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bromonkey··on Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API
*any non self-hosted git provider
bromonkey··on TripSit wiki
Caffeine is 100% in there.
bromonkey··on FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report
Which is exactly what you want for a reliable compute box.
bromonkey··on We can do better than Signal
I want none of this stuff in a messaging app, it's not a social media platform.
bromonkey··on Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?
How secure something is doesn't change based on the threat model.
bromonkey··on Deleting Facebook permanently
Why do you care what other people are doing? If it's important they'll tell you about it.
bromonkey··on Deleting Facebook permanently
Signal Messenger
bromonkey··on Ask HN: Security of new credit card with {card, exp. date, CVV} on the same side
I just had to rotate numbers and get issued a new card recently after my normal replacement one didn't show up in the mail. The teller at my bank said they had dropped embossed cards because no one took rubs of cards (besides people stealing them) these days and that was the reasoning behind having embossed cards in the first place.
bromonkey··on Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal
clicking one thing to get a functionality and having a visual status icon
bromonkey··on Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
This behavior design choice is exactly why I use caffeine :)
bromonkey··on Running BSDs on AMD Ryzen 5000 Series – FreeBSD/Linux Benchmarks
FreeBSD is $0 per machine ;)
bromonkey··on The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today
What's "GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite.)" mean for those of us that don't speak google?
bromonkey··on YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason
You wouldn't steal a car would you?
bromonkey··on Ask HN: What new/experimental technology should I learn for the next 10 years?
Here's another unpopular hn opinion.

Don't, go learn past technologies instead. People leaving school for tech in 10 years likely aren't going to have stood up servers and configured services. We'll be lucky if they've used anything that isn't a web gui on a large cloud operation. Rad Hat has already signaled it is going in this direction by tossing out their EX300 exam in favor of the EX294. I believe we will continue seeing such a trend going forward. There's going to be a growing need and shrinking availability of competent sysadmins over the next 10 years if I had to guess.

bromonkey··on CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
No, they haven't changed in my experience.
bromonkey··on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
That's what proton does. Runs windows .exe games on Linux.
bromonkey··on She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could
I think the same can be said about dining out.
bromonkey··on She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could
Because they pay for the testing. A restaurant will not (it would serve no purpose to find out 1-3 days later that someone had covid.) Furthermore the people working on films are employees of a studio that are contractually required to uphold the measures they agree to or they can lose their jobs. A restaurant has no such agreement with their customers.
bromonkey··on macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS
Imo OpenBSD on laptop, FreeBSD on server/desktop. But they're both great and I don't think you'd regret either one on any system :)
bromonkey··on macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS
"Linux has systemd" and that's why the author didn't select it supposedly. I hear this line of thought from people that use FreeBSD often, although I suspect if you ask many of those people why systemd is so horrible you won't actually hear a legitimate (and still relevant) reason from them. I suggest anyone that thinks systemd is terrible and doesn't spend lots of time in Linux to watch this presentation by Benno Rice.

https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo

bromonkey··on OpenZFS 2.0
It loaded for me earlier today, I think github is just having issue.
bromonkey··on The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
Weird as in exactly what you allow by assigning an open source license to your code? I'm not sure when the mentality of "the little guys can use my code but companies better pay me" crept into common discussion around open source, but it's never worked that way. If Nintendo didn't find a library up to their standards, they would have just created their own (likely not open source) version.
bromonkey··on Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
I mean that sucks for your wife, but what prevents literally anyone else from impersonating someone and unlocking a device? There are very good reasons that Apple does not "cooperate" in theses situations. Passwords are not supposed to be bypassed by third parties.
bromonkey··on Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years
Hard to get out of jail when you're serving a double life sentence...
bromonkey··on I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
I mean it mostly depends on what you do no? But all I need is for my job is a terminal session open. A macbook from 2010 can (and does) do that fine for me. I don't need the 85% of the specs I never use and I suspect the same applies to the author.
bromonkey··on The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
that would be the client side
bromonkey··on Python 3.9
Infrastructure doesn't "run for a lifetime" without the proper upkeep and regular maintenance... just like code. There is no set and forget in technology, just because you are doing the infrastructure work doesn't mean someone in the company isn't.
bromonkey··on The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
It loads fine for me on the same browser/platform.
bromonkey··on Show HN: Stop creating bad resumes. Use Resoume
Looks neat, but as someone else mentioned having the option to use a stand alone account would be even better. I will never personally use sites that require Oauth to make accounts, and I suspect others may feel the same way.
bromonkey··on Removing Holocaust Denial Content
Only 15 years too late, good job fb.
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