Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's fine, this is a legally valid substitute.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Fair enough... I admit I'm a bit of an old curmudgeon, set in my ways. :s

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aren't you at all curious why it failed though? (If not, no harm no foul -- I certainly know time diagnosing a bug is always in short supply, from personal experience). What if it's a symptom of something important that might happen later even in Fedora 41?

Sometimes it just feels like containers are used as justification for devs to blow off bug reports. As a dev I want to understand why a failure occurs.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed there -- it's good for onboarding devs and ensuring consistent build environment.

Once an app is 'stable' within a docker env, great -- but running it outside of a container will inevitably reveal lots of subtle issues that might be worth fixing (assumptions become evident when one's app encounters a different toolchain version, stdlib, or other libraries/APIs...). In this age of rapid development and deployment, perhaps most shops don't care about that since containers enable one to ignore such things for a long time, if not forever....

But like I said, I know my viewpoint is a losing battle. I just wish it wasn't used so much as a shortcut to deployment where good documentation of dependencies, configuration and testing in varied environments would be my preference.

And yes, I run a bare-metal 'pet' server so I deal with configuration that might otherwise be glossed over by containerized apps. Guess I'm just crazy but I like dealing with app config at one layer (host OS) rather than spread around within multiple containers.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 88 points 7 months ago (49 children)

Call me crusty, old-fart, unwilling to embrace change... but docker has always felt like a cop-out to me as a dev. Figure out what breaks and fix it so your app is more robust, stop being lazy.

I pretty much refuse to install any app which only ships as a docker install.

No need to reply to this, you don't have to agree and I know the battle has been already lost. I don't care. Hmmph.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Are we at the point that we need to form a mutual-defense pact (or re-assert The Commonwealth, ie. petition UK, Australia et al)?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Now, here's a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is!

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 34 points 7 months ago (3 children)

UK should declare him an enemy of the state w/a standing arrest warrant with talk like that. Would serve him right to never be allowed over their airspace again.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I was feeling particularly grumpy and did a final commit that 'git rm'ed everything but the new README.md, yeah.

One could even risk deleting the github repo and re-creating it w/same name to remove all old content...

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

"Last Week Tonight" segment in 3... 2... 1...

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Myself, I moved my projects to self-hosted gogs (maybe forgejo soon) but kept placeholders with a README.md and link on github so people can still find them.

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