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aynawn··on Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails
Does it support email filters? I'd love to manage my gmail filters programmatically or use a configuration file to manage them so I can reuse the filters across multiple emails.

Edit: there is a separate tool for this for gmail https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl

aynawn··on Ask HN: Where are all the parties?
I'm another ex-massachusettser and also love Somerville and would have shared a brat with you. Sounds like you made the best of it!
aynawn··on Ask HN: Have you switched from Terraform to Crossplane?
I've evaluated crossplane and one of the biggest drawbacks is not being able to properly diff your expected changes with your actual state. Basically there is no way to run a plan of your change. It's essentially a diff in a github pr, then you merge, sync with argocd, and hope your crossplane apply won't fail.

I prefer the terraform method where you are declarative, run plan and then apply. Ive worked with env0, terrafo cloud, spacelift, and atlantis. Ive worked with crossplane and argocd. So far my favorite has been to use terraform with a cicd solution.

Crossplane is too bleeding edge and will need some time for maturity. I do see crossplane or something similar once the edges have been fully polished.

aynawn··on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
Agreed. It should at least log you out of all sessions without you having to do it yourself. This is good to know if I ever want to rotate my encryption key. Knowing this, I may even log out of all sessions even if I was rotating my master key.
aynawn··on Ask HN: Does anyone use Terraform to deploy Kubernetes services in a large org?
See the aws-ia official eks-blueprints repo. They have a ton of modules that reuse their helm-addon and irsa modules. Adding the aws-load-balancer-controller, for instance, is a single boolean.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/bootstrapping-cluste...

https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints/tree/...

aynawn··on Use `Python -m Pip`
asdf works as a universal tool for any cli app i.e. python, terraform, ruby, golang, etc

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

    asdf plugin add python

    asdf install python 3.9.1

    asdf global python 3.9.1

    asdf local python 3.9.1
aynawn··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
I never thought about how the ampersand looks like a duck.
aynawn··on $ curl -I https://web3usecase.com
Or -L to follow redirects
aynawn··on Effective Shell
These are great comments. The code is open source. I'm sure the owner would love a pull request that would address these concerns.
aynawn··on Ask HN: Have you ever worked in a non-capitalist coding collective? How was it?
Cng sounds cool. "Code Not Guns" is probably inspired by "Food Not Bombs" which coincidentally I heard of only fairly recently.

You can also checkout all the "Code For America" organizations for local nonprofit government coding projects. I don't know if it will fit your anarchist philosophy but it would certainly help to have more volunteers to help connect citizens to their local US governments.

aynawn··on Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?
If i have to deal with ancient osx gnu gplv2 utilities, i think I'd go bananas. You have to modify the default settings at some point or your productivity will surely wane in comparison to others. I see your point with some defaults but the purest approach doesn't seem practical either.
aynawn··on Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
Agreed. If the code is in GitHub, it's incredibly easy to create a simple github actions workflow that could run the app.
aynawn··on Tell HN: IT guy at my company just did what?
Use a password manager to generate 16 character strings as answers to each security questions. I guarantee your IT person will no longer remember them.
aynawn··on Ask HN: Do you have a dedicated QA team?
why don't the dev machines also closely represent customer set ups?
aynawn··on Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)
Another contender is gron which does the same. It's written in golang instead of rust.

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

<pre>$ cat test.json | gron</pre>

aynawn··on Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?
Clever. Nice work.

Would you also add the average score per season ?

aynawn··on Don't create for an imaginary group of people
This helped me learn git visually.

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

You can probably complete that in less than a day

aynawn··on Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
I'm unsure but it does make me wonder.

Perhaps there are fewer EMTs signing up than cosmotologists?

Or perhaps the number of practice hours to e.g. create the perfect braid is lower than the number of practice hours to e.g. apply narcan?

Or perhaps the effectiveness of the school education for one profession is more closely related to what you will experience in the real world, thereby requiring fewer hours of on-the-job training?

aynawn··on Show HN: SharedOTP – Shared two-factor authentication mechanism
You can do this in 1password using a shared vault with your TOTP secret to generate authenticated tokens. The vault can be shared with your entire team or company.

What benefit does this app provide over 1password?

aynawn··on Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android
I've been in the market for an open source authenticator that works on android and desktop with a cloud sync.

I cannot find one and so I'm stuck on using authy. I have exported all my TOTP tokens in hopes that one might turn up.

Aegis, like andOTP and others, does not appear to have a desktop client.

aynawn··on Semgrep for Cloud Security
As a terraform SAST tool, this has competition with tfsec, tflint, and checkov. I do like how it also checks the kubernetes yaml.

I'd like if these types of articles would mention the competitors to show what additional value that the one they pitch brings to the table.

aynawn··on LineageOS Android Distribution
Custom supported roms will continue to get security updates whereas oem roms get updates for maximum 3 years since phone release.

From a security perspective, custom roms are still worth it.

aynawn··on LineageOS Android Distribution
This may help https://github.com/nitrocode/phone-code-names
aynawn··on Terraform 0.12
Finally
aynawn··on Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time
For privacy minded people, is there an extension that detects textarea's and input boxes and overlays them with new ones and once you hit send that's when it inserts them into the real html inputs preventing this sneak peak?

Or perhaps simply the xhr requests could be blocked.

aynawn··on Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing
It would be better if there was a ublock origin for cookies. The addon would force cookie creation of every opt out cookie and maintain this information using some kind of list, maybe an EasyList for cookies.
aynawn··on A command-line installer for Windows
It's easy to add new bucket entries by adding json files. Also if I understand it correctly, their auto update feature allows many apps to be self maintained i.e. you don't have to update the json when a new version comes out.
aynawn··on H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)
Correction, it has been updated last for the 2017 tax year. His website says that by the end of Jan 2019 it will be updated for the 2018 tax year.
aynawn··on H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)
Like most engineers I'm in favor of automation. Besides the already mentioned open source software for tax filing, are there any tax filing companies that do not lobby the government or contribute money against prefilling our forms? If so I'd love to give them my business.
aynawn··on H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)
That's cool because the author has also updated it for the 2018 tax year. From their YouTube video it looks like it needs polishing from an aesthetic perspective but if it does the job and cuts out the middle man then it's good. I'll have to try it out this year.

A much better job would be an open source modern website that is updated by the community and supports both federal and state taxes, importing tax documents, and highly secure to ensure a strong middle finger to these overbearing companies.

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