Notices by Iris (iris_meredith@mastodon.social)

@inthehands You might be better off with Hetzner, Terraform and some light containerisation (I've templates that I'm willing to share for that), but I've mostly heard good things about Coolify

It is surprisingly hard to express "the primary demographic for startup founders at the moment is nepobaby failsons" in a way that's appropriate for consumption by investors.

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria

Software developers have to be one of the communities most vulnerable to propaganda that I've ever known.

I have just been called gay for baking my own bread and growing vegetables while also running Fedora KDE and using UV as my Python environment manager. I feel this is unfair: I don't even know Rust.

@simon_brooke Nope. Not dealing with all those fucking brackets

@simon_brooke Oh, so we're doing this?

If I'm trying to write something genuinely performant, I'll write in C. Otherwise, python is convenient and not too bad.

@skinnylatte OK, but surely the cooking type thing doesn't apply to dumpling-adjacent foodstuffs? Like if you told a Polish crowd that they were only allowed one dish of pierogi, they'd riot.

@anildash @jalcine

I mean, I have to ask here: what does good AI criticism look like? I've taken a shot at writing a bunch, but it feels as though the moment I stumble across something decent ("AI proponents are largely dumbfucks playing status games, so what they say about the technical guts of it is suspect at best"), it winds up being labelled as too much of a humanities thing and thrown out on those grounds.

@jalcine Goddess, that was bizarre, and I know exactly what you mean. Still, speaking as someone with some expertise in propaganda, the fact that LLM discourse is structured *exactly* like a propaganda campaign is hard to ignore. @anildash

Understanding that the USA isn't the only meaningful country in the world seems to be a real stretch for a lot of Americans at the moment.

@dalias Oh, FFS. Is there an EU-based cloud provider that *isn't* bigoted? Or does this end with me running my website off a box in the garage?

So, in the process of migrating my website from Vercel to Hetzner, I was able to do a pretty good write-up of what I did. If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps (or alternatively, point out all the things I've done wrong) , I think it's a decent guide!

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/vercel_hetzner

Sysadmins of Mastodon, please share your knowledge with me! I have a Hetzner server set up that's running my website on a secondary domain. Before I fully make the transition, I want to make sure security is entirely correct. I have disabled root login and am only allowing access to the user account via SSH, I have a firewall up, and everything is updated. The internal code I've written should also be up to scratch.

What am I missing? I really want this to be as airtight as it can be.

This one just keeps getting more and more relevant in some uncomfortable ways:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/fascism_mirror

I gotta say, however progressive and anti-racist the takes, minimising or denying voter intimidation of women by men leaves a *really* bad taste in my mouth.