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bartekrutkowski

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator, DevOps Consultant and Developer at FreeBSD.org

Founder of Watchgoose, a cron jobs, backups, scheduled tasks monitoring platform | https://watchgoose.com

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bartekrutkowski··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
I never said anything about private health care.

You can take a tiny fraction of any good image and find it lacking. The OP wasn't talking about "golden age of public health care" but about "golden age" in general. I'm still waiting for anyone to answer the questions I've asked above, when was it better to live in Poland if not now?

Not "when it was absolutely perfect to live in Poland" not even "when was the public health care 100% ideal". It feels that the day to day life issues (of which there are plenty, sure) are stopping you from realising how good you have it compared to generations before you.

I don't know for sure, but I think it's a safe bet that should you be from your own parents generation, you could've been prosecuted for complaining publicly about "the state of the state", not to mention obtaining a computer for your personal use would be next to impossible.

bartekrutkowski··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
I am very well aware. Again, the question still stands: when was that the public healthcare provided more services, for more diseases, better medications, better care? When was that there was no wars in Poland for longer than it is currently?

I'm aware of all the issues we're dealing with, with the horrible war in Ukraine, but that's still unspeakably better situation than it was in 1945 or in 1965 or any other time before that. I hate any war, I'm not happy with the one in Ukraine, but I will take any war happening in the country next to the one I am in, over a war happening in the country I am in.

bartekrutkowski··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
"Golden age" doesn't mean that everything is perfect and we've reached mythical utopia. It merely means there wasn't a better period in history, to date. Please, name one period, where you had more freedom, more rights, more money earning opportunities, bigger food abundance and variety, longer life expectancy, more safety, less wars (speaking locally about Poland) so on and so forth.
bartekrutkowski··on Pong Wars on the Commodore 64
That's absolutely great read - especially recently I'm trying to get back to the childhood fun with C64 myself and re-learn some of the little programming I did back then, learn something new. Articles like this are a treat, thank you!
bartekrutkowski··on A brief look at FreeBSD
This is about unprivileged users - privileged ones can see everything. The idea is to make figuring out what's the surface of the attack harder (for those attackers who are less than skilled) by making it less obvious that 10 years old game server process is running on this OS.
bartekrutkowski··on Swift on FreeBSD Preview
Then Podman for FreeBSD exists for a while too.
bartekrutkowski··on Swift on FreeBSD Preview
In what sense? FreeBSD had containers before anyone heard about Docker ;)
bartekrutkowski··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
I think the point here is that free beats easy peasy, especially when learning a new skill, where your easy peasy isn't their easy peasy. And getting something up and running on Oracle Cloud with Terraform is nowhere near easy peasy for someone who never did anything with Terraform ;)
bartekrutkowski··on iPhone Air
You can submerge recent iPhones completely in water for few years now. Every year I make some quite fun and surprisingly looking underwater pictures with mine, that's just fine afterwards given I'm still able to write this comment on it.
bartekrutkowski··on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
So you haven't purchased it from Apple but instead you've purchased it from Amazon. This may change things. In Europe you have two ways of dealing with it, either by manufacturer warranty (completely good will and on terms set by the manufacturer) or by consumer rights (warranted you by law, overruling any warranty restrictions).

Sellers often will try to steer you to use warranty as it removes their responsibility, Amazon is certainly shady here. Apple will often straight on give you a full refund or a new device (often newer model), that happened to me with quite few iPhones and MacBooks.

Know your rights.

bartekrutkowski··on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
If I'm not mistaken, it is possible, but not on the free tier.
bartekrutkowski··on Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv (2023)
What about non Linux operating systems? Those exist and Open Source software written for them, developed on them exists.
bartekrutkowski··on Venezuela's last glacier, Humboldt, has melted away
Who and where invented a computer that can think? I must be missing something?
bartekrutkowski··on OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
You can and you should back up your keys. There isn't a 100% safe, secure and easy method that shields you from everything that can possibly happen, but there are enough safe, secure and easy ones to cover vast majority of cases other than a sheer catastrophe, which is good enough not to use outdated and security prone mechanisms like passwords on network exposed service.
bartekrutkowski··on OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
Why would you use password based auth instead of priv/pub key auth? You'd avoid this and many other security risks.
bartekrutkowski··on Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device
While not exactly the same, it will be close enough for Apple not to do it - it's called MacBook Air and it will be out with M4 soon enough (I guess).

Back in they day they had 11" MacBook line and I loved it, wish they'd bring it back.

bartekrutkowski··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
Interesting! I'd swear that in the early days of OrbStack somewhere on their website I've read they're using native MacOS frameworks without the need of Linux VM, but I can't find that anymore (they don't mention Linux VM either, but the language still differs from what I remember).
bartekrutkowski··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
You don't need a VM on Mac to run containers, check out OrbStack, they provide a Docker compatible engine that is using native MacOS capabilities for running containers without the hidden Linux VM.
bartekrutkowski··on mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
Sure it's effective if you're looking at the reduction rate of existing number alone. But reverse the problem and the very big effort of warning about dangerous-to-lethal stuff still doesn't stop 11% of people from doing so. That's quite bad, when you think about going from zero (you can't willy-nilly use untested medicine) to 11% of the society.
bartekrutkowski··on mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
Smoking is already advertised as dangerous-to-lethal and look how effective it is in preventing people from smoking.

In huge oversimplification some crazy or fraudulent people will claim it cures blindness or cold sores, some other people will believe them and will have to deal with the real danger-to-lethal consequences, with the rest of society paying for their medical care afterwards.

bartekrutkowski··on OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input
Of course they do. And what is that thing on the other side that Putty connects to for our professional friends in vast majority of cases?
bartekrutkowski··on OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input
Like OpenSSH? ;)
bartekrutkowski··on App scans your pile of Lego and uses ML to suggest projects
Same here. I've paid for the quite expensive (relative to mobile apps market) one-off license only to discover it has a very high error ratio (sees blocks that aren't there) and extremely simple projects to build (in the range of 10-30 blocks total). I wouldn't recommend it to anyone barring the free use for simplest of builds.
bartekrutkowski··on ‘All of Sony Systems’ Allegedly Hacked by New Ransomware Group
Not in "another email", but can make some sense if done via "alternative communication channel". The idea is that the attacker obtaining some access to one device (let's say computer with email account containing the message with said file) doesn't have the full set of data required to open the file given password was sent with a different channel (say, text message via phone). Not the Final Word in security, but rather yet another layer of it.
bartekrutkowski··on UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
If you open the Finder preferences, you can add few useful things, like your $HOME to the sidebar.
bartekrutkowski··on Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD installer
That is simply not true, OpenBSD is not mainly a research OS, it is widely used (for a non-linux OS) in networking appliances, to begin with.
bartekrutkowski··on The bottom is dropping out of Netflix
Isn't it because it differs so much from movie streaming? On major music streaming platforms you can find most of the popular music artists. I don't have any numbers to back it, but my gut feeling tells me a-number-so-close-to-100 percent that it doesn't even matter anymore it may not be actually 100. Movies? You can't get Disney on Netflix, you can't get Apple on HBO, you can't get... you just can't. Imagine having Metallica on Netflix, Madonna on Apple, Beatles on Sony and Silent Poets on Amazon.
bartekrutkowski··on FreeBSD Handbook Improvement Survey
You should be aware that "their job" is probably not the right term. FreeBSD is developed (mostly, technically) by volunteers and you can't make them do things you want. If you won't step up to do it, it's little unfair to demand others to do it for you.
bartekrutkowski··on Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s botched war with Ukraine
I don't dare to speak about what is or isn't propaganda these days, but when I was a teen I had a chance to witness Russian army leaving their base in Borne Sulinowo, Poland in early 90's. They did in fact took toilets with them, along with things like radiators and, in some places, even bathroom tiles.
bartekrutkowski··on From macOS to FreeBSD
Have you tried 'Reduce motion' setting from the Accessibility preferences along with these: https://www.chriswrites.com/boost-your-macs-performance-by-d... ?
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