This Electric Outboard Conversion Makes for a Quiet Day on the Water https://hackaday.com/2022/11/29/this-electric-outboard-conversion-makes-for-a-quiet-day-on-the-water/ #TransportationHacks #propellor #stator #motor #BLDC #boat #ice #ev

This Electric Outboard Conversion Makes for a Quiet Day on the Water - Nothing beats a day on the lake in a little boat with an outboard motor putt-putti... - https://hackaday.com/2022/11/29/this-electric-outboard-conversion-makes-for-a-quiet-day-on-the-water/ #transportationhacks #propellor #stator #motor #bldc #boat #ice #ev

Today I switched from #Exim to #Postfix on my main mail server. I don't have a big investment in either one, and luckily this host doesn't have a deeply customized exim configuration. I switched because #Propellor already has support for configuring Exim but not for Postfix. So far so good; I had to tweak the configuration to use Maildir, but that's it, and it seems to have fixed the problem I was having with STARTTLS and Exim. #SelfHost #Sysadmin

Using #ansible after #propellor feels like a step backwards. Expressing configuration intent in #Haskell is much nicer than in yaml. The larger ecosystem is a big benefit of ansible, though.

@JordiGH I think the defaults are sane, and only install security updates. My current configuration is generated by #propellor, but the key point is

"origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";

That should be there out of the box in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*unattended-upgrades.

This weekend I wrote some Haskell (a tiny tweek to @joeyh 's #propellor) to conveniently build Debian images for IBM s390x VMs.
My hope is that I can test the images on qemu on my desktop, then spin them up on a real #z14 mainframe. So far I just have them booting on my desktop.