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aka Craig Box. You can e-mail firstname . lastname @ gmail.com to contact me.

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crb··on Symbian Source Code
'sup seb
crb··on Docker acquires Tilt
Docker sold its enterprise division and is now only focused on developer tools.

I talked with the CEO of Mirantis at the time (https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/110-mirantis/) and I talked with Docker's CEO a couple of weeks ago (https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/179-dockercon/). Both episodes offer good context as to the change in focus.

crb··on Code licensed under the AGPL must not be used at Google
There is a recent uptake in companies who want to make sure that their software isn't 'resold' by hosting companies (or book shops). They license the software under AGPL, so it's still "free", and can be used by individuals (or carefully by companies), but also have a commercial license available. You can't make "Hosted $THING" without a partnership.

Grafana is the biggest example that comes to mind: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relic...

crb··on Framework Laptop Mainboard
From the blog post accompanying the release: "In addition to 2D drawings of the Mainboard to help you design your projects, we’ve released two 3D-printable reference designs. One is a minimal VESA-mount holder that lets you attach the Mainboard to a monitor or TV, while the other is a fully featured small form factor desktop case."
crb··on VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (1999)
(1999)
crb··on Podman 4.0
If you want to learn about the history of the Podman project, you might enjoy my interview with Red Hat's container team lead and Podman's architect. https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/164-podman/
crb··on Google Release Chrome OS Flex
There have been zero reported ransomware attacks on Chrome OS. If you're in a hospital, for example, and all you do is interact with a backend running on an intranet site, that might be a big advantage to you.
crb··on Kubernetes: The Documentary
If you want to learn the history of Kubernetes from the people that made it, I host a weekly Kubernetes Podcast. If you watched this documentary, you're the target audience. (If you're interested in the docume

Many of the people in this documentary have been on the show before; I recommend episodes with Brian Grant, Dawn Chen, Tim Hockin and Clayton Coleman.

https://kubernetespodcast.com/

crb··on Wordle-Solver – solves 99.7% of common five-letter English words
If your goal is actually solving the current popular Wordle implementation, its complete word list (allowed words and words that might actually be chosen) can be retrieved from the game source.

You can get them both here:

https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/a03ef2cba789d8cf00c08f767e... https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d...

crb··on Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool
These two worlds have already collided: https://github.com/storax/kubedoom
crb··on The state of Washington pays multimillion dollar salaries to college coaches
The guy at the top won't be there next year. "In October of 2021, after refusing to comply with Washington's requirement for state employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Rolovich was terminated by WSU."
crb··on Meta: A Social Technology Company
And conveniently, as of an hour ago, meta.org is being sunset: https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475
crb··on Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition
These two seem mutually exclusive?

! X.org allows applications to exclusively grab keyboard and mouse input. If such applications misbehave you are left with a system you cannot manage, you cannot even switch to text terminals.

!! Wayland doesn't allow applications to exclusively grab mouse/keyboard which is required for games and applications like VMs.

crb··on New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after 23 years of service
He had one: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/11/the-apprentice-wiza...

It sounded like he didn't really choose to have one, just another guy showed up and said "I'm your apprentice". Though that's much like how Channell showed up in the 70s.

crb··on New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after 23 years of service
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/11/the-apprentice-wiza...
crb··on Podman in Linux
I spoke to Red Hat's Dan Walsh, container team lead, and Brent Baude, the lead architect of Podman, on my podcast last week. It's a good primer to the what and why of Podman, Buildah, and all the other "not Docker" tools Red Hat makes.

https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/164-podman/

crb··on Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver
Confirming research done by Jerry Seinfeld in 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9rbwM3omA
crb··on MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT
There are unofficial builds at https://github.com/querycap/istio, and it seems like it's got to a point (with Envoy now supporting arm64) that it could be upstreamed. I'll keep track of it for you!

- istio SC member

crb··on BBEdit 14
I'm fairly certain that half of my 200+ 'untitled text XXX' docs started in TextWrangler, so yes.
crb··on Blue Origin first human flight
Both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin offer you ~4 minutes of weightlessness.

Can this sub-orbital model scale in such a way to have, say, 60 minutes of weightlessness? Or is the "straight up, straight down" model such that sub-orbital flight has a cap at 4?

crb··on Mānuka – a antipodean aesthetic on 19th century German root-stock
https://klim.co.nz/about/:

> Our foundational ethos is “a thing well made”.

I see what you did there.

crb··on Commander X16
David "The 8-Bit Guy" Murray, the initiator of the Commander X16, has a blog post about why he wasn't satisfied with the C256 Foenix: http://www.the8bitguy.com/3543/my-dream-computer-part-2/

> Stefany and I disagree over some of the design at the moment. For example she has an integrated floppy drive, MIDI ports, SID chips, and a whole host of other things that I don’t feel are necessary and will inflate the cost of the computer.

> Even if she agreed to all of my design changes, it would still be a computer that would be $80 or more for somebody to buy, well above the original price point I was hoping to target.

crb··on Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation
Send the monitor casing to this guy. https://retrohax.net/commodore-sx-64-keyboard-restoration/
crb··on Ask HN: Does Google still uses Kubernetes? If not then what are they using?
Anything that Google runs on Google Cloud - acquisitions, corp workloads - uses Kubernetes.

Orbitera was an acquisition who ported to Google Cloud. I talked to them on the Kubernetes Podcast: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/147-service-level-obje...

crb··on Vantage has acquired ec2instances.info
A Googler created that, but he's actually at Red Hat now.

More relevant though: gcpinstances.info exists and does what you think it should.

crb··on ReactOS Updates
The way Microsoft is moving, it's feasible to think that Windows 2000/XP will be open sourced before ReactOS is finished.
crb··on Email a Dumpster Fire
One just went past that said "everything is fine". It was committed to the fire, flew up, and landed back on the conveyor belt. A guy in a mask ran into the frame and picked it up and put it in the fire by hand.

I found it very in keeping with the theme.

crb··on Apple MacBook Pro 13” M1 Review- Why You Might Want to Pass
This device, and the non-Touch Bar "MacBook Escape" before it, succeed or fail based on what you think "Pro" means. John Gruber thinks when Apple says "Pro" they mean "deluxe" or "nicer". (See https://daringfireball.net/2015/11/the_ipad_pro for example.)

You can argue that this could have been avoided by calling this particular device the MacBook. But that might have made people think it was the default choice, where Apple probably expects you to start with the Air.

Naming is hard.

crb··on Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
You can configure it "the hard way": https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/22068

That issue also says that an easy way is coming in 1.9.

crb··on Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
Hey David, we talked on a podcast once :) Please raise a support case and send me the ticket number; I'll see if we can get to the bottom of this for you.
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