This article is talking about Portal:Current Events on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events). The current events articles are fantastic! Normal newspaper articles are status updates. Current events articles synthesize news to present the current, comprehensive understanding about an event. It’s cool to monitor how current events articles evolve over time.

I’m continually impressed by Wikipedia’s quality controls. In my experience people underestimate them.

I don't underestimate them, I just don't think they are good. I've been on Wikipedia for at least twenty years.

Can you recommend any articles about minimum scale necessary to make Kubernetes worth it?

If you count 3 control plane nodes and at least one or two extra servers worth of space for pods to go when a node goes down, I'd say don't bother for anything less than 6-7 servers worth of infrastructure. Once you're over 10 servers, you can start using node affinity and labels to have some logical grouping based on hardware type and/or tenants. At that point it's just one big computer and the abstraction starts to really pay off compared to manually dealing with servers and installation scripts.

I'd say the abstraction is not worth it when you have only a steady 2-3 servers worth of infrastructure. Don't do it at "Hello, world!" scale, you win nothing.

(I work for a company that helps other companies set up and secure larger projects into environments like Kubernetes.)

I would always use Kubernetes, if you have 4 or more GB RAM on your server. It's just better than docker compose in every imaginable way. The only issue with Kubernetes is that it wants around 2 GB RAM for itself.

The answer today is more than one node (instance/kernel running)

The mouse actually works quite well with trackpad mode disabled. I’m using an iPhone Mini. One trick: To select a menu option tap-and-hold a menu title then drag to an option and let go to select.

Really cool!

Are there any artist groups in your area? You might like participating in critique groups, meet ups, or entering shows.

Those interested in this branch of the discussion might find Dave Winer’s blog series about building an open social network on top of the RSS standard worth a read. Here’s one of many posts: http://scripting.com/2025/06/28/211301.html

“Explain your terms of service to me.”

Fully Automated is a Solarpunk RPG game manual with fun game systems for exploring optimistic tech futures, https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/

> even seemingly simple systems are infinitely complex. (As Carl Sagan put it: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”)

Wikiquote cites the book “Cosmos” page 218 as the source of this cool quote. https://lccn.loc.gov/80005286

Since the website doesn’t have pictures or videos… Is “webtop” a way to package GUI desktop apps in a Docker container so that the only dependencies to run the app are Docker Desktop and a web browser?

Yes. From the documentation there are some Screenshots and this is possible. Like starting a standalone Firefox browser inside docker desktop and accessing it via a browser vnc session.

But you get to control the keyboard/clipboard and it can add apparently watermarks to the vnc session for DLP functionality and you have a web http to take screenshots of your vnc sessions.