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The scientific method has fundamentally changed the trajectory of the human species. How? By fixing the core problem of how humans figured...

The scientific method has fundamentally changed the trajectory of the human species. How?

By fixing the core problem of how humans figured out what they thought was truth throughout history:

Bias.

The scientific method enabled humans, for the first time, to *systematically* test our theories to see if they were actually the explanation that we thought they were. We were able to start to see how human brains, emotions, stories, etc. had led us sometimes in very incorrect directions.

Of course, it didn't permanently fix bias instantly. We've fumbled many times, and will continue to do so.

But over time, by continuing to use it, we have been able to self-correct, and get better at applying the method.

This is all why you should be very angry, and very skeptical about *anyone* that is anti #dei and anti #woke.

They are explicitly attempting to deny that our culture has biases in these areas, when it's demonstrably untrue.

It is unscientific in the deepest sense, on top of being plain ole racism, sexism and bigotry.

The last 10-15 years have been something of a renaissance for virtuosic #guitar #music. I am here for it. There are many fantastic...

The last 10-15 years have been something of a renaissance for virtuosic #guitar #music. I am here for it.

There are many fantastic guitarists that I love, but out of all of them, David Maxim Micic holds a really special place for me.

He uses the language and mannerisms of djent-y metal, but in service of something like spiritual transcendence.

https://youtu.be/aH6YChS3wFo?si=riDAZ35MI8O5UPRx

A thread about #guitar and #musicproduction. https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfroeber.bsky.social/post/3lgxnh5orek24

A thread about #guitar and #musicproduction.

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfroeber.bsky.social/post/3lgxnh5orek24

Alright...this might be a hot take, but also, it's the truth and I don't make the rules: A sizeable percentage of #linux...

Alright...this might be a hot take, but also, it's the truth and I don't make the rules:

A sizeable percentage of #linux "distro" hoppers are really just desktop environment hoppers.

And, to be clear: hop those DE's all day long if it tickles your fancy! It can be fun!

All I'm saying is your big switch from #Ubuntu to #Mint was really just #GNOME to #Cinnamon, and maybe on the next go around you don't actually have to do a full install of a new distro.

Fellow #MusicProducer #audioengineer #musician nerds with an interest in #linux good...

Fellow #MusicProducer #audioengineer #musician nerds with an interest in #linux good news!

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfroeber.bsky.social/post/3lgqxoguzos2k

Ok, the world is really dark right now…but there are still breathtakingly beautiful #guitars being made, so there’s that....

Ok, the world is really dark right now…but there are still breathtakingly beautiful #guitars being made, so there’s that. https://www.ceccariniguitars.it/en-gb/electric-guitars?product_id=122

One of the most difficult parts of my transition to #linux still revolves around creative tasks. Background: former professional...

One of the most difficult parts of my transition to #linux still revolves around creative tasks.

Background: former professional musician/photographer/videographer, now cloud software engineer.

I daily drive a flavor of @fedora. For all of my development projects, and for day to day tasks, it works fantastic, and to be fair, these days, that covers 80% of my computer usage.

But I do still want to do some of my creative activities when the mood strikes.

This is something that a lot of Linux enthusiasts don't want to hear, but #macos is still, far and away, a better experience when doing #photography, #musicproduction or #videoediting. It is frictionless and well-integrated across devices, which is exactly what you want when you're in the mood to do a project.

Now, I'll own my bias here: at least 30-40% of this feeling is *also* due to familiarity. I was a MacOS power user for almost 20 years. I'm used to it's workflow, and I know exactly how to execute what I want.

For example: for daily software development tasks, I'm actually more comfortable in Linux than MacOS, by a very small margin. It's because I've been using it so much every day, and now my familiarity for those apps is high.

But the rest? It's legitimately smoother.

This morning, my struggle is with my #raw photo workflow.

I take pictures with my phone, my #fuji #xt4, and my #gopro. For the RAW photos on the Fuji, I do some editing to get the look that I want.

I also want to start self hosting, and I want to retain my RAW edits, without making double storage of RAW + edited .jpeg export.

To accomplish this using Linux is 100% possible...but will absolutely require some compromises in different areas of my preferred workflow...none of them really satisfying.

My point is, it has the net effect of adding this background mental friction to doing creative stuff that I normally enjoy.

That's a very real downside to this journey, that I'm still working through.

Calling all #k8s @fedora nerds:Does anyone have some sensible, pre-canned Ignition files for #CoreOS that are good for rolling a #k3s...

Calling all #k8s @fedora nerds:

Does anyone have some sensible, pre-canned Ignition files for #CoreOS that are good for rolling a #k3s cluster in a homelab that you're willing to share?

(Reference: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/producing-ign/)

Advanced users of #truenas, a penny for your thoughts. I’m comparing the following scenarios:- Native apps- #Portainer/Docker Compose-...

Advanced users of #truenas, a penny for your thoughts. I’m comparing the following scenarios:
- Native apps
- #Portainer/Docker Compose
- Roll my own VM nodes into a k3s cluster

I’m a cloud engineer by day, so very comfortable with all 3 scenarios from a technical implementation perspective.

I think I’m more looking for real world experience for those have done each of the non-native approaches. Any unexpected gotchas? Things that seemed like good ideas but didn’t work so great in practice?

I’m running somewhere between 10-20 services. One will be a #nextcloud instance. A few of them are DB’s (I.e. InfluxDB for #homeassistant). I’ll be using Tailscale for remote access, DNS and reverse proxying.

I’m running the services natively right now. The ones that require minimal up front config work fine. But something like Homepage, etc. can benefit from config maps.

Right now, my overall feeling is that native TrueNAS is wonderful for simplicity, but perhaps not so great for making a repeatable, maintainable, automated config over the long haul.

Portainer/compose would offer a bit more “automation as documentation” for the services themselves, as well as reverse proxy and DNS flexibility, but lose out on some of the GUI, set it and forget it simplicity.

Finally, #k8s and the VM’s would be a pain in the ass to set up initially, but I could automate the shit out of it with Ansible, and have a robust, HA homelab.

I worry that the last one is just me bringing my day job to the homelab, and making it complicated for not much benefit.

Thoughts?

Is anyone else tinkering with their #homelab and working on #selfhosting as way to distract and numb yourself from the collapse of democracy...

Is anyone else tinkering with their #homelab and working on #selfhosting as way to distract and numb yourself from the collapse of democracy and the rise of far right lunacy in government happening all around?

Asking for a friend. 😅

Calling all @nextcloud Home users (especially those that migrated from Apple’s ecosystem)!I was about to start self-hosting an instance on...

Calling all @nextcloud Home users (especially those that migrated from Apple’s ecosystem)!

I was about to start self-hosting an instance on my #truenas server. Any thoughts? Opinions? Things you would do differently?

Did you go for a full migration, or is it more piecemeal?

#selfhosting #indieweb #privatecloud

My toxic trait is that I fundamentally enjoy tinkering with technology, and I write software for a living...but I also fundamentally hate...

My toxic trait is that I fundamentally enjoy tinkering with technology, and I write software for a living...but I also fundamentally hate what technology has become in our society, and sometimes want to just have a little offgrid beachside homestead with a vegetable garden.

The point is: reality is always frustratingly more complex than we would like it to be. We’re in a complex capitalist system, where both...

The point is: reality is always frustratingly more complex than we would like it to be. We’re in a complex capitalist system, where both literally and metaphorically, there is no free lunch. I don’t want it to stay like this, and nor should you. But making changes to these systems will require messy, coordinated efforts into all sorts of ethical conundrums. And just because those conundrums exist, doesn’t meant mean we shouldn’t act.

How does this relate to #selfhosting, you ask?

Well, I think we can still address concerns 1 and 2, without falling into the intellectual trap of 3.

Many big tech companies offer free tiers. If you are hosting an #indieweb service, you probably don’t have the benefits of scale that those companies do.

Leverage those free tiers by using AES-256 encryption BEFORE it hits their servers. You keep the keys secure. The files can sit on those public storage places, and it can’t be used for any data mining, because it’s encrypted gibberish to them.

You then use what’s available to you to actually help further the indie web that we want to see. We can use those services to HELP us get away from reliance on big tech, until we can get things to a scale to stop using those services.

2/2

This one’s probably not gonna make me any friends, but here we go. 

So I see a lot of people in the #selfhosted community talk about...

This one’s probably not gonna make me any friends, but here we go. 

So I see a lot of people in the #selfhosted community talk about not using big tech services from an ethics perspective.

The types of concerns usually fall into 2 camps:
1. Not supporting those companies financially
2. Not wanting those companies to have your data

To be clear, I fundamentally agree with these concerns. 

There’s sometimes a 3rd one: 
“Big Tech companies are inherently evil, and I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”

This one might feel “right”, but it’s mostly false and/or idealistic. The truth is that big tech companies are capitalist entities, comprised of hundreds of thousands of people. Many of those people are bright, and care about the world around them, and are trying to do the best that they can. Many of them look on in horror as they hear their CEO’s say horrible shit. They don’t like the direction their employer is going, but they don’t have good options to leave right now. Some might be trying to make change from within to resist those policies.

Some *outcomes* of certain decisions by big tech CEO’s are evil. Certain CEO’s might be knowingly pursuing those outcomes. But that doesn’t mean that everyone in the company, all the way up and down, are knowingly pursuing those outcomes.

We can criticize evil outcomes, while acknowledging certain good outcomes that arise from a complex, capitalist, global organization with a mix of people, with lots of different goals, with some of them trying to do the right thing. (Example: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/27/its-critical-can-microsoft-make-good-on-its-climate-ambitions )

Even from a technical perspective, it’s largely an illusion to think that not “having anything to do with big tech” means that you actually don’t. Most of the internet is running on AWS. You don’t need an Amazon account to still be using infrastructure owned by Amazon.

1/2

I really appreciate the other #linux nerds that pointed me in the direction of #auroradx. #bazzite is still pretty cool, but Aurora meets my...

I really appreciate the other #linux nerds that pointed me in the direction of #auroradx. #bazzite is still pretty cool, but Aurora meets my particular use case a little better.

I've now been driving it for about a month, and I am *really* liking it.

For any #Fedora #kde enthusiasts that haven't tried an atomic distro yet, check out https://getaurora.dev.

I don't actually think I'll be going back to regular workstation.

Sometimes, it’s nice to not do anything remotely close to using a computer. #kitesurfing #aruba

Sometimes, it’s nice to not do anything remotely close to using a computer. #kitesurfing #aruba

A little user facing #Linux in the wild on my flight. #delta

A little user facing #Linux in the wild on my flight. #delta

Ok, I've got a #cloudengineer spicy 🌶️ take that will lose some followers.(Preface: I've used #terraform and built up some...

Ok, I've got a #cloudengineer spicy 🌶️ take that will lose some followers.

(Preface: I've used #terraform and built up some moderately complex infra with it. Nothing crazy. I'm not an expert, but definitely not new to it either.)

I will take #ansible every day of the week over TF for any task that's not just spinning up vanilla, CSP-specific infra. That's the one place where TF shines, and everything else imo is just unnecessarily irritating.

Ansible is cleaner, easier to reason about, and just makes sense to my brain.

I think it's TF's syntax. It reminds me of #jinja or #golang template language with the unintuitive way of evaluating conditions and calling functions.

I said what I said.

After I made the decision to move away from #apple at least for my laptop, I decided to get an Asus and go all in on #linux for daily...

After I made the decision to move away from #apple at least for my laptop, I decided to get an Asus and go all in on #linux for daily driving. I’ve been using various Linux distros at work for years, but rarely as an end user in a desktop environment.

I’ve had my #asus #Zephyrus #ryzen now for a few weeks. I’m running @fedora #auroradx and it is really well thought out. Lots of great quality of life features that are very Mac-like, and I’m happy with the distro. The performance is great. I can game. I’m happy with that side of things.

That said, the sooner we all make the switch to ARM, the better.

I’ve been running an M3 #MacBookpro for work for several months. I knew, in spite of the positives, there were going to be some migration pains moving to Linux full time.

The biggest drawback that I wasn’t expecting? Battery life.

My M3 can run for *days* on a single charge, under medium use. Under heavy use (gaming, k8s, etc), I can still *easily* get 6-7 hours.

My brand new Asus? Just under 3. And that’s with the display set to low brightness and eco performance mode in the OS. And I’m even running AMD, so I can only imagine how terrible Intel would’ve been.

That hurts.
It was incredible to just rarely have to worry about battery. Even when you hit 10% battery, you often still have a solid 45 minutes to an hour before you even have to worry.
It is really disappointing to go back to the background irritation of always needing to know where my power cable is.

x86 can go ahead and pass into the history books. Kthx bye.

Ok, here's my #opensource spicy take:If we philosophically want #foss to work at a wider scale within our current economic system, we...

Ok, here's my #opensource spicy take:

If we philosophically want #foss to work at a wider scale within our current economic system, we must first address the problem that is nicely represented by the allegorical story of the "Elephant King."

It's a story that comes from Buddhism (and don't worry, this has nothing to do with religion) that's worth a read: https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/bt_19/

(TL;DR toxic people with bad motives can take advantage of generous/idealistic people with good motives, and their good motives won't magically change the toxic person's mind.)

I would argue that the culture of open source comes from a particular set of values and ideals that are significantly different from the perspective that average people raised in our economic systems are coming from.

And until you address that foundational difference, the long term viability of FOSS projects that make our lives better will continue to become centralized under corporate control, or languish with small teams of contributors that burn themselves out.