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

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crb··on The First Commit of Kubernetes
First /public/ commit after the scrub. :)

There's an internal repo which goes back a month or so. It turns out Joe Beda wasn't the first first committer...

crb··on Pure Skill Minesweeper
See also: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mine... - no guessing ever required

https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ - if you guess and you could have deduced, you always die; if you can't deduce, you're always safe.

crb··on Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP
I see Timescale Helm charts for Kubernetes: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-kubernetes. Are you using Kubernetes to host the managed service?
crb··on A new and improved Twitter API
Spoiler: It doesn't mention the word "client" at all. This is not going to bring back the features they took away in 2018.
crb··on Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install
They used to put the most popular 650mb of packages on a CD.
crb··on Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons for the Istio project
> After achieving CNCF certification in Nov 2017[2], GCP began using the term 'Kubernetes' within the product name, rebranding it as 'Google Kubernetes Engine'.

After _creating_ the certification program: it was driven by GKE PM (and upcoming book author[1]) William Denniss. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/10/software-conformance-cert...

(At the time of GKE's launch, 'containers' were more well known than 'Kubernetes'. Google also owned the trademark, so it could have been called Kubernets Engine from the beginning.)

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/getting-started-with-kubernete...

crb··on The CIO’s Guide to Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Development
One nit: I wanted to cite your post in KubeWeekly, but the publication date wasn't obvious in the page or its source, so I wasn't able to prove it came from this week.
crb··on Learn Istio: A Service Mesh and Istio Resource List
There is indication that it will not, in that the teams that designed both projects sit next to each other.

One thing that is happening: Kubernetes is designing a new set of ways to define how traffic should be routed in a cluster, to replace Ingress (https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/service-apis/), and Istio is going to sit on top of those. You'll see this in "experimental" in the upcoming Istio 1.6.

crb··on Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
Certainly.

Hangouts was a brand that had both text and video. It has split into Chat (for text) and Meet (for video); both now revolve more around "rooms" as well as 1:1, and as such are primarily targeted at business users. Hangouts will now be going away and the legacy platforms migrated to the new.

Duo is FaceTime for Android.

crb··on The Docker Compose Specification
> Docker is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others in the open source community

Google?

crb··on Show HN: Krucible – temporary Kubernetes clusters for testing and development
What about kind doesn't work in CI? The Kubernetes project uses it in that fashion?
crb··on Kubernetes 1.18
Podcast interview with the release team lead: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/096-kubernetes-1.18/
crb··on The Oldschool PC Font Pack
The famous pangram is actually "A quick brown fox" in its earliest recorded appearance (1885): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over...

(Shorter pangrams exist, including some "perfect" ones which require punctuation to make sense. "Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx".)

crb··on The Oldschool PC Font Pack
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021430
crb··on Kubernetes Opportunities, Challenges Escalated in 2019
It might help to think of it like this.

Kubernetes is an engine with some built-in data types and controllers for some common container use cases (N replicas, 1 replica per node, etc). These are released along with the project on a quarterly cadence.

You can also add your own data types and controllers. The combination of these things is sometimes branded an "operator" if it controls a certain piece of software. You can release and manage these yourself on your own timeline, decoupled from Kubernetes releases.

crb··on Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumps
I take my UK credit card to the US and can't pay for gas at the pump as I don't have a valid zip code.

I have to go inside and pre-auth. This process sometimes only requires a swipe, sometimes chip and pin - but never a zip code.

Could they just fix that?

crb··on United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
Fun fact: United used to be part of Boeing. The two were split in 1934 when a scandal around air mail pricing led to laws saying you couldn't both make planes and operate them commercially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_Airlines

crb··on Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry
The "most correct" pronunciation of Quay is "key", as that link says, but the CoreOS team always pronounced it "kway".

(I assume this has carried through to Red Hat.)

crb··on BZFlag
> going strong since 2008!" (or whenever the project started)

It's not immediately clear from the site, but it might surprise people to learn BZFlag was first released in 1993. (And is based on an arcade game from 1980.)

crb··on High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
What does the string "2dmfrb28nu3c6s9j" represent?
crb··on Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd
Can you link to the course you did?
crb··on What3words: The app that can save your life
Prior discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614198

They summarise as "proprietary & commercial, not obvious to humans without the service, and not compatible with maps."

crb··on Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year
I live in England. My local supermarket no longer has the flimsy plastic bags at all, only the sturdy plastic "bag-for-life" (they'll replace it for free) kind.

The flimsy bags were all re-used as kitchen bin liners. The sturdy bags can't be used for that.

So I'm now having to buy single use plastic bin liners.

crb··on CERN migrates to open-source technologies
While this post is referring to desktop/server software, CERN are also using open source platforms in some of their experiments: they recently re-performed some of the 2012 analysis that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, on top of Kubernetes.

Adam and I spoke to a computer scientist and two physicists from CERN for our podcast, and you might like to listen if you like physics or software.

https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/062-cern/

crb··on Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux
FYI, you can do this yourself with GitHub, by changing the URL.

for example: https://github.com/snovvcrash/usbrip/blob/master/setup.py?ts...

crb··on Raspberry Pi 4 Review
I use and recommend the Samsun Q2U, a SM58-clone which has both XLR and USB. (There's an AudioTechnica version of it too I believe.)
crb··on Ask HN: What's your favorite newsletter for DevOps stuff? and Kubernetes?
I am the co-host of https://kubernetespodcast.com/ and I think we do a great job summarizing the week's news, as well as having an in-depth interview every week.
crb··on Lenovo BIOS Simulator
Almost 20 years ago I would use chasms.com, which had similar click-through screens for Windows. It was hugely helpful in being able to see the various dial-up Internet configuration screens when I worked part-time on an ISP help desk.

The site is still there and still being updated! The oldest example is now https://www.chasms.com/winxp/desktop.htm#

crb··on Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?
Steve Jobs in 2005: "You know we've gotten a lot of people that say our shuffle's not random. Well it really is random but sometimes random means you've got two songs from the same artist next to each other. Just happens randomly sometimes.

And so what we've added is smart shuffle to actually make it less random - if you want.

Even though people will think it's more random it's actually less random and what it is, in preferences, there it is right there, it says smart shuffle allows you to control how likely you are to hear multiple songs by the same artist or from the same album in a row."

https://youtu.be/lg188Ebas9E?t=719

crb··on Apple releases iOS 13 macOS Catalina public betas
Is iPadOS v1 or v13?
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