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nuker··on Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
It is "imperative", not interactive, sorry. From Wiki:

"There are generally two approaches to IaC: declarative (functional) vs. imperative (procedural). The difference between the declarative and the imperative approach is essentially 'what' versus 'how'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code#Types_o...

nuker··on Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
> Just write CloudFormation directly. Once you get the hang of the declarative style and become aware of the small gotchas, it's pretty comfy.

Exactly this. And don't make huge templates, split stuff logically to several stacks and pass vars via export/importvalue.

nuker··on Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
Less lines, easier to read, declarative (cdk is interactive, less predictable).

And it generates shitty CFN, we can do better ourselves :)

nuker··on Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
> Give me Terraform (as much as I hate it) any day.

Just use CloudFormation. Easy to write, declarative, vars (Parameters and Output exports). Trick is not to pile everything in one Stack. Use several.

nuker··on XCP-ng 8.3 Released. Xen Hypervisor, alternative to ESXi and Proxmox
This is like Proxmox and ESXi alternative. Xen is Type-1 hypervisor, a.k.a native or bare-metal. I just finished fresh install.

And install Xen Orchestra from sources (unlocks all features):

https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1iKO-0jWs

nuker··on As Cassettes Come Back, the Dilemma Is Finding a Tape Deck
True!

I bought Sony TC-KE300 deck a year ago for like $100! Sweet looking, latest (2000) tech like Dolby and HX-Pro. Had my fun changing the belts, adjusting head azimuth using oscilloscope and greasing gears. Now I'm hoarding sealed chrome cassettes - High Bias ones.

And snatched Sony Walkman WM-FX675 with remote for pennies, perks of not sleeping at 1am :)))) Belt and new gumstick battery was all it needed to shine!

nuker··on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
> FF is currently a key tool in the fight to avoid a Google-top-to-bottom future, ...

Right now is actually Safari that prevents it, like it or not. Especially iOS one where users have to use it. Firefox is rounding error in this fight.

nuker··on Hackers and mechanics unearth Tesla's hidden autopilot data
11 mins version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCxy06BHtQM
nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Nope, still consumer. It is simple. Google (Chrome) is an Ad company, Apple (Safari) is not. And any consumer knows that web standards define user's privacy and security.
nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
> Safari ... from Apple having to compete.

Allowing engines while sounds good, in today's reality will result in absolute Chrome (Google) domination. They will be setting web standards unopposed. And they are an Ad company. So again, this is good for me.

nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Maybe security/privacy of the APIs?
nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
> grinds my gears because it holds back a whole ecosystem of possibilities.

One of the possibilities being total Chrome dominance everywhere. "This website only works with Chrome" situation.

nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Is it not? Apple does check for unreasonable entitlements (permission requests) in apps. And for other creepiness too. And I like it very much.

I think Apple users are underrepresented here, more developers here.

nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
> I do care if the software that mediates our lives is

If you DO care about this, implementing this regulation as is will only make the software worse, not better. Apple did a good job so far keeping developers in check.

nuker··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
What EU is doing is wrong. There are costs in running App Store, and asking for it to be fee free does not make sense. Allowing 3rd party Stores will wide open mass public to scams, data leaks and worse.

Developers are getting a very good deal for their small fee by SW industry metrics. Their apps gets displayed and sold by Apple, all things covered, no chargebacks, no running costs.

I feel threatened as a user by what EU is doing. Next thing to expect - many apps will require(!) always on location...

nuker··on Subscene.com Has Closed
This is where I was getting all subtitles and contributed my resynced ones.
nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
I cannot tell without /s, but yes, who designs like this, lol
nuker··on I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
> Asrock Rack C246 WSI Mini ITX

Who do I have to kill to get one :)

nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
In other words. I asked if A should lead to B. You answered "A leads to Not B" :)
nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
> If it expects a real grid-like sine wave and doesn't see one it will reject it, regardless if the load would like it or not.

But why would it require grid-like sine wave and not go along with whatever is the source, provided source can still be used to charge its batteries? I saw no answers yet, and this "why" is the very key to the discussion.

nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
> Your run-of-the-mill UPS is likely to either be offline, which forwards the input to the output,

This one surely should "like" simulated sine wave as a source and don't drop to battery?

nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
> If the input current characteristics are outside allowable tolerances

This is the key to this whole discussion. I guess it boils down to existing line-interactive designs, why they can't work with simulated sine as a source.

nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
> Another important point is that an UPS can produce huge surge currents, for example when switching from battery to utility.

It has not happened yet. If downstream UPS likes the source, it is not going to switch to battery, and battery charging will Not be happening because downstream UPS had it charged already long time ago.

nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
Thanks! But why they don't like it? UPS, as a black box, should harvest whatever energy is in the source, regardless is it sine wave or freaking square mess. Even DC or RF is present :) Why so picky?
nuker··on Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
The main point against seems to be that downstream UPS will not like "simulated or modified sine wave" if upstream UPS is not producing "Pure sine wave". To be tested :)
nuker··on ArcaneDoor – New campaign found targeting network devices
All my edge devices would be OpenBSD ones. These Ciscos and Junipers have a bad history of backdoors.
nuker··on Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
From launch page:

> This traffic is rerouted to an SSH service inside the Tailscale daemon instead of to your standard SSH server.

Was their sshd code audited? This is a lot of trust to use different sshd imho.

nuker··on Apple iOS App Clips
I was very confused. I opened some maps.google.com link from an SMS message, and what seemed like proper Google Maps app opened. I do not have Google Maps installed for sure. It was App Clip!
nuker··on Hacker News Rankings. Graphs of HN posts rank on timeline
Yes, but it also hurts transparency, being treated fair and expose any foul play. I think full transparency, who flagged what and when, as a dataset, will be beneficial. HN became important source of truth, there is not many like it.

Or drop flagging as a feature completely. Looks easier :)

nuker··on Hacker News Rankings. Graphs of HN posts rank on timeline
Why do you think HN does not expose flaggings data?
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