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devhead··on Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected
more layoffs?
devhead··on Atom was archived today
RIP, fav text tool by far. Personally, jetbrains outshines most when working on actual code; sublime for small work, and bbedit for virtual copy/paste formating.

edit: thanks M$ for messing up another beloved solution.

devhead··on Ask HN: Do you care about screenshot blocking? [Warning: Self-Promotion]
not worth it for me; personally if i want to screenshot something i will, your app won't stop it, as you noted with the inability to block me from taking a picture from another phone. i'm not downloading to confirm if it works, i just would say blocking normal behavior isn't ideal and just adds frustration to users who have a legitimate need to screenshot something; it's like when forms decide to prevent copy and paste, no help.
devhead··on SpaceX Starlink Announces 1M Active Subscribers
i thought ad posts weren't allowed?
devhead··on Ask HN: What knock-off effects will happen as California businesses evacuate?
Just making room for more to start up.
devhead··on CouchDB 3.0
there's always one...as in there is always one who has to poke people for grammer. sighs.
devhead··on Julian Assange Got What He Deserved
I'm not parent; possibly because he's not a US citizen and what he did falls under the umbrella of protections afforded to journalist?
devhead··on Open Distro for Elasticsearch
Hosted ES by AWS is a good solution to regret later in life.

They have minimal tooling, poor change management, poor logging, inability to address broken state and no support what so ever for a service you paid for. I won't go back to their hosted ES.

Edit: spelling

devhead··on Travis CI Is Laying Off Senior Engineer Staff
I've been using travis Enterprise for over two years and what has kept that going has been the amazing support and development team at Travis who have always helped us during an emergency, been very responsive and informative in all our interactions. They are the reasons I have backlogged the project to migrate.

Keys issues i've seen in our Enterprise install... * Upgrades can go bad, very quickly and very silently. * Build images are out-dated, missing security patches, bloated, and not easily provisioned with custom features to integrate our tools with theirs. * no tooling for docker builds/deployments * long start up time on the build images. * Enterprise documentation (though it's been improved a lot recently)

Best of luck to #travisAlums, I hope you get picked up quickly.

devhead··on “Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure
that's where my thoughts went as well... Seems it could have been a revenge attack or coverup for something/someone else.
devhead··on Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues
approved for release, we'll test it live!
devhead··on A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of Open-Source Software
^ the real hero; thanks.
devhead··on Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
yikes, not at the enterprise price point. that's well over six figures a year; might as well hire a technical writer to sit with all your team members.
devhead··on FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
they already pay for the service they use and are taxed on tha usage. This current FCC continues to prove they are terrible at regulation or logical conclusions.
devhead··on You might not need Kubernetes
> Now, what about older versions of packages in debian's apt repos that have been deleted? How do I get those?

you can version pin your apt packages if you need to, i personally prefer the minor patches so i get my security updates. my build tool will catch if there's a bug affecting my software.

> Is this any different from what you do in a shell script on a server?

yes, because I can take that built image and deploy it to any host and all my developers get to all use the same one in their development. but hey, if you like building with shell, you could try out packer and run that shell script to create an image; which can safely be used on any host that supports docker or kub?

> I don't see how a docker image definition makes any of this easy. There's not even a flag to disallow network access during "docker build".

Easier depends on your goals and perspectives. For me, it's easier to write a docker file that installs what I need to run a service. Where bash doesn't have that, it's just a script that needs an environment to run. where do you run bash? is it locally on your OS with your packages with your settings and your needs? what happens when I run that bash script in a different OS? Who's going to debug that? Are you going to track your changes made in version control? how do you update the other servers/users who use your script? I got other fun things to do than worry about that.

devhead··on You might not need Kubernetes
i like being able to sleep at night knowing my infrastructure will self heal in almost all cases.
devhead··on You might not need Kubernetes
aws / gce
devhead··on You might not need Kubernetes
if you have zero utilization, then you should scale down or lower your instance type until you are optimized for performance and cost. Which is easier to do when you are in an environment such as gce or aws.
devhead··on You might not need Kubernetes
maybe the end user is someone sending curl requests?
devhead··on You might not need Kubernetes
that's why you version pin and vet new updates before you let them in.
devhead··on Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist
wonder if he's breaking any election laws or ethics regulations?

this is pure fud; spinning a reported security vulnerability as if it was his competitor trying to hack the election?! that's begging for a lawsuit in the least, too bad he's the controlling attorney general to boot.

this from the same guy who just recently said he didn't need any help with election security in Georgia... fire him.

devhead··on Equifax fined maximum penalty under 1998 UK data protection law
That's got to be a joke; it's not even close to enough. IMHO, they should be banned from having access to our data, the same data we never approved them to have in the first place.

I'm all for companies growing and learning from mistakes, the credit companies have a higher standard to live up to and should have a very steep cliff to jump off if they mess up.

devhead··on Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
1. question everything.

2. trust no one, not even yourself.

3. hard work, is money in the bank.

4. with two paths in the road... take the scarier one.

5. pay off your debts faster than expected.

6. give more than you get.

7. listen more than you speak.

8. always be prepared, to find another job.

9. love unconditionally.

10. try not to think in absolute terms.

11. everyone has a story

edit: format

devhead··on Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
or maybe they just didn't write the code? i mean, if it's mature it likely was a result of years of effort and many hands involved. some documentation is always better than none, lack of documentation is either laziness or dogma; neither of which is a valuable mindset when working on a team for a business.
devhead··on Cities will sue FCC to stop $2B giveaway to wireless carrier
I think it's up to the city, it's their pole. The federal government is coming in and saying there's a new price per pole and giving that discount to the ISP's, when will the people get their discount?

how about we barter, we'll give a smaller range (a fixed rate really isn't a good reality) and then the ISP's have to disband their lobbying efforts for ten years. Also they need to undo each state and local law they had put in place to prevent city and states from creating their own local ISP service. Oh, and Pai has to quit and be banned from working at any ISP for at least two decades.

i'll be here waiting with my full support to these terms.

devhead··on Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
i'm a huge fan of the work cbc does; IMHO they strongly exemplify a more true journalistic enterprise. kudos on the excellent reporting as usual.
devhead··on WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements
interested, how did they find out?
devhead··on Today Is International Day Against DRM. Act Against Digital Restrictions
I can't do much, but offer a memory; don't forget to thank tim berners lee for his support of DRM in HTML.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/02/on-eme-in-html5/

devhead··on San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft
This is what I've seen in CA as well. SD has not had nearly the reported issues other cities appear to be having. Nothing all that different about SD or the people (transplants) so what gives? why can't people not make a mess of the service?

I think there's opportunity for the scooter companies can mitigate the abandonment or carelessness of their products by using some thoughtful software. If someone leaves a scooter tipped over, they get banned for a day. Do it again, they get banned for a month. etc... Maybe have a clearing house to monitor cross service users are bad actors?

devhead··on Ask HN: What websites do you check each morning?
My Morning/Afternoon is usually this:

0. Compiled Security Alert RSS Feeds

1. Hacker News

2. Tech Dirt

3. AWS - What's new

4. Muck Rock

5. Pen Test Blog

6. dev.to

7. cso online

8. One random choice from my local news sites.

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