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by mbreese 1y ago
I don’t think the cognitive context switching required would be a good fit. I imagine pilots always have to be “on” just in case something happens, even if they are letting the plane do some of the routine flying.
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by mbreese 1y ago
For a long time you couldn’t run Docker in rootless mode. So Singularity/Apptainer was developed so that the benefit of containers could be used with shared HPC clusters. Podman also didn’t exist at the time. I don’t know why we should
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by mbreese 1y ago
> keep having to pay the guy if you want copies. This is the key point. If you hire an actor for a live stage show, it is a one time fee. The live show happens, the tickets are sold, the actor gets paid, and at the end of the day every
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by mbreese 1y ago
It's not perfect... For example, I don't think there is an easy way to use Apptainer containers w/ VS Code. But it's there if you want to play with it. I was only partially aware of it as I tend to use Colima more than L
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by mbreese 1y ago
See: https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/main/installation.html#mac Just like with Docker, it spins up a Linux VM that integrates with Apptainer. You can install/use it with Lima (much like Docker). You can
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by mbreese 1y ago
I think of using Apptainer/Singularity as more like Docker than anything else (without the full networking configs). These are all issues with traditional Docker containers as well, so I’m not sure how you were using the containers or
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by mbreese 1y ago
You could use a home assistant-like api to turn off the switch as well as manage the /etc/hosts changes. I don’t have any experience with home assistant, per-se, but I have programmatically controlled similar the switches with an
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by mbreese 1y ago
> … paint Linux as hard to use. Any major distro is a lot easier to set up than it was 15 years ago. See, I don’t necessarily think Linux is hard to use . Most desktop environments are so similar in style to Windows and Mac that they
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by mbreese 1y ago
I can’t see how this project lasts with the current name/logo. As mentioned elsewhere, Netscape is still a trademark, and this is quite confusing between Netscape and Firefox.
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by mbreese 1y ago
I don’t think of it as a coordination issue. OSS can coordinate well. What it can’t do is make decisions. Most times there are at least two possible implementations for a given task (with different legitimate trade-offs). The OSS approach i
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by mbreese 1y ago
I figured you'd have that opinion :). It is completely a personal preference, but I think you can get closer to a "daily driver" experience with a beheaded laptop. Two reasons: 1) you'll get better performance. This woul
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by mbreese 1y ago
One of the versions that the author compares the Framework 12 to with respect to value is the Framework 13… so, it’s not like they are ignoring the Framework repairable design philosophy. Here is the “ugly” part of the Ars summary (as in go
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by mbreese 1y ago
Over the past few years, I’ve seen more and more people make headless laptop variations. I think this is probably a better approach than the OP, but it’s mainly about what kind of form factor you want (and how much you want to tinker!). Her
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by mbreese 1y ago
Exactly. Phone cameras have completely absorbed the middle-ground for cameras. You either can find a cheap one where you don't care as much about the quality (for kids, or times when the phone could get damaged). Or you can find expens
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by mbreese 1y ago
Oh, I’m pretty sure you could set a gzip header field with a full index and a zero-byte payload. You could even make it so that the size of that last block would be in a standard location in the file (at a known offset, still in the gzip he
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by mbreese 1y ago
Got it. That’s incredibly helpful. Thank you! The way that’s handled in the bgzip/gzip world is with an external index file (.gzi) with compressed/uncompressed offsets. The index could be auto-computed, but would still require rea
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by mbreese 1y ago
I’m trying to learn more about the seekable zstd format. I don’t know very much about zstd, aside from reading the spec a few weeks ago. But I thought this was part of the spec? IIRC, zstd files don’t have to have just one frame. Is the nor
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by mbreese 1y ago
1) SSL, even though I know the difference. More accurately, I know there is a difference, but SSL gets the point across. 2) before 1999. IIRC, the first SSL certificate I was involved with getting required the use of a fax machine.
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by mbreese 1y ago
That reminds me of the Guarantee scene from the movie Tommy Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4 To briefly summarize (and sanitize), just because someone puts a guarantee on the box doesn't mean they'
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by mbreese 1y ago
True, but how often do outages like this happen? And when outages do happen, does Cloudflare have any more exposure than Google? I mean, if Google can’t handle it, why should Cloudflare be expected to? It also looks like the Cloudflare serv
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by mbreese 1y ago
Exactly! Third party file systems support in user space is exactly what I want to see. It seems to me that third party kernel code has always caused me problems. By moving the FSKit to user-space, I’m quite happy to try something, knowing
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by mbreese 1y ago
Yeah, but passphrases don’t require switching keyboards as often in mobile. And if you’re using a 16 character P@s5w0R6, a 50 character passphrase can be just as secure. What I can’t stand if when I’m prompted to type a password on my Apple
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by mbreese 1y ago
I don’t know… with a stock Linux, the information a user can get from top (via /proc, I assume), is pretty thorough. You can at least get a list of running programs, which by itself could be valuable.
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by mbreese 1y ago
That's my guess too... Colima, but probably doing a VM using the Virtualization framework. I'll be more curious if you can select x86 containers, or if you'll be limited to arm64/aarch64. Not that it really makes that mu
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by mbreese 1y ago
Or fund a lot of CPU startups that were tied back to Intel for manufacturing/foundry work. Sure, they could be funding their next big CPU competitor, but they'd still be able to capture the revenue from actually producing the chip
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by mbreese 1y ago
Even in this case, it could be useful to limit the access websites have to local servers within your subnet (/64, etc), which might be a better way to define the “local” network. (And then corporate/enterprise managed Chrome insta
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by mbreese 1y ago
I agree completely with the idea of building something 3 times. As I get older, I tend to compress things more into 2 iterations, but that just because I like to think I’m getting better at coding, so step two is less pressing. I think of t
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by mbreese 1y ago
I think one thing that might help the discussion would be if you could explain a bit more about what you didn't like or thought was missing from other alternatives. IMO, there's nothing wrong with building an alternative because y
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by mbreese 1y ago
Oh, I could guess who buys the licenses… I’m more curious about who uses them. And the real question is — what applications are being used by the users? I’m sure RH has data on what packages are being installed across their customer bas
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by mbreese 1y ago
> I wish Red Hat would put some of the development resources they've saved from no longer packaging/supporting those graphical programs into helping to improve Flatpak. I very much agree with this. It would be nice to see som

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