Sacha Ligthert 🇳🇱🇬🇧 @sacha@ligthert.net

If all goes well, the electricity bill of the home server I am building will be lower than the combined bills of all cloud hosting parties I am using to store data and run VMs.

I passed my AWS Certified Developer -- Associate exam, to celebrate AWS decided to wreck their infrastructure! ;-)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet

@numi #numi /id

#pip keeps ruining my evening. I only want to install the v3.10.2 #stockfish library, not an entirely different version (v1.0.4) of an entirely different library (stockfishy or something). How can I explain this to pip?

It has been on my wishlist for a while now to create a chessbot for the fediverse in Python. All the components are there; mastodon/fediverse libraries, stockfish and a lib that generates images.

I have a deadline this Wednesday, once that is passed, its time to open Atom again and start scripting. 🙂

I don't know much about the art world, so I looked at some zoom broadcast with a friend of mine. Their pretentiousness was funny and cringe, but I lost my sides when Marina Abramović said: " Covid-19 needs to adapt to us instead of we needing to adapt to Covid-19 "

My sides were launched into orbit. 😂

Cool. Just discovered that I cannot load attachments to my toots ( I receive a 404 error in the lower left corner ). Guess its back to debugging Mastodon.

Updating #mastodon went great! The instructions underneath https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.2.1 paired with https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/upgrading/ didn't help much. I ended up redoing portions of the installation process and had to edit the Gemfile.lock. But managed it in the end...

I am not comfortable with any of the technologies used for mastodon. I am happy I managed to get it working again in the first place. 😅

I've been looking into replacing our old saltstack and salt-cloud installation to deploy, provision and manage a fleet of EC2 instances in AWS, and unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything that is just as cheap as salt ( read: free ) that is stable enough. I've looked into Ansible (Tower) and CFengine so far, does anyone has suggestions for me to look into?

Written a small program that fetches JSON from an webserver, unmarshals it and prints it to a screen. Its not much, but its something for a first try.

Its going to be a long night of Golang and TiDi (Courtesy of test and pandafam). Lets relax a little and enjoy IT.

Despite elevated infections in the region I visited the two pubs I frequent. Just one more time before they close for at least 4 weeks. It felt like some bitter sweet wake with friends. Knowing well that some may not survive the next 4 weeks making the entire visit a sort of goodbye.

While my spirits was optimistic during this evening, now at home the reality is slowly setting in and there may no coming back from this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hTQC1CZko

Everything I know is a lie. 😞

Having coded in #PHP and #Python for years (as a simple sys-admin) my foray into #Go isn't going well. To be honest, I feel lost. Very lost.

This is going to be so much fun! 🙂

Thanks to the Youtube recommendation algorithm I stumbled on this documentary on the UK Sound underground music from the late '80s/early 90's till now, how it progressed over time and its influences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAllUgXyto&list=PLlCEg4hCa1LHLLYk4KQQIGPMhXFy2FMXY

Having listened to the earlier works in the early 90's it might explain my migration into the D&B scene ~10 years ago was effortless and felt natural.

Quick question: How long do #mastodon documentation PRs usually take before they get processed?

(Ref: https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/pulls)

I went to the #ejabberd chat channel and got pointed to https://git.chinwag.org/chinwag/ejabberd-auth-mastodon

This solved all my issues in one go. 🙂

My mastodon user/pass are also the same user/pass for the jabber server! ❤️

Licaon_Kter or Licaon Kter, if you ever read this; thank you!

While this may be funny, I did make me wonder if ones seniority can be determined by the reliance on #StackOverflow (or sources outside the documentation in general for that matter). 🤔

I am trying to have an instance of #ejabberd authenticate against this #mastodon instance using ejabberd external authentication mechanism. The intent is to create and manage users in Mastodon and automatically offer (group)chat functionality via XMPP using the same credentials.

I still need to write the script that does ext.auth, but I figured out that the contents of users.encrypted_password field in the database can be compared using python3's bcrypt.checkpw() function.

So far so good. 🙂