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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro but their certificate issues and its recursive behaviour threaten me a little bit.
ddtaylor [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Oops, it's back now though...
vpShane [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
fishgoesblub [3 hidden]5 mins 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].
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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."
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...
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.
but seriously, sudo crontab -e, @monthly cerbot renew
No excuses.
[0] ping.archlinux.org