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What's your approach with Ansible verbosity?
  • Oh thanks for the heads up, I should've read it more carefully :P

  • What's your approach with Ansible verbosity?

    I recently stumbled upon a problem: I wanted the stdout of a command task to be printed after execution, so I toggled the global -v flag. However, the service module is apparently verbose as shit and printed like a 100 lines and uhh.... that's a costly tradeoff O_o

    Seems like a PR for a task-level verbosity keyword has been proposed, yet rejected.

    I'm aware it's possible to just register the stdout of the command and print it in a following debug task, but I wonder if there's a prettier solution.

    How would you go about this? Ever encountered such a feeling?

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    What benefits do you get for being on-call?
  • Based in Israel, don't get anything. This is standard as our contacts usually specify that a third of our salary is legally considered compensation for overtime.

    There's no defined schedule, it's mostly "whoever is available will take care of the incident, and if multiple people are available then they should join too". It will obviously not go smoothly if you're never available. This is terrible, I wonder if there are any other places that behave like this.

    It should be noted that this isn't weird considered the working hours are quite bad compared to the OECD, not terrible though.

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  • Me with every post here

  • Mastering curl: interactive text guide
  • I'd be scared to perform POST/PUT with LLM-generated commands. For immutable calls I agree though

  • Anon donates plasma
  • Terrible choice of name

  • Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com
  • I guess they were referring to formatting other than tabs, like place of brackets and line length, which sounds like a neat idea

  • Anon is bewildered
  • He's literally me that's why I posted. Commenters won't get it

  • i need to stop argue with liberals
  • Well put, thank you for taking the time to write this. You're incredibly eloquent

  • Best practices for navigating file structure via terminal?
  • I'm using both of them:) zoxide comes with a zi command which lets you search through your recent directories

  • Thoughts on makedeb, Debian's unofficial makepkg clone that comes with its own version of the AUR as well?
    docs.makedeb.org Introduction | makedeb Docs

    A simplicity-focused packaging tool for Debian archives.

    Saw the post here regarding CentOS's off-springs and a couple of people brought up the excellent point of: why play with fire? Let's just stick to Debian.

    The only disadvantage I currently see is the outdated packages, and I'm curious whether makedeb solves them. Does anyone here use it regularly? How stable and comfortable is it? Did you write your own PKGBUILDs?

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    Reading the Python Official Documentation is rugged
  • Yep, it's more of a reference. I like the argparse tutorial and would love to see more docs of this kind though

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    Anon lives on the margins.
  • Nah 30 hours/week for insurance? It's mandatory here starting from 1hr/week 😭 Thanks for the explanation

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    Anon lives on the margins.
  • can only get 25 hrs a week because obongocare

    Uh can an American explain this? Obamacare sets a cap for weekly working hours?

  • Reading the Python Official Documentation is rugged
  • I feel the same and I've been using Python for years professionally. It's the lack of examples for me; usually functions and classes aren't meant to be used as-is but rather fed as an argument into some other function or class, and this info is seldom portrayed in the func's documentation. E.g. the documentation of BaseHTTPRequestHandler is one that I trip over every single time, I have to resort to reading the source code of SimpleHTTPRequestHandler to remember how handlers are supposed to be defined 🐺

  • Recent Outages
  • Nah I thought the same but then I manually checked it. In most of the image posts I see, the image URL starts with lemmy.org.il, which made me wonder whether they're actually downloaded or it's some kind of whacky proxy. So I downloaded some of these pics and looked for files of identical size and hash digest, and indeed they were on my disk!

    It's not a bad decision to cache pics, because it does make the experience really smooth, and I'm not complaining about it. Mastodon does this as well

  • Recent Outages
  • Yeah, pretty big storage requirement due to the way pictrs works. Pictrs is the piece of software Lemmy relies upon to manage image storage, uploads, and most importantly: caches pictures from other instances. This takes up a HUGE amount of storage space, and there's no official way to clear this up, see these posts I recently made: first one, second one. The solution I resorted to is renting a 1TB storage box from Hetzner for 3 euros per month, pretty sweet deal but I was kinda annoying by it. So the cheapest deal I could find costs me 6 euros per month: 3 for an Alma Linux ARM VPS from Hetzner, and 3 for that storage box. If you're in for the fun in tinkering (I sure as hell am in), then get ready for a good time. Other than that, if your main line of reasoning is to take burden off of lemmy.world, then I think just go ahead and join another instance. Better yet: join croud funding of another instnace:)

  • Not our chosen leaders. Not our way of life.
  • I'm with you

  • Anon is old
  • It's okay we all know the answer

  • How do I know which pics on my Lemmy instance are safe to delete
  • Okay, you may not gonna like it but I rented a 1TB storage box from Hetzner for 3 euros a month, just to get that foot off my neck. It's omega cheap and mountable via CIFS so life is good for now. I'm still interested in what I described in the OP, and I even started scribbling some Python, but I'm too scared of fucking anything up as of now.

    The annoying part in writing that script was discovering that the filenames on disk don't match the filenames in the URLs. E.g., given this URL:
    https://lemmy.org.il/pictrs/image/e6a0682b-d530-4ce8-9f9e-afa8e1b5f201.png. You'd expect that somewhere inside volumes/pictrs you'd find e6a0682b-d530-4ce8-9f9e-afa8e1b5f201.png, right...? So that's not how it works, the filenames are of the exact same format but they don't match.

    So my plan was to find non-local posts from the post table, check whether the thumbnail_url column starts with lemmy.org.il (assuming that means my instance cached it), then finding the file by downloading it via the URL and scanning the pictrs directory for files that match the exact size in bytes of the downloaded files. Once found, compare their checksums to be sure it's the same one, then delete it and delete its post entry in the database.

    When get close to 1TB I'll get back here for this idea... :P

  • We need a guillotine emoji.
  • I think you took the joke a bit too seriously

    Edit: oh wait wtf I didn't notice the post body. I agree with you then lol

  • Anon can't sleep
  • get-with-the-times-old-man.tar.xz

  • Writing Python like it’s Rust
    kobzol.github.io Writing Python like it’s Rust

    I started programming in Rust several years ago, and it has gradually changed the way I design programs in other programming languages, most notably in Python. Before I started using Rust, I was usually writing Python code in a very dynamic and type-loose way, without type hints, passing and returni...

    One of my fav Python writeups. I love Python and luckily I get to dictate how it's being written in my job, so I'm forcing types down the through of my colleagues. Saved a bunch of debugging time, so I can waste more time on Lemmy while still getting paid. Good shit

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    How do I know which pics on my Lemmy instance are safe to delete

    $ cd lemmy-dir $ du -sh * 456K lemmy-ui 15G pictrs 4.3G postgres

    Guys this is no longer funny please I feel literally chased by the "no space left" message. Please help I don't need those pics I did not upload them

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    How's your praxis going

    I've been dabbling in the past year and a half with getting into orgs, which haven't been that hard since I live in a big city, but I still had trouble staying consistent with it or feeling like I have any actual impact.

    I went through orgs dealing with asylum seekers, unions for part-time workers, food security, fun local events that raise money for the aforementioned food security project, and now I landed in an org dealing with helping low-wage workers getting benefits that their employers stole from them. Most of them are refugees, some are Palestinians, which does feel somewhat impactful, but it's still a minority.

    These were all great orgs with moral people, but the catch is that I can't be passive with it like in my work. There aren't really any managers that are responsible for finding me work at these orgs, because they're busy with their own work. There are no Bullshit Jobs there. I need to ask around and find work myself.

    This is exhausting, especially while juggling a 9-5 and a couple of hobbies, and while I'm fully aware of the capitalistic scam of keeping us busy working instead of organizing, I'm yet still frustrated with it. Anyone feeling the same? I hope it'll get more impactful as my life gets more stable, and I have an overall optimistic feeling about this, but non the less the helplessness I feel right now is real :(

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    Self hosting my own Lemmy instance was so much fun

    Y'all should try it! I loved seeing it popping on other instances' /instances page, and seeing it polling other communities. Also changing the background in my theme was lit.

    Lemmy's hosting documentation is a bit rough around the edges, especially the ARM situation (and its contemporary solution), so I had some extra tinkering to do. No shade at all yeah? I appreciate every bit of their work and I jotted down some points that I need to consolidate into a documentation PR soon.

    Anyway, I feel like the extra @... on our usernames should be worn as a badge of honor you feel me? ;)

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    maor maor @lemmy.org.il

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