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vitalysh··on Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
inject those variables via mount?
vitalysh··on Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
I guess now they have a team of software engineers, where part is focused on infra and part on backend. Sys Admins disappeared? They are DevOps/IT Engineers now. QA? SWE in Test, and so on.
vitalysh··on No one cared about my spreadsheets
It would be interesting to see the split: Out of 83 Nobel Laureates, how many gained their education in University of Columbia? How many were professors that moved to University of Columbia after receiving their education somewhere else?

For example: Horst Ludwig Störmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Ludwig_St%C3%B6rmer

German scientist, but point goes to University of Columbia

vitalysh··on Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves
Use induction cook top? I find it to be much better than gas or regular electric heating stove.
vitalysh··on Dockerfile Security Best Practices
Using intermediate container to build and copy over resulting binaries should work.
vitalysh··on Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping
I guess depends on the size of the company. How else would you constantly test integrations between different services? Especially if some services can't be easily ran on the laptop.

Also if you add terraform/ansible and all that jazz to the table. Where else? Infra team needs dev/stage as well.

vitalysh··on Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings
We have two levers on the tap. One adjust temperature, another flow rate. I can't remember last time I've touched the temperature lever. Just open the flow and take a shower.

https://www.hanakat.fi/sites/default/files/imce/oras_sekoitt...

vitalysh··on Stop using low DNS TTLs
"The urban legend that DNS-based load balancing depends on TTLs (it doesn’t)"

So whats the solution? We are using AWS ALB/ELB and it states in docs, that we should have low TTL, and it makes sense. Servers behind LB scale up and down. What is the option B?

vitalysh··on Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
I already have phone in my pocket with Google assistant (yes, you can switch it off, but is it truly off?) Thats why I decided that Alexa is not a big deal.
vitalysh··on Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
My wife been searching for a job for quite some time (about a 2-3 years), during that time we've been trying to conceive a baby, but no luck, went through few eco sessions, still no dice. We decided to give up on idea of having a baby and just relax and live our lives. Then suddenly she gets a job offer she was dreaming about and one week later, guess what? She is pregnant. Now what would you tell your wife? Give up job you've been dreaming about?
vitalysh··on Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it
Exactly, especially considering that this is car by Volvo, manufacturer that quite often demoes it's new features in the are of detecting pedestrians or animals on the the road.
vitalysh··on Taxi deregulation coming to Finland
Interesting, I live in Espoo, and usually, I'm hesitant in taking a taxi from Helsinki city center. 20 min ride (17km) costs me on average 45-50 euro. I don't think this is cheap.
vitalysh··on CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens
Just create build.sh, deploy.sh and run those in steps -> no pain.
vitalysh··on Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
I store a bit of data at home (only ~20TB). Really easy to sort. There are plenty of apps that do it for you. This extension with those keywords in filename goes to this directory. Others to another dirs.

I only have my pictures and personal data in AWS cloud, encrypted. They way I set it up? Point rclone to relevant directories and skip the rest.

vitalysh··on Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
Yes, Amazon is to blame here as well. They shouldn't have offered unlimited service.

At the same time, I don't get, why would you encrypt your "Linux ISO's"? Let the AWS dedup do its job, don't abuse it, and everyone is happy.

vitalysh··on Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
I'm not even mad. /r/datahoarders brought this on themselves. Who in their right mind expects to upload 100s of TBs of data, encrypted and pay 59.99?
vitalysh··on Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
I can see that templates can get complex pretty fast, but so far we manage it. Big benefit we have - a fresh start with infra about a year ago.
vitalysh··on Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
And this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Terraform should know about most of the stuff.
vitalysh··on Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
Just wondering here, but why would you use this vs terraform? Given that I can define most of the stuff I need from AWS in terraform and check the state of the infra via plan command, what would be the use case for CLI? I'm actively trying to break the habit of modifying infra without first writing terraform document for it. This way I can always be sure that I have no surprises when creating a new environment.
vitalysh··on Rsync.net – Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups
I've been using rclone (http://rclone.org/) + AWS CloudDrive form my home backups. Currently storing around 4TB for just 60eur/year. Perfect setup for me personally.
vitalysh··on Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Or just use lxc-attach
vitalysh··on Being privacy-aware in 2016
I can't imagine situation where I would be forced to give up private key. And if I'm forced to give up one, I guess they can force me to give up rest of them.
vitalysh··on Finland’s basic income plan could change everything
Not really true, if you move to Finland as EU citizen, you won't get Finnish social security right away. You have to work here to apply for it.
vitalysh··on Finland’s basic income plan could change everything
Maybe basic income for citizens only?
vitalysh··on Jb’s story about how he nearly lost his Twitter handle
Or they could at least call back to the phone number stored on file.
vitalysh··on Airbnb launches Verified Identification to help bring more accountability
I wanted to book a holiday place with AirBnB this summer but decided against it. My worry is: what happens when host just disappears? For example, we rent nice house, arrive to the airport, try to call the host and he is not there. What next?

I'm aware that I will get my money back from AirBnB, but at that moment in the airport, what will you do?

vitalysh··on The Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class
But then where teenagers lived before? In 1960-70-80? At home with their parents. And if parents had middle class level income, their kids would spend money on "toys" same as right now.
vitalysh··on Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
Yeah, you could do that as well. I just don't like the idea that someone holds my email address. After reading few stories where Google/Microsoft blocks access to email, I decided to move my email to custom domain. In case of any issues all I have to do is change MX names to new provider to start receiving my mails again.
vitalysh··on Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
Instead of remembering all those weird email names, what you could do is:

1) Buy domain and attach google apps to it.

2) Switch catch-all email setting in preferences.

3) When register for a service use email like skype@domain.com or facebook@domain.com etc.

vitalysh··on Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
Block password reset. It is as simple as that.
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