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  • Podman is the RedHat implementation of the Open Container Initiative (OCI).

    A Dockerfile and a Containerfile are both OCI. Docker and Podman can generally both use either.

    Contrasted with Docker, Podman has better security defaults, and installers and licenses that are both actually open source. (Parts of Docker are open source. Parts are not.)

    Docker used to lead with additional features beyond OCI such as Docker Compose, but Podman Compose has been a thing for a while, now.

    The more mature a product is, the more likely it works perfectly with any OCI compliant tool.

    For rookie work, I feel like there’s still fair odds the developer only uses Docker and may rely on some anti-pattern that requires setting “bad security=ok” settings before their project will work in Podman.

    Your mileage may vary.


  • Docker desktop is not. (open source)

    Which can be a pretty big deal.

    This works out to: The product is unencumbered, but the only reliable installer is encumbered as fuck.

    That’s a “no thanks”, from me.

    I don’t need the sword of “Docker fucking with my colleague’s ability to collaborate” hanging over each of my projects.

    I’m not mad at folks using Docker for backwards compatibility. I just don’t need to make the problem worse.




  • There’s also DropOut.tv, which has many comedians from the former College Humor comedy group.

    DropOut.tv doesn’t really do educational content, but their funny stuff is unrivaled and very varied. Their game show, Game Changer is the best thing happening to streaming, right now.

    There’s even a (fan) DropOut bot here on Lemmy that creates dedicated threads for the dozen or so of us DropOut fans to discuss episodes when they drop.

    And both DropOut and Nebula now have deep back catalogs. I few years ago I felt like I could run out of things to watch. Now I only ever rewatch favorite episodes. Most Game Changer episodes are good enough to watch twice, and then watch the “making of” video afterwards.

    It’s still not YouTube where it’s impossible to watch anything. DropOut has a new high quality episode of a flagship show most week days.

    Nebula is more like YouTube, where between all the different creators, there’s usually more new content available in a given day than I could consume, if I wanted to.



  • Nebula is a fantastic alternative to YouTube.

    It seems like they pay their creators much better, which is enough reason alone, for some of us.

    Nearly every video on Nebula has a nice little extra for Nebula viewers. Most are just a quick thank-you, but some are much more substantial.

    Legal Eagle sometimes fully drops lawyer mode in post-video bits for Nebula subscribers. This amuses me because I wasn’t sure he could before I joined Nebula. Haha.

    Extra History and Extra Credits often have full extra videos on vaguely related topics, I think.

    And Nebula is amazingly good for travel videos. Anyone who loves trains should at least try Nebula.

    DropOut is my goto for humor, but Abolish Everything on Nebula also regularly provides a solid laugh. Also, DropOut and Nebula folks cameo across companies a bit. No non-compete agrrents there, I suspect.

    Obviously, Nebula has much smaller set of content creators, than YouTube.

    I appreciate that too though. Average video quality is way higher.


  • Not our fault everyone blows past the kind offer of : vimtutor on startup! (I kid. The default editor shouldn’t require a class.)

    You’re 100% correct. Nano is a perfectly reasonable default.

    That said, it is 2026. It also wouldn’t kill us to default to an interactive one-time prompt that defaults to nano, but offers one or two others, and removes itself after setting the user’s choice.