I recently spotted this tweet: > As a kid I remember watching a documentary about how we do not know how to build somethings our ancestors built and I thought it was ridiculous. This video explains process knowledge in the best way. — Yemi Johnson (@yemi_uc) April 20, 2020 [https://twitter.com/yemi_uc/status/1252054914131546112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I've made the point before - it is less efficient, in a bottom-line, quarter-to-quarter profit margin way to maintain process knowledge of everyth…
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While I had plenty of experience with MySQL and similar databases, I've started learning the ins and outs of MongoDB, and with the appropriate explanation, now "get" why NoSQL is becoming popular. It's pretty straightforward for anyone who's worked with Python dictionaries or JavaScript objects before. That said, my project scope has changed. I'm going to skip doing Python/Flask first. It boils down to the fact that I don't want to mess in multiple languages, and that, despite liking python a…
Eric wrote a good post on the sad goings on at the Open Source Initiative [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609&cpage=1#comment-2367336]. The article, and comments are, as usual, worth reading (even when I disagree with Eric, which is not so much, here). > The historian Robert Conquest once wrote: “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.” Today I learned that the Open Source Initiative has reached that p…
Cataline over at the Dark Herald recommended that if you want a computer upgrade, get it now [https://darkherald.net/2020/03/03/if-you-are-going-to-upgrade-your-computer-do-it-now/] . > No big deal it happens every year. Vendors plan for it by stocking up their inventory. Nobody really likes stocking up their inventory since it ties up a lot of capital in way that can’t be quickly liquidated at need. But it has to be done and once fabrication starts up again the inventories smooth out as the s…
Let's Encrypt is an excellent service and idea, and well executed. Unfortunately, they had a bug in their processes that results in a number of possibly bad certificates [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/lets-encrypt-revoking-https-certs-due-to-certificate-authority-bug/] . Thee short answer is that if you have a site or service that relies on LE via certbot or ACME, you need to go ahead and manually force an update. My cert has been updated within the last two days so it…