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brodockon Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

CachyOS was the one who moved me from Ubuntu/Debian based distros.

Can also mean annoying. As a general recommnedation, before naming a project or company something, always search whether it means something bad in the top 10 most spoken languages.

For portuguese/spanish, there is always a high chance of being a slang that is NSFW

brodockon Your phone is about to stop being yours

In many countries it's already impossible to use just the web for banking. They either make you install rootkits on your computer or move you to their mobile apps

brodockon How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer

Governament contracts are very restricted behind layers of certifications and authorizations.

For example, you can't freely produce missiles and have it in wallmart where "the governament" purchase at shelf price.

brodockon Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.

brodockon Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client

Why would Valve help Apple get marketshare (in the gaming category), when they can put the same effort into getting the games published to Linux (and the Steam Deck).

brodockon Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

They don't have a separate addon marketplace. The browser may still support the API but distributing the addon will be a problem.

We need an altstore

brodockon PWAs wont replace native iOS apps

No one wants to invest time and effort to develop for a platform that has a horrible review process. You have to invest multiple people's months worth of work without knowing if that particular snapshot of your app will offend the reviwer.

The lack of native apps is the App Store reviews process fault.

brodockon Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale

It's amazing how SoundCloud had "everything" and they threw away. They had the unique Indy artists, they had the DJs and music producers, and they opted to move to compete with Spotify on a money loosing bet, without putting the effort to build the Player in at least every single platform supported.

They did even more harm to themselves by blocking open source players that were doing "their work for free".

If there is one big mistake they did early on was to block API access. The other one was to bet on "record labels contract" rather then becoming the source for Originals.

brodockon OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault

Outcompete them. Do more, do better, do faster

brodockon Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed

https://about.gitlab.com/install/#official-linux-package

In this section there is an explanation and a link to the package server. Pick the CE and follow the install documentation

brodockon Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data

Last names are also not limited to ASCII. There all sorts of special caracters depending on the language like üáàãéèç-' (the single quote is specially important because its normally blocked due to SQL injection, but its a common character in italian/french/spanish names).

Preventing people from writing their own names because you decide to use a regexp from stackoverflow is also bad.

brodockon Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look

That looks awesome. You could try https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli, not near as good, but allow you to avoid the web UI for most things.

brodockon Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?

The scope is mutable. What was asked in the quote, is different from what it became when planing started and is different from what it endup 6 months down the road.

brodockon Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

I've migrated away from Evernote when they converted their MacOS and iOS apps from native to "Electron based". Simple things you expect from a "note taking app" to handle, like, search through text files, or "selecting multiple notes" were severely limited due to the technology limitations.

You could only select 50 items per time in the new "javascript" based desktop version, because that was too much state for react to handle.

The other thing that they broke was the apple pencil support. Using it would result in several seconds of latency.

I was a paying customer at this time, I've canceled my subscription entirely. I checked the app a few times after that to see if they managed to improve anything, the didn't. It only got worst.

So, if you have a native app, you have a moat with it, don't ruin your only opportunity to stand out.

brodockon Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look

Have you considered sending a MR for the "very small" things that bugs you? GitLab team member here... I have a personal list of things I wish will be prioritized, but there is only much you can do with the scope the application has and the amount of coworkers. So when things really piss me off, I reserve some time and send a MR to fix that.

That's what I've done before joining the company, so it works ;)

brodockon Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B

Brazil unbanked population in 2011 was ~41%. Having a bank account was not a straightforward process and included higher costs for the vast majority of the population.

Having a bank account would normally means you get a card that could only withdraw money from an ATM. If you wanted a "debit" card that would cost more.

Credit card were something out of reach for many. Low income folks alternative for credit were to rely on general stores own credit bureau.

With the liberalization in the banking system and the many fintechs that disrupted the market, the unbanked number droped to a single digit in 2021, and with pix, many just skipped the debit card all together.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370626/access-to-financ...

brodockon Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

I wonder if they would have a much smaller bill if they were running on physical hardware instead of renting infrastructure from AWS.

This is really not much different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133510 case.

brodockon NordVPN library and client code open-sourced

Don't forget all the youtubers a VPN has to pay and all the 75% off deals with the promocode ILOVEMYYOUTUBER.

brodockon Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud

don't forget the "cloud cost engineer", just to figure out how much it will cost to run the 20 services that should have been part of your app with random ways of billing the usage of it

brodockon GitHub Is Down

There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server.

Things like the database or random microservices that implement the death star architecture.

brodockon Tell Cloudflare: You're Breaking Tor/VPN/Shared IPs Again

if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable.

just imagine for a moment people may want to send gifts for their loved ones.

brodockon Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon

Every instance with some amount of user is either sponsored by someone or some organization, or is asking for donations.

The monetary transaction is there

brodockon Docker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it

You should try running your dependencies on docker but ruby on the host machine.

brodockon An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

With the current economic downcycle it is also the most budget oriented option. We will see a reborn of the "Full-Stack" for a while.

brodockon The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months

Coal

brodockon VPN by Google One security assessment

Apple have their ads business already, it's a matter of time until profits from that business become big enough that shareholders demand changes.

You can't have and Ads business and defend privacy at the same time

brodockon Moving from React to htmx

If the internet is slow it will be horrible for the user on first load to download a full blownup JS bundle. It will also not removr the fact that any resource change will require a roundtrip to the backend and back forth

brodockon Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

The requirement is to acquire consent not to reply to the attempt to acquire consent

brodockon Recon and Attack Vectors from My Logs

WAF is mandatory in some certifications.