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Reply: How moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us 230,000$ /yr
Our transition from AWS to bare-metal infrastructure underscores the fact that while cloud services such as AWS offer robust flexibility and power, they may not always be the most economical choice...
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I was pretty horrified to be greeted by this message whilst running #ubuntu today. I’ve always enjoyed Ubuntu as a distro that “just works” but I’m starting to get pretty frustrated with Canonical...
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Account Portability in the Social Web
Reposted Account portability in the social web — underlap by underlap. …In an interoperable world, users want to be able to move between providers with minimal friction to avoid “lock-in”…...
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Serving Django inside Docker the Right Way
I’m working on a couple of side projects that use django and I’m a big fan of docker for simplifying deployment. Django is a bit of a strange beast in that, it has a simple, single-threaded...
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Migrating Users Across Servers With RSync
I recently needed to migrate some user data from one Ubuntu server to another. It was not possible for me to clone the full disk so I opted to copy the user data and re-create the user accounts on the...
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TIL: Accessing Google Storage Buckets with gcloud sdk on an M2 Pro/MacOS 14.2.1
I recently ran into a strange issue where I was struggling to get the GCloud SDK to work properly on Mac 14.2.1. I used brew to install the package brew install google-cloud-sdk and added it to my...
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Gitea/Forgejo Actions and PostgreSQL Tests
I am building a recipe app in django and I want to be able to test the app within the CI pipelines when I push to my self-hosted gitea repository. The Problem Github actions already has a postgresql...
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Moving from Gitea to Forgejo including Actions with Docker Compose
I just moved from gitea to forgejo and the process could not have been simpler. I’m really impressed. I suppose since the latter was until very recently a soft fork of gitea, I shouldn’t be surprised...
View ArticleBroken Sites in Firefox with Proton Pass v1.15
This morning I noticed that there were some weird things happening in Firefox and pages were crashing all over the place including my wordpress editor, my umami console and various other pages. I had...
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Ditch that ChatGPT Subscription: Moving to Pay-as-you-Go AI usage with Open...
Introduction In the world of AI assistants, subscription services like ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro and Google One AI have become increasingly popular amongst knowledge workers. However these subscription...
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