Tablaste

joined 10 months ago
 

Not to be confused with the University of Oregon, OSU set up its Open Source Lab in 2003. Since then, it's done a great deal to help multiple FOSS projects. As Linux.com reported in 2006, it gave critical help to Gentoo and Drupal, along with providing one of the first hosting sites for the fledgling Mozilla Foundation.

As the Drupal team reported, the OSU OSL was serving 10 TB of data per month for them – in 2012. Seven years later, LWN reported on a talk by Albertson at SCALE 17x, saying that "role of the lab is to be a neutral hosting facility and to foster relationships between FOSS projects and companies."

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 7 months ago

My goal last year was to rank in the top 100 of my country.

I'm proud to say I'm nowhere near it. There's others who have taken the challenge, and I'm all for it!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 4 points 7 months ago

It reminds me of the PowerPoint my company had.

It was this graph showing how many tech people they have since 1960, and the numbers kept multiplying.

How they rated tech people was someone who works behind the computer. So yeah, as we gain more employees, we tend to put them behind computers to do work?

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 7 months ago

Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I'm traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is pretty neat!

https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/intro/what-is-this

Sounds like you need both the audio and the ebook to make it work?

I typically only have one or the other.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"excessive promotion", right.

You're doing great work.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 9 months ago

Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.

Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.

I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It's beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.

Since I can't pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You're not wrong! Devops made me lazy

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

I published it to the internet and the next day, I couldn't ssh into the server anymore with my user account and something was off.

Tried root + password, also failed.

Immediately facepalmed because the password was the generic 8 characters and there was no fail2ban to stop guessing.

 

Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.