Deborah Pickett

I updated the Wi-Fi controller software on my Linux home server and now my weather graphs stopped generating.

Stop making containers look attractive, everyone.

Mar 17 at 12:36amWeb
Show threadDeborah PickettMar 17
Ah-ha, the Wi-Fi controller needed to update the version of MongoDB that my server had installed, and the old version's repository was no longer signed, so apt-get update was failing silently, and that led to my weather graph generator library being linked against an old version of glibc.
Of course, I was about to say that
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Show threadJustified Ancient of MoominMar 17
@futzle I’m guessing that it uses MongoDB because its web scale
Show threadDeborah PickettMar 17
@ThermiteBeGiants Unifi, who knows, who cares? Normal people would just use a flat SqLite file.
Show threadJustified Ancient of MoominMar 17
@futzle yeah but SQLite isn’t Web Scale
Show threadColinMar 17
@ThermiteBeGiants @futzle When I next refresh my network gear “isn’t reliant on MongoDB for management” is a selection criteria.
Show threadBradMar 17
@futzle @ThermiteBeGiants I ran the controller on the home server for a little while. Closest I’ve ever come to administering Mongo for any reason. Guess what? Update -> corrupted. Lucky I didn’t care about restoring from scratch.
Show threadraspberryMar 17
@futzle yeah I definitely run the tplink controller in a VM, fuck mongodb
Show threadBrialaMar 17

@futzle There are too many software updates now.

Once upon a time, releasing an update required a new version and new physical media...

Show threadDgarMar 17
@futzle did you open up the fire-gate and let the RAM out?
Show threadDavid NashMar 17
@dgar @futzle You only need to open the Firegate and release RAM if the blobcat nodes in your application are incompletely mibbled. Compiling with Mibbler 2.11 or higher generally ensures comprehensive mibbling of all elements in the dependency tree. Recompiling like this is generally less time-consuming than cleaning up the sticky magma residues left by a standard Firegate dump.
Show thread 🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽Mar 17
@futzle why this sure sounds like a Unifi situation...
Show threadcafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️Mar 17
@futzle useless side fact: I know that memfrob() exists.
Show threadJulien GoodwinMar 17
@futzle ahh Unifi
Show threadSteveg58Mar 17
@futzle
Why exactly does a Wi-Fi controller need a particular version of a particular database?
Gnnnnh!
Show threadI love this, so IMar 17
@futzle it’s only MongoDB if it’s a RDBMS from the Steppes Of Mongolia, otherwise it’s just sparkling data corruption
Show threadJustified Ancient of MoominMar 17
@jpm @futzle “Conan! What is best in life?”
“Crush your DB admins, see data driven into shards, and hear the lamentation of the web-scalers”
Show threadColin1d ago
@ThermiteBeGiants @jpm @futzle MongoDB is Latin for “This data is not important”
Show threadJustified Ancient of Moomin1d ago
@abstractcode @jpm @futzle “MongoDB only pawn in game of Buzzword Bingo”
Show threadI love this, so I1d ago
@ThermiteBeGiants @abstractcode @futzle I really need to make that web site someday, I’ve been sitting on the domain for like a decade now
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿1d ago
@abstractcode @ThermiteBeGiants @jpm @futzle "these data" or "this datum" :(
Show threadSchlupsMar 17
@futzle I suggest removing the 'graph' part from your generator. Removing a component should be easy enough and leaves you with a weather generator that practically guarantees a couple of Nobel prizes.
Show threadColinMar 17
@futzle Would it help to think of containers as "software jails"?
Show thread Shlee messed around &Mar 17
@abstractcode @futzle "immutable software friends".
Show threadColinMar 17
@shlee @futzle Tough on software. Tough on the causes of software.
Show thread Shlee messed around &Mar 17
@abstractcode @futzle (stolen from google images)
Show threadraspberryMar 17
@futzle my friend and i have a running joke/serious that he creates a new VM and installs docker for each application and often those applications are single statically built golang binaries. where i'd just make a new user and dump the binaries in there with a systemd unit and call it a day.
Show threadD IngramMar 17
@futzle That's why I moved my UniFi controller off my main PC and into an LXC container on ProxMox. A refurb HP mini pc has more than enough grunt for all the bitsy jobs (energy logger, weather station, zabbix etc) and cost under $200.