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by zzyzxd 7mo ago
I have a GL.iNet travel router. When I am not travel, it connects to the router's second WAN port. If my main internet goes down, it takes me 30 seconds to tether my phone and failover manually. My carrier detects and throttles hotspot
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by zzyzxd 7mo ago
I used to be the cool tech guy in school because I memorized the tutorial to jailbreak iPhone or to cheat in games with a memory editor. You know, stuff like "when you see this screen, click that icon", "find row 5 and change
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by zzyzxd 9mo ago
Capital One does this to me as well, but at least they make it clear so I actually understanding what they mean ("You haven't opened an email from us lately..."). It's fine, Capital One. I did open your emails, I just di
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by zzyzxd 9mo ago
A gitops repo can never be the reflection of the system's actual state. It's a desired state your humans want the system to reach eventually, sometimes defined very loosely. This is the idea since Weaveworks invented the term year
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by zzyzxd 10mo ago
I used to be on the side of single NUC, but when my self hosted services became important enough, I realized I need to take security and reliability seriously, you know, all the SysAdmin/SRE stuff, and that's when I started moving
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by zzyzxd 10mo ago
Exactly. Once I was connecting to my VPN in AWS and was totally prepared for 90% of the websites to throw human verification at me. Then a faked cloudflare one almost got me. It was 3AM and my brain was barely functioning. (it didn't w
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by zzyzxd 10mo ago
Garage also decide to not implement erasure coding.
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by zzyzxd 11mo ago
Teslas are the worst offenders in my area. I don't own one but I looked up online out of curiosity, and saw many owners complained because they got flashed a lot. Turned out the factory settings for the headlight angle was too high. Th
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by zzyzxd 11mo ago
If your infrastructure can justify the complexity of Kubernetes, keeping up with Kubernetes native software is extremely easy comparing to anything else I have dealt with. I had some horror story managing nginx instances on 3 servers with a
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by zzyzxd 11mo ago
This idea has been around since at least a decade ago. The truth is, only a fraction of customers care about ads or privacy, and only a fraction of technical people in that group are capable of doing network filtering (VLAN, MITM, DNS block
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
Abstraction needs to happen on a different layer. Because your power users are already dealing with complicated stuff and you don't want to make their lives even harder. I know about 10 people in real life that uses Handbrake. And 10 o
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
Earlier this year I found a leak in the house and called a local plumbing business. It was after hours, and a dreaded robot voice answered my call. I was fully prepared to spend the next 10 minutes rewording my issue over and over, hoping t
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
e2ee makes it easier to sell their hosted version, and there's probably not enough incentive to justify the additional overhead of having an unencrypted option. Also, my house is less secure than commercial data centers, so e2ee gives
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
The article is unnecessarily long only to brag about "a service we didn't use went down so it didn't affect us". If I want to be picky, their architecture is also not perfect: - Their alerts were not durable. The outage
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
But you are not talking about maintaining Kubernetes, you are talking about maintaining a CI/CD system, a secret management system, some automation to operate databases, and so on. Instead of editing some YAML files, in the "old&q
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
Still, as a candidate, it sucks that they worked for hours and only got a rejection with a templated message. At least tell me the reason why you don't like my work, so I can learn something from it! I get it that it's not always
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by zzyzxd 1y ago
I am also one of those guys don't always carry my phone around. That's why I load my keys and credit cards on Apple Watch, turned off most of the notifications on it, and only allow calls and text messages from wife.
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
And it's much easier to customize. - I run it in Kubernetes with multiple replicas behind a load balancer for high availability. - A companion iOS shortcut for family members to temporarily pause protection on all replicas for online s
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
Looks like a fun project! But it reminded me of some people I know who lost their loved ones. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day...etc, could be extremely painful for them. As a friend, I learned that the best thing
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
How much value can LTS provide? If you care about stability, just stick with stable API versions and you will likely be fine. For instance Pod[core/v1] has been around for a decade. If you go with a LTS version, you rely on the vendor
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
From my experience dealing with them, Seagate's default warranty info is based on drive's date of manufacture. So it is possible that this drive had sat in some Amazon warehouse for 5 years before you got it.. You can register the
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
I only linked to the HN thread, but there you can find links to discussions in HA community, for example: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi... , which includes responses from forum admins and
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
That's why I asked about attitude, not anything else. It's perfectly fine to decide to not to support someone, but... "I release my code under FOSS license, but if anyone distribute it in a way I consider not nice, I will re-
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
What's the HA community's attitude towards FOSS nowadays? Comparing to 3.5 years ago?[1] 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
I am not saying 6 days is long enough, but if your automation always wait until the last minute to renew certs, you may have more issues to worry about than the CA's availability. If I am going to use a cert with 6 days lifetime I will
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
What these companies worry about is not free information. Their concerns are usually around company IPs, copyrights, reputation/branding...etc. Do those risks exist? Sure. But it's silly to blindly forbid your employee's outs
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
How many places is generally irrelevant. If a system requires user to provide 2 factors to authenticate, it is 2FA. A password manager software itself should be no exception.
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
For resources that are supposed to be cleaned up automatically, fixing your operator/finalizer is a better approach. Using this tool is just kicking the can down the road, which may cause even bigger problem. If you have resources that
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
> A lot of people are technical just enough to become dangerous. When I explained the problem to a lot of my friends they ran wireshark on the network connection and they saw gibberish. From this they have erroneously concluded they are
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by zzyzxd 2y ago
I think the "chimps in a cage" needs some followup experiments to tell the whole story -- replacing the banana with a much higher value reward, or placing another water hose which fires if chimps stopped trying to reach the reward

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