Alex Bissessur

Hi! I’m Alex, a Kubernetes-focused gremlin from the tropical island of Mauritius. I do Cloud Native stuff for work, and for my overengineered homelab. I’m also an advocate for Free and Open Source Software over here, and am an active face in the developer/tech community.

When I’m not doing Kubernetes, I am probably doing something with Linux or playing with SBCs!
Will paint your servers green ;)

Please have something in your account before sending a follow-req, thank you :)

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-13

There's also a 2012 Macbook Pro, and a 2010 Mac Mini which will need some attention.

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-13

I also picked up a Thinkpad L580 from the same trash pile. This one had a smashed screen, which I gladly removed. Now I have a desktop with an i5-8th gen, and it will get the Linux treatment in due time.

thinkpad on my bed, with the screen disconnected from the keyboard part. the text "lobotomised thinkpad" is written on top of the screen
Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-13

Got my hands on a 2010 Macbook Pro. Did you know, Apple no longer hosts the MacOS version for this laptop so the network restore does not work!

In other news, I got Arch running with LUKS and I'm kinda pleased with it. It's not an awful laptop.

picture taken by my phone, of the screen of the macbook. a terminal is on screen with the output of neofetch
Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-09

Last Saturday, there were no tech meetups. Got the chance to hold up the big pride flag, block some traffic, get filmed by half of Mauritius, make a few friends, and catch a cold.
Pity my friends from college are all in uni and weren't around to attend :P

small ikea blahaj hanging from its tail from someone's shoulder. pride flag also draped over shouldersstream of balloons in rainbow colours
in the background, a large pride flag is being held horizontallypicture from beneath the large pride flag which is being held horizontally, right as the wind lifts it upstream of balloons in trans flag colours
Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-08

@_who_up_instancing_they_host @famfo i just logged on for today, hello šŸ‘‹

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-03

@jana Oh, damn, that's true. Admittedly I can't really avoid single points of failure - power cuts, my ISP router, fiber line, and so on. A ugreen charger would be the least unstable factor in my homelab I think haha

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-06-03

@jana That would be pretty fun to power the micro PCs which make up my K3s cluster because they are all 65W. Replacing the cables and power bricks with just this one charger sounds interesting (albeit expensive)

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-31

I've been trying to write some Rust to interact with Kubernetes through kube-rs. It's in times like these that I'm grateful not to be a dev by profession.
But also I regret learning Python first because it makes learning Rust so much harder.

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-30

@geerlingguy Never in a million years would I have expected Pewdiepie to pivot to Linux and tech content.

Alex Bissessur boosted:
2025-05-30

This months newsletter is now out! šŸŽ‰

✨ May 2025 ✨

cloudnative.now/2025-may/

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-25

@vilmibm pretty server :P
what's in it?

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-22

@PaulaToThePeople Oh, thank you. I'll give it a try :)

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-22

@PaulaToThePeople True, I get what you mean. But if I were to never have to use any other part of the internet again, the interoperability of the different instances would have to be better.
The alternative is concentrating the existing Fedi userbase onto larger instances, which ruins the whole decentralisation concept.

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-21

@PaulaToThePeople Better integration with small instances. If I follow a hashtag, chances are I'll never see anything from the other instances I haven't federated with. It's a stupid limitation imo

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-19

@jana i agree with the neobot

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-19

@jana tbh on Fedi, not so much. But out there, people are cheering on SO dying because they had bad experiences.
And also the AI evangelists who are in love with the idea of corporations monopolising the internet.

I blame Google and these AI for the internet being shit nowadays.

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-19

It's why having question boards and forums cannot be replaced by a Discord server. You have made your information less searchable and harder to find.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I prefer that OpenAI or Google or whoever else does not monopolise information behind a fancy autocomplete on shrooms.

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-19

Controversial opinion but I think it's bad that SO is dying. Despite being a pretty awful place for beginners and more hostile than ChatGPT, SO is searchable and indexable and the content on there is available to everyone.

Having knowledge locked behind an AI makes it much more inaccessible and harder to get to.

Re: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1145

graph of monthly questions on stack overflow, peaking between 2014 and 2017, and dropping harshly since then, with a small rise during Covid19.
Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-17

@pieceofthepie
Here's all of them on the magnetic paper before cutting. Only downside is that complex stickers, like the traefik one, take a lot of time and patience

Alex BissessurAlexB@moris.social
2025-05-17

@pieceofthepie
Yep exactly! I woulda put them on my laptop but I don't want to lose them when I inevitably buy a new thinkpad.

So now they're fridge magnets and can be put wherever. I'll put up a sheet of metal in my room where I can put the duplicates.

The solution to my commitment issues šŸ˜‚

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