jamesbelchamber

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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
Oh, see, I actually wish I was part of a community that would have flagged this to me. Maybe there is? Regardless, thank you for sharing, I'll be watching this :)
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
A few years back I wanted multifloor on my Valetudo (I had a weird single room which had a step into it) so I did my research and found a whole bunch of toxicity around this feature, mixed in with a bunch of information which mostly answere
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
This was never necessary - Yoti (which I think is being used in this case) has a tool that allows you to validate your identity to them, and then use that to validate only that you're over 18 to third parties. Yivi (a Dutch non-profit)
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1105/
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
> I think the increasingly widespread attitude that only open source software is good and trustworthy increasingly annoying and problematic. Software being open source almost always makes it more trustworthy, and I'm glad that more
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
Why on earth _did_ they abandon cardboard? It was really good for getting VR in the hands of.. well, everybody - and it worked quite well, too (for a bit of cardboard). If they stuck to what they built originally they would be dominating th
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
I am going through a phase of working with younger engineers who have many dotfiles, and I just think "Oh, yeh, I remember having lots of dotfiles. What a hassle that was." Nowadays I just try to be quite selective with my tooling
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
I guess at least they're being honest, but I would agree - there's a large delta between Al-assistance and Al-driven, and "vibe coding" is one step further (just accepting everything Al does without critique, so long as
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
Real self-hosters use butterflies
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
We don't know that (yet) - it's possible that this is simply a demonstration of how many companies have a hard dependency on us-east-1 for whatever reason (which I can certainly believe). We'll know when (if) some honest RCAs
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
This website just seems to be an auto-generated list of "things" with a catchy title: > 5000 Reddit users reported a certain number of problems shortly after a specific time. > 400000 A certain number of reports were made in
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
> physical servers are way simpler than the extremely complex software and networking systems that AWS provides. Or, rather, it's your fault when the complex software and networking systems you deployed on top of those physical serv
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
To back up this point, currently BBC News have it as their most significant story, with "live" reporting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt This is alongside "live" reporting on the
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
It's not surprising that it's impacting other services in the region because DynamoDB is one of those things that lots of other services build on top of. It is a little bit surprising that the blast radius seems to extend beyond u
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by jamesbelchamber 2y ago
> the government of England formally declared them a monopoly Do you have a source for this? So far as I know this isn't true, and some (admittedly quick) searching doesn't reveal anything.