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alpb··on Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
I just did a two-way total 12 hour Hawaii flight and watched 12 hours of Apple TV series in a fully immersive environment completely isolated using Vision Pro. As long as the airplane seats have AC charger, you're good to go. I also use the Dual Solo Knit Band mod to increase head comfort.
alpb··on S6 – Skarnet's small supervision suite
I've gone through this phase a while back where I had to choose an init process (PID 1) to run multiple-processes in a container. Here's my write up here. s6 is in there as well. https://ahmet.im/blog/minimal-init-process-for-containers/
alpb··on Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
It’s wd-41 now lol
alpb··on Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance
Truly puzzling why Google is doing these things that do not scale. Their DNA historically has been doing things for billions of users, not 10 companies that might ever pay for this. Google is a technology company through and through, they have a great engineering talent, and they can keep shifting paradigm in many areas, especially in cloud. Yet, the short-term profit motive of the rot economy is taking another tech giant hostage.
alpb··on Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go
I think https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/utils/clock and https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/utils/clock/testing is already doing these?
alpb··on Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows
A while back I have developed https://github.com/ahmetb/RectangleWin which is the Windows equivalent of Spectacle.app/Rectangle.app on macOS. It lets you pin windows to halves and one-thirds of the edges and corners with hotkeys.
alpb··on Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
It should be a crime that Apple hasn't seen the popularity of tools like Bartender, which is major privacy violation to begin with, and developed their own feature for this.
alpb··on Sam Altman on opeanai non disparagement exit clause
Prior thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393121

A few questions:

* Is such a non-disparagement clause that claws back your earned compensation legally enforceable, or does it have any legal basis (at least in the state of California)?

* Are non-disclosure agreements enforceable post-employment if you're claiming to be a whistleblower unofficially, i.e. you just go to twitter and rant about your ex-employer?

alpb··on 7 out of every 10 Fentanyl pills seized by DEA contain a lethal dose
Vast majority of the developed/civilized world has moved on from capital punishment, with a few exceptions like the US. We still execute people in this country and find out many years later that they were innocent.
alpb··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
You can't access personally identify information out of curiosity. That's a fireable offense in nearly any company that cares about privacy.
alpb··on Landlock: Unprivileged Access Control
xz maintainer just pushed this "CMake: Fix sabotaged Landlock sandbox check." commit https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9cf4c05edd...
alpb··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
That’d be illegal for an employee to do.
alpb··on Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq
I don't think jless copies the result into jq queries?
alpb··on Sudo for Windows
Unlikely. Windows is all about compatibility and that includes all the weird things accumulated in windows over the decades. There is not a real incentive to change this. Think of all the gamers, custom hardware like ATMs and commercial terminals that run on Windows. That’s a huge market.
alpb··on Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
The “epitaph” app that was mentioned is an internal Google web site. I always found it to be fascinating.
alpb··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
Are you less safe on a 737 MAX than driving to the airport in a car? Genuinely curious, I’m trying to understand if this whole saga is statistically significant.
alpb··on Microsoft Copilot iOS App
I think this app biases towards searching online, which is very different than what ChatGPT does. Similarly it can’t do data analysis or equivalent Dall-e image generation. But yeah it can go a long way?
alpb··on Ask HN: Is Twitter/X working for you?
Twitter Spaces is working though, likely since it’s running on a completely different infra on AWS.
alpb··on Fly Kubernetes
I kind of miss the point of this. So if I'm reading this right, fly.io practically only exposes the Pods API, but Kubernetes is really much more than that. I'm not very familiar with any serious company that directly uses Pods API to launch containers, so if their reimplementation of Pods API is just a shim, and they're not going to be able to implement ever-growing set of features in Kubernetes Pod lifecycle/configuration (starting from /logs, /exec, /proxy...) why even bother branding it Kubernetes? Instead they could do what Google does with Cloud Run (https://cloud.run/) which Fly.io is already doing?

I don't know why would anyone would be like "here's a container execution platform, let me go ahead and use their fake Pods API instead of their official API".

alpb··on Maelstrom: A workbench for learning distributed systems
Really worth noting that Maelstrom was the project they used to build the "Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenge" https://fly.io/dist-sys/ which was pretty popular at one point and discussed here, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897723
alpb··on The weirdest bug I've seen yet
Agreed.

> Unfortunately, with access to neither the Chrome source code nor the Grammarly source code, we can only guess.

Chromium source code is open. They could also certainly try different versions of Chrome to bisect when the issue has started to happen. Isn't there a chance perhaps this crash might actually be disguising a buffer overflow vulnerability as well? Typically user inputs aren't supposed to crash browser/renderer processes.

alpb··on Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story
“Google demanded Wired take down my op-ed, pointing to a single page I saw in court for only a few seconds. Wired sent it to me, and I said I needed to see all the pages shown in open court. Google didn't send. Without speaking with me, Wired deleted my op-ed.” https://twitter.com/megangra/status/1711035362326298795
alpb··on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
Would you consider opening the spreadsheet to anyone without requiring them to sign up to your mailing list?
alpb··on Show HN: Kr8s – a Python client library for Kubernetes
These low-level constructs in the client libraries exist so that people can build controllers and operators on top of it, no? There's a lot that goes into making of implementing a Kubernetes client such as keeping up with semantic changes (dry run, server-side apply, tracing, rate limiting, patch support etc). Does your library also cover these?
alpb··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
Previously posted similar work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34312546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213

alpb··on Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
Hah nice! I developed https://github.com/ahmetb/azurefs back in 2012 when I was about to join to Azure. I'm glad Azure actually provides a supported and actively-maintained tool for this.
alpb··on Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
> small percentage of requests

... makes you think if they visit their own home page. :)

alpb··on Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
Yes. Both for public and enterprise cloud. Started around 9:26 AM PT.

Reads used to work (but not writes), now all seems to be offline.

alpb··on The worst API ever made (2014)
I worked at Microsoft early-career and one of the projects I worked on was to integrate with ETW from a Go program to plumb events from Go code into ETW. I would also agree that this is one of the APIs that take a really long time to reason about it and some parts just feel like this API should not've been exposed to anyone who's not on the Windows team at all.
alpb··on Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)
Really interesting. I never heard of this website and was surprised to hear this volume of traffic it's getting. (I always used curlmyip.org or whatsmyip.net|.com). I wonder what is the rationale for providing a non-rate limited service that can be easily abused like this. The volume almost suggests some stuff like IoT devices or other software use this to test internet connectivity. Or botnets?
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