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by xorcist 2y ago
I take it you mean easily unlockable bootloader, not really out-of-the-box root access which no phone have. I have taken the opposite stance on that. Never again will they be left with some Samsung bloatware which hardly receives any Androi
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by xorcist 2y ago
That doesn't make sense with the common use of the word. Autocracy is a much wider term than a militia style dictatorship, and is mostly used in the context of democracy. Most, if not all, autocrats are democratically elected (with s
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by xorcist 2y ago
Moving employee jurisdiction to suit the incoming administration is hardly the same as a warm greeting though, is it? In my country we have a different word for people giving large sums of money as gifts to incoming politicians, yet we seld
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by xorcist 2y ago
It is, and from experience it is also a good example how control loops are harder than you think. Few people understand it, and it is the source of much underlying trouble.
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by xorcist 2y ago
2FA does not protect against a website getting hacked.
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by xorcist 2y ago
The term "stability" should not be used outside of the major Linux distributions such as Debian and Fedora. For a distribution to be stable over the long term it needs a large enough community, a stable governance model, and a rea
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by xorcist 2y ago
There's nothing to it, it's just "git commit". You then add your changes and "git commit --amend". (These could be aliases. Mine are "ci" and "ca" respectively.)
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by xorcist 2y ago
I'd love a link or two if you can dig them up.
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by xorcist 2y ago
> Jenkins shouldn’t be near production All of which sounds completely reasonable to me, in many situations. Jenkins is the Wordpress of software development. It's gigantic state loop that runs plugins with no privilege separation. G
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by xorcist 2y ago
I found that the commit log made auditing on- and offboarding easier, not harder. Of course it won't help you if your process is dysfunctional. You still have to trigger the process somehow, which can be a problem in itself when growin
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by xorcist 2y ago
Why do think that? I did something similar at a previous work for something bordering on 1k employees. User administration was done by modifying a yaml file in git. Nothing bad to say about it really. It sure beats point-and-click Active Di
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by xorcist 2y ago
> every minute messing with and monitoring servers You're not monitoring your deployments because "cloud"?
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by xorcist 2y ago
There is a large gap between "own the hardware" and "use cloud hosting". Many people rent the hardware, for example, and you can use managed databases which is one step up than "starting a vm". But your compari
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by xorcist 2y ago
Isn't a "hot take" supposed to be controversial?
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by xorcist 2y ago
I believe what you describe is something very close to Firefox. Enabling uBlock is down to a few clicks, but that does not seem to have helped Firefox gain massive popularity.
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by xorcist 2y ago
It should be straight up illegal to share my data with third parties. That's not something I as an end user should be forced to opt in to. A browser level opt-in would be even more useless than a website prompt. Demonstrably almost no
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by xorcist 2y ago
I have worked with people have justified downright trash with "it's not supposed to be a work of art". That way lies madness. Code that takes a minute to write takes ten minutes to understand. Code is first and foremost for h
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by xorcist 2y ago
It's not a docker replacement. Use podman to replace docker. Use system to start stuff (in a namespace or otherwise).
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by xorcist 2y ago
It differs by not being insane. Trivial functionality that actually works. It's what's good about systemd. It doesn't require forwarding sockets or giving free access to root just for building images. It doesn't explode
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by xorcist 2y ago
Why is carbon emissions a suitable measurement of the environmental impact of electronic waste?
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by xorcist 2y ago
> The fact that a device can be perfectly usable for 5+ years is pretty good No. No, it's not good at all. For almost every other product it would be deemed unacceptable. Beyond unacceptable even. We should not normalize this. My ca
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by xorcist 2y ago
Stock art exists. Still may require some taste in editor, but it's hard to do worse than bad AI art.
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by xorcist 2y ago
When you think about it, this behaviour makes sense. How else would you implement it? I/O is always block oriented. The reason you don't always notice is that UNIX is so dearly line-based that every layer of the software stack goe
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by xorcist 2y ago
This is a lovely example of great design. Beautiful, too. I'm sad to see it didn't catch on. On a related note, I would like to own an EV -- but a touchscreen operated car is out of the question. Where did all those competent desi
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by xorcist 2y ago
"Prevents tampering" lacks specificity. git is a blockchain that prevents tampering in some aspects, but you can still force push if you have that privilege. What is important is understand what the guarantees are.
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by xorcist 2y ago
From my experience it is obviously the latter. Reading well, on paper or on screen, really requires you to put your complete attention to it. Audio (podcasts) and video (youtube) have the advantage of not requiring your complete attention.
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by xorcist 2y ago
> It’s there so you’re not dependent on some bespoke VM state. It also allows you to do code review on infra changes like port numbers being exposed That's simply not true. Every Kubernetes cluster I have seen and used gives a lot m
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by xorcist 2y ago
But you don't "manage your own hardware" if you are renting VMs, which was the question here. Also managing a cloud infrastructure is a lot more complex than running Debian and Ansible on a VM.
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by xorcist 2y ago
K8s is absolutely not Google-scale. Not even close. The scheduler is not built for it.
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by xorcist 2y ago
A book from 2017? Is that still relevant to understand a modern Kubernetes cluster? The CNCF ecosystem looked a lot different back then.

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