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avtar··on RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
Another way to interpret the parent comment would be that a lot of people are autistic.
avtar··on Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud
> what your company likely needs is some implementation of libvirtd or proxmox. run your workloads on rootless podman or (god forbid) deploy to a single VM.

Even with a single VM, someone's company probably will also want a reverse proxy and certificate management (assuming web services), automated deployments, provide secrets to services, storage volumes, health checks with auto restarts, ability to wire logs and metrics to some type of monitoring system, etc. All of this is possible with scripts and config management tools but now complexity is being managed in different ways. Alternatively use K3s and Flux to end up with a solution that checks all of those boxes while also having the option to use k8s manifests in public clouds.

avtar··on Using Generative AI in Content Production
I've been trying to find time here and there to get the tumbleweeds out of my gaming pc just so I can try that game. Reviews and streams for it remind me a bit of the Dark Zone experience when the first Division game came out.
avtar··on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
No one's mentioned Gitu yet but it's a pretty nice client https://github.com/altsem/gitu
avtar··on Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
> as far as I can tell, no operating system does this in a way that really works besides OSX

AFAIK this is an easy setting in desktop environments such as Cosmic, Gnome, and KDE. But I've been using keyd on Linux distros for a while:

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd#quickstart

Using the config in the above example results in Caps Lock acting as Esc if used on its own or as Ctrl if it's held down.

avtar··on Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
+1 It's been ages since I last tried Emacs but one of the main reasons it didn't resonate with me was the constant hand contortions required for key chords. I'm pretty sure I tried evil mode as well. Projects such as Combobulate, Vertico, etc. being mentioned in this thread weren't around back then and seem intriguing. Curious to learn about any other projects or workarounds that help with ergonomics.
avtar··on Django 6.0 beta 1 released
> The moment you want to rely on a JavaScript library or generate some CSS you pretty much have to pull in Node and NPM because there just so much value in those ecosystems.

Perhaps I'm missing details here but isn't that a reality with non-js web frameworks? The Phoenix docs mention esbuild and npm right off the bat:

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/asset_management.html

Laravel expects node, npm, and vite at the very least:

https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/vite

avtar··on Servo v0.0.1
Miniflux is pretty good and easy to self-host:

https://github.com/miniflux/v2

https://miniflux.app/docs/docker.html

avtar··on M5 MacBook Pro
8+ hours sounds about right. I have a M1 Macbook Pro and even 5 years later I can still use it (a million browser tabs, couple containers, messaging apps) for an entire day without having to charge it.
avtar··on GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development
Templates and config checks are what I ended up with but it would be nice if this was enforceable out of the box. This was just one example that came to mind where the experience feels rough requiring workarounds https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/14834 Perhaps it's case of grass being greener elsewhere and my patchy memory but I'm almost missing Jenkins...
avtar··on GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development
It would be great if Actions received some polish. How are people applying org/team wide policies such as job timeouts to avoid burning through monthly limits? Last I checked this wasn’t a feature :/
avtar··on Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults
I'm not the person you replied to but their list of strategies (gratitude practice, evoking joy, exercise) pretty much mirrors what I've been trying to employ.

> Saying it every day means little even if I write it down, and the writing itself feels more like a burden than a help.

Perhaps an obvious statement but our experience with any type of practice varies in infinite ways from moment to moment. At times things just click or maybe we've built up enough momentum that it could feel effortless, but on just as many occasions it can feel like wading through sludge. When it's the latter I have to ask myself just how am I showing up for the activity. How mindful am I? What's my intention? Perhaps most importantly, is the sense of gratitude actually being felt in my body?

If you don't mind self-help type books, 'Hardwiring Happiness' by Rick Hanson is a fairly accessible resource that stresses the importance of the somatic side of this type of work. The tl;dr is that if more parts of the mind pay _sustained_ attention to the embodied experience of gratitude, compassion, joy etc. then we're increasing the chances of training our minds. So if I find myself enumerating things in a journal that I believe I'm grateful for but the exercise feels contrived or flat then that's a sign I should either tune even more into large parts of the body (can be anywhere but for me it's usually my face, chest, and arms) or just attempt to evoke warm feelings in those areas. That last part can feel fake at times but there's probably value in learning how to encourage more mind processes to sign up for the practice. The OP alluded to this bit with "sometimes it can help to simply sit up straight and smile". If the body remembers what gratitude feels like then chances are that's going to influence the mind for the next few moments.

'Awakening Joy' by James Baraz is another book in this vein. In it the author makes the case that learning how to shift our baseline towards one coloured with joy and gratitude usually requires someone repeatedly and genuinely appreciating seemingly trivial things over the course of each day (food, shelter, mobility, pet, access to nature, etc.). Whereas shifts occurring solely due to significant positive life events are potentially less common.

avtar··on Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container
The overview and benefits sections along with other bits are great examples of what should go in a root level README.md Nice work <3
avtar··on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
> Wait, what?

I was referring to the following image:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRK-!,w_1250,h_703,c...

avtar··on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
> An allowlist run by ONE company?

An allowlist run by one company that site owners chose to engage with. But the irony of taking an ideological stance about fairness while using AI generated comics for blog posts…

avtar··on Accessibility and the agentic web
I guess it depends on how much care you're taking with maintaining the client's position and focus post-submission/page load, and then also announce what data changed on the page. And if someone with cognitive disabilities has to reorient themselves in the now updated page then that's probably not going to result in a great experience.

Example table for comparison: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/table/examples/sort...

avtar··on Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released
I would see Proxmox come up in so many homelab type conversations so I tried 8.* on a mini pc. The impression I got was that the project probably provides the most value in a clustered environment or even on a single node if someone prefers using a web UI. What didn't seem very clear was an out-of-box way for declaring VM and container configurations [1] that could then be version controlled. Common approaches seemed to involve writing scripts or reach for other tools like Ansible. Whereas something like LXD/Incus makes this easier [2] by default. Or maybe I'm missing some details?

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/default-settings-of-contai...

[2] https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/instances_...

avtar··on Friending
I was referring more to the seemingly transactional social interaction in a thread about friendship, but I guess good to know about GenAI lofts and Web3 soirees as well :)
avtar··on Friending
My mind while reading your comment’s first paragraph “please, please, please let this be satire”
avtar··on My Self-Hosting Setup
Thanks! I haven’t had to implement replicated storage (still using EFS) but I was curious about Longhorn.
avtar··on Dumb Pipe
They have docs for using self-hosted relays:

https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/blob/main/iroh/docs/loca...

avtar··on My Self-Hosting Setup
> after going back and forth a few times years ago with Longhorn and other solutions, I ended up at rook-ceph for PVCs

Curious to know what issues you ran into with Longhorn.

avtar··on Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN

--cap-add=NET_RAW

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/.devcont...

If the cointainer route (with those types of privileges) is being suggested from a security point of view, then might as well run these processes in a VM and call it a day :/

avtar··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
I assumed it was a subtle nod to an old irc client https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitchX
avtar··on GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide
> anything involving alerting/monitoring from logs is bad idea for future you

Why is issuing alerts for log events a bad idea?

avtar··on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
I thought it's more like Colima than OrbStack

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

avtar··on 4-7-8 Breathing
Pages 9 - 14 of the following pdf go into more detail about this aspect of softening breathing mechanics:

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/b68ec804-ba42-4194-b405-d1f...

Don’t a lot about the author. I just came across the doc on Reddit and the practical parts of what’s described checked out.

avtar··on Litestream: Revamped
That's the conclusion I reached a couple months ago when I was evaluating similar tools. The last Litestream release was issued in 2023 and the official Docker image is over a year old. In the end it seemed like a safer bet to accept some inconvenient tradeoffs and just create backups more frequently.
avtar··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Does the iCloud & Windows caveat still apply? https://help.obsidian.md/sync-notes
avtar··on An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
Netbird seems (or perhaps is?) newer. It didn't have some basic features baked in when I last looked into it, e.g. you couldn't switch accounts on the client https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/3273 and if I had an account associated with a single team, then that account couldn't be invited to or be associated with additional teams.
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