Notices by Serge from Babka (serge@babka.social)

When I was a young man in my teens and 20s, I very much separated the world into Good and Evil, and I was very stringent about it.

My father told me that when I got older, I'd grow out of that.

As a man in his mid-40s, I think that my moral compass has not changed, but my understanding of the world has.

Institutions I saw as pure good, I now see as complex insomuch that people are complex, and institutions are reflections of people, and institutions I saw as evil, I now realize that even in evil institutions, they may serve a function to people, even if they are ultimately evil.

The biggest change for me I think is the idea that seeing the world in such stark contrasts as good and evil allows and even facilitates bad things. It justifies harming people due to the "greater good" and allows us to hide institutional flaws as "outsider threats".

If we feel too smug, or too secure in our insider/outsider ideology, that's when we can do the most harm to others.

Age has let me reflect on that.

@theautisticcoach

Do you have an article about the kosher restaurants? I can't find anything on it on the NYC news sources I've seen.

I've come to learn, through multiple examples, that when other Fediverse admins say "We're going to investigate your user's reports of antisemitic harassment." what they really mean is "We don't believe Jews when they say something is antisemitic and we'll come up with reasons why it's not antisemitic, and it's not harassment."

The idea that Jews can't be trusted to decide what is antisemitic is itself problematic, and we experience this and other antisemitic issues with admins so much and so often that I'm going to say loud and clear that the Fediverse has a very serious systemic antisemitism problem.

#antisemitism #fediblockmeta #fediblockmetameta

I have a #devops (or what we used to call #sysadmin) question...

I like Docker Swarm for its simplicity and apparent "lightweight" nature. From a user standpoint, you can simply define a set of services and it's not that much of a leap to go from a docker-compose file to a full blown distributed system for a small number f nodes.

The problems are that Docker Swarm only appears to be offered by Docker (tm) and requires the real Docker (tm) stack, as opposed to the solution most distros use today, which is to use podman as a Docker replacement (for many good reasons).

And the fact that Docker is owned by Mirantis, Mirantis's future seems uncertain is good reason not to stay.

Is anyone still using Docker Swarm? If not, do you have a lightweight alternative (not Kubernetes)? I've heard not-great things about Nomad.

I feel like this is a huge missing area in the orchestration landscape.

#docker #orchestration #dockerswarm #kubernetes #nomad