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pid-1··on Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
Like DF, this sort of game becomes terribly boring after you have won / seen all things. You don'y want to win quickly.
pid-1··on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency
Maybe closer to earth -> better signal -> less processing needed / cheaper satellites? I don't even work with RF so this is baseless guessing.
pid-1··on European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU
I don't think that's wild.

But IMO the real moat in M365 is that it also bundles Microsoft Entra ID (formerly AAD) licenses and it's strongly integrated to it + SharePoint.

This way you can have "basic IT stuff" you expect in a company like company users, groups, shared folders, file permissions, etc...

pid-1··on Akira Toriyama has died
Rest in peace.

For anyone feeling like revisiting DBZ as an adult, I recommend watching "Dragon Ball Z: Abridged" on YouTube.

Starts slow / amateurish, but oh boy it gets brilliant eventually.

pid-1··on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
I've had an intern uploading code to his G Drive and after talking to him I concluded he was not malicious, just dumb.

That said you can't claim innocence for not knowing some law, plus any half serious company makes you sign cyber security / IP stuff during the hiring process (ofc one is entitled to sign contracts without reading them).

pid-1··on The end of Airplane.dev
That's a shame. I really think the world of software infrastructure needs a "more user friendly, batteries included service orchestrator" as an alternative for K8s and public clouds offerings.
pid-1··on Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres
I had similar experiences. Can't understand all the hype around RAG when the results are so bad.
pid-1··on Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
> SSO

> Contact US

Yeah no thanks.

pid-1··on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
Just a single data point, but I had GNOME hanging and crashing in clean Ubuntu and Fedora installs as recently as 2022.

I've migrated to Mint and haven't tried KDE for the last 10 years, but I would have a hard time calling GNOME stable.

pid-1··on Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
Also Plotly generates Javascript so it has wrappers for many python frameworks such as Streamlit.

I'm also using it in a regular React app and it has quite decent APIs.

pid-1··on Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
WSL 2 + Docker for Desktop + VS Code + Devcontainers extension allows you to create development environments that are defined by a dockerfile / docker-compose file + .devcontainer.json.

Forget about configuration as code in pure Windows, been there, it's a waste of your time.

Also I'm not 100% positive but you might need a Windows Pro license to run Docker in Windows (something something virtualization can't recall correctly)

pid-1··on Think Python, 3rd Edition
Reading the docs proactively (not just when you need something).
pid-1··on Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model
SQL is like regex, one of those things I will keep unlearning if I'm not using daily.

Also the way each DB supports its own dialer is quite maddening.

pid-1··on New Renderers for GTK
Some open source projects hire full time developers with donations / sponsor money (e.g. python, zig).

I'm not saying that's the correct approach for GTK, just noting is not an absurd idea.

pid-1··on Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
I've found the 'Health > Dashboard' page on the admin portal to be the most reliable place to check for incidents: https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home?#/healthovervie...

Some users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft Teams TM710344, Last updated: Jan 26, 2024, 6:00 PM GMT-3 Estimated start time: Jan 26, 2024, 12:37 PM GMT-3

User impact Users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft Teams.

Title: Some users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft Teams

User impact: Users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft Teams.

More info: Affected scenarios include, but aren't limited to: - Users performing a cold boot may not able to log into teams and will see an "oops" page

- Users logging in or unlocking their devices after some time may see missing messages

- Users may fail to load messages in channels and chats

- Users are unable to view or download their media (images, videos, audio, call recordings, code snippets)

- Some messages may experience delays being sent

- Call Recordings might take longer to appear in user's OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online

- Users may be unable to load previous Copilot history, or new history is not written

- Bots may be unable to download attachments

- Sending and receiving read receipt notifications may be delayed

- Anonymous users may be unable to join meetings

- Teams connectors for Power Automate/Power Apps may experiencing errors

Current status: Our failover operation did not provide the immediate relief intended for end users in North and South America regions. However, we’re monitoring telemetry closely as we continue to optimize traffic patterns and apply configuration changes intended to reduce customer impact as quickly as possible. We understand the impact an issue like this can have on your organization, and we appreciate your partnership and patience as we work to remediate this issue.

Scope of impact: This issue can potentially impact any Microsoft Teams user in the scenarios outlined in the More info section.

Start time: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:55 AM GMT-3 .

Next update by: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM GMT-3

pid-1··on Security researchers collect awards for Tesla exploits at Pwn2Own Automotive
I've been waiting for a cybersecurity incident to move markets since forever. It seems consumers and investors don't really care.
pid-1··on Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
That's not my experience after using AWS CDK since 2020 in the same company.

Most of our code is plain boring declarative stuff.

However, tooling is lightyears ahead of YAML (we have types, methods, etc...), we can encapsulate best practices and distribute as libs and, finally, escape hatches are possible when declarative code won't cut.

pid-1··on Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
> Operate as a TCP/HTTP proxy that can delay clients so that a given service can be started when it is dormant or, even better, the service isn't serverless but you want it to be. This can't work for everything, but perhaps enough things such that the need to run always on services is reduced.

My team mostly builds internal stuff and we save tons of $$$ by using Knative + Karpenter, which basically does that on container + EC2 levels.

pid-1··on Coinbase tells judge that buying crypto is just like collecting Beanie Babies
I think you meant decentralized. Also, it's questionable BTC etc are really scalable.
pid-1··on Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
> We spent 92% of our money in 2023 on paying contributors for their time.

That's really cool. Sometimes I think about donating to the PSF, but I don't really care about PyCon.

pid-1··on Is Fortran “A Dead Language”? (2022)
Dead language has a very specific definition tho.
pid-1··on AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero
That's like telling people to use S3, those are completely different storage systems.
pid-1··on We are going to start charging for dedicated IPv4 in January 1st
AWS is also starting to charge for public IPv4 addresses this year. Did something happen with IPv4 markets? I used to think at least cloud providers were hoarding a ton of addresses.
pid-1··on Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype
Are you worried about wires? Wait until I tell you about invisible electromagnetic radiation.
pid-1··on 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public
Controlled by age?
pid-1··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
Good luck! Consul, Terraform and Nomad were pivotal for my carrier. Went from a server unboxer to a container wizard during the last decade. Thanks a lot!
pid-1··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
Tell that to your local telco carrier. I bet my ass they have network equipment runnning with zero updates for well over a decade.
pid-1··on Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
Most people I worked with either tell me "I don't know" or "I think x, but with not sure" when they are not sure about something, the issue with LLMs is they don't have this concept.
pid-1··on Google Drive files suddenly disappeared
I've used a few SaaS products with decent support: AWS, GitLab, Microsoft (for certain products), Fortinet (for certain products)...

On the bad side I can think of Google and Databricks.

So it's not an unsolvable problem, there are people getting support right.

pid-1··on Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code
> Are there developers who wish this? Specifically developers who will not use it as an excuse to make an overly complex difficult to maintain solution instead? Not to mention that YAML pipelines can be maintained by a wider array of people some of who don't necesairly have the code skills to do the the same in code.

As someone who has been building automatic deployment systems for 5+ years, I do.

I'd like to create libraries and workflows that expose infrastructure and deployment best practices to developers so they can spend their time solving business issues.

Dockerfiles + Docker Compose + YAML template files are good enough for simple cases, but they will quickly break once you need to support different, possible configurable use cases.

I've been using AWS CDK in Python to expose infrastructure libraries for developers and the difference is night and day vs using plain YAML. People just build stuff and deploy apps without talking to our infra team at all, object / functions serve as neat, statically checked, documented interfaces for our devs.

I'm not sure Dagger is THE solution I'm looking for CI/CD, but having something that exposes rich declarative interfaces for automatic deployments is most definitely not a baseless idea.

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