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@vaurora toying with using kluctl instead of opentofu for the bulk of our infra deployments.
Tofu/terraform don't seem to work very well, and seem to be overkill for deploying kubernetes workloads. It feels like we're fighting with the tooling too much.
The question is, am I just exchanging one set of problems for another equally frustrating set? We'll see...
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@collectifission where do you shop for glasses? Mine are 10 year old Chesterfields and so out of fashion, but nothing else works for me
@vaurora I buy mine at Specsavers, which is a Dutch chain.
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@hp Haha, you can send me proper newsletters about your life! But text me on Signal if you want a response though
@jay9 We could have an actual telegram/telex system.
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@wynke sounds lovely, let's virtually co-work. You do housework and I will review comments on the CRA VPN standard
@vaurora Good plan (although I'm currently also heating up some soup for lunch, but I'm also tidying the living room a bit, which is very necessary after 5 full days of having N at home.)
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@vaurora Good plan (although I'm currently also heating up some soup for lunch, but I'm also tidying the living room a bit, which is very necessary after 5 full days of having N at home.)
@vaurora (Which is not her fault, I just find it much harder to Do Stuff while also Being a Parent.)
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@vaurora *yawns* it's 7:35am, still in bed after a good night's sleep. Next: coffee, the elixir of life.
@vaurora one raspberry mocha latte, up!
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@vaurora Figuring out how to self-host some stuff and working-on/writing-for my site
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@vaurora Actual side project:
I've got a Nook GlowLight (released 2013, 2G storage, M/N BNRV500) that still works but B&N killed cloud support for it. It drains its own battery flailing at talking to a dead cloud.
I figured out how to inject my own CACert into my Barnes and Noble nook's cacerts.bks file; and used BIND Response Policy Zones to redirect bncs.barnesandnoble[.]com to a server on my local network.
I'm bored, so I figure: why not try to make my own cloud? ADHD kicked in hard, I pulled all the apps off the device, threw it all into jadx-gui, and used a python protobuf-inspector to pick apart cloud messages from the wire. Comparing protocol captures to actual code has been such a learning experience!
Worst case outcome: I throw some fake cloud up on something like github.
Best case outcome: I breathe new life into old tech, maybe get it working with archive.org.
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@vaurora Attacking technical debt at work. (YAY) Also, it’s a WFH day so I’m trying to figure out what to do for breakfast besides go make myself a cup of tea.
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@vaurora Possibly putting a little too much effort into trying to get a GPU compute kernel to behave itself and stop spilling registers to memory. Profiling shows I'm leaving lots of performance on the table though. Can't have that!
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@vaurora Good plan (although I'm currently also heating up some soup for lunch, but I'm also tidying the living room a bit, which is very necessary after 5 full days of having N at home.)
@wynke I finished reviewing my comments!!
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@vaurora learning more than I wanted to about plumbing
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@wynke I finished reviewing my comments!!
@vaurora Well done! I am now going to do some cleaning in the kitchen and the bathroom.
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@vaurora eating lunch at a resort hotel with my youngest daughter. About half way through a week vacation. Unclear if it was a good idea taking my eldest, who is in autistic burnout. Some good moments, some bad. -
@xgebi what is DELF?
@vaurora French exam, similar to FCE in English
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@vaurora Well done! I am now going to do some cleaning in the kitchen and the bathroom.
@vaurora It is possible that I got distracted and baked a cake. (Surely I can clean the bathroom while the cake bakes...)
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@vaurora Less than 60 days till my wife and I move to
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@vaurora I’ve got pneumonia! So mostly that’s what’s going on. Yesterday was rough.
But also I’ve been thinking about Dijkstra’s essay on the futility of natural language programming and how I still think that’s true even when you have LLMs. Some of the programming is more natural language-ish, just as C is easier to read than assembly, and smalltalk is easier to read than C, but fundamentally, you will always need a symbolic language to do hard things with any hope of determinism.
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@vaurora It is possible that I got distracted and baked a cake. (Surely I can clean the bathroom while the cake bakes...)
@vaurora And, I successfully did just that, then did the dishes and made the bed and put in a load of laundry. And then took 3/4 of the finished cake to the hackerspace.
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@vaurora just finished my never search alone job search council meeting, now to organize the network wiring project parts to ease the better half's need for no clutter
