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lox

1,755 karma · joined March 17, 2010

I’m a web geek who is passionate about building scalable web applications, open-source software, whisky and finding the perfect coffee. I’ve been writing code for about as long as web browsers have been around and I’ve loved every minute of it. Previously CEO at buildkite.com and CTO at 99designs.com, living in Melbourne, Australia with my wife and children.
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lox··on Bill and Melinda Gates Separated
Interested why this post is flagged?
lox··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Not as far as I’ve been able to discover.
lox··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Don’t do it, the huge caveat is the plan owner pays for all store purchases.
lox··on Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
That is what GitHub thought about Gitlab
lox··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
Who cares where a virus starts? This is essentially a random event that is going to happen more as human density increases. How we prepare our societies for pandemics (and how we respond to this one) is far more important than allocating blame or litigating damages.
lox··on Dead Simple VPN
From the README:

TCP-over-TCP is not as bad as some documents describe. It works surprisingly well in practice, especially with modern congestion control algorithms (BBR). For traditional algorithms that rely on packet loss, DSVPN has the ability to couple the inner and outer congestion controllers, by setting the BUFFERBLOAT_CONTROL macro to 1 (this requires more CPU cycles, though).

lox··on The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
I’m an open-source author too, and I experience the same frustrations with demands for support and features, so I deeply hear you. That said, your initial comment did come across as pretty flippant without the context in your reply.

I think it was the “should” bit. Just as nobody should be able to tell you whether you can add light hearted features to your software that make you happy, you shouldn’t be telling others authors that it’s not ok for us to write open-source software that aims to be professional, transparent and trustworthy. I’m sure the things you write are these things too, and I agree sometimes it’s good to be light hearted and have fun, but I reject that we “should” inject reminders like this in our open source with the intention of reminding others it’s free. That would take us back to the days of nagware, IMO.

At any rate, if you were just venting, I hear you. Thank you for your contributions to open-source!

lox··on Evaluation of five password managers
They have literally one support person in Australia.
lox··on How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID
On iOS that would be a three hour process, you’d need to have a very patient and persistent kid!
lox··on Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
Your comment is the perfect illustration of exactly the issues that you complain about. You make sweeping claims without citations that are meant to invoke a deep sense that despite data showing otherwise that life is getting worse. Consider that you are part of the problem.
lox··on Code review review is the manager’s job
What if you use pull requests to prototype architectural change? My take is your pull request should include the context of the change and the sort of feedback you want.
lox··on How Sherry Became the Secret to Great Scotch
I mean, that’s because it’s only ~65% pure ethanol. If you ran it through a column still a few more times, it would taste exactly like pure ethanol.
lox··on Argh-P-M – Dissecting the RPM file format (2016)
This is nothing to do with the packaging system or the ecosystem, the author decided to dive into the file format specifically. They even posted comments from the rpm source that echo the confusion and disbelief reflected in the article. Is the tone the author took the problem you have with it? Otherwise I don’t get why you are so against someone trying to learn how a file format works and documenting the experience.
lox··on Phabricator – GitHub Alternative written in PHP used by the Wikimedia Foundation
Lox from Buildkite here. We have a docker-compose plugin that has a cleanup hook at the end of it for cleaning up docker containers and networks from your build. https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/docker-compose-buildkit...
lox··on GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
Like, say, a personality quiz on Facebook?
lox··on A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
go get.
lox··on A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn't Pay the Same Fine for Speeding
That sounds pretty reasonable to me, frankly. That’s considerably over the limit, isn’t it?
lox··on A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn't Pay the Same Fine for Speeding
It should be equitably, not equally.
lox··on A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn't Pay the Same Fine for Speeding
In Australia we have a demerit point system, although technically if you have enough money you can pay to get around it.
lox··on TLS 1.3 and Proxies
Could you explain how TLS 1.3 in any way reduces your ability to intercept traffic on your own devices?
lox··on TLS 1.3 and Proxies
This seems like such an old fashioned way of thinking. Internet access is increasingly a fundamental human right and is needed to interact with most government services in first world countries.

I think assuming you can control any packets that pass through a network ends up being a losing proposition. Why not use things like VPNs to ensure that traffic to sensitive internal services is controlled? Failing that, install software on users computers and don’t allow them to use any non-work internet resources.

lox··on Secure Access to 100 AWS Accounts
Glad Segment is making good use of aws-vault and it's components! Did you consider whether adding okta support in aws-vault might have made sense? I've been thinking about doing that for a while, interested what made y'all decide to create a new one.

P.S. Any chance of a link back in the mention of aws-vault in the article? (aws-vault author here)

lox··on Apple Patent Reveals Dual Screen MacBook, and It Looks Incredible
Yeah, seriously. I can’t think of anything worse. Can you imagine the pitch? “It will be like our hugely successful touch bar, but THE WHOLE KEYBOARD”
lox··on Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up
My first question too:

> In the absence of individual level data on socioeconomic status in the full SMS1947, we used school attended as a proxy measure to adjust for potential confounding by background socioeconomic status. A Scottish cohort study has shown that primary school has moderate correlation with paternal social class.

lox··on Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password
Yeah, the FBI totally breezed through the whole iPhone unlock thing. /sarcasm
lox··on Announcing SegWit support
Do you mean “blockchain”? Because bitcoin was designed as a currency. It’s in the name.
lox··on Announcing SegWit support
This seems like a particularly uncharitable take, can’t businesses ever do both what they want to make happen as individuals and what makes good business sense?
lox··on How to sell a $300 chocolate bar
I think you can probably assume “fitting ok” is a functional requirement from either the cheap ones or the expensive ones.
lox··on JMESPath – A query language for JSON
Try implementing an xml parser sometime. The encoding and entity parsing alone is so complicated it’s brain melting. Compare that to the JSON spec and then ask why the world has decided JSON is the better format for casual object graph encoding. Not sure I could make the same argument about YAML though.
lox··on RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
Again, consider that you are creating this dichotomy, not the tools, or vast majority of practitioners in this space. Docker comes with (and encourages) lots of ways to persist state, as do orchestration environments like Kubernetes and ECS and you should choose the approach that suits the problem you are solving. If you want containers as lightweight VM's, there are a ton of ways to do that and they are actively supported.

I'm reluctant to get off-topic here, because the narrative relating to the actual post should be "Does it makes sense to have openssh in a minimal ubuntu base image", to which the answer is "No, obviously".

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