| # check if leader exist (means associated session with the ) | |
| hasSession=$(curl -s http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/service/migration/leader | jq -r .[] | jq 'has("Session")') | |
| if [ -z "$hasSession" ] || [ "$hasSession" = false ]; then | |
| # create session | |
| session=$(curl -s -X PUT -d '{"Name": "migration"}' http://localhost:8500/v1/session/create | jq -r .ID) | |
| echo "session=$session" | |
| leaderValue=$(curl -s http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/service/migration/leader | jq -r .[].Value | base64 --decode) | |
| echo "leaderValue=$leaderValue" | |
| if [ -z "$leaderValue" ] || [ "$leaderValue" != "JOB_DONE" ]; then | |
| # try to put a lock |
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # for rundeck with mysql db | |
| # keep last X executions for each job | |
| KEEP=300 | |
| cd /var/lib/rundeck/logs/rundeck | |
| JOBS=`find . -maxdepth 3 -path "*/job/*" -type d` |
NB: This will not work for instances that proxy outgoing requests!
I wanted to find a way to detect the real IP address of a Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc instance hosted behind Cloudflare. How to do that? Well, it's federated, which means I can probably get it to send a request to a server of mine! And how to do that? I tried reading the ActivityPub spec. The following caught my attention:
Servers should not trust client submitted content, and federated servers also should not trust content received from a server other than the content's origin without some form of verification.