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[FIXED] ruby on rails :: LoadError: cannot load such file -- distribution

Specifically for the wco  stack, gem 'iron_warbler' had to be included in that particular instance's (micros_*) Gemfile. Which is a bit disappointing since I wanted libraries to be decoupled - but hey, I'm not going to fix this right now. But please be aware: it may seem that there is a separation between libraries and some libraries (namely models and content) can be installed without the rest of the stack - but that's not the case. The whole stack must be installed.

[FIXED]: An external drive not mounting on mac (fsck, not fdisk)

This happened to me recently... I may have unplugged an external 5Tb harddrive without ejecting it from mac os x 13, and it could not be mounted again. I plugged the harddrive into a windows machine, run "repair" there (whatever that means) and the data was perfectly readable. It's just that the disk would not mount on mac.

Stackoverflow to the rescue! The solution is:

sudo pkill -f fsck

Or actually

ps aux | grep fsck 

Should Openstack be used as self-hosted s3 service, in 2025? (Answer: no)

Hello everyone, very quickly, I have spent several days looking into self-hosting s3 solutions, because I am in the process of moving out of AWS cloud for security reasons.

One of the alternative options that I have considered for S3, the object storage solution, is OpenStack. Some 10 years ago, I have actively developed in the openstack ecosystem, and I remember they provide one or several s3-compatible solutions. In particular, the OpenStack Swift supposedly provides an option for self-hosted s3. You can install it as part of the devstack, which can run on a single machine.