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erkkie

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erkkie··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
Ganeti can be quite arcane, I've only ever used the command-line.

But it has been solid otherwise, even with in-place upgrades over many years.

I haven't run proxmox so can not directly compare :)

erkkie··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
Yep, happily using https://ganeti.org/ and KVM live migrations - mirrors across hosts.
erkkie··on Air Purifier vs. Positive Pressure Fresh Air System – An Unfair Battle?
Curious too (also in Thailand), currently using smartair and Ikea Starkwind for PM/VOCs.

Looking to design something more integrated with CO2, house cooling, de-humidifying aspects included (controlled by HA).

Have you entertained heat exchange systems? Thoughts on the magnitude of impact to aircon?

erkkie··on ECC matters
Probably not what you meant but https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/190108/... has support for Xeon (and ECC). Now how to actually practically source 32GB ECC enabled SO-DIMM sticks ..
erkkie··on Blood sugar patterns to master as a type 2 diabetic
I believe this is a cortisol response that makes sure you get the most energy usage out in a short spike. https://idmprogram.com/closer-look-cortisol-hormonal-obesity...
erkkie··on Sex and Sexuality
Why?
erkkie··on British divers make contact with missing Thai football team
I'm a techie from EU and have survived to tell the story of multiple tooth brushings with tap water in Thailand.

Sarcasm aside, I'm sure it varies from place to place, but in places I've been to in Thailand (and I live half there, half EU), tap water is fine for washing/brushing and if anything, too chlorinated (and thus not too drinkable). I still drink bottled water (or filtered water; many local friends have filters installed to their tap).

erkkie··on Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software
Usually just by that, in increments. It helps to time-box something early into a new client relationship and once you're delivering proven value, clients tend to be fine with just incremental delivery and billing.
erkkie··on GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
The world is not coming to an end, the sky is not falling.

Nothing has to be automatic as far as the deletion requests go. It's fine for you to go through the db manually and grant a specific request within 30 days.

If you're big enough to get enough requests to not be able to handle the load, you can afford a couple of days of dev work.

It's mind boggling the amount of people who's interpretation of GDPR is overzealous (to the max) based on third party interpretations. Get to the source of it and you might find it's not that bad.

You're only in trouble if your business model actually relies on doing things to the data your users would not want you to do (which could be argued is for the better good).

erkkie··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
Do note the same countries still wage war (and trade in realpolitik). What you're saying is not mutually exclusive with what I'm saying, it's on a continuum.
erkkie··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
Only in a western welfare bubble. Morality over war is what you can afford having other security needs taken care of.
erkkie··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
In "secure" places, HSM's are basically in a vault with armed guards.
erkkie··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
You do not store certificates on an HSM, you generate the private key on it and use that to sign things. Certificates that end up in actual use are further many chains removed from the root keys.
erkkie··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
You don't ship HSM's with keys (you initialise them on-device yourself) nor can you read read keys out from one (at least in theory).
erkkie··on Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/disarm or lock/unlock
Give access to cleaners? Renting? Airbnb?
erkkie··on Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
This and just the economics of it. It makes sense to sell at what price the market can handle, as long as it's above direct production cost (which it is). It's basically cheap marketing that happens to align with patient interests.

edit: A lot of it is also politics with the host country. India for example has said it will produce cheap generics of drugs if it wants to, ignoring patents: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2013/04/08/indias...

erkkie··on US Navy remotely lands F/A-18 Super Hornet on carrier deck
I'd say secure systems need to be based on the assumption of insecure humans. Nothing is absolute in security but we definitely should start the analysis expecting people to behave incorrectly and insecurely. This is not a new problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
erkkie··on US Navy remotely lands F/A-18 Super Hornet on carrier deck
Remote control of assets is not going to go away, we will need to adapt as an industry to produce secure systems.
erkkie··on Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)
And it's unknown which factors here are cultural and which are biological. Society is trying to treat this as only a cultural thing but we're still highly evolved cellular automatons.
erkkie··on Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)
That's a strong statement with zero backing. Who else should be equal?

This experiment has been tried and it failed miserably, read up on the Soviet Union.

erkkie··on Bird has raised $100M for electric scooter sharing
You are totally right, helmets should be mandatory for bikes too :)
erkkie··on Research suggests some potential benefits to being a loner
And I completely misread what you wrote at first, we're in perfect agreement :)
erkkie··on Research suggests some potential benefits to being a loner
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good here, replacing doughnuts , chips, bagels and pasta with say black rice or boiled potatoes still has nutrients benefits. Just choose something with an incrementally better nutrients profile.
erkkie··on Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells in dental pulp
I've been eyeing BioImplant for a few years now, wondering why they don't get more coverage. Any stories on that? A panacea would be something like this with an bio-engineered PDL.
erkkie··on Exercise Alters Our Microbiome
What matters is added sugar anything is higher in glycemic index compared to the same thing with no added sugar.

You're correct in that adding fibre would alleviate some of it but might as well eat the real thing without added sugar and take a piece of fruit. It's bound to be easier and better absorbed (containing various cofactors) compared to trying to emulate the cocktail with added vitamins and fibre.

In addition dairy is notoriously insulinogenic so not necessarily a good comparison (although non added sugar full fat yoghurt is probably okay).

erkkie··on Exercise Alters Our Microbiome
While technically correct, you're missing what matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
erkkie··on Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
Please do share if you can, I've been thinking a lot about this topic in context of ops / "janitorial" work in general.
erkkie··on Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
One huge benefit of nomad is that it can schedule non containers too, enabling fixing up legacy systems incrementally.
erkkie··on Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer
are you sure it's 260 Euro per month for social security in addition to what the freelancers salaried company is paying?
erkkie··on Estonia, the Digital Republic
Conversely, it's a good tech demo of using the real power of the id card infrastructure, that is trust root federation. More of that kind of thinking could enable great things.
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