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pat2man

1,544 karma · joined July 13, 2010

Engineering @ Phantom
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pat2man··on Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Not a single mention of https://github.com/servo/servo
pat2man··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
They also have Private Access Tokens: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k
pat2man··on FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
Which I guess is what iCloud private relay solves. But only if you pay.
pat2man··on Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5
They specifically mention targeting 1-7B models and that this means fine tuned hyper specific models, not general purpose.
pat2man··on HTTP Caching, a Refresher
At one point with http only your isp could do its own cache, large corporate it networks could have a cache, etc. which was very efficient for caching. But horrible for privacy. Now we have CDN edge caching etc but nothing like the multi layer caching that was available with http.
pat2man··on Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud
The thing with OpenShift (https://github.com/okd-project/okd) is you can set it up, and then run basically one command (oc new-app .) to push almost any app to Kubernetes. All bells and whistles included.
pat2man··on Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet
We don't have a national ID here in the US. Passports can be quite expensive. Local state ID cards don't prove citizenship.
pat2man··on Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet
To set this up, you have to scan the chip on your passport. Its essentially the same data on both chips, one is just in my phone's enclave and the other is in an embedded NFC chip.
pat2man··on Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet
How does this apply to a digital version of an official government ID? The government already has all this data.
pat2man··on Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud
As someone who self hosted bare metal Kubernetes on my own rack, it's a lot of work to get it set up. We used RedHat Openshift which has a pretty good solution out of the box, but the learning curve was relatively high.

That being said, once it was set up, there was not a lot of maintenance. Kubernetes is quire resilient when set up properly, and the cost savings were significant.

pat2man··on The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg
I mean RisingWave, the solution mentioned in the article, is a complete startup rewriting things in Rust mostly to avoid the larger Java solutions like Flink and Spark...
pat2man··on Report claims voting machines were tampered with before 2024 elections
news aggregator link to https://economictimes.indiatimes.com which has more spam that content...
pat2man··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce Transparency?
pat2man··on Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek
Seems easy to find: https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2024/ceph-a-journey-to-1tibps/
pat2man··on I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
A lot of web frameworks etc do most of the instrumentation for you these days. For instance using opentelemetry-js and self hosting something like https://signoz.io should take less than an hour to get spun up and you get a ton of data without writing any custom code.
pat2man··on I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
You can just send metrics via JSON to any otlphttp collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/blob/v...
pat2man··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Asking users to enter an emailed code does not protect against MITM attacks unfortunately
pat2man··on Apple introduces California driver's licenses and state IDs in Apple Wallet
Tried but it says the service is unavailable. Hugged to death?
pat2man··on Llama 3.1
Two 128gb Mac studios networked via thunderbolt 4?
pat2man··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Google Maps, YouTube, on the original iPhone?
pat2man··on Passkey Implementation: Misconceptions, pitfalls and unknown unknowns
There is a Bluetooth part of the spec too. If your phone can’t talk to your computer via Bluetooth it won’t work.
pat2man··on Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart
American actually has the largest freight rail network in the world. In theory electric trucks would pair great with our freight rail network though. Still need to get from rail to stores and homes
pat2man··on All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
The open telemetry collector does just that. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
pat2man··on Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete
The current MacBook Pro has an audio jack…
pat2man··on Amazon EFS now supports up to 250k IOPS per file system
You could compare a 5 node ceph cluster for instance. That’s 5 servers and 3 nvme drives minimum just to store your first byte. Then you have to deal with support, etc. pricing probably comes out about the same in the end.
pat2man··on iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive
I mean its Apple, this is probably limited to your address book.
pat2man··on Two-thirds of North America at risk of energy shortages during extreme demand [pdf]
If you go off grid but still have a grid connection that you can use any time you want, you should still pay in. All the transition equipment is still needed.

Full off grid should probably not have to pay anything. But if something breaks you are on your own.

pat2man··on Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
Have you tried the operator? https://www.keycloak.org/operator/advanced-configuration
pat2man··on Passkeys for Infrastructure
Ultimately, passkeys are just certificate based authentication. Certificates are generally more secure because they contain more entropy (and because they contain metadata). But nothing is stopping you from using something like a mnemonic phrase that you remember to generate a certificate. It would be trivial to create a browser extension that allowed you to use a "password" on a passkey enabled site. If thats the experience you want I am sure someone will provide it.
pat2man··on Passkeys for Infrastructure
Any password manager can support them. 1Password has announced a beta already.
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