I spent some time and moved my What I Use page to WordPress. I finally have a good reason to use the details HTML tag.
I also updated the content! My new music player(s) is the iPod! More about that, soon!
Antranig Vartanian
November 12, 2023
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Antranig Vartanian
November 8, 2023
If youโre seeing this then the migration is done! The weblog has moved from weblog.antranigv.am to antranigv.am.
I have also spent some time updating my About page, I hope I havenโt missed anything important. I will be adding more pages soon, such as link to friends, blogs that I read, what I use, etc.
I hope ActivityPub is working properly with the new domain.
Long Live The Web!
Antranig Vartanian
October 31, 2023
Once a month, the WordPress app on my iPhone stops working. Specifically, it stops loading and sending data. It just “hangs” there. I’m honestly considering using the mobile web interface to blog remotely.
I wish there was MarsEdit for mobile…
Any alternatives or suggestions? Maybe I should use the “Post via Email” feature like back in the good old days ๐
Antranig Vartanian
October 26, 2023
The following happened in a group chat (technically, XMPP Multi-User Chat)
<inky> @antranigv, looks like the sarian website is broken again
<antranigv> @inky, fixed! It was an SSL/TLS certificate issue
<inky> @antranigv, It seems that now, the bot that cross-posts the submissions from sarian to here is not working
<antranigv> Looks like there’s an issue with Ruby. I have to upgrade it
<tigran> This is how the robot revolution begins!
<inky> If we are going to "do it", it will end just like it starts: one robot will fail because of SSL, the other because of a wrong version of ruby.
I’ve been ROFLing for 3 minutes now… xD
Cheers.
Antranig Vartanian
October 25, 2023
This is a Fediverse test… This post might be deleted later.
Antranig Vartanian
September 12, 2023
After 6 weeks of being unproductive, I’m finally able to get things done thanks to a whole day of planning, awesome software and friends pushing me to do better.
See you soon!
Antranig Vartanian
July 10, 2023
In case you didn’t know, OpenSMTPd is so outdated on Ubuntu systems, that you’ll need to install it from sources, otherwise expect some TLS issues ๐
You will need to use the following:
./configure \
--with-user-smtpd=opensmtpd \
--with-user-queue=opensmtpq \
--with-group-queue=opensmtpq
mkdir -p /var/empty
ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /usr/lib/ssl/cert.pem
Congrats, now you have a proper working SMTP server.
Cheers.
Antranig Vartanian
July 4, 2023
Really Apple?
Antranig Vartanian
July 1, 2023
I just learned that the WordPress mobile app supports non-block classical editor. Wow this is a life saver! Now I can blog on the move without opening my laptop or mobile browser!
Antranig Vartanian
July 1, 2023
A customer asked me to help them setup a tiny lab with many open-source tools. They are planning to move from corporate services to open-source alternatives such as NextCloud, Gitea, etc.
Unfortunately, they run only Linux, Ubuntu to be more specific, and as a UNIX gentlemen, I didn’t want to put everything into a single host, so I decided to use containers, in this case, LXC, a.k.a Linux Containers.
How hard could it be?
Oh god, layers of abstraction on within the system that have no idea about each other.
Like, who would assume that LXC would automatically download and install dnsmasq and assign IP addresses without my knowledge, or that it would push rules into the firewall?
The more I use Linux Container, the more I understand why FreeBSD Jails / illumos Zones didn’t win.
People don’t want automation or control, they want “please do this for me as I don’t wanna do it myself” tools.
I’d expect at least a message post-installation that says “We have installed and configured dnsmasq, reconfigured some systemd things, modified the following file (which is not mentioned in any man page, so you can use Google instead of man/apropos) and will use IP address ranges that you didn’t approve”
Is this why Docker won? Is it because people DIDNโT want to learn how to do software packaging? I hope not. I wanna believe its because developers wanted to “think operationally”
Oh, and from a FreeBSD perspective, what’s even more weird is that
- there are no proper manual pages.
- the documentation is weird. It talks about a utility named
lxcbut I’m using 20 utilities namedlxc-*, and I still cannot find the proper documentation for that - it’s very much segmented. For example, on FreeBSD, we talk about which is better, jail.conf, BastilleBSD, pot, AppJail or Jailer. Here the same utility (
lxc) that has multiple config files with no proper versioning, pretty complex manual pages and the not even examples or HowTos.
I’m looking at this and thinking โoh well, if we build a proper tool, I bet we can win some of the marketโ until you realize, of course, that when people hear FreeBSD, they will be thinking โitโs not Linux? maybe itโs not worth it, otherwise I wouldโve heard about itโ
Iโm just angry here. Please ignore my rants.
Cheers yโall.