Just a regular Joe.

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • TinyLinux (booting from DOS), Slackware, Debian for many years, Ubuntu, Debian, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch for 10+ years.

    RH/CentOS/Amazon Linux for work these last 20 years.

    I switched to Arch because ubuntu & debian started asking too many interactive questions when upgrading packages, instead of just upgrading. Arch gets out of my way, and has great documentation if something unexpected should break.


  • Who cares?

    My company’s 9,000 CentOS machines and over 100,000 containers now mostly run Amazon Linux or Alpine. Rocky Linux was preferred by some, but we led the way and the rest followed. Our final licensed RH systems will also disappear this quarter (legacies of a DC-centric era), and we will be free of them.

    It was inertia that kept us with RH, but their bad faith moves kicked us into action. We now have better security tooling and processes all around, too.

    Good riddance, Red Hat (and IBM, until your next acquisition and corporate strangling)!



  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    toSelfhosted@lemmy.worldISP put me behind NAT
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    8 months ago

    Welcome to the world of Carrier Grade NAT. 100.64.0.0/10 is reserved for this.

    If you are lucky, you also have an IPv6 address. The catch is you need IPv6 on the client-side too.

    A VPS or similar running wireguard and a proxy might bridge the gap.

    It might also be possible to ask your provider for some port forwarding. Probably not, but check anyway.

    Good luck!












  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    toMemes@lemmy.mlRemember me comrades!
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    11 months ago

    Except we know that mostly doesn’t work. It is weird to me that your preference is to waste resources and not help people.

    I’m not against effective measures, but I’ve seen too many kind and well-meaning people make a lot of bad decisions over the years. I think this is often the case for politicians too, for which we expect high standards and judge harshly when they inevitably fail. I like to leave room for people to make mistakes, and the opportunity to admit & correct mistakes.

    Maybe we need fewer politicians and petty dictators on soap boxes making claims and promises and more no-nonsense elbow grease bureaucracy, with more direct feedback loops, and KPIs that benefit the population.