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macros··on Buttercup: The Password Manager You Deserve
I use tailscale and dns authorized letsencrypt certs for "internal" services and it has worked pretty well.
macros··on Show HN: Squey, an open-source GPU-accelerated data visualization software
Neat tool.

Couldn't find anything in the docs on mapping file sources to resource needs on the host, how much is too much data to dump into the tool on a single workstation?

macros··on The biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox
Mozilla has a moment being presented to them right now and I fear they are going to totally blow it. With manifestv3 and inaction on tracking cookies google is obviously acting in their own interests instead of their end users and Mozilla should be pouncing on this in a big and visible way but they just aren't
macros··on Lichee Console 4A: Mini Laptop with a RISC-V Processor and 7 inch display
As a long time thinkpad user the first thing that stood out to me from looking at this is wondering if there is a bios option to correct the flipped Fn and Ctrl buttons.
macros··on Ask HN: Complex Instruction-Set Storage?
There are people exploring pushing more computation down to the device layer to avoid shuffling the bits around: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast23/presentation/yang-z...

DPUs are also probably a piece you are missing. Vendors are starting to position these as almost PCIe arbiters with access to both nvme devices and GPUs without the need to involve the main cpu to move data between them.

macros··on Open-office noise and information processing
Another paper showing the open office is garbage for any work that requires focus, another paper business people will roundly ignore because they don't actually care about productivity enough to spend money.
macros··on Engineers competing who creates the worse UI on Reddit
The quadratic resource usage on data loading for their infinite scroll and breaking going back to the same place in the feed when hitting the back button the upstream devs are pretty strongly in the running for this.
macros··on Tailscale is responsible for 40% of my battery usage
I saw this when my wifi was spotty in my bedroom and it spent all night switching between wifi and cellular, suspect handshake is expensive on connection change.
macros··on It's Time to Pay Attention to Intel's Clear Linux OS Project
From some browsing through the patches they apply to the packages it appears they are making extensive use of function multi versioning. Instead of compiling for the lowest common denominator for the target arch they are shipping pre-compiled versions for each generation and using run-time detection to figure out which to load.

Nothing stopping any other distro from copying the approach other than detail work and increased package sizes.

macros··on The social justice attack on the Linux kernel is too dangerous for all of us
This guy's argument is basically good coders should be allowed to be garbage people and require others to put up with them because they open source the code he relies on.

To be fair, I mostly tuned out the moment he mentioned Jordan Peterson.

macros··on John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
Every time I see one of his posts on facebook.com I cringe and think wistfully about the .plan days.
macros··on JIRA Jr. Project Management for Kids
Please tell me this is a mis-timed april fools joke
macros··on Ask HN: Why doesn't emacs look pretty
I rather like the changes made by spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
macros··on Ask HN: How do programmers deal with ADD?
I go for walks and let my mind wander aimlessly for an hour or so, heading back when the thoughts in my head finally start turning towards work related stuff and I want to engage with it.

I also tend to keep a few tasks on top of the stack and try to keep enough room before deadlines to let my self switch to something else when I feel blocked or unmotivated.

Also helps having a boss that is well aware of ADD tendencies and can work with them.

macros··on Help.imgur.com HTTPS invalid certificate
It looks like their help site is a skinned version of zendesk and imgur hasn't given them a cert to host instead of serving their default *.zendesk.com cert. Not compromised, just not intended to be used over https.
macros··on Amazon just told me to log into someone else's account – and delete it
The I have too much time on my hands approach is to self-publish a short story to this person on how to get in touch with you and buy it from their amazon account.
macros··on IP Routing Processing with Graphic Processors
Kinda like doing SSL on GPUs, the need for large batches makes it useless for most workloads.
macros··on The DDoS that almost broke the Internet
Akamai has more bandwidth at AMS-IX than this entire attack.
macros··on Chef Part 2 - Performance
There is a partial_search available with chef server 11 that makes this problem much less painful. Search returns the entire node object for each match, which can be a ton of data as the node count rises. With partial_search you specify just the attributes that you to be returned.
macros··on Today's Outage Post Mortem
We've been doing this with mikrotik boxes with either wifi or usb gsm modems depending on the what is available in the location.
macros··on One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days
Having done lots of this type of work I see it more as a triumph of paperwork and scheduling skills than techincal acumen.
macros··on Web server performance comparison
mpm_event can do wonders for memory use. Sad that it falls back to mpm_thread for ssl.
macros··on Clipper, the Caltrain nemesis
I do find it a little amusing that he thinks that the engineers had any real say in the working of a system like this.
macros··on Ask HN: SF over NYC?
Wikia was in San Mateo for a few years before moving to SF. Cheap place to bootstrap, easy access to SF and the valley. Not convenient for people in the east bay, but otherwise not bad.
macros··on Ask HN: us-east-1's zip code[s]?
us-east is at least partially in Equinix facilities not far from Dulles airport in Ashburn, VA.
macros··on Microsoft makes pen*s joke at Azure party...
Seriously? How in the hell would anyone ever think that was appropriate?
macros··on Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?
We can handle this easily at fastly.com. You can also reach us in #fastly on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions.
macros··on Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Hacking Story?
I used to buy copies of 2600 at B&N, they currently carry nook editions.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2600-magazine-2600-magazine/...

macros··on CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Billion Valuation
http://fastly.com
macros··on Anonymous Takes Down Mi6, CIA and DOJ Websites In Massive DDoS Attack
They don't really say what "massive" is.
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