Elvith Ma'for

I think he’s searching for sarcasm, no?

Guess why he came with a truck and not on a cargo bike…

That’s a roll bar

[…] in my other jobs we were using Google Workspace which only shows metadata because of that[…]

Rare moment when Google is mentioned as behaving GDPR compliant… I mean, I know that big tech is vacuuming up all data and doesn’t care about GDPR, but still… You can be worse than effing Google?

Assuming you do have a place to host it (even at home on your PC, or an old PC, not necessarily reachable from the internet), and assuming you know a bit about docker, it’s quite easy actually.

Where it all started for me: https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker

Note that the example above in the beginner variant uses Caddy as a webserver which - by default - assumes you’re running it on a server that can be publicly reached from the internet and won’t start up correctly otherwise - e.g. at home - unless you change some config.

Yes, im in the Matrix chat - thanks!

LOL, at a quick glance one might even be able abuse a scheduled job on free-tier GitHub runner for the data update and host it statically on GitHub pages.

“Serverless for the poor”

Not the person you replied to, but: my own on my server. Con: I have to do the administration. Pro: I started using it, noted my preferred default settings and just set those as a server side default where possible. Also I have full control over which engines are enabled per default and which are available generally.

Took me a bit to tweak it, though.

Is there standards body that promulgates them?

https://xkcd.com/927/

Measure once
Cut once twice
Measure again
Cut another time

^🫲🌮^🫱

Usually you run it on a potato

I wonder if there is a real reason why it’s needed, or they just engineered themselves into a bad corner…

Same. They do have some features that sound kinda sane and may play a role here - like the system field are write protected. Programs can request to run a script on start-up to modify them before the write-protection kicks in. Also they might want/think it’s a good idea to run some part of the updates on the new kernel version instead of the old one or maybe do a cleanup on a successful boot or so. Also, maybe they want to force a reboot straight to Windows before the update is finished to prevent problems with dual boot - that could rule out “install and shutdown and only continue with the remainder on the next boot”. Also it might be for convenience, as the next boot is as fast as usual and you do not see 10 mins of “applying updates” when you didn’t calculate with that.

But if you offer “install and shutdown”, it should shutdown in the end and not stay on the lock screen and hopefully go into sleep mode…

Never tried it, and IIRC, motd is just a text file - but does that stop you from running a systemd timer to update it every few minutes? Or, if it’s your own server and there’s only a single user (logging in), put a script in your profile that changes the motd for the next login?

So… Is the company on question a construction company or a brothel?

I somewhat get it - end as much processes as possible, apply everything that is possible, then restart and apply the remainder. My pet peeve is just that it should automatically shut down after applying the updates instead of staying at the lock screen, when I say install and shutdown…

Last week I noticed that Lemmy doesn’t like certain characters when posting URLs and silently replaces them - in my case %20 got converted into + which broke my link. I experimented a bit with other „percent encoded“ values and there are more that get replaced.

I’m currently collecting a bit of data to open a bug report - links even get changed when put in a codeblock or inline code…

Check this comment out where I used every possible value from %00 to %FF in URLs. The second half (above %80) gets wild

https://feddit.org/comment/6990267

2)There’s nothing you can’t “undo”. I think you’re overthinking this.

Adding to this: Deploying via Docker (or podman or k8s or…) and/or installing every host via Ansible makes this even easier.

665.99983726383 - The number of the Pentium beast

Thats the problem. Say, I’m offering you a cloud drive and tell you “your data is end to end encrypted”. You sync data from your PC to my server and from my server to your mobile phone. Would that mean

1. That everything between your devices is encrypted (=I can’t see what you’re saving, neither can “the state”, hackers,…)or
2. That your data is encrypted in transit, but is saved unencrypted on my server (which means everyone with access to my server can see your data) or
3. It’s encrypted in transit and also on my server, but the keys are also ony server, so that everyone with access to my server can in theory decrypt everything and access everything?

1 is what you want, 2 and 3 are often what you get…