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nullify88on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

Thanks for replying. I've had LEGO in the back of my mind but unfortunately I don't think I'd cope with the 1.5hr - 2hr commute in to Billund, unless a few days of remote work could be squeezed in?

Really appreciate the reply :)

nullify88on Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

Perhaps pressure from record labels? I hope artists can flock to somewhere like Bandcamp, or alternatives.

nullify88on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

A sysadmin practising DevOps philosophies and SRE disciplines. I have 7 years of experience, and a lifetime of tinkering and curiosity. Interested in challenges associated with security, performance, and scaling with a deep understanding of root cause analysis and security in depth.

Location. Aarhus, Denmark

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, GCP, VMWare ESXi, Docker, Windows Admin, Linux Admin, ELK, Grafana, Icinga, Saltstack, Python, Bash, Powershell, Vagrant, Packer...The list can go on.

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: Available on request (PM me)

nullify88on Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

We saw an update within 5 minutes of our sites going down. Are you doing caching somewhere?

nullify88on Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

You can setup your domains using their CNAME method. You do not have to delegate your entire domain to them. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002061511...

Together with a short TTL we were able to recover without relying on their dashboards.

nullify88on Revolut CFO resigns following money laundering controversy

Where do you travel? The cards are on the Visa or Mastercard network so I'd expect the majority of ATMs to support Revolut.

nullify88on $1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit

There was a lot of misinformation and unrealistic promises made by the Leave campaign that swayed the vote in their favour. The campaign was also unlawful due to illegal overspending which May ignores.

If the public were told the truth about what we'd be sacrificing for "sovereignty", I don't think we'd be here.

nullify88on Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?

I was hoping to find someone else mention Whimsical too. It's so fast to use. I've been recommending it to coworkers and its allowed them to be much more productive.

nullify88on Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World

I really wonder how that must have felt to watch it as it was happening at the time. It was incredible seeing Spacex land their first rocket back.

nullify88on VirtualBox 6.0 released

Out of curiosity, what feature in the extension pack are you using with Vagrant?

nullify88on Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself

Jeez that takes me back. CORE, CLS... Some games were compressed with UHARC or ACE which performed better than other compressors at the time. mp3unpack or WAVE injector would also run to decompress the mp3s or recombine them back in to large solid files. All that while having some banging chip tune and a snazzy animation play. CLASS!

nullify88on Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

It's not infinite or procedurally generated, but the basis sounds a little like the Battlefield Rush modes present in the Bad Company 2 (my fav), BF3 and BF4 games. Haven't played the newer games. Maps have only 4-5 "sections" where conflict occurs each with different design, layout and challenges.

nullify88on Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E

Yeah it's a wonder why its taking so long. It's a great card to travel with but don't put too much money on it for this reason.

nullify88on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

I regularly visit from London. While I have yet to explore the startup community, I do love the surroundings. My Danish is terrible (but slowly improving!) and it definitely helps that almost everyone speaks English. I believe English is taught in schools early, and TV and movies are subtitled rather than dubbed over.

I believe Google also have an office here in Aabogade.

I'm looking to move, find work or work remotely in Aarhus but Brexit has thrown a spanner in the works.

Any hints to give me a head start on exploring the startup community here?

nullify88on Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

> Can't wait for Amazon tickets to disrupt this space and drive 'em out.

I think you'll be waiting a while. TicketMaster shotdown Amazon Tickets in both the UK and US because they didn't want to do business with them.

nullify88on Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks

> Performance is never a bad thing

Depends on your priorities and what you are willing to sacrifice for it. High bandwidth terminal emulators will cost CPU and battery life. I'd opt for longer battery life.

The choice is nice to have though.

nullify88on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen: BiOS update adds S3 suspend support for Linux

Running a 3rd Gen with Fedora 28. No issues but I could do with more RAM than the 8GB limit.

nullify88on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen: BiOS update adds S3 suspend support for Linux

You maybe entering Windows Away Mode?

nullify88on Fear the reaper: characterization and fast detection of card skimmers

While you can tell revolut to block transactions that use the magnetic stripe, it doesn't physically disable the stripe, so they can still pull your data from it which maybe enough for them to carry out an attack.

nullify88on Using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and Lambda for automated UI testing (2017)

There's just something about Amazon's YAML or JSON (IAM policies, Cloudformation, etc) that just make them unbearable to look at. And the more you stay within Amazons ecosystem, the complexity just grows.

Shippable, Travis, CircleCI etc. The configuration not only looks nicer, but is so much easier to setup.

nullify88on IRC turns thirty

Would anyone know of any active communities for sysadmins on IRC or otherwise? Or a directory to find such channels?

Never really been one for being involved in online communities but being a one man team at work has got me looking for people of similar interests.

nullify88on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

The only issue is that I can't get Hardware Accelerated Decoding to work in Steam Streaming. I believe that's because I don't have the 32bit libraries and associated dependencies for doing it installed and that's the whole point of me going the flatpak route!

Other than that, works beautifully. Didn't go flatpak for Spotify though.

nullify88on The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly

I use a X1 Carbon 2015 running Fedora 28 (Since I first installed Fedora 22)

You need to give Linux distros a few months to become mature enough to run flawlessly on newer hardware. I recall having displayport issues when I installed Fedora 22. Aside from that case, I can't remember the last time I've had issues.

nullify88on Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras

So many fish visible on the live cameras. I suppose the container surface has become a source of food for the local ecosystem now.

nullify88on A timesyncd failure and systemd's lack of debugability

I probably would have resorted to another process manager if I were on sysvinit such as supervisord, god, monit etc to avoid making those scripts.

nullify88on Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

> My beef with CF is that I can not see which sites are behind CF.

Sites behind CF usually include two headers in the responses: cf-ray and expect-ct.

If you see these headers, it's almost certain the response is coming from CF. So its likely those extensions are doing that, perhaps you might be able to verify the source code.

If the thought of connecting to a site hosted by Cloudflare absolutely disgusts you. Vist https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/ for a list of IPs that you can block.

nullify88on Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

We're giving Mattermost a good try now!

nullify88on Light Phone 2: A simple 4G phone with e-ink

This.

Go to Settings / Battery and you can prevent or minimise a applications background cpu usage. Then go to your Data usage, from there you can prevent or minimize background data transfer.

This has greatly improved battery life on my phone.

nullify88on GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button

IIRC, Upstart was briefly used by distros before systemd came on to the scene. It's stay was short though as distros began migrating to systemd.

nullify88on How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools

Thank you very much for this!

We use this to listen for Github webhooks and execute jobs with Saltstack.