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kevinsimper

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You can reach me at kevin.simper@gmail.com

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kevinsimper··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
That is pretty smart, torrent should have been used for more things, and this is a perfect usecase!
kevinsimper··on Under the Hood of Codex Security
Interesting to read how Codex Security actually works, the readme of the project does not really explain the mechanics behind it. I learnt some.
kevinsimper··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
You could make it offline and with provided laptops only, just like with the competitive CS2 scene.
kevinsimper··on Ask HN: How to Make a MVP Video?
They are using https://screen.studio/

It is pretty cool!

Not affiliated :)

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: Shouldn't Cookie tracking request popups be converted to HTTP Headers?
My solution would be to simply ignore all cookies from any new website and only allow once a button has been pressed by the user in the address bar.

There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: Has anyone used a DAO at work?
I have been thinking it was the best way to introduce people to Blockchain but having to deploy it on a layer 2 and having to teach people how to switch has discouraged me a bit for getting started.

I was thinking it could be for the social club or a charity project.

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first?
Yes, that is also what I meant :)

But with 10-25 developers I do not think they had what we both think are essential.

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first?
Yeah, but during the trial it was not even hinted at that the platform was the problem for the lost money.
kevinsimper··on Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first?
I think it is also possible to build, but for a trading platform you have no room for mistake. Production being down and you could be liable for positions not be sold. Maybe that is were a lot of the money went.

But what would you calculate the risk for one of the 25 developers being extorted? The benefits would easily be millions of dollars.

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first?
I think you are right, but security teams is for when things does not go as expected.

Like Opensea had insider trading but they were not nearly as big as FTX, everyone knew FTX. Opensea is “just” a marketplace, not even near a live trading platform.

But there will probably be more information about it the next 10 years heh.

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first?
Yes, correctly, but that does not prevent extorting one of the developers and have that person help commit trading fraud or theft.

Of course it is possible to do extortion in every sector, but no sector has companies that valuable in such short time.

kevinsimper··on Google Cloud Sales/Startups completely unresponsive?
Google Support is not easy.

But I wonder if it is because Anthos is not right for your company, it is primarily from my understanding companies with big VMWare setups and the price for Anthos is heavy.

Why will you want to use Anthos? I was at the Google Cloud Next where it was announced and was also excited, but asked a lot about from my closer Google relations and it was not something for the public was my learnings. Very complicated, heavy and expensive.

kevinsimper··on Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads
Are you exposing full node or archive node? Because Archive node is several terabytes :)
kevinsimper··on Zapier integration process more severe than big-techs.
I think there is a lot of people that want the integration just for the free promotion from Zapier and a seal of approval if your app supports Zapier. I think they have define these rules to weed out all the non-serious partners.

Like a lot of the integrations would work fine with the default Webhook integration they have and then your app's webhook.

kevinsimper··on I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day
Don't the Raspberry Pi 4 support 4kp60?
kevinsimper··on Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
You would have to trust a root certificates from your mitm attacker, so it is not a problem.
kevinsimper··on Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
The EFF is awesome with Let's Encrypt! It was really a dreadful task to buy and renew certificates, especially as out infrastructure back then wasn't that automated.

I think this article is a response to all those ads from VPN companies. They do try to scare people about public WiFi's.

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: Do You Release on Fridays?
I release on Friday, it is not any different than any other day. Canary deployment is the way to go and quick rollbacks makes your life easy
kevinsimper··on Predatory conference scammers are getting smarter
There is also a website about WASET which is a fake conference organizer, focusing on earning money and getting papers published.

https://wasetwatch.wordpress.com

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: Programmer abroad, how can I help fight climate change?
I know the people behind https://www.electricitymap.org really care about climate change as many do :)

Also this video: "What can a javascript developer do to combat climate change? - Olivier Corradi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOPXD-ojWY

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: Strategy for Dealing with 0.5PB of Data and AWS
There is upside and downsides to both choosing AWS or hosting it yourself.

You should choose AWS with Glacier if you and your company values agility. You will spend way less time securing, backing up and maintaining your data.

You should selfhost if you company values price, but are prepared to spend way much more time and effort in keeping it cheap at the cost of agility and innovation speed.

kevinsimper··on HN: Why is GitHub's web interface not responsive yet?
Their website is so old that it was before one was thinking, mobile-first, and now to rewrite, they don't want to spend the effort combating legacy :)
kevinsimper··on Show HN: GraphQL (Hasura) Hosted BaaS
Running this on Google Cloud Run with Postgres will be a pretty good idea.

It is super difficult to earn money from freemium developer tools.

kevinsimper··on Are we beyond using email as a login method?
It would be a good idea, most websites you don't need a password to login anyway, you just need to uze the password-reset form each time!
kevinsimper··on Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
And in the blogpost they don't even mention cost as one of the top reasons they are moving, which could justify it.

They show that their latency has gone down, but that is not always the reason just because it correlates.

kevinsimper··on Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
I personally like Google Cloud, but this blogpost feels a bit like a advertisement, it seems pretty clear that Google Cloud has offered a better pricing deal than Azure could and that is why the are moving.

> GCP offered the performance and consistency we needed. A second reason is that we believe Kubernetes is the future

Azure does a lot of cool stuff as well, not really a valid reason why you would move (other than you got a better deal).

kevinsimper··on Personal Blog Analytics – Which Numbers Really Matter
I think you can find filter out all the good bots, but there is a large number of crawlers out there these days :)
kevinsimper··on Personal Blog Analytics – Which Numbers Really Matter
I think that analytics on small websites does not make sense anymore! A lot of people have adblockers these days and those often block Google Analytics for privacy reasons and also just for speed/less work.

Also with bots that execute javascript with Electron, it is nearly impossible to have correct metrics coming from anonymous users.

A better metric would be to measure newsletter signups, third-party client-side analytics is dead.

kevinsimper··on Benefits of a Monorepo
I really wish there existed more tools, it seems like there is a gap for some tooling.

It would be a simple one that could check the git log and see what files has changed since last time.

Or check the hash of each folder and compare it to previous commit.

If you use Docker, you can leverage that docker will take a hash of the context and if the images already exist on the machine use the cache if nothing has changed for those files. That is also quite effective +1

kevinsimper··on Ask HN: Alternative to Docker Hub
You can use Google Cloud Container Registry and it is basically free, you only pay for the raw Google Cloud Storage that you use. No fee for using it and limit on repos you can have.

https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/pricing

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