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New comment by jayofdoom in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

jayofdoom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:47:32 +0000

I used this for a while. It doesn't display HTML emails just fine. It only supports a subset of stuff which -- as a geek is awesome because it protects me -- but would be hideous to give to a normal user. Literally less than half of my emails were readable.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

jayofdoom — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:36:53 +0000

There are over 600 different people contributing to OpenStack in a given six-month release cycle. Approximately 60% of total code by commit count is from Red Hat employees. I'm one of the 600 that don't work at Red Hat, and there are a lot of us.

You should get a sense of the scale of a project before summarily declaring that it has a single point of failure.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

jayofdoom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:53:30 +0000

This is true, sadly -- but the documentation exists and community is friendly to those who wanna build those skills. It's extremely difficult to build something the size of OpenStack without making it so configurable that operating it needs a decoder ring. I'm doing everything I can in Ironic to make it more friendly and flexible out of the box, but it's a difficult problem to solve.

I always tell people: OpenStack can do almost anything you want... if you can configure it to do so :).

New comment by jayofdoom in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

jayofdoom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:51:08 +0000

There's a reason I point out the longevity of OpenStack. As a project, it has significant corporate sponsorship and policies to ensure that one entity can't take over control of it. For instance; the OpenStack Technical Committee is never permitted to have a majority membership made up of a single entity's employees. This means that even though Red Hat, at this stage in it's development, has a majority of contribution, the project itself can never be taken over by a single entity.

People find project governance, and particularly "corporate" involvement in open source to be distasteful -- but in my experience, and OpenStack is a winning example of this -- setting up good boundaries to let companies work together has proven to be sustainable.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

jayofdoom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:48:24 +0000

I'm saying not that OpenStack can replace LocalStack, but instead that LocalStack, by building a project on top of proprietary APIs, set themselves up to fail.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

jayofdoom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:22:11 +0000

More reason to run your infrastructure using open source software in your own datacenter. OpenStack has been around for closing in on two decades, running clouds and being mostly governance-drama-free.

It's not surprising that a proprietary ecosystem built on open source software locked up behind a gate doesn't make a worthwhile ecosystem for building open source tooling against.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

jayofdoom — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:13:26 +0000

The only reason I run android over iOS is the freedom to install things I want on it. A waiting period is unacceptable as Android has proven that it can't be trusted not to tighten the grip further.

Reconsider.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

jayofdoom — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:56:50 +0000

I had the same thought, as an OpenStack developer as well (TBH I don't remember if my username here identifies me or not). Yeah, we can apply as an exceptional case, but realistically us being excluded shows the criteria is very much directed towards "github style" open source.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash"

jayofdoom — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:34:39 +0000

I used to go to a members-only bar in Apex, NC (in NC, at least at the time, if >50% of your sales was alcohol, you had to be a "club"). The last time I ever went there was when someone called the bartender and "reported" a DUI checkpoint down the road and they announced it in the bar.

Why do some folks think it's OK to put other people at risk to this level?

New comment by jayofdoom in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

jayofdoom — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:21:37 +0000

Hard agree. I have their doorbell and some of the wifi light fixtures (that go into mains power). They integrate great with home assistant and record locally.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

jayofdoom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:32:36 +0000

Slackware has no package manager or installer. It's just an extra step removed.

I didn't say Gentoo has no package manager (it does; and it's great!)

New comment by jayofdoom in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

jayofdoom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:05:26 +0000

Thanks for posting this! It's been a nice first year as a Gentoo developer. Everyone has been kind and helpful to me as I've been figuring things out.

I want to highlight something: Gentoo's developer onboarding system is EXCELLENT. Starting as an active member of the general community, you talk an existing developer into being your mentor and fill out an open book test ( https://projects.gentoo.org/comrel/recruiters/quizzes/ebuild... ) which later is graded/corrected in a couple of meetings which I'd equate to the "job interview". I wish more open source projects (including my own) had such well-documented, straightforward processes to gain commit access. I appreciated the process of doing the quiz as it helped me close gaps in my knowledge.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

jayofdoom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:01:42 +0000

I always tell people this:

With Red Hat, Anaconda is the installer. With Ubuntu, ubiquity.

etc ...

With Gentoo -- YOU are the installer. This means you have to be ready to perform -- more or less manually -- many of the tasks automated in other distributions. I sorta see this as the same as a tutorial level in a video game: you learn how to read and follow the wiki which is essentially the key to success in Gentoo.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

jayofdoom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:56:52 +0000

Gentoo is often at the forefront of identifying and helping resolve integration issues between different software projects, particularly when it comes to compiler tech (e.g. fixing packages so they can be built properly with LTO, or with LLVM as well as GCC) or other backend-detail-minutia which makes the whole system better without always being visible to the end user.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

jayofdoom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:54:32 +0000

OP's statement matches my understanding; parts were gentoo-based at one point.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

jayofdoom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:53:28 +0000

Honestly this is just sorta a Tuesday for an advanced Gentoo user? There are lots of ways to do this documented on the Gentoo wiki. Ask in IRC or on the Forum if you can't find it. "Catalyst" is the method used by the internal build systems to produce images, for instance https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Catalyst.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

jayofdoom — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:13:18 +0000

This is called "digital sovereignty", and it has been a major topic for OpenInfra foundation and other open source cloud foundations. Open source, and open cloud software, is the way to ensure your data can stay inside your own borders and be governed by your local laws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvz2PcHq0yY is one example of folks talking about this, but realistically you can find talks from OpenStack/OpenInfra going back 4/5 years on this topic.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

jayofdoom — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:51:13 +0000

In OpenStack, we explicitly document what our log levels mean; I think this is valuable from both an Operator and Developer perspective. If you're a new developer, without a sense of what log levels are for, it's very prescriptive and helpful. For an operator, it sets expectations.

https://docs.openstack.org/oslo.log/latest/user/guidelines.h...

FWIW, "ERROR: An error has occurred and an administrator should research the event." (vs WARNING: Indicates that there might be a systemic issue; potential predictive failure notice.)

New comment by jayofdoom in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

jayofdoom — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:39:04 +0000

Yep. Vimeo is the tech infrastructure from the original collegehumor, and Dropout still uses it.

New comment by jayofdoom in "Show HN: DidMySettingsChange – A tool that checks changed windows settings"

jayofdoom — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:33:29 +0000

It is. Most distros have a verify built into their packaging systems. For example; https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...