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computershit··on RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
If the product slaps, the product name is immaterial.
computershit··on Helm
If I was looking for a virtual synth deck and came to you asking for a recommendation and you said Helm but actually meant the Kubernetes Helm not the synth Helm, you would have a very solid point. But you would also be an idiot.
computershit··on On re-reading “Brave New World”
Yeah no sorry, anyone who reads BNW outside the lens of the cold war endgame knows that Huxley's angle was never any -ism but human consumption in general, and harmful extremes of that consumption informing literally every other aspect of our lives.
computershit··on Show HN: Classic Video Poker
Great nostalgic implementation, took my money for sure. One suggestion I'd make to make it more like the real thing is make a number press of 1-2-3-4-5 hold/unhold their respective card on desktop.
computershit··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
They have been monetized for awhile now while their open source offering has been supported.
computershit··on DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers
Or https://it-tools.tech
computershit··on Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
Can I use minio?
computershit··on Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
Ansible might not be perfect, but, like you, having done this for two decades, I seen some shit with all of Ansible's competitors (the same hate you have for Ansible I have for Chef). The stlib in Ansible is what will keep me using it as long as I have a need to ssh to anything.
computershit··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
Yup. Totally down, happened right as I opened a PR.
computershit··on My ranking of every Shakespeare play
> Almost any Midsummer's Night Dream

Couldn't agree more. It's easily my fav Shakespeare because it is so much fun.

computershit··on Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
> Grafana works, but it doesn't support logs and traces out of the box

Grafana doesn't support anything out of the box by that logic. Before you get any viz in Grafana you have to add a data source cmon.

computershit··on Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices
> I'm tired of ecosystems.

> Bring back the 90s. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.

Not sure if you remember the 90s like I do. The percentage of people sharing their own content on their own terms was dwarfed by that of content hosted on 'ecosystems'. In fact, I'd assert that the path to accomplishing the same is far less steep now compared to then.

computershit··on Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
It's below the fold on rosenpass.eu but:

> Rosenpass is a key-exchange protocol using techniques that are secure against attacks from quantum computers. It achieves the same security guarantees as WireGuard, using two strong post-quantum key exchange methods – Classic McEliece and Kyber.

> To use Rosenpass, you don't have to get rid of WireGuard; Rosenpass handles post-quantum security, WireGuard handles pre-quantum security and high-speed data transmission.

computershit··on OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf]
If you think this is even close to gpt3.5turbo quality, try passing code output from OpenAssistant straight to 3.5turbo and see what happens.
computershit··on Midjourney AI Guide
I don't know anyone who's used Midjourney more than a day and stuck around in one of the newbies channels; pretty much everyone slides into the bot's DMs.

The social angle is not what's fueling Midjourney's success. The quality of its output certainly is.

computershit··on GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
> The year is 2026

> that gpt6 has just asked midjourney 8

at the current rate gpt16 and midjourney --v 20 are more likely

computershit··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
BRO. Your transcription is SO fast. I've hacked at a similar project passing to the Whisper API and honestly I was already blown away with its speed and accuracy (as was anyone I showed it to), but your implementation is so much faster both in TTS as well as the response from their API. I will absolutely use this.
computershit··on Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie
> Finally: If you are not willing to have a nuclear reactor right beside your house, but are willing to have one beside someone else's house, you are a coward and are not really in favour of nuclear power.

Did anyone even make this point? What's more I don't think any one wants any kind of power plant next to their house. That's why they're zoned.

computershit··on Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system
What makes yaml not generatable?
computershit··on Former Apple Executive Says Company Blundered by Firing Him After TikTok Video
I mean, Tiktok as psyops really isn’t a stretch at all when you consider the control the CCP has over any Chinese established entity.
computershit··on Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
I love this idea, I'll definitely try it out when provisioning for scenario machines is up again. Nice work.
computershit··on "The Social Network" synth sounds
I dig it. Nice work.
computershit··on Character.ai
I created a Jesus Christ, who apparently returned three weeks ago and has been giving sermons and preparing for the final battle with evil in a former courthouse at the corner of 22nd Street and Lexington Avenue in the heart of NYC.
computershit··on Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
The reasons were related more to accessibility and the data team's ability to fold the orchestration framework into their workflow and not be constrained by it. A lot of that was on me not having the time to make it easy to adopt, but Prefect just offered immediate adoption (being able to shell out, run notebooks, arbitrary Docker containers or k8s pods, in addition to a very unobtrusive decorating pattern) that was too great to pass up.

What Dagster has going for it in this space is pragmatism. It really nails all of the problem points of data ops (with resources & sensors specifically). If I was consulting for a shop that needed data pipelines and they had good eng, I'd recommend Dagster in a heartbeat.

computershit··on Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
Dagster is extremely nice to work with. I did a bakeoff of Prefect vs Dagster internally at my current employer, and while we ended up going with Prefect for reasons, I am still so impressed with the way Dagster approaches certain pain points in the orchestration of data pipelines and its solution for them.
computershit··on What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
It's basically akin to Canada deciding to invade the US because of the existence of the Proud Boys.
computershit··on Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview
There was no vote in the sub, that was on r/wallstreetbets earlier this year. That's actually how this should have been handled, but instead it was all mod-driven.
computershit··on Is old music killing new music?
A-freaking-men.

I listen to old music because it bangs and it’s real. I feel like this article posits a perceived problem and then makes no attempt to read between the lines to understand why no one is listening to a garbage product.

computershit··on Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surveillance camera program
The Star Tribune actually just released a breakdown of carjackings in Minneapolis by neighborhood (Edina won't show up here since its a suburb, this is just to illustrate that it is not just a handful of incidents in the city). Keep in mind that these are actual carjackings, not just auto theft (there were over 4,000 of those in the same timeframe).

https://www.startribune.com/a-breakdown-of-2021-carjackings-...

computershit··on Firefox 96
Oh man, Librewolf was the one I meant to link.
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