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torvald··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
And some type of encrypting would be nice. I find it very exciting that The Punkt phone is picking up Signal at least.

https://boingboing.net/2021/04/08/the-best-dumbphone-gets-si...

torvald··on Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (2020)
This is also what fly.io is using underneath their Nomad orchestrator.

https://fly.io/docs/about/open-source/

torvald··on Use DNS TXT lookup to gain quick insights which services companies are using
The certificate transparency log is also a good place to look for clues. ⁨https://crt.sh
torvald··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)
Oda (former Kolonial.no) | Oslo/Berlin/Helsinki | Full time | ONSITE/WFH (we help relocate)

https://careers.oda.com/ | https://medium.com/oda-product-tech

Oda is Norway’s leading online grocery store and we’re on the move! Delivering a huge range of high-quality, affordable groceries to millions of doorsteps is a complex process, but we believe we’ve cracked the code. Using data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, we are building the most efficient retail system in the world. With solid backing from some of the biggest international investors in the world, we’re proud to be one of the fastest growing companies in Europe.

We’re growing fast and are looking for roles such as:

- Reliability Engineers

- Software Engineers

- Engineering Managers

- Data Engineers and Analysts

- Various UX and PM roles

torvald··on Hellofresh employees' open salary initiative
Albeit, you have a dedicated quota of searches – and the one you search for also gets a message that you search for him/her. So in effect, I'd suspect very few uses this to get the sense of your colleague 's pay. Rather, I'd guess its mostly used by journalists and the most curious to poke into public officials, rich people or simply celebrities.
torvald··on Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
If your app is stateless; FastAPI. Otherwise Django all the way (with some cloud managed SQL, if you are not into hosting it yourself). Remember backups.

Put in on a VM, deploy with Ansible, and call it a day.

torvald··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
Oda (former Kolonial.no) | Oslo/Berlin/Helsinki | Full time | ONSITE/WFH (we help relocate) https://careers.oda.com/ | https://medium.com/oda-product-tech

Oda is Norway’s leading online grocery store and we’re on the move! Delivering a huge range of high-quality, affordable groceries to millions of doorsteps is a complex process, but we believe we’ve cracked the code. Using data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, we are building the most efficient retail system in the world [0]. With solid backing from some of the biggest international investors in the world, we’re proud to be one of the fastest growing companies in Europe [1]. We’re growing fast and are looking for roles such as:

- Director of Engineering, Growth Platform

- Engineering Manager, Logistics Platform

- Software Engineers, To all of our teams

- Security Manager, Infrastructure & IT

- Android Engineer, Shop Platform

- iOS Engineer, Shop Platform

See all open roles: https://careers.oda.com/jobs

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/norways-kolonial-rebrands-...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/8b37a92b-15e6-4b9c-8427-315a8b5f4...

torvald··on Reddit Is Experiencing Downtime
> Identified - We've identified the source of an attack on our systems and have taken steps to mitigate. We're seeing systems recover, but are still in a degraded state.

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/zt00pdljgnqn

torvald··on Ask HN: How much is Google collecting and keeping on Android if not signed in?
I have a stock android phone but use wireguard and a pihole for DNS. It blocks something like 70% of all request but my phone works without issues.
torvald··on Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
Neat, thanks for the tip!
torvald··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
Oda (former Kolonial.no) | Oslo/Berlin/Helsinki | Full time | ONSITE/WFH (we help relocate) https://careers.oda.com/ | https://medium.com/oda-product-tech

Oda is Norway’s leading online grocery store and we’re on the move! Delivering a huge range of high-quality, affordable groceries to millions of doorsteps is a complex process, but we believe we’ve cracked the code. Using data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, we are building the most efficient retail system in the world [0]. With solid backing from some of the biggest international investors in the world, we’re proud to be one of the fastest growing companies in Europe [1]. We’re growing fast and are looking for roles such as:

- Director of Engineering, Growth Platform

- Engineering Manager, Logistics Platform

- Software Engineers, To all of our teams

- Security Manager, Infrastructure & IT

- Android Engineer, Shop Platform

- iOS Engineer, Shop Platform

See all open roles: https://careers.oda.com/jobs

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/norways-kolonial-rebrands-...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/8b37a92b-15e6-4b9c-8427-315a8b5f4...

torvald··on How Lucky Is Too Lucky in Minecraft?
I wonder how kubernetes do.
torvald··on Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% salary?
4 days for 80%, maybe. It depends greatly where you are in life.

But as you also state, i wonder if, due to Parkinson’s Law, that it would be mutual beneficial for all both employers – and employees – to work 4 days for 90% of the pay?

torvald··on Ask HN: What do you think will come after Kubernetes?
I very much hope to see Hashicorp Nomad getting more traction, as a simpler, yet feature rich solution to probably most use cases in our industry. Pretty interesting to see the adoption of podman and also micro-vms (like fly.io does it), and other Nomad providers that does not nessasarly need to be docker.

I know there are great terraform modules out there already, but i wonder if many of Hashicorp's products soon will be available as "managed" services as well, allowing people to try something new with less maintenance cost.

torvald··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?
This episode from Signals and Threads was surprisingly amusing: Clock synchronization with Chris Perl

https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/

torvald··on Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
And also e (for edit) which, at least for me, opens vin for a quick change when needed.
torvald··on Programmer, developer, engineer? What do you call yourself and why?
Calendar Driven YAML Engineer.

I saw somebody else say this somewhere, it felt fitting.

torvald··on Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019)
Yeah, i imagine sitting out in the sun coding away. With modern laptops, you can't work even with a lamp behind you because of all the reflections.
torvald··on Transitioning from Docker to Podman
Hi, it exists <https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/podman>! This has gone right passed me.
torvald··on Transitioning from Docker to Podman
I pray for a Hashicorp Nomad driver as well!
torvald··on Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
So true. Most bang for the buck i know.
torvald··on Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
A robot vacuum cleaner. «I» now vacuum every day, the the flat just looks overall better. There is barley any dust on the shelfs anymore either.

https://us.roborock.com/pages/roborock-s5-max

torvald··on Containers Are Linux (2017)
> These days Podman is alive and well. I use it a lot more than Docker now. The fact that Podman can run/create Kubernetes Pods (without needing K8s) is a compelling feature for me.

Oh, where can I learn more?

torvald··on Meeting everyone on a new team
We do as well, we use a slack bot that pairs people that are member of a specific together every Monday.

I think it's this one <http://www.randomcoffees.com/>.

torvald··on Why do so many people want us back in the office?
> You can't mix WFH with work in office.

While I agree, I think there is room for organizations to at least be remote friendly. I'd love to work for an organization that allowed for WFH in the middle of build cycles/sprints and keeping a more strict at-office policy during planing phases of projects.

torvald··on Ansible Alternatives in Python
If one is not tied to python, NixOps is a breath of fresh air.
torvald··on Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack
Indeed, if you are coming from a world with a lot of legacy systems but want to make Docker and containers orchestration your golden path, but still streamline all of your deployments, Nomad seems like great choice. At one point you might need more then Nomad can give you, but then you are at least familiar with concepts like raft, declarative CI/CD pipelines for containers, vault and secret handling, canary deployments etc.
torvald··on CI/CD on a budget for open source projects
You are right, but it does illustrate how little is needed to get your code of the ground. See https://github.com/sdras/awesome-actions for a list of plug n' play building blocks. And there are a bunch of different triggers and patterns (https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-tri...) you can listen to, all tightly coupled with your code and (GitHub) UI.

There is a lot of bang for the buck here.

torvald··on Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
I second this.
torvald··on Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
I was about to, but seems like you answered the question yourself through that footnote.
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