Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Free]

If it's so fucking important they can fucking pay for it. Jesus.

But but OPEN SOURCE MEANS I DON"T NEED TO PAY FOR ANYTHING EVER!

 

[Casey Pelous]

Are the sites running NGINX on regular servers, or in Kubernetes containers? If the former, you don't have to change anything.

I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to distinguish a Kubermetes from a stinkbug, but the block on the control panel says:

"With NGINX Direct Delivery we will serve most of the static resources of your website (images, JS, CSS and others) directly through NGINX to achieve the fastest possible loading time. It works for all kind of applications without additional customisation.

Any clues there?

 

[Free]

Any clues there?

Not much. I assume they run NGINX on a plain jane server (or virtually) since that's pretty typical for a hosting service, but you know what they say about assuming shit.

I'd contact the support for your hosting company. You can just bring up the issue about the Ingress NGINX controller being retired, and does this affect their service in any way.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

NGINX is no more: Users scramble as critical open source project left to die

Wrong, Nginx as web server is still alive and kicking ass. What's being retired is the reverse Nginx proxy, which is part of Kubernetes.

There are alternatives around. Any maybe somebody will now pickup that development, who knows.

 

[Noodles]

NGINX is no more: Users scramble as critical open source project left to die

Apache is better anyway.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I have to admit that I do occasionally cringe, realizing that I'm running websites for people with gaping holes in my knowledge base, such as the present example.

But, at some point, you recognize that the whole world is just muddling through trying to look like they know what the hell they're doing, so ---

 

[Free]

I have to admit that I do occasionally cringe, realizing that I'm running websites for people with gaping holes in my knowledge base, such as the present example.

As long as you're not running websites powered by atomic reactors, I believe they're acceptable gaps.

 

[Casey Pelous]

As long as you're not running websites powered by atomic reactors, I believe they're acceptable gaps.

Oh, yeah, for sure. No, no, nothing like that. Nope. No way, Jose!

Besides, everybody knows you just have to remember: You can't put too much water on a nuclear

 

[Free]

And now that I know you can't tell the difference between atomic reactors and nuclear bombs, I'm worried.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Apache is better anyway.

The web disagrees, far more web sites are nowadays powered by Nginx than by Apache.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Comedy is really difficult around here these days.

(Both have the name Linus, so calling one a fake Linus is...well...)

When I first heard about Linus Tech Tips my first thought was “Linus Torvalds is doing tech tips and getting away from being toxic to kernel coders? Good for him.“
Then I found out it was someone else.

 

[Isabeau]

I suppose this could be posted in social media.

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

futurism.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Professor Steve Mann was attacked in Paris because someone thought his Eyetap, which he's been developing and wearing in various forms since the '80s, was a Google Glass.

Neither assailant is a hero.

 

[Free]

Sometimes, our modern age is hilarious.

 

[Noodles]

I have been at the store trying to ask questions on Favebook and will use the Alexa announce feature to make the Alexas at home say "CHECK FACEBOOK" at full volume before.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Another retro-tech Youtuber gets a hold of a PS2 Linux kit and makes me wince....again.


The Linux kit works better with more swap, 512MB is good. Some compiles will fail unless you have it set that high. Also it is best to select custom installation, set up the partitions with 512MB swap and hit the install everything button. Saves time later. The default DE is windowmaker, very NEXT, as shown, but I switched to KDE1x right quick, it worked better. But in the end you're better off running XFCE (I had a 4.2.2 running on it it really wasn't that much different than recent 4.20) or some minimalist environment like Fluxbox.

I still miss that keyboard though. Damn nice keyboard, came in a ready for retail package, but they never released it to retail. Made by Mitsumi. CC sadface. Has a USB port to plug a mouse into. The mouse is a ball mouse, it's okay, but I wish Sony would make an optical version of that mouse, so compact. Sony actually showed off the mouse and keyboard in 2001 at E3 when they were showing future Broadband plans. AOL had a version of AOL on a PS2 attached to a HD flatscreen and that keyboard and mouse.


We PS2 Linux kit owners drooled over that screen, 15" 720p component input, $500 which was a reasonable price back then. PS2 Linux could output decent resolutions over component, but ED/HD TV/monitors with component were expensive! Unless you had a SoG monitor, which I didn't, you were limited in Linux to 610x404 max with NTSC and that only with a modified Xgsx binary. Most games wouldn't work with the Linux kits VGA adapter unless they supported 480p. Sadface.

Some of my configuration files on my current computer, originated on my PS2 Linux kit, most notably my .vimrc. I still have some of my notes from that time so I could still help people solve some PS2 Linux issues. One example, grep on the PS2 used POSIX syntax, not GNU. Which made no sense since it WAS a gnu grep. Probably some system config file set it to use POSIX. I had to use a different "eidocolors" in NetHack because of it.

And yes, I still have the discs, and I've got a sony HDD with a Linux install on it stored away. My only working PS2 has a FFXI hard drive in it, you can store saves on the hard drive and I still have some games with HDD support.

 

[Noodles]

Now I want to know how well a PS2 webserver would run.

I would try but my hard deive adaptor is a bootleg and the network adaptor does not work on it.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Now I want to know how well a PS2 webserver would run.

I would try but my hard deive adaptor is a bootleg and the network adaptor does not work on it.

Fairly well for light traffic, you wouldn't want to run a heavy duty website with lots of scripts, but say a personal blog or something should work okay. The limitation being the RAM.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

My first webserver was a 486 with 10M of RAM and it was fine. Had a Muck and three MUDs and a webserver and an IRC server on it as well. Even ran an alternate root domain server on it for a while. Now my desktop has 64GB. My phone has at least 8GB, I lost track. Sheesh.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I am cursing NetHack's "curses" interface because it is NOT respecting my terminal colors and is using that horrible dark blue, where I'd normally see DodgerBlue.
using standard TTY with IBMgraphics and using the cp437 utility is fine though. as is using curses symset, but not the interface. At least the default Nethack in the repos has curses support compiled in, because doing it yourself while keeping the other interfaces enabled with it is a pain because the nethack build system is archaic.