I def disagree about ansible… Because it’s impossible to write a “proper script” without making a whole lot of repetitive things, that ansible handles.
It is slow though, and agent-based configuration management, imo, is better for mandating configurations. ie, puppet, for example.
I agree with the rest, though :)
Most IT infra exists solely to justify work that is pointless work.
One if the worst IT sectors is ad tech. The entire industry rationally should not exist.
Except…
They do already. That’s info you can just buy.
No. But, lately it’s not white on christmas.
Without going into the weeds and all, given they all are in the same project, regardless…
You said “a gui for managing systemd”, so which part? Boot, udev, and journal? All three are required and not optional for systemd the OS infrastructure layer suite (or whatever it’s called these days), so minimally, assume that?
If so, what kind of sane gui could manage those three very disparate things?
Those are all things systemd manages… as well as logs, udev, etc etc.
What kind of gui too could you even imagine would sanely present all of that?
My point is there is no way to sanely create a GUI for something has it’s tendrils in… Everything. In fact, there’s no sane way to do any sort of UI for such a beast.
Its far too convoluted. A systemd gui for… DNS? Boot services? User Services? tmp file management? Everything?
Based on the docs, it should work with LDAP, but is focused on AD. I really only need it for initial create and whatnot, so I’m gonna give it a whirl, and hopefully, doesn’t let me down.
If not, I’ll need to git gud with go, and do some PR’s :)
oh… that look tits! Thank you!
A decent GUI LDAP client.
Yes, I know, I can use slapcat and all… But holy hell, I’m tired of writing basic LDAP files to populate a new domain. And, no, I really don’t want to spin up a webserver just to run a web based GUI that I NOW have to ensure is locked down.
Well, yall did take off…
We have Android and ChromeOS for those “just want an appliance” users.
The rest of the distros are for those with varying needs. Arch, Gentoo, for the full control folk. Debian for stability folk. Ubuntu for cloud. ELs for data centers.
Etc etc etc
The bottom line is that the elites don’t “hate” their armed enforcers… they hire them as disposable.
Cops think they are heroes for being the armed thugs for the elites.
It’s like asking if a mob boss hates their hitmen or their other goons. No, they don’t, but they know they are disposable and loyal.
The elites don’t hate cops. They are the employers of the cops.
Mastodon has been usable, and simple, as well.
I signed up for my tildeverse account once they spun up an instance, and I followed people I saw posting. And now, I’ve collected a fair number of followers and people I follow to see what they say.
Works quite well.
So, what isn’t usable or simple?
Define “better”, first.
I’ve been using Mastodon for about 5 years now, and what I’ve seen of bsky, is that it’s not better: It’s centralized, owned by cryptobros, and subject to the exact same problems as twitter is for user safety.
What trouble?