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I know I’m probably the only person who likes The Secret History on here, but, if I’m not and if that someone else wants to draw The Secret History characters, listen to me. Camilla doesn’t have long hair and she doesn’t often wear dresses, that’s the devil speaking. Her hair is canonically only slightly longer than Charles’ and in a masculine cut, and she routinely steals his clothes.

Sincerely, someone who supports all artists doing whatever the hell they want but is also quite frankly tired of only ever seeing her drawn in long hair and frilly dresses


#Tsh #the-secret-history #LHMW-tag

If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family

it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #UNIX #History

it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23

IT NotesOSDay 2025 - Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
More from Stefano Marinelli

ProxMox Load Balancer

A new version is released.

If you deal with ProxMox in any form you'd be wise to see what this powerful tool can do for you. When you realize it is one of the tools you've been missing in managing your different VMS in ProxMox, rest assured you will be very glad you now know of its existence.

Without going into too much details because, I want you to read the documentation yourself, you know that when you need to move a VM from One ProxMox controlled server to another one, there are procedures you need to follow

You also know that when you need to balance the load on your different servers, by which I mean your Hardware Servers, you also know that from time to time, you literally need to move a number of VMS(!) from one server to another, in your server cluster or Server clusters, plural. You know how much time that can take.

Now go read your docs, I've inspired you

compliments of @gyptazy

#ProxMox #VM #loadBalancing #bash #csh #ksh #tsh #sh #freeBSD #ZFS #programming #POSIX

github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

Do you remember me talking about this wonderful article? the one where you are taught in detail with source snippets how Linux goes bye-bye when it goes to sleep?
The article has so much in-depth details that it takes a lot of time, considerable inteligencia & knowledge to process. Contrary to others I will not only say it, I will explicitly state it is fascinating and a heavy read.

Take your time to process the article; it's worth learning this in depth, in miniatures detail, all the way down to the sources, so you know what goes on, when the power management or your Linux powered VM, or Linux powered Hardware machine, goes down, hard, inexplicable:

To you it will become explainable!

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #PowerManagement #sleep #hibernate #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming #GCC #gplusplus #gdb

tookmund.com/2024/09/hibernati

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Mind you that I'm not saying that new command should not be developed, on a contrary; what I am saying, is that if for whatever reason, certain things change, you need to make sure that the older commands still work properly, because they are in our muscle memory
Those of us, the greybeards, have commands in our muscle memory, remember that

And for those of you who do not know,

Most of the systems that are running the internet, are built, installed and maintained, by us, the greybeards!

They are not built the young ones, who are barely 20 years old, who do not know the difference between a compiler and a debugger!

/3

#bash#sh#zsh
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SystemD has so much going on, that I shall suffice by pointing you to the article. The words of Stefano need no more addition towards the subject of systemd.

On my systems I avoid Systemd like the plague. Now read that three times out loud...

If you want to know more about Systemd in detail, just go and read the many different good documents on the internet, please do not use Google to search for them use anything else, DuckDuckGo does it much better.

This is one example where you learn what the Systemd stands for

Repeating Stefano's words: why was it needed? Everything worked perfectly fine before Systemd came in, there was no reason for its existence.

I have included the Wikipedia article; take your Time to at least glance at it, because the writers have tried to give a Balanced View of the Pro and the cons of Systemd

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd?

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#bash#sh#zsh

In this post Stephan teaches you why he moves many of his servers from Linux to freeBSD.

Here is some background History of Mine:

Because I have been using Linux ever since the pre-alpha days, I know many things about the operating system that most other users do not. There was no other way to install the operating system in the beginning, than to compile the kernel on another operating system, to hex edit a boot sector, then boot to see if your kernel would actually properly spawn on your machine. In the beginning the hex editing was done on the floppy disk you could not boot from the hard drive.

From that point, you had to go back to the foreign operating system, compile the rest that you needed for minimum functionality, then put them in a convoluted manner on the file system which was then Minix.
It was normal in that period where you first installed Linux to do not just everything yourself but to know what to do otherwise you would never get the functioning operating system.
In the end you would also compile GCC in that foreign operating system, because there was no way for you to do it in Linux with a compiler you did not have yet {chicken egg dilemma}
Only after GCC was compiled, were you able to do Native compiling in Linux on the Minix file system.

It is exactly this manner of thinking that is still bothering Linux distributions today. Somewhere there are people who still think, that there are many users who want to Tinker with the operating system, when they just want to go from one major version to the next.

This manner of thinking breaks things when you need to upgrade from minor to Major version.

One thing that has always bothered me is that a simple major update from the operating system from one person to the next can **still*" literally break things in unexpected ways because of the way that Upstream handles certain commands. For no good reasons commands like ifconfig where depreciated, the other examples also like arp. Ifconfig has been in Unix Forever. Ifconfig is in muscle memory of hundreds of thousands of system operators. Ifconfig is a specialized command which does only one thing and it does it in a perfect manner and it has been doing it ever since UNIX existed.
It's still baffles me that I need to separately install the ifcommands, before I can work on a Linux system today, and that's with any any distribution

This is just one of the examples of why it is wrong to change commands on the fly, depreciating another set of commands, without giving the people the choice, at the beginning, to include it with the installation of the distribution

The IP Command is a good one, nice modern with colour output, ifconfig is still a very good command, nice, stable decades old, leave it be!

These are the major things, that often bring system operators to seek operating systems, where stability is first, where updates from minor to minor version go smoothly, and updates from minor to Major versions usually also go smoothly and where don't disappear 🫥 or are depreciated for trivial reasons.

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #RetroComputing #UNIX #History

it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24

Have you ever asked yourself how the BSD Café Mastodon instance was built?

Stefano has written here what he has done. You should have at least rudimentary knowledge of what a jail is in order to follow everything and at least a simple manner.

In short a jail is much more efficient than a VM, uses much less resources and it's easier to control

If you take the time to Study all the subjects, you will be a will to build a freeBSD instance of Mastodon yourself; all the information necessary Is provided Here and Deep to very Deep details you can dig up yourself

wiki.bsd.cafe/bsdcafe-technica

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #programming #JavaScript #Mastodon #freeBSD #ngix #json #POSIX #SocialMedia #webfinger

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@Extelec

Please refrain from using closed source programs to review legal and confidential documents.
There are so many open source PDF readers out there.

I will State One that runs on POSIX Operating Systems

qpdfview

All operating systems have compiled versions of open Source PDF viewers. Many of them which run on Linux and freeBSD are also cross compiled for win64 and Mac

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #PDF #OpenSource  #POSIX #Linux #AI #enshittification #Adobe