guys selhost for yourself and family contribute to project you depend on, and pay for everything else you don’t have the time to do that too.

Its free as in freedom, not free as in beer. Their still FOSS even so this isn’t even a rug pull imho. The worst thing is it requires an account which hurts the privacy aspect of that. One the few times something like Meta mask actually makes sense… Maybe some way to get an token generated and sent for use rather than a blanket account

How many hours prompting have you put into it so far?

I can’t just call everything snake oil without some actual measurements and tests.

Naive cynicism is just as naive as blind optimism

Enough people who have goods or can provide valuable services agree to use it and something limits the amount of it in circulation.

They sell water recirculators for showers actually!

Yep! Metal3 for servers with BMCs Tinkerbell for everything else.

I also have an ansible playbook that templates everything into a cloud init scripts as a boot strap server.

About 12 nodes in total now, from new servers to freebee junk laptops in it.

This is what I like about git ops and infra/config as Code personally.

Ideally everything is an a tofu/ansible/helm chart and git lab pipeline/Fleet job. I add comments for anything that I had to learn to make work to those files. Follow good commit hygenine (most of the time). And bam I can almost a year later half asleep stumble back into a thing I did.

I do like these designs better. Wheel chair access on roads (i.e. cars that support it) have been lacking. I also like that they don’t look like a mil spec APC taking up every square inch of the road

Still better walk ability, better bike routes, better trams, better metros, better buses. All make more sense for Intercity travel.

But also also fuck these for being massive road based spy drones

I really like the specification of petrochemicals. Thats make a significant difference. That is awesome, the more places we can cut those industries out the better.

As it should be. My management there were just bad at there jobs

First time in my life it was good thing. Friend and I were sleeping off hangovers, thought we wasted the day away and got back an hour.

Every other years it’s meant me staying later for or going in early for work lol

I felt this way coming from the Midwest to down south. There are plenty of biggots west of the missippi too but folks like the west borrow morons are rare. Down south id hear biggots on the goddamn radio.

At least for the most part, as an outsider, Midwest churches were mostly just seen doing charities (like that’s all Jesus asked them do for others…).