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PSA: If you are using AWS, you should be using Session Manager for remote access to your EC2 instances if possible - it is free and trivial to enable. Azure offers Azure Bastion, w…

I expect nushell to massively change how I work: https://www.nushell.sh/ It's a shell that is actually built for structured data, taking lessons learned from PowerShell and others.…

> And let's not forget to be grateful towards for-profit companies that contribute to open source. The main sponsor of WINE is CodeWeavers, who have been paying folks that work on …

I am currently evaluating dsq and its partner desktop app DataStation. AIUI, the developer of DataStation realised that it would be useful to extract the underlying pieces into a s…

I've been experimenting with Hatch: https://hatch.pypa.io/ The USP of Hatch is that it uses the latest generation of Python standards and tech under the covers, so you have a unifi…

The Python Packaging Authority, the team that maintain setuptools etc. for core Python. There's a discussion here: https://discuss.python.org/t/hatch-1-0-0-is-available/15359

The maintainers of the Python packaging have just officially adopted Hatch: https://hatch.pypa.io/ Hatch aims to do what Poetry does, but is strictly compliant with Python standard…

There are a few projects that take inspiration from PowerShell, but they haven't got mass adoption. I have hopes that Nushell will be a success when it gets to 1.0: https://www.nus…

FWIW, AWS now have an official SDK for Rust in beta: https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-rust/ There are people at Microsoft working on a Rust SDK for Azure, but it's explicitly a volun…

I use Joplin, which has a similar feature set but also mobile apps: https://joplinapp.org/ It supports various types of file stores for syncing between devices. I've used OneDrive …

The wheels started to come off with .NET back when ORMs became a thing, slightly before Rails. Look up "ALT.NET" movement for the history. TLDR: Microsoft wanted .NET developers to…

These days, I am really impressed by the MATE desktop environment: https://mate-desktop.org/ It does the stuff that you need without excess weight, the look and feel is flexible en…

Red Hat's business model is that they ship a defined set of components and patch those components as needed for years without breaking compatibility. Red Hat explicitly will not sh…

I installed Podman 3.3.1 on a Mac yesterday from Homebrew and volume mounts were definitely an issue, but it otherwise worked as advertised on the command-line. The bugs cited in t…

"Peter Pan versioning" This really should be the term for projects that are perpetually releasing 0.x versions. Maintainers are free to release their software under whatever terms …

No questions, but a huge "thank you". I have not been this delighted with a tool since discovering Git. Once the little initial learning is done, it's so fast, powerful and easy to…

The author of this has been running with it for a couple of years. Previous HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Flatpak%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Secu... The tone and varied assortme…

"solutions journalism" is an really interesting effort to adapt journalism to current realities in a positive way. "It investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, …

Yes, for me the sandboxing is not the immediate benefit. The instant value is providing channels for developers to ship apps to their users without either side having to mandate th…

Joplin is everything that I want in a note-taking app, and I use it constantly. It actually does support linking between notes.

Fastmail provide email, address book, calendars, and file storage for $3 per user per month: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/

This is the issue: > unless there's some particular piece of software you need which isn't supported. Lots of people need to run very specific pieces of software for their work, or…

Snap is an Ubuntu thing. It's basically a client for the Canonical app store.

Yes, restic would be my pick: easy to deploy and use, well-maintained. If you want some assurance, CERN are deploying restic: https://indico.cern.ch/event/862873/contributions/3724…