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gatvol··on Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
Celebs having opinions that get amplified because they're celebs is simply embarrassing all round for everyone.
gatvol··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Pity about water resistance - a blocker for me.
gatvol··on Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills
Why not?
gatvol··on Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
Doesn't s3 now have versioning + POSIX mounts?
gatvol··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
Lovely. What does their power cost? How much power hungry industry do these countries have?
gatvol··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
"The world doesn't run on merit. " Critical systems do.
gatvol··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
What is your evidence for this: "... because of structural problems that push them out, be that systemic misogyny in our educational systems ..." , "the toxicity present in the industry that pushes them out ... "?

What alternative reasons have you explored?

gatvol··on Uv overtakes pip in CI
UV is super fast and great for environment management, however it's not at all well suited to a containerised environment, unless I'm missing something fundamental (unless you like using an env in your container that is).
gatvol··on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
I would argue that endorsement while currently normalised, is not normal.
gatvol··on Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes with CO2.js (2022)
I am extremely skeptical about this sort of thing - I suspect that it's extremely challenging to reliably make assertions about the carbon cost of running a given website given that there are so many unaccountable-for variables; at best the very "edge" of any carbon usage is being guessed at.

Added to that the opportunities for charging the various parties for "certification" are simply too good to pass up it seems.

gatvol··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
If you're writing you're REST API by hand I'd suggest that you may not be doing it optimally.
gatvol··on British Library cyber incident review [pdf]
Herein lies the kicker:

> In common with other on-premise servers, this terminal server was protected by firewalls and virus software, but access was not subject to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

gatvol··on Post-Serverless Era Trends
Not on board with this, other than the advantages that solutions like Pulumi have over 2nd gen IaC tooling like TF. Pulumi is far more extensible and composable than anything else I've seen out there.
gatvol··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
Most impressive; 3 x launches by SpaceX scheduled on a single day.
gatvol··on Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area
Those events occurred a long time ago to people that no longer exist.
gatvol··on Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area
Sovereignty only exists for those that recognise it.
gatvol··on Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area
For how many generations back do these claims remain valid? As someone of European ancestry do I have claims in Europe?
gatvol··on Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area
Agree with the ecological preservation objectives, hard disagree with handing over of sovereignty, whatever that actually means,to a group based on their ethnicity / ancestry.
gatvol··on ‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
From TA: "Those increases, the report says, were driven by costs of fertiliser (up 60 per cent worldwide), construction (+48 per cent), fuel and gas (+41 per cent), shipping rates (+40 per cent), and electricity (+40 percent)." All of the drivers are energy related - I'd hypothesise this is the result of climate policies impacting energy costs.
gatvol··on What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works
Not a single mention of URLs, statefulness ...
gatvol··on SQL:2023 has been released
Not a standard if access requires payment.
gatvol··on Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement
Agreed - to an extent. IMO the current term of copyright is the primary issue - and the balance has tipped too far in favour of copyright holders; This case is a good example of the ridiculousness of that state - the artist has expired and is no longer able to enjoy the benefits of his work - yet he descendants expect to continue to profit from his work - which seems unreasonable and detrimental to society.
gatvol··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
No doubt by pushing the clients to use inappropriate vendor-locky-in serverless tech stacks that are inappropriate for the workloads.
gatvol··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
This feels like .deb vs .rpm all over again.
gatvol··on South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
Is this a deliberate strategy of the current regime to "dismantle the legacy of colonialism"?
gatvol··on We improved React loading times with Next.js
Ssr to improve a static app performance? Sounds like madness to me. More complexity plus much larger surface to secure.
gatvol··on Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
Generally do either API + SPA for app like things, or something in between that and full static

Docker + Alpine Nginx AWS: ECS, REDIS, RDS/PG Backend: Django / DRF Front End: Next / React IaC: Pulumi

gatvol··on Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails
This case refers to alleged lawbreaking that may have occurred, and is fairly easy for people to morally reason about (CSAM), were it proved to be true.

The question in my mind is as to what the limits of this snooping is? Discussing out of state abortions in a location where it's outlawed? Conducting a homosexual relationship in a repressive state?

gatvol··on Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers
This is how human culture stops evolving.
gatvol··on UK intelligence recycles “think of the children” argument for borking encryption
Most people don't care about it... until they're personally impacted.. and by then it's too late.
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