HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

pepemon

128 karma · joined January 7, 2019

submissionscomments
pepemon··on Tailscale's Pricing v4
Introducing billing for ephemeral nodes and tagged resources behind an opaque "Contact Sales" wall doesn't feel like generosity, it feels like a classic bait-and-switch.

We architected our infrastructure around Tailscale (under their "now legacy" Premium plan) under the reasonable assumption that these specific usage patterns wouldn't suddenly become cost centers. For context, we run on-prem Kubernetes with Flannel as CNI in host-gw mode, using Tailscale purely as the underlying transport. Because of this architecture, every Kubernetes node acts as a subnet router, which now neatly falls into their newly monetized "tagged resource" bucket.

Because of this pricing change, we're now looking at a one-year ticking clock. Our options are to either walk into an enterprise sales negotiation at a severe information asymmetry disadvantage to keep our current architecture, or rip out our networking layer entirely. I've already added an "Evaluate Netbird" to our team's backlog.

So it's deeply disappointing, but perhaps we should have seen it coming. I already perceive this as the standard lifecycle of a VC-backed HN darling: build immense goodwill with developer-friendly terms, embed yourself as a deep infrastructure dependency, and then aggressively squeeze the margins once the lock-in is established.

pepemon··on Tailscale Down
AFAIK, only new connections can't be established, the already connected clients will continue to work.
pepemon··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
Infamous Dropbox comment vibes.
pepemon··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
You can't run Breath of the Wild too.
pepemon··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
What kind of "newer"? I only consider Spider-Man: Miles Morales as "new enough" and it was still released over 2 years ago. When God of War: Ragnarok will be available on PC? You get Xbox titles on PC on the same day of their console release.
pepemon··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
You can't run yuzu or Cemu on PS even if you wanted too. The Sony's platform is tremendously locked. Also I mentioned Proton in my original post, you get Linux compability for the "Microsoft exclusive" game basically for free.
pepemon··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
That's why I additionally pointed about Windows releases. With Microsoft exclusive, you can play the title on Xbox, Windows PC, Linux PC, Steam Deck. With Sony, it's PS only.
pepemon··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
I'm not sure what is wrong here, taking into account that it's usual for Sony to make titles produced by their subsidiaries as exclusives for PS only (yes, e.g. God of War was released on PC too, but that was almost 4 years after the initial launch as PS4 exclusive). At least Microsoft releases games on Windows simultaneously with Xbox launch, and these Windows releases could run on Linux too (thank you Valve & Proton). Not possible with Sony stuff.
pepemon··on MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls
Please clarify what is "poorly cached" and what is your solution to be not so poorly cached in this context. Looks like you're overestimating blindly.
pepemon··on No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse
So, QuestDB is faster or not? I'm puzzled now!
pepemon··on RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History
Is there something similar available for fish?
pepemon··on Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
An individual could afford computing power for such research activities (not exactly like this one, but e.g. for personal ML experiments) in 2018-2019 for an adequate price. You were able to buy 2 new RTX2080s for the today price of a used single unit. If you want to tinker and need GPU power today, your best option is to rent special datacenter-approved(tm) GPUs for the really expensive $/h. And you don't own anything afterwards (except if you bought GPU before the end of 2020). Does this make no sense? Is this how technological progress should work?
pepemon··on UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B
Sorry for the possible off-topic, but can anyone explain to me how the robo-advising is different/better/worse than constant passive investing into popular ETFs, e.g. $SPY, $BND, $VOO, etc.?
pepemon··on Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an absolute gem in all terms and it was released in 2019, not so long ago. Shiny new Halo Infinite is very nice too. There were failures like Cyberpunk 2077, but such cases were always present in the industry. What abysmal quality are you talking about?
pepemon··on YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
So you're pushing for DeFi and all things decentralized, but whining that the centralized service has enforced its power upon your content about decentralization there? Nice.
pepemon··on PlanetScale is now generally available
Vitess is awesome. Nice to see that there is the managed offering available too now!
pepemon··on M3O – An open source AWS alternative
OpenStack is AWS on steroids then.
pepemon··on Update on beta testing payments in Signal
Why isn't this banned and wiped from the existence like Telegram's TON? How is MobileCoin different from TON?
pepemon··on How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection
No, we won't. Many of those IPs are the origins for spam, botnets, crawlers, DDoS, exploitation engines, etc. The only feasible solution even with all modern heuristics and ML is still good ol' IP scoring and/or banning.
pepemon··on How to build a billion dollar audio app in a weekend
Shameless ad with the clickbait headline.
pepemon··on Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything
Yeah, adding a little bit of caching (at least as WordPress plugin without dependencies for external entities) is now the DevOps problem that requires the DevOps solution, nice.

Well, I mean, you can front the blog with Cloudflare using their wizard for free without any technical knowledge. What kind of DevOps magic do you need there?

pepemon··on Pam 1.5.0 has a auth bypass under some conditions
PAM is an authn core in any modern mainstream Linux distro. If you build and/or tweak Linux boxes, PAM was almost always here right with you. The only question is do you know what exacly PAM do?
pepemon··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
But using boring Python only, you are unable to add fancy Go mention to the submission's title!
pepemon··on Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls
Can you elaborate more on the source of your belief?
pepemon··on Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop
> It didn't give a choice to map some partitions to just a mount point without formatting and some others were simply not visible.

Yeah, I got it. I've just wanted to get a more deeper explanation of your existing partitioning situation - I've set up RHEL derivatives on some very vague partitioning variations. Never thought that there could be the problems. Maybe it's just a GUI limitation?

pepemon··on Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
Is ad hominem allowed here on HN?
pepemon··on Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop
Hoping for the version without a discrete GPU.
pepemon··on Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop
What's exactly Anaconda made wrong? Distro-tossing isn't a way how you can polish your Linux skills.
pepemon··on Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
Let's go back to the Soviet style communism where a highly skilled engineer and a simple factory worker make the same money. That'll be the triumph for the society and the economics. Except that it wasn't. Know the history lesson.
pepemon··on Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
Are you sure that there's the direct analogy between pricing and salary models like that?
Page 1 of 4Next →