Notices by James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)

@gangrif Nah, it's the right platform from the available choices, it's just that their various UI's are seriously unpolished. Once that improves and becomes less buggy it will do fine.

@whitequark portal 2 has great two player coop!

@whitequark It kills me. I am constantly very frustrated by the lack of less than perfect healthcare due to fixable issues (funding, training, staffing, culture, etc...)

For the record, I have not personally worked in OR's, but I am a physiologist by training, used to work in an ambulance, and I'm friends with and have talked to many, many doctors. My experience is in Montreal, Canada, YMMV elsewhere.

@whitequark Ouch? Seriously though, most of the time when servers go down, people don't die =D

@whitequark They are not allowed to make such mistakes, but unfortunately when they do, they're not necessarily found out, and there is an unhealthy culture of secrecy and covering up in some operating rooms.

If you follow the pattern, let the server go down just don't let anyone find out =D

"No, you must have copied that file to a different server, sorry." #BOFH

@whitequark Don't remember the specific time codes, but he mentions a bunch of issues, including one where the cursors disappear and so on...

@whitequark Funny timing, I just watched this review of that exact same scope, and TBQH, it did not impress me.

Video may be useful as a heads up for some bugs and other workarounds.

Glad to hear it's working well for you!

https://youtu.be/EFEuWGFDL9U?t=86

@Gargron @Ameboid I don't get out much. 😅

@Gargron @Ameboid That's fantastic news!

@Gargron @Ameboid Honestly, one thing that turns off a huge number of people is calling it "toot". The sooner we stop using that term, the sooner there's a chance of non-super-nerds using this platform too =D

@whitequark @mntmn Fair enough. My initial "apparently" was meant to imply something I overheard that I had not researched much. I guess you rightly prompted that. Sounds like you should get a side-job as peer review for a journal =D Good intuition.

@whitequark @mntmn Some casual reading seems to indicate PVA is not a major risk, but probably isn't a good thing. I remember the old days we used to just throw in some soap powder and that was it.

This article has a decent summary.

https://time.com/7320935/dishwasher-pods-plastic/

@whitequark @mntmn Something I read or overheard and definitely didn't confirm by reading any papers. An internet search of "dishwasher pva microplastics" (pva == polyvinyl alcohol) seems to have a number of references, but I can't vouch for any personally.

@mntmn @whitequark Apparently the dissolvable pouches basically put a zillion microplastics down the drain.

@whitequark @migratory @wingo ping purpleidea in #mgmtconfig:matrix.org please =D

@whitequark @migratory @wingo Gotcha. It might take me a bit of digging to figure it out, but I can probably get at least the rough template there, and it's likely you'll know exactly where I missed the point.

Are you interested in joining our matrix channel where it might be easier to go back and forth on this or has matrix scarred us all too much? 😅

I'll try and get some initial code running as a POC.

@whitequark @migratory @wingo Yup, we can do exactly this.

1) Catherine pushes the new SSL cert to etcd

2) Within probably around 1 second, every host will have that new SSL cert deployed and running.

Does that sound acceptable?

(Modulus etcd <--> machine latency should probably be < 100ms, since that's the default etcd raft timeout... You can change this but we never experimented with that.)

@whitequark @migratory @wingo This is a very insightful way of dealing with credentials. We will eventually have natively doing this for you, but it will look like this.

@whitequark @migratory @wingo Your request doesn't seem to imply any need to coordinate between the three, so it's not difficult to just run mgmt standalone. Which I can do.

But maybe you'd like the more fun thing of doing some magic clustering ensuring you have N different copies of it running at a time.

@whitequark @migratory @wingo Okay! I could build you something if you'd like. One caveat: we currently support two "coordination" backends. (We call it the "world" backend.) The main one is etcd. This is needed if you want things happening on machine A to be influenced by things on machine B.

We don't really recommend world-scale coordination over etcd, but it would probably work. Eventually we could add an AP (CAP theorem) backend instead of the CP one that etcd has.

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