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crbon “Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”

There are two tiers of Twitter: the early-adopter tech users, who use third-party API clients like Twitterific and Tweetbot, and everyone else.

The first bucket has a vastly different Twitter experience. As an API client user I have no ads, no polls, no recommendations or friends likes, no "someone you follow replied" experience. Just a timeline of who I choose to follow, the blissful way it always was. No wonder they wanted to shut the API down.

(Apropos of nothing, the first bucket contains all the tech journalists.)

crbon YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.

crbon Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement

Why an "atom" for "adm"? Get ready for another "kube-cuddle" vs "kube-ctl" debate to break out.

This is incredibly confusing to the countries who don't suffer from the /t/ vs /d/ sound (which is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping).

crbon HAProxy 2.0

Thoughts on HAProxy vs. Envoy, or as the data plane for a service mesh?

crbon I'm Against Podcasts

I host the Kubernetes Podcast from Google and we use zencastr.com for this.

crbon Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm

No. We discuss this exact topic with Minikube author Dan Lorenc here: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/039-minikube/

crbon Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm

> If anyone has any suggestions on a better way of doing this without shelling out $20 a month for an ELB, please open an Issue!

kubehost was designed for this purpose on GKE: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kubehost

crbon Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

It was proposed in July (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/136) and voted on in September (https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/143), all before the IBM/Red Hat deal was announced or known to the staff.

The announcement was held for publicity at KubeCon.

crbon Peloton: Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads

Nothing in the article about this being open source or available to the public?

crbon Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linux-now-dominates...

"Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, said in an interview, "it's about half now, but it varies on the day because a lot of these workloads are elastic, but sometimes slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux." Microsoft later clarified, "about half Azure VMs are Linux.""

crbon K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about

I more than get the joke, but I'm worried about the ambiguity of "5 less then k8s. Short for kates, pronounced k8s", and worry that it will stop you from getting successful, if that's your intention.

Are you saying your project is named "kates"? Why not name it something like "Khios", a Greek island, which still lets you keep 'k3s' as your abbreviation?

crbon Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production

4GB of RAM per machine, or 4GB reservation of a 20GB machine?

crbon Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime

I read that in early June, scooter hire was halted in San Francisco and companies had to apply for licenses, which were expected to be issued by the end of the month. Any update on what is happening there?

crbon Kubernetes 1.11: a look from inside Google

Hi all; I wrote this article and would love to hear your feedback (and invite you to listen to our podcast!)

crbon Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software

Google Cloud Platform builds its own: https://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-reveals-secret-gear-con...

crbon How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

Has anyone heard of an exploit that sets people's flights to use the attackers frequent flyer number, thus collecting their miles?

crbon The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes

Well, you can trust me that it doesn't, or you can send me your CV for a referral.

Plus, there's this: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Googles-internal-code-review-p.... But you'll just complain that the OWNERS aren't the right people, and I'll just comment that they are.

crbon Ten Years of Instapaper

It feels odd that the current owners say "we did this, we launched that" in reference to the years Marco ran Instapaper as a sole proprietor, especially given that Marco explicitly uses "I" as the prounoun for Overcast: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq

crbon The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes

> The people that work on upstream k8s in Google (Tim et al) have a pretty limited overlap with the Google Cloud people that run GKE.

I happen to be in the building so I sat in on an engineering review for a proposed new GKE feature today. Tim was there, as was Brian Grant, and pretty much everyone else you've heard of (in the room or on the VC). There were also a good number of PMs, SREs, and the leads/engineers working on the GKE machinery.

Thus I have to respectfully disagree.

crbon Where Planes Go to Die: A One Way Trip to the Mojave Boneyard (2015)

Housing, but at the other end of the spectrum: http://davidhertzfaia.com/747-wing-house/

crbon Three Years on Google App Engine

I've bought this to the attention of some of our engineers, and I hope to get you an update soon.

crbon Application Layer Transport Security (Google Whitepaper)

Direct link to PDF version: https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/appl...

crbon Encryption in Transit in Google Cloud

Direct link to PDF version: https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/reso...

crbon AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure

Is that infrastructure, EC2 instances?

crbon Inventing the Future

Did he hire the candidate?

crbon Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards

If people are this serious, why don't they just set up their mining operation next door to the factory?

I imagine the factories are where they are in part because land and power is cheap?

crbon Google Cloud Now Available in Sydney and Singapore

When it is Generally Available, I would expect it to be in all regions, but we don't have a date to announce at this stage.

crbon Microsoft is Hiring Go engineers to work on Kubernetes

Deis wrote Helm v1 (now known as Helm Classic: https://github.com/helm/helm-classic).

Deis and Google (as well as others) collaborated on the current v2, building on Google's open source Deployment Manager (which you can see at https://github.com/gabrtv/deployment-manager) - itself derived from Google's Cloud Deployment Manager (https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/)

The good thing about open source is, it doesn't really matter who wrote it.

crbon New Skype Update Is Horrible

What's god-awful about Hangouts, and does the new Hangouts Meet make things better?

https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterp...

crbon Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

What's going on at Ars Technica? Between this (a straight-up repeat from 2012 with no obvious reason to bring it back now), and reblogging Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian articles from the same time frame (see https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-pc-history-part-... and http://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-1/), have they cut their budget for new writing?