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thallian

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thallian··on Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?
The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett and the Fencer Trilogy by K.J. Parker.

I read a lot of everything I can find but always get back to these.

thallian··on How and why I run my own DNS servers
Did not know Haraka, looks interesting.

Do you use it together with an imap server (like dovecot)?

thallian··on How and why I run my own DNS servers
Thanks a lot for that! I've been running a similar stack (ldap took me a while to grasp) but without rspamd which I wanted to add. Your writeup is the perfect excuse to finally start with it.
thallian··on Ask HN: Why don't websites show password requirements at the login screen?
Number three happened to me in the EA Origin client. No idea if it is still like that but it was not too long ago and it was quite infuriating trying to find out why my password never worked when I needed to login again.
thallian··on Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
I used CasperJS[0] in the past to scrap a javascript heavy forum (ProBoards) and it worked well. But that was a few years ago, I have no idea what new strategies came up in the meantime.

[0] http://casperjs.org/

thallian··on Getting out of the cloud…
I have a good experience with cloudsigma.ch (but that only replaces the EC2 part, so it depends on what you need).
thallian··on Summary of My Meeting with Google AMP Team
Using !g on DuckDuckGo will search on encrypted.google.com
thallian··on Dovecot audit complete
I have the same experience. It works perfectly for me with ldap authentication (which I also use for my mailserver) over multiple devices (macOS, Windows, Android, Linux).

Started using it after Owncloud/Nextcloud broke their ldap auth.

thallian··on Docker in Production: A History of Failure
FYI, Rancher can use Kubernetes for orchestration (Mesos or Swarm too)[0]. No idea how well that works though, I am using it with their own Cattle and that is more than enough for my lowly needs.

I looked at Kubernetes before Rancher but it was hard for me to really understand where to start and how it all fit together. Now that I understand much better what I am doing I should probably take another look at it.

[0]: http://rancher.com/rancher-now-supports-kubernetes/

thallian··on Kubernetes – The Hard Way
There is a step by step guide from CoreOS: https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/getting-started.ht...

Never tried it though, so I can't speak of the quality (and of course it talks about running it on CoreOS).

thallian··on Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett + lots of the Discworld novels (also by Terry Pratchett).

The latter have become one of the basic building blocks of my life.

thallian··on Switzerland bores underground
Yes, that's true. But it came into being as part of the actions taken to satisfy the initiative.
thallian··on Switzerland bores underground
The trajectory is flatter with the new tunnel and freight trains can be longer and carry more weight. This is one of the elements in trying to shift more freight from the street to the trains (which is one of the two points of the Alpen-Initiative, a popular initiative from 1994 to protect the Alpine Environment).
thallian··on BSD vs. Linux (2005)
Depends on what you mean by production.

I've been running Gitblit and multiple Minecraft (Spigot) worlds with Openjdk8 on FreeBSD 10 for more than a year and never had any problems (Jenkins worked fine too but I used it only for a short time).

But my userbase is only about 10 people, mostly in minecraft (to get a sense of the main world's scale: [0]), so I don't know if that qualifies :)

[0] https://world.vanwa.ch/

thallian··on What’s up with nano?
Exactly what appealed to me in the beginning. Coming from Windows I was lost enough without trying to guess how to get out of vi.

Once I got more comfortable with how things work I was confident enough to use it and I would not want to miss it any more.

thallian··on SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box
So many hours that I lost trying to optimize the lifts in SimTower. Loved the game.
thallian··on A Lament for the LAN Party
Sadly that's the main problem in my opinion. As far as I know there are still some rare events which can bring players back but it has been stagnating for years now.
thallian··on A Lament for the LAN Party
I love ET! Have you heard of ET: Legacy? It's a modern implementation of the client and server and works great ( had a server running on FreeBSD).

https://www.etlegacy.com/

thallian··on World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland
german livestream from the opening today (swiss national television): http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/srf/embed?urn=urn:srf:ais:video:c49c1e...
thallian··on Spark as a Compiler: Joining a Billion Rows per Second on a Laptop
I really liked 'Database in Depth' by C.J. Date.
thallian··on Introducing Kindle Oasis
6'' does fit perfectly into the leg pocket of the cargo pants I'm always wearing. I do not think that was the intention but I really love it.
thallian··on PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7
Major trip down memory lane!

We still had those in school (around 2003). I vividly remember playing shuffle puck and cannon fodder instead of doing what we were supposed to do.

edit: should have been one of the Macintosh Classics if memory serves right

thallian··on Switzerland will vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month
Both. The voting material everyone gets includes a booklet which informs about the proposed changes and where statements by opposing and approving parties are to be found (this is prepared by the Federal Chancellery as far as I know). This includes a recommandation on each proposal by the respective governement and parlament (respective, because it depends on which organisational level the vote happens, national, cantonal or communal). Which way the recommandation goes is decided by a vote in parliament and the numbers (how many against/in favour) is printed too.

Before that, there is the usual lobbying by different political parties and it depends on the perceived gravitiy of the changes how much you see. There are billboards, discussions in radio, TV and newspapers. Sometimes there are also other groups coming into the public light as happening now eg. with law professors campaigning against the 'Durchsetzungsinitiative' (the discussion about that one is getting more and more heated).

thallian··on Switzerland will vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month
That is true, I only wanted to share my experience and provide some anecdotal evidence for the parent post :)
thallian··on Switzerland will vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month
Yeah, in Switzerland I live decently but I am not rich by any means. To visit friends I frequently travel to Germany and everytime I realise just how big a difference it is for many things.

In the beginning I always had the feeling of something wrong when going to a supermarket there, because for me the gap was so crazily big.

thallian··on Introduction to the Autotools (2012)
waf (https://waf.io/)
thallian··on Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
Yeah, it seems that immigrants are either the source of all evil or saints. Without any meaningful middleground it will only get more extreme.

(I am not from a neighbouring country but not that far away)

thallian··on Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
In Switzerland it is used as a political instrument by the right wing parties. They call it 'Kuscheljustiz' ('cuddle justice') and the tabloids are happily using the term too.

It got a new height with the 'Durchsetzungsinitiative', a popular initiative we get to vote on in a month. It wants to enforce the result of the popular initiative on the (automatic) deportation of foreign criminals which got accepted by 52.3 of voters (and 17.5 of cantons) in 2010. The party behind both says that the governement and parlamental chambers are stalling the implementation of the initiative and do not adhere to its meaning hence the second one (which says they have to do the original one word by word).

The stuff happily ignores some principles of the law like proportionality, higher up international law and such.

Yeah, the combination of the so called cuddle justice and foreigners has been proven to work very good to get votes here (works even better now with more refugees).

thallian··on Switzerland begins tests on the longest train tunnel in the world
SBB Cargo uses electric trains except for the shunters. I can't comment if it's a good idea though.
thallian··on Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator
You could use something like casperjs (http://casperjs.org/) for a bot (I did this to scrape a proboards forum, worked quite well).
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