darkr

12 ms·

121.
by darkr 5y ago
> No animal converts matter & energy to body-mass faster than young mammals, the cold blooded do not stand a chance. Feel like Argentinosaurus might have had something to say about that argument..
122.
by darkr 5y ago
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3247...
123.
by darkr 5y ago
I’ve heard reports that minio gets slow beyond the hundreds of millions of objects threshold
124.
by darkr 5y ago
Yes, but increasingly traffic is strongly encrypted, with users able to exert some level of control over that encryption
125.
by darkr 5y ago
There was a good talk at Hashiconf a few years back, can't find a link now. I can't say that this is the "right" way to do it, but it scales OK for our org (100+ engineers, 200+ services per environment, many third party
126.
by darkr 6y ago
If you use federated auth, then you can do whatever you want; 10 UDF keys and a video of a special dance if you so desire
127.
by darkr 6y ago
I wouldn’t go that far. There’s often leaky abstractions, sure. But at 30% (or less) of the price of the equivalent Juniper hardware, I can usually live with it
128.
by darkr 6y ago
> I fail to understand this Parent was proposing that AWS sell Heroku services at cost. As you say, my point was it doesn’t make sense
129.
by darkr 6y ago
Heroku runs on AWS already, they're earning cost + markup as it is. If they purchased Heroku and did this, they'd be out several billion dollars plus lose their markup. Many of the Heroku addons also run on AWS, so customers may l
130.
by darkr 6y ago
If you’re paying salary based on financial needs of the employee rather than value added, then this is also something that varies massively - the debt-free happy-go-lucky 24 year old who lives in a house share, who had college paid for by h
131.
by darkr 6y ago
> Didn't NASA use a lot of 486es for a long time for this same reason? They were also using Amigas until ~2006 for various duties, including launch control.
132.
by darkr 6y ago
U2f support is available in recent versions of OpenSSH - though ideally you should to configure a pin code as well, which requires some configuration. Can't speak for how good this support is as I've not used it - but for web it i
133.
by darkr 6y ago
When you're generating keys you have two options: 1. Generate keys off card and import them (you can then backup these keys) 2. Generate keys on-card I always chose the 2nd option; not being able to extract the keys from the card is st
134.
by darkr 6y ago
Have used them for the past 6 or so years, and issued as standard to any engineers needing sensitive system access - over 30 or so keys that have been used and thoroughly abused over that time I've only ever seen one broken - somehow a
135.
by darkr 6y ago
Then that key can no longer be used. The solution to this resulting in being permanently locked out is to have more than n+1 redundancy in hardware, and ideally meatware too.
136.
by darkr 6y ago
nice to see sqitch[1] in use here 1: https://sqitch.org/
137.
by darkr 6y ago
Ironically, Elixir is a great example of a success largely due to being based on “boring” technology
138.
by darkr 6y ago
The library didn't, last time I looked
139.
by darkr 6y ago
RDS can do up to 64K PIOPS these days. If you need more than that, I would definitely advocate for re-architecture to split things out and/or shard. We're up to 40k PIOPS in one of our larger databases and fast approaching the tim
140.
by darkr 6y ago
With 5.7 TB data, you're probably looking at something like 24 hours for a dump/restore including index rebuilds
141.
by darkr 6y ago
It seems a bit short sighted to abandon hybrids altogether. EV's are great for your average suburban/urban commuter, but they are terrible for long distance cross-country drives as you have to wait for hours for it to charge (pres
142.
by darkr 6y ago
If you have children, you lose out on child benefit between 60k and 70k, which adds an equivalent 10% in that margin. Between 100 and 120k there is also the loss of personal allowance, which results in a marginal tax rate of 62% in that bra
143.
by darkr 6y ago
> hash(static-pepper, username, password) * 250k Though this is obviously better from a wire-interception PoV, it means that you can't enforce any password policies, or maintain a list of leaked/bad passwords (e.g HIBP)
144.
by darkr 6y ago
A lot of newer cars have this already. There's an EU draft law approved for this to become mandatory for all new cars from 2022
145.
by darkr 6y ago
CentOS is/was based upon RHEL. In the same family of RHEL clone distros there is at least: * Oracle (yuk) * Scientific Linux (though I don't think they attempt to guarantee binary compatibility as CentOS does/did)
146.
by darkr 6y ago
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-Dece...
147.
by darkr 6y ago
> Compare this to even the least expensive stand alone 5.1 system and it's a very inexpensive alternative. I've had the same DTS/Dolby Digital 5.1 system for nearly 20 years. It still works flawlessly. I very much doubt th
148.
by darkr 6y ago
Having a generally positive experience with Dendron: ( https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron ) currently, having recently migrated several thousand markdown-format notes captured over the past few years.
149.
by darkr 6y ago
11 nines of _durability_. Uptime SLA for s3 is 99.9% AFAICR
150.
by darkr 6y ago
https://github.com/fthomas/refined

More ›