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zapita··on Dagger – portable CI/CD pipeline
The language is CUE, it is a separate open-source project: https://cuelang.org

Dagger uses CUE but you can use CUE without Dagger.

zapita··on LXC vs. Docker
> builds are performed "inside out"

Docker supports multi-stage builds. They are quite powerful and allow you go beyond the "inside out" model (which still works fine for many use cases).

> ...and aren't reproducible

You can have reproducible builds with Docker. But Docker does not require your build to be reproducible. This allowed it to be widely adopted, because it meets users where they are. You can switch your imperfect build to Docker now, and gradually improve it over time.

This is a pragmatic approach which in the long run improves the state of the art more than a purist approach.

zapita··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
I regret using the term “disgraced” because it’s hard to assess objectively as you point out, and superfluous to my argument, which is that 1) he is wrong in those quoted tweets, and 2) he is a polarizing figure who is not known for his objectivity and therefore, quoting his factually wrong statement as only evidence does not support the argument presented here.
zapita··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
> You clearly forgot about Russiagate. The claim that Trump was colluding with Russia was all over the news for over a year with constant coverage every day.

That coverage was accurate. There was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It is clearly described here for example: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0126

> The Washington Post has now retracted dozens of articles, rewritten huge parts of stories, and basically admitted it was all a sham.

This is false and you provide no evidence for it.

> Green Greenwald, the reporter who broke the news about Snowden, agreed that it was "this generation's WMDs in terms of media malfeasance."

Greenwald is a disgraced journalist turned professional provocateur. I’m not surprised that you have to resort to quoting him to support an argument as ridiculous as “Russiagate was pie-in-the-sky”. You might as well quote Tucker Carlson.

> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1459242600179933190

This references two Washington Post articles which have been corrected. The correction was specific to the identity of one source in the famous Steele dossier which made some of the more outlandish and salacious claims in the dossier. There is no other retraction. In particular none of the facts of the dossier are retracted. In any case, the FBI has since conducted their own investigation and published their findings. As far as I know the FBI has not retracted those findings and the press has not retracted any reporting on those findings. So what exactly are you talking about when you mention “dozens of retracted stories”? Where is your evidence?

zapita··on Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics
> 1) There are reasons other than white nationalism for political parties to play politics with voting laws.

I referred to a very specific piece of legislation for a reason. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is, to quote Wikipedia, “a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting”. It is the direct result of Martin Luther King Jr marching against Jim Crow laws in the south. Supporting it was a no-brainer Republican policy as recently as 2006 (the last time all its provisions were re-authorized).

In other words, the VRA is no ordinary law: it is the quintessential anti-Jim Crow law. When the modern Republican party took the unprecedented step of removing these protections against Jim Crow laws, they effectively made themselves the champions of Jim Crow - the champions of white nationalism.

> It is overwhelmingly likely that these changes target Democrat voters rather than minority voters.

No, it absolutely is not. Civil rights organization like the NAACP and SPLC systematically challenge these laws on the grounds that they are disguised racial discrimination - and they win. The problem is that the legal process takes too long and enforcement is easily dodged by the states. This is why the VRA was crucial: it required federal pre-approval of voting laws, and allowed proper enforcement against states that persisted in racial discrimination.

This is not only well documented legislative fact, it is actually tought in History class. It is mind-boggling to me that it is even a point of debate. The only excuse for your argument is ignorance.

> 2) If this is the best a party of white nationalists can manage - marginal changes to try and tip tight elections in their favour - then the situation seems to seem very much under control from the perspective of all the non-white non-nationalists. It is hardly a defining policy.

Large scale voter suppression is a serious matter. MLK and countless other Americans shed blood marching to secure the VRA, and now their work is undone. That is a grave threat to our democratic institutions. I am optimistic that the white nationalists will lose, but it will be a difficult and uncertain fight ahead.

But you tell me. Assuming you vote for Republicans: what do you believe they stand for beyond white nationalism? And how do you reconcile your support with their efforts to undo legislation that Martin Luther King Jr fought for?

zapita··on Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics
> For example, defining Democrats by "defund the police", or defining Republicans as the party of "white nationalism".

This is a false equivalence.

On the one hand, the Democratic party has unequivocally rejected “defund the police” on multiple occasions. First in the 2020 primary by electing a presidential candidate who explicitly rejected the slogan, and continues to do so as president; then by excluding it from its platform altogether; and most recently by a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote in the senate to denounce the slogan. So the record is quite clear that Democrats do not in fact stand for “defund the police” beyond a loud minority.

On the other hand, Republican senators have unanimously refused to renew the Voting Rights Act, which until 2006 enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support. The VRA is one of the enduring legacies of the civil rights movement and has been a bulwark in protecting Black citizens in particular from disenfranchisement in the southern states. This is evidenced by the fact that, since the VRA has lapsed, virtually all Republican-controlled states have resurrected the same sweeping restrictions on the right to vote that MLK and others marched against. Let’s not even get into the January 6 attack on the capitol which was instigated and carried out by openly white supremacist organizations and which, to this day, the Republican party refuses to denounce, probably because so many of its own leadership is directly implicated.

So, yes, the Republican party is now defined by white nationalism. This is an established fact, and you being uncomfortable with it does not make it less true.

zapita··on Parler Raises $20M
“left-twitter” simply designates a subcommunity within twitter. I don’t think OP meant that Twitter as a whole leans left. Many people have an opinion on that topic, but in reality it’s hard to know for sure as Twitter is very large.
zapita··on How Y Combinator Changed the World
Aggregate human suffering.

Note: I don’t particularly agree with GP.

zapita··on Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Thanks. This makes Pages a non-starter for me. I look forward to trying it with direct upload!
zapita··on Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Is there a way to push content directly to Pages instead of having it pull from Github or Gitlab? Many teams have their own deployment tooling with pre-existing git integrations, and would rather add a Pages target to that. For example Netlify lets you bypass their github pull feature. Does Cloudflare?
zapita··on Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021
> That really is a narrow, normie view.

What does “normie” mean in this context? Is it the new “square”?

zapita··on Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
> Can anyone explain to me why Asians despite having some of the highest scores and GPAs have the lowest rate of admissions to some of the wokest institutions in America?

Because of legacy admissions, also known as “rich white kids skipping the line in spite of low GPAs”. There’s nothing “woke” about Ivy Leagues…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/23/elite-school...

zapita··on Open-source economics is not what you think
A good article making solid points. The bottleneck is indeed scarce maintainer labor. Money is an important factor but not the only factor.

I found the Github product placement distracting. At the 3d mention of a Github product, I checked, and sure enough: the author works at Github.

zapita··on The latest campus cancellation is different
This article is about Twitter complying with Russian and Pakistani court orders. What’s the connection to “US progressive politics”?
zapita··on 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company
What is “globohomo wokeness”?
zapita··on I'm working on open source full time
The US government has been working towards that goal: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/me...

I don’t know the current status of implementation since the policy was published mere months before the Obama/Trump transition. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see it make progress again under the Biden administration.

zapita··on Podman in Linux
> I also think that it's more than safe to say that K8s is dropping Docker when they've deprecated it as a container runtime

This is wrong. Docker itself is no longer a container runtime: it has spun out that capability into containerd. Kubernetes can now call Docker’s container runtime (again: containerd) directly instead of going through a redundant docker-shim.

In other words: Kubernetes has dropped Docker’s old container runtime in favor of… Docker’s new container runtime.

zapita··on Podman in Linux
You are correct on both counts. Most people are not intimately familiar with the details of the Docker and Kubernetes stacks. Unscrupulous vendors have been taking advantage of this confusion to spread FUD and shine a more flattering light on their own products.
zapita··on Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes
You don’t need Kubernetes to implement an embedded SRE model or an internal platform. You’re describing a good organizational model but making the mistake of crediting a tool for it.
zapita··on Tech billionaire: Facebook is what's wrong with America
Yes it’s similar to Fox and CNN, but with an audience in the billions instead of the tens of millions.
zapita··on Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
Why? Anyone can assemble an equivalent from available open-source tools:

* Virtualbox * Your favorite Linux distro * Docker engine on the Linux VM * Docker CLI on the Mac host * A variety of filesystem sync solutions (I don’t remember their names but there are several)

Alternatively there’s also docker-machine.

The closed source app gets you the convenience of not having to set that all up. If you don’t like installing closed source apps you probably prefer to set things up yourself anyway. So what’s the problem?

zapita··on Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
This is incorrect. The Docker engine shipped in Docker for Mac is built from the exact same Docker Engine in the open-source release. It’s the native Mac application wrapping the engine in a single-purpose hypervisor that is closed source.
zapita··on Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
The Docker CLI is also available for Mac, and is open-source.
zapita··on Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
Calling podman “the open-source docker alternative” is disingenuous. The Docker engine which it competes with is also open-source. The only closed Docker product is their desktop wrapper, for which podman is not an alternative.

Podman people, you’re better than this.

zapita··on Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
A lot of those enterprises already have Docker on the vendor list though, because of Docker Hub.
zapita··on Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
You’re going to spend scarce engineering resources reimplementing a Docker for Mac alternative, then roll out your immature alternative to 50+ engineers, instead of paying a few hundred dollars a month for a good product and moving on?

It seems to me you would be the one cutting off your nose to spite your face in this scenario.

zapita··on Yimby housing bills are wildly unpopular in the state (CA), a new poll shows
> Don't storm the castle. Rock, paper, scissors. There's got to be 100s of small wins which cement a lasting victory.

This is the strategy of the pro-housing coalition in the California legislature and it’s starting to pay off. San Francisco’s state senator Scott Wiener is a crucial player in that coalition. The fact that NIMBY outlets like 48hills are targeting him personally is a sign that he is delivering.

zapita··on Yimby housing bills are wildly unpopular in the state (CA), a new poll shows
Some context. 48hills is not a neutral party in this debate. Their founder Tim Redmond, who wrote this article, is one of the most strident leaders of the NIMBY movement in San Francisco. Whatever insights can be gathered from this poll, I would not trust him or his publication to present them fairly or accurately.
zapita··on Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid
> “Representative government" seems fine until one looks more closely at who is actually represented.

Why ruin an otherwise reasonable argument with an out-of-nowhere jab at representative democracy? If anything, without legitimate elected officials in charge, the problem would have been more acute.

zapita··on Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
Who is the target customer for this?
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