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- on It Turns Out That Meta's Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10h ago
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on It Turns Out That Meta's Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10h ago
I feel like as soon as AI Agents calling businesses becomes common, a lot of people will simply hang up on them when they call.
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on audio player for radio productions in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
I worked in a radio station in a past life so I’m pretty sure I get what you’re looking for. If it were me, I’d get a usb button (aliexpress) and knock together a python client to drive mpd to play the tracks one at a time when you press the button.
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on What are good (web-)proxy servers? or Using a web-proxy instead of VPN for gatekeeping in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I use ssh and the built in socks proxy for that
ssh -D 1080 some_serverwill connect to the server and open a socks port on your local 1080 that exits via the server’s IP. -
on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
The usage is simple. If you name a quadlet (or systemd service unit file) with an @ in it then you can use it. Like
foo@.containerthen anything you put between the @ and . is passed into the resulting unit file as %i.So
systemctl start foo@bar.servicewill pass ‘bar’ in where %i exists in the unit file. From there you can use it in a StartPreExec or whatever else to do instance specific stuff when the instance of the containerized service start.Like
ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/activate_config %ifor example. A contrived example but hopefully you get the idea: with one quadlet file and a little scripting you can start many instances of a service that each automatically pull in their own configs. -
on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I agree that ergonomics are also important, but for me not the top priority for me. For Podman, I like the way I can use Quadlet to quickly deploy and run containerized stuff.
However I really like it for building and running my own app stack pods. The combination of Quadlet and SystemD instance aliases is very powerful. I use this to drive all kinds of configuration automation.
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Sounds like you are more interested in how the “house” was painted while I’m more focused on the construction materials and architecture.
If you truly don’t care what the source code looks like or how it works internally, then we aren’t even having the same conversation.
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
What do you mean by “clean design”?
If you are comfortable reading the source code for each project that is the most revealing way to see the difference.
In short, Docker has a lot more code because it duplicates a lot of kernel and systemd functionality (often poorly), uses multiple components that communication over grpc with each other to do things, requires setuid binaries, and defaults to running everything as root.
Podman, is a straight forward clean simple program that fully uses kernel and systemd interfaces rather than duplicating functionality. Quadlet is build on systemd generators and its use of templates via systemd instances lets you use deterministic dynamic configuration in ways that is unlike anything in Docker.
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I think its more than Compose does a small subset of what Quadlets can do. I can understand why if your only use case is Compose and you already like it, why change? For me, the rootless by default and daemonless nature of podman quadlets, and its clean design all make it the preferred choice.
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I don’t know how you would even compare them. Quadlets can do what Docker Swarm or Kube does with dynamic instances and dependency lifecycle management. Docker Compose doesn’t have nearly the same features as Podman Quadlet.
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
podman quadlets are next level
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on linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
sorry i am a non-metronome owner and thus cannot relate
its a feature!