Mastodawn

Give me a laptop and an Internet connection, and I will work from the top of Mount Everest to the bottom of the Mariana trench.

Tatjana Dubrovica May 31

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann May 31

This might be controversial, but no matter where you sit at the #AI #slop #rsync debate, the best thing you can do is to write tests for all the recent regressions.

No matter if you want to constrain rsync more, improve #openrsync or #gokrrsync, or vibe up another rsync in #Rust, tests will help you achieve this, and they use a different skill set from just writing code.

Tatjana Dubrovica May 28

Remember that Ubuntu Summit watch-together I announced? Day started with a kernel panic on my work laptop — at a Linux conference, naturally. The streaming machine had more sense.
Final attendance: one brave guest and a couple of colleagues. Small crowd, good afternoon — Meshtastic, the Arm talk (Arm Performix going open source, they promised!), and upki on cert revocation were the highlights.
#UbuntuSummit #OpenSource

Tatjana Dubrovica May 27

All set for Ubuntu Summit 2026 — Day One! ☕

Cozy corner, fresh coffee, cookies in the bowl, and the livestream up on the big screen. Watching from Riga today.

Still got room — if you're nearby and want to join the watch party, just message me! 🐧

#UbuntuSummit #Ubuntu #Linux #FOSS

Tatjana Dubrovica May 16

Moof!

May 16

So, last night I discovered the hard way that #HomeAssistant does not verify that backup files are not corrupted, even when uploaded to Home Assistant Cloud. This is particularly annoying when your storage device is dying and corrupting files left, right and centre.

I am currently attempting to restore a backup from a few days ago, and seeing if it'll work.

I suppose I’m going to have to implement some way of automatically testing that a backup file can be restored, now.

Tatjana Dubrovica May 16

Based on a true story.
#DevOps #GoogleCloud

Tatjana Dubrovica May 4

🆎May 3

Never let anyone try to talk you out of a quick half hour DIY project. Those three hours will be the best six days of your life.

Tatjana Dubrovica Apr 27

FOSDEM Apr 27

All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-04-26-all-videos-published/

FOSDEM 2026 - All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online

Tatjana Dubrovica Apr 24

Recently I found this in AI-rewritten docs: "On first startup, the server automatically generates a self-signed certificate." — wasn't true. But sounded kinda right.

So we had internal discussion. Someone said "actually... that makes sense for quick test setups."

It shipped in 6.1. 🙂

https://github.com/netxms/netxms/issues/3151

Has this ever happened to you? 🙂

#NetXMS #OpenSource #TIL

Tatjana Dubrovica Apr 22