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Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by SuperNinKenDo on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:22PM (#38537084)
Classic. Tools become too abstracted? Add a layer of abstraction to manage them.

Feel like there must be an xkcd comic on this, but it doesn't leap to mind yet.

Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:21PM (#38538855)
Software becomes so complex that it becomes vulnerable. Add more code, i.e., more complexity, to "fix" the problems.
Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by move-on-by on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:55PM (#38540591)
WAF
Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by spadufed on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:51PM (#38537420)
I mean, asking them to plop their cli docker setup into a yaml file isn't exactly a difficult task. I think it's probably more correct to consider docker-compose an integral part of docker rather than a superfluous abstraction layer.
Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by europeanNyan on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:33PM (#38537205)
This one comes to mind immediately: https://xkcd.com/927/
Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by GauntletWizard on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:20PM (#38538319)
I would propose this one: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Re:My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTu... by Intralexical on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:55PM (#38540019)
Surely it should be this one?

https://xkcd.com/1988/

Or maybe this one:

https://xkcd.com/1579/

Or possibly the last panel of this one:

https://xkcd.com/1718/

Or this one…

https://xkcd.com/1764/

…Or this one:

https://xkcd.com/2021/