Become the Thousand Servers

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That also means resisting the temptation to make ourselves indispensable. Being the person everyone has to call when something breaks can feel like a sign that we are contributing something important, but […] the goal should be to make ourselves increasingly unnecessary by making the knowledge we carry increasingly available to other people.

  What a beautiful sentiment. Very well said.

  To my chagrin, I’ve seen the “private sector” learning this lesson very well, with the practice of codifying configurations of machines and networks in “infrastructure as code” documents. Though these still require special training to decipher and apply, they make people (or workers) much easier to replace.

  Although, I’m not sure I want reproduce the patterns I’ve learned from the corporate world, I’m curious if there’s merit to using some of this technology to make infrastructure more easily "spin-up-able. " Or maybe SH hardware will vary too much to make something like OpenTofu useful in a non-cloud setting.

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• jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty sure that whole thing was generated by AI

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  • povoq@slrpnk.net@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By Autistici/Inventati ? Maybe some people from them were involved, yes.

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• schmorpel@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought this was an article, but I’m glad I checked it out. It looks like a really very well put together course (too comprehensive to call it tutorial). With guides for people who just want to learn part of the stuff. Had no time to dig deeper, but if you (want to) selfhost and are active in building resilience go have a look.

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