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gbrindisi

2,406 karma · joined April 28, 2010

I do security and I write about it here:

https://cloudberry.engineering

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gbrindisi··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
While this might be true to some extent, a huge difference between the US and Europe is that in the EU the concept of identity revolves more around nationality than ethnicity/race.
gbrindisi··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
Sweden is such a weird experience.

On one hand there seems to be a strong sentiment of what swedish culture is and is not, on the other there is also an unusual higher permeability to american culture compared to other EU countries.

gbrindisi··on Why Americans Care About Work So Much
Note that The Benedict rule is catholic, pre protestant. I still think you are right that protestant culture is a root cause to some degree.
gbrindisi··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
In what way is this communism?
gbrindisi··on Tool for Thought (2005)
If DevonThink find a smart way to integrate an LLM it would be such a great level up.
gbrindisi··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
I am down as soon as we can use the full M machines with Asahi Linux
gbrindisi··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Nice!

I gave up on bookmarking so I now use an alias to quickly find what I am looking for with fzf and fd:

  p () { cd $(fd $1 $HOME -d 4 -i -E Pictures -E Desktop | fzf) }
gbrindisi··on A keypad to control my desk setup
can you expand? I also have a moonlander and looking for inspiration
gbrindisi··on My network home setup – v4.0
Loved this! I have just now started rebuilding the home network, this is great inspiration
gbrindisi··on Alexander the Great in Firdawsi's Book of Kings
if you’d like to learn more, Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox is a great historical biography
gbrindisi··on Ask HN: What is the best i3 alternative in macOS? Everything I tried felt laggy
yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
gbrindisi··on At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record
7.08 km
gbrindisi··on Why has software supply chain security exploded?
log4j introduced supply chain security to the wider corporate world where most production run on Java and a lot more people finally realized how complicated it is to do incident response for these kind of situations.
gbrindisi··on Chezmoi – Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely
yes same, took me too much time to reap the benefits of nix and home-manager but provisioning the new laptop from my configs was such a breeze
gbrindisi··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
I think in Italy there is still a cultural barrier
gbrindisi··on I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
Already done: https://medium.com/@glan1k/dall-e-gpt-3-d1aaaff38639
gbrindisi··on Using Nix on macOS
very nice! I stumbled on your post right after submitting this, thanks a lot for sharing I’m gonna try this out
gbrindisi··on How the Colosseum was built and why it was an architectural marvel
The Sistine chapel and Vaticans Museums at least once in a lifetime. I suggest taking a guided tour and book in advance (as everything in Italy).
gbrindisi··on Denmark starting to ban Google products
I’d like to understand better how this will change the game for public cloud providers in EU. All I know is that GCP, Azure and AWS are all pushing to release data sovereignty features to meet incoming regulatory requirements.

Anyone with a crystal ball has any insight to share?

gbrindisi··on Do you prefer your manager to be technical or non technical?
I still can't decide.

Anecdotally the very best and the very worst managers I had were not technical. Instead my technical managers, think ex-engineers, were on average from mediocre (new to the role) to good (experienced).

I built a mental model that the difference between non technical EMs and technical ones is that the distribution of quality is broader for the former. I suspect people skills is the real leverage.

Anyhow engineers have little influence on deciding which kind of manager they are gonna get, so it's better to focus on what we can control and learn the secret art of how to manage your manager.

gbrindisi··on Lessons learned as a software developer turned project manager
I also have similar experience with people in leadership roles.

My theory is that technical leads have a narrower distribution of quality, while not technical leads vary wildly, from crazy good to nuclear winter bad.

gbrindisi··on How we secure Monzo's banking platform
It's not like office networks are a security paradise either
gbrindisi··on DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Kagi, Brave Search and other alternatives search engines
My default is DDG but I am enjoying Kagi right now and I totally recommend it
gbrindisi··on Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
I missed this, can you elaborate?

I see that hot swapping the identity of a node pool may be difficult, but it's weird that you can't change the firewall rules.

gbrindisi··on Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?
Can it be a side effect of SEO? IIRC Google et al. have recency bias to determine page ranks
gbrindisi··on Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now
I am always baffled when I read about the tip culture in the states. I find it so belittling for workers. It seems to incentivize a mentality of "the customer is always right", with workers putting an extra effort to always smile and be nice in the hope for a fair tip.
gbrindisi··on A curated list of warez and piracy links
> Mullvad is a low-profile company based in Sweden (strong guarantees for privacy)

What do you mean? Sweden is not at all a strong guarantee of privacy by EU standards.

Did you mean Switzerland perhaps?

gbrindisi··on Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review
how is the battery life?
gbrindisi··on Burn My Windows
I still remember the feeling when I managed to run the cube desktop with compiz on ubuntu 06.
gbrindisi··on Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
where can I find those numbers?
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