To explain how HAproxy and competing tools solve this:

Two servers are prepared to be the single reverse proxy, but one is active. They constantly communicate with a “heartbeat”. When the active one fails to send a heartbeat, the secondary executes the steps to become the active primary. When the primary’s heart starts beating again, it becomes active again.

So there can be a few seconds of downtime, but the failover is automatic.

Yes, especially if people use the “latest” tag, trusting whatever the container might be updated to do in the future.

I am using Navidrome and if it has significant bugs, I haven’t run into them yet.

That’s not what the FAQ says, rather it says Flatpaks are often sandboxed but not fully containerized. Containers don’t need to have a performance penalty because they run on the same kernel as the host. Container tech applies a chroot, disables some capabilities within the container and that’s about it. They are in contrast to virtual machines that need to boot an entire additional OS before doing anything.

I am the sysadmin and I approve this message.

Part of the app resides on the GitHub infrastructure, where GitHub stores, processes and displays results. So their costs are not zero.

But GitHub could take a “tax the rich” approach to pricing by charging enterprise customers more for self-hostingand leave it free for others.

A lot of open source is funded like that— most funding for a project comes from a very few companies and everything else uses it free or for very low donations or costs.

My job involves maintaining Linux servers so there are no problems with Linux as my desktop.

Currently Arch Linux as the desktop OS.

You have never had some family member experience a broken website that they needed to work but you were not around to fix it on the server side?

This is better than directional arrows or alt tab because you can go directly to any window with one binding to open the utility and a second key to type a window label.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

The beauty is that it’s the same short process to go to any window no matter if if you 15 visible windows across 3 monitors.

You don’t have to conceptually switch to an output and then to a window or type a string of directional keys like Super+LLLLLJJ

On a 4k monitor, I sometimes have 6 or 8 visible plus 3 or 4 more on a second and another on a third.

So something like sway-easyfocus for direct jumping via keyboard is quite nice.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

Sway does not allow you to jump directly to a non-adjacent window natively, no.

But find sway-easyfocus which I contributed to. It does exactly this.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

Many smaller projects not explicitly supported by the vendor only make new releases and don’t also maintain a stable version.

I assumed this stage had already happened.

$70 if you hand deliver it to me. It’s my final offer.

The motivational component hits first. Developers lose the ability to push through tasks.

Eh… they lose the motivation to fix issues for free that don’t affect them. Crazy, I know.

More software I wanted was packaged for Arch than Ubuntu.

Say you rented a server at Amazon and ran your own VPN server software on it. Not that hard. The server could expose an HTTPS endpoint.

VPN software on your laptop connects to that.

From the network level, it appears you spend a lot of time connected to the same random website, hosted on some IP not owned by a VPN company.

Imagine a beach of infinite length with one lemonade stand on it.

Where do you open a second lemonade stand to maximize sales if people will buy from the closet stand?

The answer: next to the first stand. Everyone to the left of your stand will find you are the best option and everyone to the right will choose the other.

This model explains why two political parties along a spectrum can end up not too different from each other in an attempt to capture the most votes.

Because less than 1% of users would use it and your trusting the security of not one bit partner but thousands of ever-changing small partners.

Also, email is already federated.

Yes. I used CVS when it was the best option. If I recall, CVS made it easy to check out a different version of only one fail, making it easy to put a system in an inconsistent state.

For modern VCS that’s pleasant to learn and use but won’t scale to the Linux kernel, I recommend Darcs.

A single binary, interactive commands and online help.