8 comments

  • Mond_ 46 minutes ago

    I used Manjaro for a few years.

    That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day.

    "A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer."

    • peeters 41 minutes ago

      This comment made a lot more sense to me once I realized we weren't talking about an aggressively marketed weight loss drug.

    • KronisLV 20 minutes ago

      Uptime Kuma supports certificate expiry notifications and will send you messages in whatever channel (e.g. e-mail, Slack, ...) you configure ahead of time: https://uptimekuma.org/

      That way, even if some of your automation is borked (or if you don't have any), you'll at least be reminded.

      Though with this being pushed, feels like nobody will have much choice, but automate: https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will...

      • 9cb14c1ec0 30 minutes ago

        Just use Caddy. It's that simple.

        • aslihana 30 minutes ago

          I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro but their certificate issues and its recursive behaviour threaten me a little bit.

          • ddtaylor 39 minutes ago

            A lot of repositories and similar go offline randomly. It hasn't happened in a few months but usually the Microsoft package mirrors go past their Azure limits and I get reminders.

            • arcanemachiner 24 minutes ago

              This is like the third or fourth time this has happened to them.

              The Manjaro team has also caught flak for a bunch of other stuff. There's a page or two our there that detail the issues, which I'm too lazy to link here.

              But let's just say this isn't their first rodeo.

            • allddd 35 minutes ago

              At this point we have to assume they're doing it for attention. I refuse to believe a team of people that can ship an OS, even if it's just a riced Arch, cannot figure out acme.sh. Come on...

              • joecool1029 48 minutes ago

                Oops, it's back now though...

                • vpShane 48 minutes ago

                  not the first time, I stopped using manjaro when I noticed ping.manjaro.org was being pinged every 30 seconds on a new router I setup. nothanks on that.

                  but seriously, sudo crontab -e, @monthly cerbot renew

                  No excuses.

                  • altairprime 9 minutes ago

                    [delayed]

                    • fishgoesblub 36 minutes ago

                      It's not uncommon for a Distro to point NetworkManager or whoever to check for connectivity using their own servers, Arch does it themselves[0].

                      [0] ping.archlinux.org