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Packer mentions (9)

• Failed to connect to the host via SSH on Ubuntu 22.04

  If you have just upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04, and you suddenly experience either errors when trying to ssh into hosts, or when running ansible or again when running the ansible provisioner building a packer image, this is probably going to be useful for you. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Create a minimalist OS using Docker Containers and Hashicorp Packer

  I am already using Hashicorp Packer at work and for personal projects and I wanted to test This idea out by wrapping it a single Packer Template file. This reduces the level of maintaining a lot of small scripts, Dockerfiles and configurations and the user can simply trigger a couple of Commands to get a minimalist OS at the end of the process. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

  And while it is a slight increase in complexity, it can be an overall net gain in functionality, configurability and reliability. Much like Packer is far more reliable and practical than manually making VM images sitting in front of a terminal, even though making the initial configuration takes some time. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Customized Ubuntu Images using Packer + QEMU + Cloud-Init & UEFI bootloading

  Hashicorp Packer provides a nice wrapper / abstraction over the QEMU in order to boot the image and use it to set it up on first-boot. Instead of writing really long commands in order to boot up the image using QEMU, Packer provided a nice Configuration Template in a more Readable fashion. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network

  Packer seemed like the perfect tool for the job. I have never used it before and wanted to get familiar with the tool. It doesn't come with ARM support out of the box, but there are two community projects to fill that niche. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Mastodon mentions (619)

• What is your current EDC?

  I am a big time overpacker, at least until I go on a trip and hurt my ankle and then scale back. This loadout in my camera backpack is on the overpacked side https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111091984601991594 since I can't make up my mind if I want a manual focus 50mm that opens to 0.95 or if I want to do sports, birds, and a little bit of macro work with a 100-400mm zoom, or shoot stereograms, or play with a... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• How to generate realistic people in Stable Diffusion

  I find all those photos generated by Stable Diffusion to be kind of repetitious and boring. Eking out something "interesting" is difficult, especially with limited time and low-end hardware. Interesting is highly subjective of course. I tend towards the more artistic / surrealist style, usually NSFW. Only nudes, no pornography. I've been experimenting these last few months with interesting generating... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Apple's Silicon Fab Next to Homes

  I cannot tell if you are joking or not. But it is obvious she is litigating in public until she gets the payoff she wants: https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik Of course a big corp cannot give in easily to behaviour like that as it would just open the flood gates. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0

  Close to nine-hundred comments¹ when Lennart posted about run0 on mastodon² a couple of months ago. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205714. - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago

• What's the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads

  >I'm not optimistic about non tech people easily logging into mastodon.192.168.555.2.xproxy.remoteinstance2452456a1.mirror.com. Why are you trolling? Mastodon instances have normal URLs like https://mastodon.social, and you can just log in there like any other site. And there's a ton of "non-tech" people on Mastodon.. In fact the people who seem whine the most about how hard it is are the "techies" on HN. It's weird. - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago