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Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by theodric »

tremere wrote: post #33
pachouli-please wrote: post #4

I love all Geerling's projects, writings, and videos over the years. I was actually concerned that based on the brevity of the title that something tragic had happened. Glad that's not the case!

I share this sentiment. Whenever I see his name I end up reading his article and whether I agree with him or not, the quality of content he puts out sets a very high bar. Whenever he writes a comment on HN it's one of those rare instances where I'll stop and read it carefully rather than blaze through it. Jeff is truly a gem in the community. FWIW I did not expect bad news since I didn't see a date range after the na…

Or "has died"

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by throw2354123 »

kelnos wrote: post #97
user_7832 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your reply. I'm curious to know if your views have changed in the years/decade(s) since. (I'm asking specifically because there appear to be a few logical flaws in some of the arguments in one of your blog posts from 2009, at the risk of going significantly off topic for this HN thread)

Not only is it off-topic, but I don't think anyone is likely to learn anything interesting from a reply, and the most likely outcome is an abortion-related flamewar. I don't agree with Jeff's 2009 views on abortion, but it's not really relevant to the work he's done here, and neither is whether or not he's changed his mind in any way about it.

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Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by dang »

sfsdf343425 wrote: post #9

Jeff is incredible, his brother works for RPi manufacturing I think looking at the factory tour. He's not biased at all when it comes to comparing the Pi to the competition in his blogs, I mean erm clones, there is no competition anyways. Jeff Geerling blog: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog

Please don't use throwaway accounts like this. It's against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it, and eventually it will get your main account banned as well.

As https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html explains, throwaway accounts are fine for sensitive information but you certainly shouldn't be using multiple ones in the same thread.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by emptysongglass »

jchw wrote: post #81
emptysongglass wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because so much of it was just completely false. Jeff positioned Red Hat as going against the community, which wasn't the case at all. The "bad actors" were squarely Rocky and Alma who just wanted to sell the exact same ten year support enterprise Red Hat as Red Hat themselves without any work. Well, Red Hat said, you want it, you go get it in Stream, which has a 5 year lifecycle. The only companies that need ten yea…

> Jeff (and everybody else) jumped on the hate bandwagon. It wasn't kind, it was mob behavior, and it completely lacked any nuance. Hate bandwagon? I'm not a huge follower of Jeff's but I have never seen a single thing from them that I would consider "hateful" or jumping on a bandwagon. What I can gather is that you disagree with those who did not like Red Hat's actions w.r.t. CentOS and RHEL updates, but just becaus…

> Hate bandwagon? I'm not a huge follower of Jeff's but I have never seen a single thing from them that I would consider "hateful" or jumping on a bandwagon

I'll just address this bit. Yes, it was a hate bandwagon and it wasn't jumping on one, it was leading it. It was all over his LinkedIn and everywhere else he could post at the time.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by emptysongglass »

kelnos wrote: post #95
emptysongglass wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because so much of it was just completely false. Jeff positioned Red Hat as going against the community, which wasn't the case at all. The "bad actors" were squarely Rocky and Alma who just wanted to sell the exact same ten year support enterprise Red Hat as Red Hat themselves without any work. Well, Red Hat said, you want it, you go get it in Stream, which has a 5 year lifecycle. The only companies that need ten yea…

I tend not to take seriously the opinions of people who call others who use open source software according to the terms of its license "freeloaders". (And I say this as an open source developer myself, who has spent thousands of hours writing code for free.) If you want to side with Red Hat on this, fine, but it's not necessary to exaggerate the actions of those with an opposing view to the point that you're trying t…

I also don't believe in defending big corporate but Jeff's takes were wildly out of touch with what was actually happening. I do not love Red Hat or any corporation and I think their messaging could have been a lot better but I don't think the people who together make up Alma or Rocky acted in any way in good faith and I do find their desire to have everything hand prepared for them by Red Hat spoiled behavior.

The sources are all still there, they just need to work a little harder to get it. Forgive me if I shed no tears.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by leehuffman »

ensignavenger wrote: post #68
lostapathy wrote: post #66

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If only this was true! I have a bunch of Makita cordless tools (and IME, Makita was #1 for pros 10-15 years ago, not a niche brand). Several years ago (2015-ish?) they changed up the battery shape a little bit so newer batteries wouldn't fit on older tools. It was to add another pin so the battery could tell the tool it was dead and quit drawing power (why the battery couldn't just cut power is beyond me). So (at the…

Yup, I have a Dewalt set, with their older battery design.... unfortunately my batteries are getting old, the tools are fine, but I can't get the old batteries, and if I buy new tools, they will use the new batteries. So... do I buy aftermarket batteries for my existing tools, or get rid of my existing tools and switch to whatever brand next? It is silly.

I’ve had great luck with NOS 18v batteries from eBay. Had to pick up a pair for an 18v trim nailer that doesn’t support their 20v adapter. My neighbor did the same for his 18v collection. All going strong.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by apple4ever »

Jeff is awesome! I met him at AnsibleFest 2022, and he was very friendly despite not feeling well (I did not take up much of his time when I realized that, FYI).

Nobody even mentioned his books! His Ansible for DevOps book I have used at 2 companies to teach Ansible.

He's an amazing guy and our industry is better off for having him in it.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by jchw »

emptysongglass wrote: post #104
jchw wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Jeff (and everybody else) jumped on the hate bandwagon. It wasn't kind, it was mob behavior, and it completely lacked any nuance. Hate bandwagon? I'm not a huge follower of Jeff's but I have never seen a single thing from them that I would consider "hateful" or jumping on a bandwagon. What I can gather is that you disagree with those who did not like Red Hat's actions w.r.t. CentOS and RHEL updates, but just becaus…

> Hate bandwagon? I'm not a huge follower of Jeff's but I have never seen a single thing from them that I would consider "hateful" or jumping on a bandwagon I'll just address this bit. Yes, it was a hate bandwagon and it wasn't jumping on one, it was leading it. It was all over his LinkedIn and everywhere else he could post at the time.

Something isn't hateful just because you don't like it or don't agree with it. (It's also not a bandwagon just because other people agree with it, but that's neither here nor there at this point.)

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by airstrike »

theodric wrote: post #100
airstrike wrote: post #67

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Because you can edit the title after the fact?

If - to paraphrase the other folks before me - it causes more annoyance than it does good, then the fact that one can spend more effort undoing its damage after the fact is, in fact, a bug rather than a feature.

But you're only hearing from the people who are annoyed enough to write a comment complaining about it. Many other users (such as myself) may be +1 or +0 on the functionality, in which case you can't conclude that "it causes more annoyance than it does good". You'd need to know user's preferences (if you're solving for that) or the value HN admin attributes to the feature vs. the value they attribute to the cost imposed on users (if you're solving for that)

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by geerlingguy »

throw235398 wrote: post #40
astrodust wrote: post #5

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No yelling, clickbait or scandals, it's actually great.

Regarding scandals, I'm glad he stopped mixing extreme religious ideologies with tech content on the blog. He also seems to be brand loyal, but I'm being too harsh.

I posted elsewhere; the blog started off in 2003-ish on HTML, then Xanga, migrated to Thingamablog (Static Site Generator before it was cool), then Drupal.

I started writing on the blog 20 years ago while in high school and college. I like leaving up the old to help people see not everyone comes straight out of the womb with the same maturity and style of someone in their 30s/40s.

I still have a lot to learn, and I imagine I would say the same thing when I hit my 40 year blogiversary :)

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