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Moving house, and trying to set things up more properly this time. I had been running opensmtpd, but have heard questionable things about openbsd code, and it’s annoying to configure. Qmail seems nice in some respects—modular, configurable, secure, large patch ‘ecosystem’, etc.; my dad runs it—but last I looked into it it wanted to be djbbuilt and djbrun in a special djbway, which just...

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I’m aware of basic stuff like: make jobs idempotent/incremental try to keep configuration flags standard across jobs make data input/output artifacts apparent by passing them explicitly and/or logging their full paths eliminate toil (from the Google SRE book) try set up alerting in a way that avoids alarm fatigue But I can’t think of any specific resources that have practical advice on how to...

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

To give an example: I had pretty amazing results with https://github.com/openai/whisper in transcribing audio. I’m interested in hearing what model you used, whether it required a GPU and if you had to do any tweaking on it. What comes to mind is using some models from Python to programmatically remove objects from videos, stylize photos with stable diffusion, etc. Thanks!

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

Feel free to post your current setup/battlestation/screenshots! I really enjoy these every year, and while deskto.ps is now a great place for screenshots, this really encapsulates everyone’s larger battlestations :) Previous threads can be found at: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 - Still Missing… I don’t even know if it happened in 2016… 2015

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Happy New Year. It’s now 2024. With everything you know and seen as of today, what would be your ideal blogging platform? Please give your opinion as either content consumer and/or producer. With the proliferation of walled gardens (specially for consuming web content), lock-in, continuos nagging to sign-in everywhere, spam, push for social validation, adverts, bait and switch offerings, etc. can’t help but think...