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by zzyzxd 6y ago
> The peace of mind in having all your sensitive data under your control is totally worth it. I used to have some illusions that "if I self host, I am in control", and "if I don't connect my home infra to the internet
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
I have a similar setup at home: local AdGuardHome deployment with NextDNS as the upstream. I have several NextDNS configurations and AdGuardHome's upstream is one that has no filters. I use other profiles with filters when I am on the
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
It reminds me about this answer from Homebrew's creator, Max Howell, on Quora[1]: > I wrote a simple package manager. Anyone could write one. And in fact mine is pretty bad. It doesn't do dependency management properly. It does
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
The only operator I use is "!", which is DDG's version of "I am feeling lucky". And I only use this because Google's silently phasing out the functionality[1]. 1. https://support.google.com/webs
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
Sure you can write a lengthy article to describe how to configure all the apps and servers manually. But with Kubernetes, you only need to throw some YAMLs in there and call it a day. I don't think "using Kubernetes for running VP
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
pihole has an API to disable adblocking, which is just an HTTP request so it's pretty easy to trigger. For example, on iOS, write a shortcut so that you can "Hey Siri, disable pihole".
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
> The website got stuck on the loading screen until Bryner’s time ran out. If I am to write a system that accepts user uploads, verifying the uploaded file and giving proper error message on failure would've been the first thing com
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
IMHO, Prometheus is not complicated. In fact, it was designed to be simple and dumb. I mean, it does not provide any production grade scalability out of box, and people have to implement their own add-ons and external storage solutions (tha
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by zzyzxd 7y ago
QR in China are different animals. They are not generic QR codes, but encoded instructions to access specific in-app features in WeChat/AliPay. If you scan those special codes with generic QR readers, you get invalid URLs. IMO this mak
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by zzyzxd 7y ago
Instead of starting with a bulky image and guess and remove unnecessary stuff at the end, I would prefer the opposite: only include necessary packages for the executable in the first place. I am happy with my current distroless + docker mul
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by zzyzxd 7y ago
Last month I tried to deploy cockroachdb in Kubernetes and I felt the documentation wanted to treat me like a 5-year-old. I don't think the your product documentation has to explain what Kubernetes is or its terminologies[1]. The worst
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by zzyzxd 7y ago
list comprehensions can be elegant and actually improve readability. However, I do agree that it can be easily misused. I have seen many junior Python programmers writing super long, complicated comprehensions that hurt my brain. They think
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by zzyzxd 7y ago
January is the only month that slack didn't have a downtime this year. They must have some serious infrastructure issue.
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by zzyzxd 8y ago
Why is this still news? Such relay attack has been there for years.