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Re:Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:21PM (#45929078)
Yes. And most importantly, the Incus API and CLI client (which uses the API) presents a consistent management language for system containers (the default ones with a init/systemd-controlled userspace), OCI containers (unpacked, not layered), and VMs. Well, as consistent as makes sense for each. There are a number of options/properties that are specific to each, but it feels very consistent.

The Incus server inside IncusOS is the same software. The difference is as little userspace as possible alongside it (not even busybox).

Re:Why the open social web matters now on Saturday October 18, 2025 @11:47PM (#45631959)
ActivityPub allows one to follow hashtags in addition to accounts. Pick some hashtags of interest, find some people in those posts to follow. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Re:Follow the Crypto on Sunday July 14, 2024 @11:18AM (#40961434)
I've found that it requires self-discipline on both parties making an effort to break the pattern-matching/automatic-thinking to emotional pipeline that is so easy to fall into.

Kudos to both of you for having that.

Stéphane Graber (key Incus née LXD contributor) just did a video about developing placement scriptlets in the Starlark language but the interesting thing is, if I'm interpreting what I saw correctly, his cluster was 6 beefy servers plus 3 decent-sized VMs and the idea was, I think, that containers could get placed on the nested VMs, neatly solving the migration issue with containers. The interesting part was it looked like the 3 VMs in the cluster may have been themselves in the cluster.

I could be wrong, though. Interesting approach if true

America is a pretend country with pretend rights.
Americans think they are free when they are actually prisoners of a mind worm.
The war against general-purpose computing is but one front in the class war.

Daily reminder that economics is a political theory, not a science, that capitalism is the most incidious form of oligarchy, and that the US is no longer a democracy (if it ever was).

Re:Was Rust Worth It? on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:23PM (#38021284)
Unison language has a very elegant solution to the naming problem.
Re:It's Time to Tax Billionaires on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:30PM (#37989661)
"It's Time to Tax Billionaires Out of Existence (vice.com)"

There, FTFY.

Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It on Monday October 02, 2023 @11:59AM (#37739871)
You'd require people to work 30 days per month?
The 95% confidence intervals all start at 1.1 or lower. Call me when the statistics become meaningful.
Re:So You Think You Know C? [pdf] on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:17AM (#37545947)
You can't say that with certainty without specifying the compiler, it's version, and the architecture.
Re:Ask HN: A Google search with zero results? on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:15AM (#37534943)
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Re:WTF Happened in 1971? on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:05PM (#37484318)
The fiscal-progressive nature of the New Deal earlier in the century was so successful it created the middle class in the post-war era (90% marginal tax rates!) and it was being followed up by a socially-progressive era of the civil rights movement in the 60s and the powers that be had to make a concerted effort to derail both.

The takeover of the political dialog by economism using the Freshwater/Chicago school of economics started in earnest around this time and was so remarkably successful that Democratic presidents were spouting the neo-liberal conservatism[0] hogwash by the time of Clinton.

I am a member of the Cory Doctorow school[1] of political thought.

[0] https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

[1] https://pluralistic.net/tag/political-science/

If you can afford to bill it, you can afford to list it.
Re:America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:34AM (#37218728)
Break them all up 10 ways to Sunday. I'm with Cory Doctorow on this one.
Re:Welcome to Datasette Cloud on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:54AM (#37199734)
Heh...

"I can answer it in several paragraphs, but I really would like to be able to answer it in a single sentence some day!" ...

"Datasette is WordPress for data: an extensible open source platform with plugins for exploring, analyzing, visualizing, and publishing data."

Re:Shit Life Syndrome on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:26AM (#37199460)
Capitalism-induced shit-life syndrome.
We need supply-chain provenance and OEM transparency for technical products just like we need them for food production.
Re:The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:16AM (#36932040)
Look at @paulsci's post history including on X-Twitter. He's done dozens of these tours through the newspapers on many similar subjects.
Re:Let the Internet Be Grimy on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:20PM (#36661274)
Google circles FTW