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fairramone··on A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain
I had no idea about Elan School. The comic is absolutely amazing and I've just spent the last several hours reading the first half of it. Absolutely amazing and hard to just imagine the horrific physical and psychological abuse that occurred at this "school."
fairramone··on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
What are you planning to migrate to?
fairramone··on Wush: Simplest and fastest way to transfer files between computers via WireGuard
Can this be configured to not permit ssh?
fairramone··on Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
Does it work on a Steamdeck?
fairramone··on Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt
Was disappointed about this myself.
fairramone··on Ask HN: Comparison/discussion site for cheap SIP trunking providers?
dslreports.com maybe?
fairramone··on Apple Shutting Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky' Tomorrow
I loved this app so much.
fairramone··on Ask HN: Where does everyone go after mass layoffs?
Ah, my recollection is definitely different. It was absolute madness for a while. You'd show up and there would be a line of 30+ people all waiting to see the same place. You'd also need to be armed with a "rental resume" along with the dreaded application fee to even be a contender.

When things burst, that all went away.

This was pretty interesting:

https://medium.com/@mccannatron/1979-to-2015-average-rent-in...

fairramone··on Ask HN: Where does everyone go after mass layoffs?
In the 2000s, many younger people (sub-30s) moved to the bay area to participate in the boom.

When things went sideways, many returned to their home state and/or moved back in with their parents. The local San Francisco rental market subsequently crashed.

fairramone··on Facebook (Meta) international cable expansion: animated map
Perhaps Meta will one day pivot to global telecommunications provider.
fairramone··on Oxide Computer's Bryan Cantrill on the Importance of Toolmaking
Same. Something about his manic presenting style that just sucks me into his world. Whatever he gets excited about, I do too!
fairramone··on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
To the author: I just wanted to say this is amazing. Thank you for working on this and I'm looking forward to running this on hardware one day.
fairramone··on Cloudflare's Disruption
This is what BigQuery Omni tries to solve.
fairramone··on AWS doesn’t know who I am
I have enabled 2FA on my Amazon account and also on my root AWS account. In order to log in to AWS using my root account, I must enter two 2FA responses: one for my Amazon account, the other for my AWS root account. It's weird!
fairramone··on Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microsoft were fighting over
Wow, that has got to sting for Google Cloud and Oracle.
fairramone··on Note Taking in 2021
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, but if you are on a Mac, KeepIt[1] is great. It is basically an overlay on top of the normal Mac file system (a bit like DevonThink in that regard).

[1]: https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/

fairramone··on Ask HN: Is there a note taking app you're 100% happy with?
Keep-It from Reinvented Software. I love it!
fairramone··on New setup for 2020
Is this really “simpler” as they claim? It reads a bit like the honeymoon phase and I’m a lot more interested in how they feel about the new stack 1 or 2 years down the line.
fairramone··on Show HN: Fyipe – Status Page, PagerDuty, Pingdom All in One
Why do you say that?
fairramone··on HashiCorp Boundary
I think BeyondCorp == IAP
fairramone··on Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It's Mostly Good)
2018. Things have certainly improved since then!
fairramone··on Getting Started with WireGuard
Crusty stalwart here. I'd love to get off crusty VPN concentrators. I'd personally love to see something in the open source space that supports 2FA and a rich, user-based policy language. Tailscale is trying to deliver an enterprise product that builds this on top of Wireguard. I'm not aware of any open source approaches tackling this problem like Tailscale, but I'm keenly interested.
fairramone··on Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off rivals
GCP is fantastic! I've been especially pleased with their network (the GLB is awesome!), BigQuery, Bigtable, GCE live migration, and of course... GKE. I cringe at the thought of having to run Kubernetes myself or settle for an inferior managed solution from Azure or AWS.
fairramone··on WireGuard is in net-next
I tend to agree with this statement. I have been tracking WireGuard as a potential replacement for PulseSecure and it's a far ways off. We need 2FA and SAML support along with dynamic address assignment and logging before we can make the case to replace PulseSecure.
fairramone··on Show HN: Lunch Money, a personal budgeting tool with multi-currency support
I have the same problem. Amazon purchases by family members totally obfuscate how money is spent.
fairramone··on Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
Strange content indeed. I thought it was interesting but totally inappropriate for a company’s blogging platform. Seems like a cheap shot way to drive traffic to their site.
fairramone··on Using Slack through an IRC client
I agree! This is a great combo.
fairramone··on Introducing Highlights
I've been successfully using the WeeChat Slack plugin which leverages the native Slack over Websocket vs. an IRC bridge.

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

fairramone··on Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees
It's like this already -- you pay yearly maintenance fees for access to software upgrades. If you let it lapse and then want to re-enroll, you're still on the hook for the lapsed time. Maintenance fees typically don't include your support contract fees, either.
fairramone··on How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN
Also note that David Barroso works at Fastly now. (Source: LinkedIn)
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