Notices by zack wol berg (zwol@mastodon.social)

Probably of interest to a lot of people who follow me: John Regehr has a new blog post about “applying ideas from Massalin's Synthesis kernel to modern systems.” https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1676

Sysadmins, what software do you like for configuration management when the top priority is being able to reproduce a server configuration from a scratch install, but there won’t ever be more than one of it at a time?

Everything I’m finding seems to believe you have an entire data center to wrangle and I cannot with the mental overhead.

@ajroach42 There was a rant in the back of _Illuminatus!_ ("Appendix Teth: Hagbard's Pamphlet", IIRC) about how control of mass communications media was more useful to the State than the Weberian monopoly on the legitimate use of force, but it had to be the _current_ most popular mass communications medium (television, at the time).