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de6u99er

1,569 karma · joined May 30, 2016

I used to install Mosaic browser on an Onyx2 to surf the web. Native German speaker.
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de6u99er··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
I am certain most of Bitnami's engineers don't agree with those decisions.
de6u99er··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
At my last gig I avoided Bitnami container images and Helm charts wherever possible. We (me plus an AWS consultant) used Karpenter Autoscaler, Envoy Gateway API, Gatekeeper OPA, Loki/Prometheus/Grafana Stack, EDB Postgres Operator, ... and deployed all through a single comprehensive terraform script to an EKS cluster. I tried to keep reliance on one single company as low ad possible. I even had a Plan B to replace S3 with MinIO in case the company decided to move to another cloud provider or an On Prem Kubernetes cluster.

My recommendation to everyone is to avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-In from the start, and even if it's more initial work, to try to have as much as possible running on Kubernetes.

de6u99er··on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
The fish rots from the head down.
de6u99er··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
>However, developers who appreciated the anonymity of alternative distribution methods will no longer have that option.

Don't be evil Google!

de6u99er··on Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition
Can the effects of a drug on the body be reversed after a person stops taking it?
de6u99er··on Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available
Blog post says at the bottom: >We are open to alternative solutions and support on the matter.
de6u99er··on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
Since I started reporting them ad "Unwanted sexual content" I am seeing significantly less half naked persons desperately begging for sttention. But there's still the issue of all the comic and manga crap labeled as art. Bluesky needs to correctly identify and relabel those as comics and manga.

Would be nice if others would report them too, because there are kids on BlueSky and they don't need to see their uncles/aunts or neighbors sticking their butt into a camera.

de6u99er··on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]
>He mentioned that he does not want people to nag him about it and that “It's brought up every single year, I'm hoping this is the last ”. Finally putting an end to a 13 year old mystery.

Ouch

de6u99er··on Left to Right Programming
You can always start with the FROM clause and then add the SELECT clause above it if it's a out auto-,completion.

I usually start with: ``` select * from <table> as <alias> limit 5 ```

de6u99er··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
That's great. How does Whisper compare to Google Gemini's transcription capabilities?
de6u99er··on Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings
Thank you for sharing! This is one of the coolest articles I have seen in a while on HN. I did some searches and I think the search results looked very useful so far. I particularly loved about your article that most of the questions I had while reading got answered in a most structured way.

I still have questions:

* How long do you plan to keep the live demo up?

* Are you planning to make the source code public?

* How many hours in total did you invest into this "hobby project" in the two months you mentioned in your write-up?

de6u99er··on Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US Government
It's a tax which American companies are paying. You are asking if they will forward it to their Chinese customers.
de6u99er··on Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US Government
I tbink it s clear as day that Trumponomics is failing!
de6u99er··on Engineer restores pay phones for free public use
Pay phones might become a thing again, with governments pushing to end of E2E communication.
de6u99er··on GPT-5
This is just more of the same. My guts tell me Deepmind will crack AGI.
de6u99er··on TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process
I don't think what SpaceX is doing is that hard to replicate. There's already competitors launching smaller payloads for smaller costs per weight. Just a matter of time until they creep into SpaceX's market, while SpaceX tries to build a starship inspired by the Futurama rocket.
de6u99er··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
Clran code is just one of the tools in a good software engineer's toolbox.
de6u99er··on The Google Willow Thing
IMHO, we're still a long way from anything truly useful. The problem Google used to demonstrate quantum supremacy feels more like a glorified random number generator. Even if quantum computers can generate results faster, processing and storing the data still takes a lot of time. It’s hard not to draw a parallel with claims about "instantaneous quantum communication," where entangled particles appear to defy the speed of light — it seems impressive at first, but the practical value remains unclear.
de6u99er··on Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers
What a colossal waste of everybody's time.

I wonder how demoralizing this must be on HR workers, having to post a job, screen CV's, trying to stay professional while knowing that the hiring manager actually doesn't care, having to constantly put people with hopes off, and ultimately let people feel they are not good enough just because some C-hole wants to bring in his buddy who's most likely not half as competent as the people who were rejected.

de6u99er··on New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs
When I have to use Windows I always assume the computer has been compromised.
de6u99er··on Ask HN: What's your take on tech organisations getting involved with politics
So far we have been able to defend cryptography on EU level because the argument is simple: > If the own government is capable to decrypt everything, it's only a matter of time that a bad adversary will be able to do the same.
de6u99er··on Ask HN: What's your take on tech organisations getting involved with politics
Here in Austria any new organization entering politics needs to collect support signatures first before it can register as a political party. Depending if it's a local or federal election they will get a certain amount of money by the government for campaigning. They are not allowed to be paid by companies for campaigning.

I think such a framework could work as a model to other democracies too.

de6u99er··on Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot
True!
de6u99er··on Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
Lloks like Microsoft is going back to it's old ways. I am not surprised tbh.
de6u99er··on Bitwarden is no longer free software
This is dumb becaue a lot of companies gladly pay for a supported versions of open source products. At many vompanies the use of open source us actually prohibited because of the lack of warranties.

But it's a combination of greed and managment iconpetence which leads many succesful open source products from quick wins (after the initial shock) into gradually losing customers to alternative technologies

de6u99er··on Bitwarden is no longer free software
More like having the open source community report bugs, feature requests (ideas) and code until the product is good enough to transition into full commercial.
de6u99er··on Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
I always thought that Prolog is great for reasoning in the semantic web. It doesn't surprise me that LLM people stumble on it.
de6u99er··on GitHub's Impressive Growth Under Microsoft
More like >GitHub's Impressive Growth Despite Microsoft

I'd happily pay a bit more and have not a software company being able to access code I don't want to share.

de6u99er··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
can you please put a space in front of "https"?
de6u99er··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
IMHO Musk just wants to slow down OpenAI, so his company can catch up.

That being said, I am pretty sure there will be other conversations supporting Musks claims

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