Monthly Shaarli
February, 2021
- https://dns-lookup.jvns.ca/.
- https://zone.vision (queries the authoritative nameservers for a domain directly)
- https://mxtoolbox.com (oriented towards MX/SPF queries)
- https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#A/
Via Julia Evans.
Lake Retba in Senegal is the world's second most saline body of water, thanks to being cutoff from the ocean some 50 years ago.
Workers produce 60000 tons of salt per year by harvesting it from the lake bottom and sun-drying it before adding iodine and filling it into bags for sale.
"How 60,000 Metric Tons of Salt Are Harvested from One of the World’s Saltiest Lakes", by Eater
For comparison, the world annual salt production (not only from lakes or oceans), is around 280 million tons. The oceans contain a virtually inexhaustible supply of salt.
Guides and how-tos
- Introduction to Ansible playbooks
- Playbooks vs roles, and explain the difference between task, role, play and playbook
- How to install and configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04 - DigitalOcean
- Linux hardening using idempotency with Ansible
Ansible playbooks and roles
- I haven't published all roles that I've written, but all the roles that I do publish are collected at codeberg.org/ansible
- Ansible module (Python code) to install R packages, by yutannihilation
- Ansible role to install TeXLive
- https://ansible.jeffgeerling.com/
- https://robertdebock.nl/ansible.html
Related
Good to see Nature making this point, although this argument is hardly new.
If you like your arguments in long-form, why not read In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson from 1999 (yes, it's old, but well worth a read).
Interestingly, the command line being great does not make the alternative fairly OK. It's much worse than that (that is an article by Ben Klemens from about a decade ago, original URL has unfortunately succumbed to linkrot, but I had it saved on my Wallabag).
Now easy to migrate your data from the following services to your Nextcloud account.
Note: in all cases, the administrator has to install the corresponding app first!
- OneDrive. To be able to migrate data, the Nextcloud instance administrator also has to setup OAuth credentials with OneDrive for their server.
- Dropbox. Connecting it to your account should just work.
- Google. To be able to migrate data, the Nextcloud instance administrator also has to setup OAuth credentials with Google for their server.
Also see Nextcloud's press release, and Forbes article.