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olafure··on Black MIDI
Excuse me, was it an F or an F# at end of bar 846?
olafure··on The Pretty JSON Revolution
Funny coincidence for cli tool name and the Icelandic meaning: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oj#Interjection
olafure··on You don’t need reproducible builds
Here's a hypothetical but a realistic scenario that not having reproducible builds is a major issue:

1. I create an app for a client.

2. Client installs the app on their 10,000 enterprise mobile devices and trains the users.

3. Month passes. I've changed everything in the app.

4. Major security or outage event happens. I need to change a line in the app and those 10,000 devices need to be updated ASAP.

5. If I can't checkout the old version, change the line and ship it without wondering "what else will change in this build" - then both me and my client are going to have a bad time.

It will take two weeks for a full qa/audit of the app and there's no time for that.

olafure··on ProcMon for Linux
Does it have telemetry built in?

https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/search?q=tele...

olafure··on DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
I think we're due a full disclosure on this favicon service, what information is collected and what is stored.

DDG has repeatedly said that they have "not collected any personal information".

For example,

1. Does the service store the fact that it got a request for a domain?

2. Does it store any ID along with that information and if so, how unique is that ID? How is it generated and what is it linked to?

3. What other information is stored along with the request?

4. How does DDG process this information?

5. Who has or can get access to this information?

olafure··on Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
I'd really like them to establish a "counterfeit reviews" unit too.

Many years ago their review system was one of their businesses advantages. Many users and fairly honest reviews.

Now it's rife with fake and bought reviews, rendering it useless.

olafure··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
I used to use Amazon a lot. The two big factor were pricing and reviews.

Today their review system is massively rigged and can't be trusted.

olafure··on Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
Thanks but no thanks.

https://whatsinstock.app/privacy

olafure··on What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
The catastrophe would be worthy of inclusion in Randall Monroe's What If? book.
olafure··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
$3600/year is significant for a startup on a shoestring budget.
olafure··on Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry
Just wanted to point out Gogs: https://gogs.io/

It's a very light weight, self-hosted git server, the UI is very GitHub like.

It's not a replacement for all the features of a self-hosted GitLab.

But I've seen people battling a self-hosted GitLab instance when all they needed was something like Gogs.

olafure··on Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
I like Prusa, but after they stopped releasing firmware updates for my MK2S for no good reason, so did my business with them. Such a shame.
olafure··on Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
I start bash scripts, by setting the holy trinity: set -eou

That prevents end-of-the-world scenario like the one above, if the script derails.

olafure··on Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
Tinder and Mozilla have the same score of 33%. I don't agree with that. Tinder willingly shares very, very personal data along with your contacts (assuming without said contact consent).
olafure··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
I have to congratulate you for having worked with a quite sophisticated and complex piece of technology for several years and never run into any issues.
olafure··on Grafana v6.2
Alerting on certain log entries, please :)

Even a simple label match would be a good start.

olafure··on Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file
Giving someone else access to your organisation's private repo is not a small thing in my opinion.
olafure··on Go 2, here we come
I smell the second coming of the Python 3 fiasco.
olafure··on Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
There's an alternative, without the docker overhead, https://coreos.com/rkt/
olafure··on Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail
Whiteboards are remarkable.