@estevez sorry, didn't mean for my question to come across as "justify your choices!" Just looking to learn. :blobcatfingerguns: I'm new to CI/CD producing a container, or bootable containers, so its fascinating to read your stuff.

Thanks as well for pointing me to your workflow directory. I was immediately struck by how similar Gitea's workflow is to GH. As someone who has recently looked into translating GitHub Actions workflows into GitLab CI, I love that Gitea looks virtually the same as GitHub's. Might check it out in my Forgejo instance.

@estevez I hadn’t heard of docusaurus, thanks for sharing. Also, the step of containerizing everything is fascinating - did you config the gitea runner to automatically do that and did you have a strong rationale for that step or was it for practice? I do something similar but not self hosted, nor containerized, with 11ty and gh.

Today's efforts. I spent about 8 hours painting over a piece that I had started back in Nov. I ended up changing it so much, saving only the orange tones and basic structure that I had sketched out for the sky. Much happier with this new piece!

Oil on linen 20"x20"

#MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #wip

Well, I'm desperate, so here we go...

If anyone is in need of a copywriter or knows of any openings, I need a job. I've got 18 years of copywriting/copyediting/communications experience across a range of industries.

Remote positions are preferable.

#FediHired #GetFediHired

"To grow up loving Star Wars is to eventually find that it never quite seemed to grow up with you, to realize that the children’s stories that thrilled you in your youth remain children’s stories when you return to them as an adult. And this can be fine, at times. (I’m not made of stone; I get my kicks out of The Mandalorian; I cried a little at “Chewie, we’re home.”) Getting a TV series that thinks seriously about what life living at the dawn of a fascist regime looks like, though? That imagines this galaxy I love as a place of real weight and texture, populated by real people—from the comfortably unthinking Imperial cogs of Coruscant to the oppressed farmers of Mira-Rau, and every point in between? That’s the kind of treasure I would happily have sat through five seasons of. I feel lucky enough that we ended up with two."

https://www.avclub.com/andor-series-finale-recap-season-2-episode-12

Great piece by William Hughes on the finale of Andor. I agree that if our choice, as an audience, was between nothing and a second and final season, I'm happy for what we have.

Still, its almost painful to see the skeleton of something extraordinary lying just beneath the surface of season 2 as it plays out.

#Andor #StarWars

@joshbressers @yossarian really interesting series on github actions so far.

Also, glad you talked with William about remediations - seems like people's default is to suggest a technical solution that sidelines business/human context. I'm interested in the earlier human side of your discussion and my brain automatically started drawing connections between that and remediations. In the context of discussing zizmore's personas, it'd be interesting to explore solutions along the same lines. Just thinking out loud.

Thanks for all the work!

@SecurityWriter and why isn't the public signing key immediately obvious?

Another entry in the niche blog post chronicles: How to install Guacamole for remote desktop connections to Kali Linux.

This is a combo post with both context and guide. Its also the first in a series on migrating from Vagrant/VMWare/Ansible to Proxmox/OpenTofu/Ansible. In it I work through some issues of building Guac on Ubuntu 24.04 and installing TigerVNC on Kali.

This post is a stepping stone on the way to resolving the issue of frequent Kali crashes, though I think of it as only a preparatory step as it deals with a niche issue where SPICE doesn't work for me on Proxmox. I hope to get on to the IaC stuff soon.

https://christopherbauer.org/blog/guac-proxmox-kali/

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Kali #ApacheGuacamole #Proxmox #proxmox_ve

Impansible (adj): unreasonably difficult in Ansible because of Ansible's nature.

Hi! I am moving on from my job and looking for part time engineering work. Senior/staff level with a broad background. Professionally have done web frontend (TS/JS/React), backend (Django/flask/rails), mobile (iOS/Android), ops (AWS/GCP/terraform, a little bit of k8s). Please share!

@tayfonay 100%

Andor s2e5, that final scene with Forest Whitaker - I'm breathless. Simply outstanding.

#Andor

Walnut ink and brush sketch of a lady in a hat walking her dog. Bought this ink on etsy ages ago and should work with it more.

#ink #brush #seattle #dog

** Apologies for being quiet, I've been made redundant from my day job, so I've been mourning a timeline I had been looking forward to, where I kept working with these good colleagues doing interesting things.

The union made sure I've got a decent severance package, and there are jobs, but...

... I haven't found a new job yet, and ...

...er ...

Um.

Incidentally, I've just posted the collected stories from March 2025 for my supporters on Ko-Fi and Patreon.
**

@veronica 100% outstanding

I've got to say, Boardsource.xyz has done right by me.

I have my beloved lily58 back up and running thanks to a replacement pcb/micro-controller. Many thanks to all who gave me troubleshooting pointers. I think it was a defective micro-controller all along.

My digits are confused but happy to be back to column staggered!

#ErgonomicKeyboards #MechanicalkKeyboard #ergomechkeyboard #mechanical_keyboards #splitkeyboard #lily58

And that’s a wrap, the report is worth a read. You should balance it out with something like Sophos yearly report too - Mandiant is expensive, Sophos has SMB data.

The long story short about why GenAI is missing from all of the data is vendors have blown the threat wildly out of proportion - AI is porn for execs - and why build a rocket launcher when you can just pick up the key from under the front door mat. Concentrate on security fundamentals, threat actors want you to be distracted.

One minute, you're ripping shit up in a Metallica t-shirt, then BAM! Dad bod in a polo shirt. Just like that.

@skinnylatte I had similar things to say about "the new world" for my undergrads