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i fucked up the git.pixie.town server and im rushing to try fix it but I have to go to dinner too >:(

next is writing a prometheus middleware that collects borg stats on backup completion, and alertmanager rules for when a backup didn't happen

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alertmanager for systemd jobs is amazing, seeing if a service crashes, or when a backup service fails

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definitely some rule tweaking to do still but it's going p well

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huh i have some decent alertmanager rules from awesome-prometheus-alerts.grep and alerting through Matrix with go-neb (with a NixOS module :DDD)

it does seem conceptually great, I love mainframe style computing

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hmm @AllNyaNoBite@notbird.site how do you actually run your code when interacting with it remotely through code-server, it doesn't seem too practical with the amount of local testservers etc I run?

ninteen eighty-fortnite will never fail to me funny as fuck

time management? my brain has more holes than a block of cheese!

“[Gebru]’s been thinking back to conversations she’d had with a friend who warned her not to join Google, saying it was harmful to women and impossible to change. Gebru had disagreed, claiming she could nudge things, just a little, toward a more beneficial path. ‘I kept on arguing with her,’ Gebru says. Now, she says, she concedes the point.”

laurakalbag.com/lens/what-real

“‘There was this hope that some level of self-regulation could have happened at these tech companies,’ Raji says. ‘Everyone’s now aware that the true accountability needs to come from the outside—if you’re on the inside, there’s a limit to how much you can protect people.’”

wired.com/story/google-timnit-

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