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  • Thanks! BentoPDF is fantastic, I never knew something like this existed.

    I have a todo list where I keep track of services I might be interested in one day, I read your post a few hours ago and added Bento to my list, thinking I might get around to it in a few days/weeks/months. Then out of nowhere 15 minutes ago I randomly needed to crop and split a PDF and realized I didn’t have anything to do it. I fired Bento up and was done in under a minute.



  • Disagree. Their priorities are backwards.

    Company A releases a product, it runs closed-source proprietary firmware on-board, and it can’t be updated by the user even if bugs or compatibility issues are found later on in the product’s life cycle.

    Company B releases a product, it runs closed-source proprietary firmware on-board, but it can be updated by the user if bugs or compatibility issues are found later on in the product’s life cycle.

    According to the FSF, product A gets the stamp of approval, product B doesn’t. That makes no sense.



  • I use node_exporter + VictoriaMetrics + Grafana for network-wide system monitoring. node_exporter also has provisions to include text files placed in a directory you specify, as long as they’re written out in the right format. I use that capability on my systems to include some custom metrics, including CPU and memory usage of the top 5 processes on the system, for exactly this reason.

    The resulting file looks like:

    # HELP cpu_usage CPU usage for top processes in %
    # TYPE cpu_usage gauge
    cpu_usage{process="/usr/bin/dockerd",pid="187613"} 1.8
    cpu_usage{process="/usr/local/bin/python3",pid="190047"} 1.4
    cpu_usage{process="/usr/bin/cadvisor",pid="188999"} 1.0
    cpu_usage{process="/opt/mealie/bin/python3",pid="190114"} 0.9
    cpu_usage{process="/opt/java/openjdk/bin/java",pid="190080"} 0.9
    
    # HELP mem_usage Memory usage for top processes in %
    # TYPE mem_usage gauge
    mem_usage{process="/usr/local/bin/python3",pid="190047"} 3.0
    mem_usage{process="/usr/bin/Xvfb",pid="196573"} 2.4
    mem_usage{process="/usr/bin/Xvfb",pid="193606"} 2.4
    mem_usage{process="next-server",pid="194634"} 1.2
    mem_usage{process="/opt/mealie/bin/python3",pid="190114"} 1.2
    

    And it gets scraped every 15 seconds for all of my systems. The result looks like this for CPU and memory. Pretty boring most of the time, but it can be very valuable to see what was going on with the active processes in the moments leading up to a problem.






  • Old Trek covered social justice issues by putting people who were being marginalized in our society in powerful roles, then having them do their fucking jobs, and do them well.

    New Trek covers social justice issues by having bridge crew members sitting around crying about childhood issues from 20 years ago while the universe is actively being destroyed, and instead of being kicked off of the bridge so they can get their shit together, the rest of the bridge crew sits around and comforts them while some no-name ensign silently saves the day in the background. Or some member of the bridge crew, completely unfocused and not paying attention to the problem at all, accidents their way into saving humanity.

    These are not the same.

    Most of that rant is about Discovery. I hate Discovery. SNW is much better when it comes to this.