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gerty··on The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
Not disputing the overall feeling about the changes at Bitwarden but "Always free" phrase is still actually there if you're creating a personal Free account.
gerty··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
As a customer, I am OK with most increases but not the object storage one. This one has some quality issues and is no longer competitive in price either. I'm thinking of moving S3 part to OVH.
gerty··on The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
Is there any reason it wouldn't work with podman?
gerty··on Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available
Poj8900
gerty··on Comparing K3s with vanilla Kubernetes
Is there any advantage of running k3s if you want to keep etcd? I understand that most k3s performance gains come from etcd being replaced by sqlite but if you still want a HA control plane, sqlite won't cut it.
gerty··on PyTorch at the Edge: Deploy 964 TIMM Models on Android with TorchScript
What went wrong with ONNX? Why didn't it work out?
gerty··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
I've been a user for nearly 10 years and still only a few people in my circles uses Signal. If they go through with this, Signal is as good as dead.
gerty··on New US Executive Order on EU-US data transfers unlikely to satisfy EU law
I don't understand why Executive Order is even considered as a starting point after JCPOA debacle.
gerty··on TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)
It's not built-in, of course, but if you can live with the quirky API, LMDB as an embedded key-value store will be hard to beat in terms of speed. It can also do "one-writer, many-readers" and transactions.
gerty··on Podman 4.2.0
RHEL 8.6 upgraded podman from v3.3 to v4.0.2, so v4.2 is not outside the realm of possibility in the next release. Since podman development is driven by Red Hat, I feel that podman upgrades get quite some leeway... Very impatient to test out the play kube functionality managed by systemd.
gerty··on Podman 4.2.0
Will this eventually make it to RHEL8? Today it's at 4.0.2.
gerty··on France cancels defence meeting with UK over submarine row, sources say
There are also alternative ways of sending a message, e.g. targeting of US soft power. While INSTEX was not a huge success in its time, an alternative payment mechanism that works around US sanctions aligns well with French (and even EU) interests and strongly against US.
gerty··on France cancels defence meeting with UK over submarine row, sources say
It's not just a contract though. France actually has a maritime border with Australia and its own interests in the Pacific -> the entire French Pacific strategy was wiped out by 3 "allies" behind its back.
gerty··on Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
Very nice! What's the data source for the greeks? Are you computing those yourself?
gerty··on “We Are Hoarding”: Why the US Can’t Donate Corona-Vaccines to Countries in Need
Oh, please, cry me a river. There's always a law to bomb another country, spy on the RoW, hack ally infrastructure, renege international treaties or put on some tariffs on imports from friendly countries, but somehow a minor contractual clause grinds to a halt export of vital medicine supplies during a pandemic.
gerty··on Build on Redis Hackathon
How proficient do you have to be in Redis to have fun in such a hackathon? I use Redis mostly in combination with Python Celery.
gerty··on FOSDEM 2021
As far as I remember, it's a first time there are separate devrooms for Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. It's been 10 years now, is it me or it feels like a waste of efforts ?
gerty··on Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
If you voted YES and were able to choose among the available (Western) vaccines, BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna or Oxford/AstraZeneca, which one would you take? Does it matter for you?
gerty··on Projected growth of Tiger Mosquito range in northeastern US (2013)
So many invasive species beside mosquitoes. Box tree moths have now invaded huge chunks of Western Europe. Depending on the year, they can be abundant and have done some serious damage to green areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydalima_perspectalis

gerty··on Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing
Without decent understanding of how options work, even iron condors can turn bad. You are writing options, so you're still running assignment risk or pin risk. It's mostly benign if you know what you are doing but can be a brutal lesson if you just clicked because you think "it's staying the same".
gerty··on Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
This will be killed or severely hampered by antitrust agencies. Definitely by the EU, maybe the US as well if there's anyone decent left there.
gerty··on German stock trading platform Xetra down, all securities affected
I'm not sure about the particular component but Xetra/Eurex indeed went down in April. Same pattern as today: it went down around the opening hours and got fixed around lunch time. They have some structural problems that have likely been left unsolved.
gerty··on 20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies by Suicide After a $730k Negative Balance
Options can probably first be seen as a form of insurance - you pay a small price to protect yourself against upward/downward movements. It's of course taken to the next level by r/WSB as a tool for leveraged gambling.
gerty··on Musk: Tesla will 'immediately' leave California over coronavirus shutdowns
Libertarian nonsense doesn't even work in everyday life, let alone a pandemic.
gerty··on Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
This book by Larry Harris helped me understand much better the mechanics and terminology of financial markets.

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructu...

gerty··on Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS
TT-RSS is now included in Debian buster. Setting it up is now almost as easy as "sudo apt-get install tt-rss".
gerty··on Goodbye from Linux Action News
One of my favorite podcasts just gone like that. Anyone knows the backstory with acloudguru?
gerty··on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
https://www.teletrader.com/ for an old-school terminal-like feeling.
gerty··on GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restricted. Please support us
Did GitHub try to fight this in courts? As with Slack, why does it just happen out of the blue? Sanctions on Iran have been there for at least a year, sanctions on Crimea since 2014 - so why now?
gerty··on R vs. Python for Data Science
ggplot2 is not just a package, it's an implementation of a grammar language and this is what makes it so hard to substitute. plotnine tries to mimic it and is good for easy stuff but still far behind what can be easily done with ggplot2.
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