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herzzolf commented on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring   kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/TheApplicant
KaiserPro · a month ago
> this is just another day at work.

But the point is this, it worked, it does work and will, if given developer time continue to work.

I now need to schedual in time to test the changes, then adjust the metrics and alerting that we have.

For no gain.

It just feels like kuberenetes is carbon fibre programming.

herzzolf · a month ago
> if given developer time continue to work.

well that's the root of the problem, no? there's no one who wants to maintain the complex lua written to make nginx cloud native. they were looking for maintainers for quite some time with no one stepping up

and I'm not surprised, their issue tracker always was full of very entitled people, so you would be doing a stressful/thankless job... for what exactly?

herzzolf commented on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/phewlink
ddtaylor · 3 months ago
When I first got with my wife I seemed a bit crazier than I am because I am a media hoarder for 30+ years. I don't have any VHS, DVDs, etc. laying around because I only keep digital copies, but I have pretty decent archives. Nothing important really, just normal stuff and some rare or obscure stuff that disappears over time.

My wife was interested in the idea that I was running "Netfix from home" and enjoyed the lack of ads or BS when we watched any content. I never really thought I would be an "example" or anything like that - I fully expected everyone else to embrace streaming for the rest of time because I didn't think those companies would make so many mistakes. I've been telling people for the last decade "That's awesome I watch using my own thing, what shows are your favorites I want to make sure I have them"

In the last 2 years more family members and friends have requested access to my Jellyfin and asked me to setup a similar setup with less storage underneath their TV in the living room or in a closet.

Recently-ish we have expanded our Jellyfin to have some YouTube content on it. Each channel just gets a directory and gets this command ran:

    yt-dlp "$CHANNEL_URL" \
      --download-archive "downloaded.txt" \
      --playlist-end 10 \
      --match-filters "live_status = 'not_live' & webpage_url!*='/shorts/' & original_url!*='/shorts/'" \
      -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]" \
      --merge-output-format mp4 \
      -o "%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"
It actually fails to do what I want here and download h264 content so I have it re-encoded since I keep my media library in h264 until the majority of my devices support h265, etc. None of that really matters because these YouTube videos come in AV1 and none of my smart TVs support that yet AFAIK.

herzzolf · 3 months ago
I recently discovered Pinchflat [1], which seems like an *arr-inspired web alternative, and works great for me - I just need to add the videos I want downloaded to a playlist and it picks them up. Also uses yt-dlp under the hood.

1. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

herzzolf commented on Start your own Internet Resiliency Club   bowshock.nl/irc/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
tmountain · 6 months ago
I guess it depends on your perspective. Here in Portugal, lots of people ended up sitting on their patios, chatting with friends, cooking on the grill, playing cards, sipping wine, and generally having a pretty good time. There was a collective groan around the small village where I live when the power came back on, and quite a few people commented that they were disappointed that they'd have to work in the morning.
herzzolf · 6 months ago
Also based in Portugal, big city, and had a shockingly different experience. Fights in the street over traffic violations, fights at the bus/train stops for cutting 3h+ long queues, people hauling multiple 5L bottles and emptying the stores...

I doubt everything would be as idyllic as you describe if the blackout went for longer.

herzzolf commented on Accountability sinks   aworkinglibrary.com/writi... · Posted by u/l0b0
sega_sai · a year ago
At least in my experience, I asked for compensation 3 times and got the money in every case (with different companies: American Airlines, United and Lufthansa). But I agree the system could be improved further.
herzzolf · a year ago
I wasn't so lucky. KLM charged me twice for my ticket (probably because of connection issues when I was buying the ticket) and I wasn't able to get the money back from them because I was redirected between support and other departments, multiple times, and then getting ghosted...

Fortunately, I've used a debit card for the purchase, which made it possible to recover my funds by using chargeback.

herzzolf commented on Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs   it-notes.dragas.net/2024/... · Posted by u/msangi
thoroughburro · a year ago
> The largest failure was with btrfs — after a reboot, a 50 TB filesystem (in mirror, for backups) simply stopped working. No more mounting possible. Data was lost, but I had further backups. The client was informed and understood the situation. Within a few days, the server was rebuilt from scratch on FreeBSD with ZFS — since then, I haven’t lost a single bit.

As someone who admins a lot of btrfs, it seems very unlikely that this was unrecoverable. btrfs gets itself into scary situations, but also gets itself out again with a little effort.

In this instance “I solve problems” meant “I blow away the problem and start fresh”. Always easier! Glad the client was so understanding.

herzzolf · a year ago
FWIW, this wasn't always the case. I recall that BTRFS reliability was much different, say, 10–15 years ago. The post touched those ancient times as well, so that isn't that much of a stretch.

Around that time, SLES made btrfs their default filesystem. It caused so many problems for users that they reversed that decision almost immediately.

herzzolf commented on Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system   hackaday.com/2024/09/12/r... · Posted by u/kwiens
ChrisMarshallNY · a year ago
That looks like something I'll get.

I have a very primitive old iron (and a gun, which I seldom have a use for).

herzzolf · a year ago
I've been thinking about it as well, as I wanted to upgrade mine, but I think I'll go with a Pinecil that costs 25$...
herzzolf commented on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023   tapbots.com/tweetbot/... · Posted by u/davidbarker
paxys · 3 years ago
Reminds me of all the people who will send "hey got a minute?" or "hey I have a question" or simply "hey!" in a work DM and wait for a response. Just ask your damn question!
herzzolf · 3 years ago
https://nohello.net/, I'm sending that to all of the offenders.

u/herzzolf

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