I think I just give up configuring Nginx and just stay with Nginx Proxy Manager. That would mean I can't configure everything through files but at least it works.

I have now spent 2 days trying to get Nginx to work and I managed to reverse proxy to my selfhosted services with valid SSL certificates created with a DNS challenge but when I try to access my services via the configured URL I get an "/desktop#/" appended to it and half the apps don't like that and won't work with that.

I wish I could use Caddy but the way modules are installed for it is so unnecessarily convoluted IMO compared to Nginx plugins which you can just install with your package manager instead of having to build it with the modules included for yourself (or creating your own Docker image) which makes maintaining it a PITA (and I need a module for Caddy because I need DNS challenge for SSL certificates because I don't want to open any ports on my server).

Rant over I think

#selfhosting #nginx #caddy #reverseproxy #rant #nginxproxymanager #dnschallenge

I think I just give up configuring Nginx and just stay with Nginx Proxy Manager. That would mean I can't configure everything through files but at least it works.

I have now spent 2 days trying to get Nginx to work and I managed to reverse proxy to my selfhosted services with valid SSL certificates created with a DNS challenge but when I try to access my services via the configured URL I get an "/desktop#/" appended to it and half the apps don't like that and won't work with that.

I wish I could use Caddy but the way modules are installed for it is so unnecessarily convoluted IMO compared to Nginx plugins which you can just install with your package manager instead of having to build it with the modules included for yourself (or creating your own Docker image) which makes maintaining it a PITA (and I need a module for Caddy because I need DNS challenge for SSL certificates because I don't want to open any ports on my server).

Rant over I think

#selfhosting #nginx #caddy #reverseproxy #rant #nginxproxymanager #dnschallenge

🌶 take: anti-AI crowd is getting so absurdly obseessed over anything-having-A-and-I-next-to-each-other that it's getting more annoying than the AI itseld…

#rant #AI

🌶 take: anti-AI crowd is getting so absurdly obseessed over anything-having-A-and-I-next-to-each-other that it's getting more annoying than the AI itseld…

#rant #AI

This post might seem like it's about #brightspace (the #lms the #suny system is forcing us all to use), but it's actually about having bosses who hold you in such contempt that they can't even be bothered to explain why they paid millions of dollars for a product that doesn't work while telling you to use it or else.

Today's Brightspace issue: hundreds of questions with images (trapped within BS's little walled garden of impenetrable database locations) that appear only as placeholders, but might or might not render when placed into a student quiz. The odds seem so far to be about 50/50.

There is no way to know which items are affected *even when I edit each of the hundreds of items by hand*, because I see this placeholder for MOST of the questions but then the students sometimes see the image. Sometimes not.

It's silent failure. No flags, no checks, no indications of what's wrong. No way to know if any changes will fix things.

Other silent failures: BS will cheerfully tell you it has imported your 5,000 or so items (painstakingly created over the past decade) from your previous LMS--which was also mandated--and then just *won't tell you* that hundreds or thousands of them did not import because BS simply choked and pooped or because BS doesn't even have the functionality to use those question types.

I fucking hate this LMS, but I really hate the fact that the people in charge think so little of me and 30,000 of my colleagues that they shove shit like this at us and tell us to pretend it works.

#professor #rant #highered #broken #shittydesign #baddesign #badsoftware #capturedmarket

ah yes… being incompatible crap that can't use system installed versions because it breakes everything on each release and requires you to fix your build on particular version and stick to it… and install it each time is such a brilliant idea!

Especially in the current day and age, when something constantly breaks (aws, cloudflare…)

all hail fucking #gradle !

And yet #maven #mvn nicely trots along, upgrading in the background and I don't even have to think if it updated or not (save for the upcomming #maven 4 release, but it's like "one in a generation" kind of thing…)

#rant

ah yes… being incompatible crap that can't use system installed versions because it breakes everything on each release and requires you to fix your build on particular version and stick to it… and install it each time is such a brilliant idea!

Especially in the current day and age, when something constantly breaks (aws, cloudflare…)

all hail fucking #gradle !

And yet #maven #mvn nicely trots along, upgrading in the background and I don't even have to think if it updated or not (save for the upcomming #maven 4 release, but it's like "one in a generation" kind of thing…)

#rant

#techbro #rant welp the price of server grade RAM has become ... punishing.

What I picked up at $128/stick in March is now at a whopping $464.
(Edit no actually €928 now)

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Thanks Sam Altman & Capitalism for shafting basically everybody in search of your own AI-infatuated greed.

Monday morning: Xcode.
I've set it to remove trailing white space, because it's ugly. It does, most of the time.
But I've hit return to have extra like, indented as expected, but after save I moved cursor and shows me expectedly no white space on that empty line.
What unexpected is that git diff does not agree and show a line having indentation.
Does it have to be so damn hard? You could simply remove the space on save and force me hit tab if I want indentation, geez

#rant #programming #xcode

#rant #Linux
Ok ok ZorinOS est super populaire en ce moment. Mais y'a quand même des trucs qui me font tiquer avec ce projet.

La version "Core" est gratuite, la version "Pro" payante. Y'a quoi dans la version Pro ?

- des thèmes (mmm.. faire payer des thèmes ?)
- "$5000 of Professional-grade creative suite of apps". Lequels ? La liste n'est pas donnée.
(suite)

#techbro #rant welp the price of server grade RAM has become ... punishing.

What I picked up at $128/stick in March is now at a whopping $464.
(Edit no actually €928 now)

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Thanks Sam Altman & Capitalism for shafting basically everybody in search of your own AI-infatuated greed.

Hey all y'all need to stop using "guys" in mixed company.

- My trans girlfriend is not a guy.
- My cis girlfriend is not a guy.
- I'm not a guy (or a girl, but that's not relevant here).

Misgendering is misgendering—even if "everyone's doing it".

Patriarchy shouldn't be the default.

#FuckThePatriarchy#Feminist#LGBTQ+ #Rant

Oigo a un ministro o similar diciendo que los madrileños tenemos que reaccionar ante el desmantelamiento de la sanidad pública y el escándalo del hospital de Torrejón. Quiten la ley mordaza, la presunción de veracidad de la policia y su infiltración fascista, los policías infiltrados en movimientos sociales y provocando disturbios en las manifestaciones, las multas disuasorias por chorradas. Verá como entonces si que reaccionamos. Claro que igual esa reacción no mola tanto. #rant

Oigo a un ministro o similar diciendo que los madrileños tenemos que reaccionar ante el desmantelamiento de la sanidad pública y el escándalo del hospital de Torrejón. Quiten la ley mordaza, la presunción de veracidad de la policia y su infiltración fascista, los policías infiltrados en movimientos sociales y provocando disturbios en las manifestaciones, las multas disuasorias por chorradas. Verá como entonces si que reaccionamos. Claro que igual esa reacción no mola tanto. #rant

my experience of gender is AMAB people either explaining things i already know (that they automatically assume i have no idea about) and/or AMAB people asking for the opinion of a "professional" as soon as i am done formulating my advice to them

is "de-professionalization by default" a gender?

the designated, correct toilet would have a sign that just says "uhm, actually"

#agender #rant

Modern UX is so trash across the board. I shouldn't have this much trouble figuring out where I can safely click on a window's title bar to focus it now that title bars are stuffed with buttons, or to discover what fields in a view are scrollable now that scroll bars are verboten, or to even tell what on a view is clickable or not since styling makes links look like normal text and buttons look like anything but buttons (or even makes active buttons look disabled). Don't even get me started on the mobile "where do I need to hold, double tap, drag, or swipe to do what I want to do" mystery box.

Not a fan of any Windows version, but circa Windows 98, at least you could look at a view and know exactly what you could interact with and how. Now Windows, MacOS, and GTK/Gnome all do the same confusing crap in the name of "minimalism" at the cost of usability and discoverability.

#UX #UI #ModernSoftware #Rant

my experience of gender is AMAB people either explaining things i already know (that they automatically assume i have no idea about) and/or AMAB people asking for the opinion of a "professional" as soon as i am done formulating my advice to them

is "de-professionalization by default" a gender?

the designated, correct toilet would have a sign that just says "uhm, actually"

#agender #rant

Modern UX is so trash across the board. I shouldn't have this much trouble figuring out where I can safely click on a window's title bar to focus it now that title bars are stuffed with buttons, or to discover what fields in a view are scrollable now that scroll bars are verboten, or to even tell what on a view is clickable or not since styling makes links look like normal text and buttons look like anything but buttons (or even makes active buttons look disabled). Don't even get me started on the mobile "where do I need to hold, double tap, drag, or swipe to do what I want to do" mystery box.

Not a fan of any Windows version, but circa Windows 98, at least you could look at a view and know exactly what you could interact with and how. Now Windows, MacOS, and GTK/Gnome all do the same confusing crap in the name of "minimalism" at the cost of usability and discoverability.

#UX #UI #ModernSoftware #Rant

Cool, cool - seems like #Rythmbox has absolutely destroyed my #iPod library:

All of the cover art is mangled:
Cover art that should belong to Artist A Album A is at Artist D, Album B.

It's all totally messed up!

And all I've tried to do was transfering a podcast from my Linux machine to my iPod (nano) (hint: it totally failed at that!).

This is the first time I'm using this software and it will be the last.

Is there no working solution for this!?

#Fail #Rant #Software #Linux