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tahnyallon Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative

> It is a nightmare trying to run Docker and KVM virtual machines with bridges at the same time.

I'm doing it right now, no nightmares, just works, odd.

tahnyallon 'Impossible' to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenA

> why should the model be treated any differently?

Because a model isn't real, it's not alive, it's not human, it doesn't know right from wrong, it's a software machine, nothing more.

tahnyallon Canonical to Work on Improving Snap Support Across Linux DIstributions

I agree, 100%. For any readers who want to know how to disable snap after uninstalling it:

1. Create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref 2. It's contents should be: Package: snapd Pin: release a=* Pin-Priority: -10

tahnyallon Niklaus Wirth has died

It's OK on Hacker News to dis a reputable news source now?

tahnyallon Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

That'd be great if it were migrating those utilities to modern C using improved modern coding practices but re-writing in some goofy language like rust is dumb.

tahnyallon Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

> Where I’m working, WSL doesn’t work (well), VMs are banned, and personal experience with cygwin is awful

I'm no Windows fan but WSL has worked extremely well on several different machines I've worked on since 2015 and Cygwin was no WSL but I could get a lot done with it back in the day as well.

> Docker works but it makes test runs 100x slower (yes, I measured, it’s not made up).

Yeah, I don't know what you're doing that it could be 100 times slower, something else is wrong.

tahnyallon Operator Pattern

It seems like operators extend kube into the application administration editing arena:

  kubectl get SampleDB                   # find configured databases
  
  kubectl edit SampleDB/example-database # manually change some settings

That's on top of the application editing that's done to create the application in the first place.

Isn't kube supposed to automate the deployment and up time of applications? It seems to me like an anti-pattern to ever have to use "kubectl edit <blah>".

tahnyallon Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python

If I had to guess, from my time working with ASR (Advanced Speech Recognition) languages and its difficulty with the Indian (country of) accent; I'd guess Indian languages.

tahnyallon 27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process

It takes processes to deliver content. It takes content to have a reason to have something to deliver. One employee type isn't better than the other. Jobs was arrogant and the sole reason why I've never bought an Apple product.

tahnyallon Subject-First Commit Messages

I prefer the first version, I didn't find the second version to be more "scannable" and it seems to me to be more esoteric requiring study to realize what was recorded. The first version is clear, each commit makes sense and is what I'd be grepping for when trying to find a commit.