bvandewalle

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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. Elected officials unfortunately don't have that much incentive to hire the "cheapest" company as the debt will be incurred over the next 100 years while they will be long gone. They proba
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
if it is an instance on the cloud, GCP and AWS let you define ServiceAccounts that get populated on the Instance at boot time. you should only let the instance access the secret it requires.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
It makes sense at scale. If you are a company of two there are probably better solutions. At scale, you can very granularly define policies for each secret. When a secret is accessed, it is done so through a user or application identity. Ea
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
If you use Vault, you should use it as an RBAC system as well. That means that each application got a ServiceAccount (SA) and each user got a username/password. Based on your identity, you get access to specific secrets from Vault.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
My issue with serverless though is that you need to refactor your code to make it work specifically for it. If you don't start to think serverless on day one it gets more and more difficult to convert to it down the road.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I'm using Kubernetes extensively in my day to day work and once you get it up and running and learn the different abstraction, it becomes a single API to manage your containers, storage and network ingress needs. Making it easy to take
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
It feels like this became the life-cycle of Internet. The same thing happened with decentralized websites and blogs.then everyone got attracted by the managed platforms and now the web is more centralized than ever.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
you make the right point. A lot of people see this as youtube censorship, but the podcast was also available in its purest form: through a RSS decentralized feed. Now it moves to a walled garden with content unavailable to the outside world
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I said this in another post about Grubhub but similarly to this article I really don't get it. Those apps are all 25%+ expensive than ordering take out directly with the restaurant, they screw the restaurants and all those delivery com
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I don't get those delivery companies (Doordash, Grubhub, etc). Even with a first-timer promotion, a meal would end up being close to 25% more expensive than ordering directly with the restaurant. I'm happy to order directly with a
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
This must be one of the most misunderstood pieces of popular science. The Coriolis effect is WAY too weak to affect the direction the water is flowing. Typically the way the water moves initially and the shape of the container will have an
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
If you are an engineer those type of stories should make you rethink your usage of Google Chrome. Chrome having so many users empower them to implement those type of nonsensical policies. As said in other comments it is trivially easy to sw
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
Is there a list somewhere of all the apps importing the spyware Facebook SDK?
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
you are assuming that the Spotify app is not simply handing that data over. I would not be surprised if there is a financial agreement in place.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
or would it rather be: Airbnb is a huge VC backed company. They need to grow 10x at all cost in order to justify their valuation?
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I would also think so mainly on privacy ground and on the fact that Facebook is one of the companies that I trust the least. But I'm not keeping my hopes high when I see how people buy Facebook Portal for example (their tentative clone
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
Belgium would be a good candidate.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I'm in the same situation. That whole process makes me feel like a mindless cog about to enter a well oiled machine without the possibility to question some of those nonsensical steps.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
This is one of the saddest thing I read today and a good reminder that life is always finite.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
I will take Europe over the US where my private data is being sold by Facebook and Google to the highest bidder without any single law protecting me. Sure some of those laws are a pain but they are needed checks and balances to avoid living
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
> #2 Gig-style businesses tend to vastly underpay employees. Yes and as said below, that's by design. Uber/Lyft for example would not survived if they priced their service to allow a fair pay for the gig worker after accounting
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
Linux user here. I have tried them all and Zoom is not perfect but is multiple levels above any of the competitors. Don't even get me started with WebEx.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
Almost all problems on video conferences are on the user's end. What Zoom excel at is to mitigate most of those user issues by trying to figure out all the corner cases that the user might be in.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
At that point it is more a PR play than really reusing the energy.
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
We use Google Meet and it struggles to keep up with meetings with more than 10 people. It seems that the common hack is to ask each attendee to disable their camera. On the plus side, it is the only one that reliably works from a browser on
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
Note that "Google Meet" (part of Enterprise suite) is different than the free "Google Hangout".
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
The issue is that WebEx might just work for you, but if there is one person for whom it doesn't work then that is the limiting factor. What people struggle to understand is that Zoom made it easy accross ALL operating systems. While We
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by bvandewalle 6y ago
Because we are talking about a negligible amount of energy. It would take more energy to build, install and maintain the equipment that would be able to do that.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I have had the same experience in the past. 2 phone interviews that never called and the recruiter feeling sorry and claiming this is "exceptional".
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I agree with you about the scams but as of today it still seems to be almost non challenged for the housing rental market for example. I would not call that failed.

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