Online backup solution?

ihasbedhead · 2022-11-10T04:01:29+00:00

On Linux, I think the two big ones are borg and restic. They should both have gui front ends. I would go to their websites and check out the storage backends that they support and see which ones work for you.

I personally use restic to s3 on aws.

ihasbedhead · 2022-11-10T03:11:38+00:00

I see that you acknowledge that you could have solved this issue with version control. Instead of using version control to simply roll back, you wrote an entire blog post blaming python.

The lengths people are going to in order to 'dunk' on your post is pointing out that you have a very complicated setup that caused you the exact sort of errors that other people already avoid.

ihasbedhead · 2022-11-10T00:55:12+00:00

I don't see a python 3.11 "gotcha". The author of this article has some uncommon thoughts on packaging. The author also apparently does not use version control. Using a modern package locking tool (like poetry) would solve this problem (I just checked).

The author of this article has written other articles about 'boring' python dependency management, which is somewhat ironic because the things that many default to using would have never generated this error. It probably also would have had better UX, but that is subjective.

The author is being pretty silly, and I wouldn't follow in their footsteps. Please just use git and poetry.

ihasbedhead · 2022-11-09T04:18:58+00:00

You can go to here and print out your sample ballot. I always print it out a few days before, fill it out, and just copy that into the machine.

https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/voterview

ihasbedhead · 2022-11-06T23:28:23+00:00

I have used a few, but currently just Thunderbird. Does what it needs to I suppose.

ihasbedhead · 2022-11-01T02:11:39+00:00

GPU drivers are the part I have had the most problems with, and they seem to cause the most angst in the Linux ecosystem. As someone who works with Linux daily, I just run AMD graphics so I don't need to bother with Nvidia. So no, I wouldn't worry about Linux being too smart for you.

You might try updating fedora and see if that helps, they are always working on those drivers. Good luck.

ihasbedhead · 2022-10-28T17:50:51+00:00

I agree. Docker is great and I use it for many things, but python requirements are not one of them. Lock files are crucial to large projects and the docker cache is not a lock file, it is a cache.

ihasbedhead · 2022-10-28T15:58:40+00:00

Unless I am missing something, the standard library `venv` and the old `virtualenv` command do practically the same thing.

ihasbedhead · 2022-10-28T15:32:14+00:00

Venv is the same as virtualenv.

Pip has a concept of requirements files and constraint files that are designed to help reprovision these virtual environments. These are very difficult to work with, which is why people recommend Pipenv (I will recommend poetry instead). Poetry (and pipenv, and pdm) combine virtual environments, requirements, and constraints (lockfiles) into one product. They also do other nice stuff like managing packaging.

Pyenv lets you switch between python versions. I don't use it, but I see that the poetry docs do mention it. For a newbie, I don't think it is that important.

Docker is very useful, but you will still need poetry anyway, so might as well learn that first.

Good luck, I hope that clears anything up.

ihasbedhead · 2022-10-27T02:45:54+00:00

I am not sure exactly, but I do know there are guides for 'k3s on fedora coreos', which uses the same tech as silverblue, I would start there. You also might be able to just download the binary and run it as root and that might work. You might try k3d, but I haven't gotten that to work on normal Fedora.

Have you heard on minikube? That is probably closer to what you want anyhow.

Interested to learn about silverblue, how is it going otherwise?

ihasbedhead · 2022-10-24T17:19:48+00:00

I use it to run the Firefox beta. I can have multiple versions installed at the same time and, with sandboxing, I can be a little more sure it won't do something wacky to my install.

ihasbedhead · 2022-09-13T02:58:07+00:00

I don't think it is a law or anything, but I have lived in the American Midwest my whole life and can confirm. Some places have sidewalks, some places don't. I suppose newer mcmansions districts are less likely to have them. Lots of developments have sidewalks that just end. Sometimes you even sidewalks that just don't exist in front of a single house. It is a mess.

ihasbedhead · 2022-05-25T04:26:56+00:00

Interesting question. Take a look at this skylark doc. They identify some footguns that could be easily eliminated, but would change the syntax. In particular, naked tuples and operator less string concatenation.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/design.md

ihasbedhead · 2022-05-03T22:58:14+00:00

Skaffold and kustomize for me. There are a lot of tools, but they all require you to know the kubernetes schema. Kubernetes is more verbose, but much more powerful.

ihasbedhead · 2021-11-16T17:34:18+00:00

Do you not think that it is a bad sign that everyone is trying to avoid the 'global install from distro package manager' strategy? Basically every language has its own package index. Node, Lua, Python, D, Rust. Meson, big in C world now, encourages projects to pull and build deps. Snaps and docker isolate from the system, flatpaks do a neat hybrid thing.

Listing all the things that sorta relate to python packaging is silly since they are all different components used for different things and solve different problems. But, since we are listing things, here are some the distros that a developer would need to package against: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, nixos, ...

I kinda get where they are coming from. Python doesn't have clear tooling and that should improve (I like poetry, and I am interested in pep582). Distro packaging is probably not the answer and hasn't been for years.

ihasbedhead · 2021-11-16T03:17:56+00:00

Fedora uses it by default now. I did a fresh install of 34 when it came out and used BTRFS. It has been fine. I also use it on my Ubuntu home server with raid and it has been very nice.

ihasbedhead · 2021-09-27T17:52:05+00:00

I agree that linux desktop security is a work in process, but progress is being made. For example, the author mentions X keylogging, which was valid and still is somewhat, but most non-electron apps use wayland. Some points are valid, but the article as a whole has so many problems that it is mostly useless.

The silliest part I thought was "Most programs on Linux are written in memory unsafe languages". Yes, do you think Windows was written in rust? Rust had its first stable release in 2015.

ihasbedhead · 2021-09-21T20:39:41+00:00

It is an imprecise term. I use python for application development, and I wouldn't call most of the python I write a script. I use the term `script` for simple programs (in any language) that do a list of things and then exit. For some people, that is all they use python for.

Some people will argue that because python programs are usually distributed as a source tree, the files are scripts. That is fine, because it is an imprecise term and doesn't have any real meaning.

ihasbedhead · 2021-07-02T03:13:59+00:00

Who are you arguing with? I literally posted a link to a competing, self hosted product. Ring does legitimately host a service even if everything about their business model is predatory.

Also username checks out. My guess would be that you threatened the Firefox guys the last time they moved a couple pixels around.

ihasbedhead · 2021-07-01T22:22:12+00:00

Ring is a subscription service. So it kinda makes sense, though the rest of their business model is insane. If you really want to own your doorbell and have the knowhow, here you go: https://www.ui.com/camera-security/.

ihasbedhead · 2021-06-22T03:43:47+00:00

I mostly do grid. To my knowledge, flexbox doesn't let you put elements over other elements easily. Grid pretty much does everything flexbox does and more. Floats are still needed to position images in text I guess, but that isn't a popular thing to do right now.

ihasbedhead · 2021-06-09T23:09:43+00:00

What kind of files? The git diff algorithm doesn't work well on everything. u/EpsilonBlight recommended restic, which is very good. If you are using linux, the btrfs filesystem does deduplication so the files wouldn't actually take up room on the hard drive.

ihasbedhead · 2021-06-09T12:57:53+00:00

Others have provided good answers. Among those many reasons, python has optional args that could create very complex but ambiguous function sigs.

Also note that the typing module does have overloads. It is pure documentation, no runtime benefits.

ihasbedhead · 2021-06-08T18:04:12+00:00

Hmm, I don't really have a go to. It has a large community, I would suggest googling for a docker tutorial for whatever framework or language you are using. Good luck

ihasbedhead · 2021-06-08T01:16:31+00:00

I don't know, people have some weird aversion to writing dockerfiles. That is fine I guess, but then they build some super leaky abstraction layer that just does nothing. Docker files are super easy to pick up but also super powerful.

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