I'm looking for recommendations for someone who is #blind (0% vision) and doesn't have a computer (so, using their phone).
They're looking for a way to publish texts or blog posts. They tried and were very disappointed by substack and tumblr.
And also potentially a Mastodon client.
Is there anything I should or even could recommend them?
RT appreciated!
Berlin (and Germany) friends - there is a petition to protest against the AfD moving into a building in Mitte:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/afd-einzug-in-berlin-mitte-stoppen
I don't know if the petition itself can have any legal effect; however I think we should at least remind racists that they're not welcome here.
Does anyone know how to report a serious accident with Uber when it's not your ride? (E.g. if you're a cyclist or pedestrian and get hit by a Uber?)
Uber has this web page mentioning a form, but... there is no form (and some of the links on that page give 404 anyways)
Dear Mozilla,
Instead of shitty AI features that nobody needs or wants, would you consider making that error message a tiny bit less stupid?
The whole thing is provisioned with Tofu; and one of my favorite things to do is to verify that the end-to-end provisioning works fine.
So that means a lot of "tofu destroy" + "tofu apply".
However, the TF configuration includes the Talos disk images used by the cluster, and I didn't want to re-download them every single time.
My first intention was to use "tofu taint" on the virtual machines. But they are declared in a for_each block; and you can't use "tofu taint" or "tofu plan -replace" on a for_each resource (unless you enumerate each resource individually).
However, you can do a targeted destroy:
tofu plan -destroy -target proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.k8s_nodes
And destroy will follow dependencies (if you destroy a resource, the resources that depend on it will automatically be destroyed), so in my case I could also do e.g.:
tofu plan -destroy -target talos_machine_secrets.this
(Because pretty much every Talos-related resource depends on this directly or indirectly).
#terraform #opentofu #talos #kubernetes #homelab #selfhosted
One of my projects this week is to bring up a K8S cluster on our Proxmox homelab to perhaps eventually migrate EphemeraSearch on it.
EphemeraSearch currently runs on a 7-node K8S cluster at Hetzner.
I'm going to drop some notes in this thread, to perhaps consolidate them into a blog post or something later 🤓
Rushing to the hospital Emergency Room has emerged as perhaps the paramount objective of slamming one’s own dick in a doorway.
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Upgrade to windows 11, they said. It will be fine, they said.
(At that point I wouldn't be surprised if some underground collective started shipping updates for windows 10 somehow!)
the greatest virtue of LLMs is that they made inkjet printers seem trustworthy in comparison
The existence of `kubectl top` implies the existence of `kubectl bottom`, send toot
When I'll be supreme ruler of the world, my first imperial decree will be that on pasta packages, the cooking time has to be the most visible information (i.e. nothing can use a bigger font or higher contrast)
Send toot
Wow that's really compelling, is that your best offer
— Welcome to the USB bus!
— That's redundant. The B in USB already stands for-
— I said what I said!
Reminder: don’t use placeholders instead of labels. They disappear when users start typing, placing unnecessary strain on memory, causing confusion, and making it hard to identify or fix errors. This is even worse for people with accessibility needs. If you use them for hint, inside the label, remember that they vanish when user starts typing, so, it still causes issues.
Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful (6min by Katie Sherwin) https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/
Do you know why Python programmers love writing log messages with the f-string syntax?
Because they're often full of bangers
PSA: don't talk about "latest changes" or "recent changes" (in particular in e.g. technical documentation). Indicate specifically at least what year we're talking about.
Bad: "in recent versions of foo, the configuration format changed"
Better: "at some point in 2022, the configuration format changed"
Best: "starting with foo 4.6, the configuration format changed"
(Of course the last option is great; but even just adding the year would sometimes be super helpful :))
We'll see how to run popular #LLM on Kubernetes, and how to leverage #Bento, #RabbitMQ, and #PostgreSQL to run requests asynchronously; then we'll use #Prometheus and #Grafana for observability, sprinkle #KEDA for ausoscaling, and some #Helmfile to manage the deployment of all these components.
Interested? Register here:
They often fall in this uncanny valley where requests take a bit too long to work well with a #LoadBalancer, but not long enough to justify spinning up #BatchJobs. Fortunately, there is a solution: #MessageQueues!
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Good news, everyone—and by "everyone" I mean "folks who want to see how to scale out #genAI workloads on #Kubernetes" 😁
Next Wednesday (Sep. 25th, Noon Eastern time) I'll give an online talk about this topic with the awesome folks at PerfectScale.
First, what's special about genAI workloads?
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