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surfer7837

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surfer7837··on Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a Hacker News to debate politics?
Debates should be in person, I don't think the Internet is the best medium for it.

Feel free to disagree with me, but it's a lot harder to lose your cool in person compared to online

surfer7837··on Update on an Employee Matter
And that's their prerogative
surfer7837··on Update on an Employee Matter
I just don't think a company Slack channel is the right place for this, when tensions are high people can get upset and offended and it just creates a bad work environment. There are time and place for things like this, not over a Slack channel.

I don't know about any about that, I haven't been keeping up on the news

surfer7837··on Update on an Employee Matter
a public company Slack channel is not the right place for it
surfer7837··on Update on an Employee Matter
I didn't realise they were all in DC, I thought GitHub was in the valley?
surfer7837··on Update on an Employee Matter
I've just seen the screenshots from https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees...

You just shouldn't be speaking like that in a company Slack channel. Politics should really not be discussed at work, and especially not in a public Slack channel. It's not the right place for it. It makes me not want to work there if they are discussing politics all day in a public Slack channel

surfer7837··on Homebrew: AVX instructions in Big Sur bottles crash when run in Rosetta 2
Only bottles are affected so you can just compile from source with homebrew
surfer7837··on Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors
T4g instances are also free until the end of the year if you want to try them out.
surfer7837··on Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default
Because Red Hat is way faster and fixing security issues as it's based off RHEL
surfer7837··on Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default
Why use Alpine? A better base image would be Red Hat UBI
surfer7837··on Dockerfile Security Best Practices
I also use Red Hat UBI (Universal Base Images). If you pull down any package from DockerHub (even official images) you'll be surprised about how many vulnerabilities they have.
surfer7837··on Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features
It's so the load is evenly distributed across AZs because I bet most people just select -az-1.
surfer7837··on Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features
All most instances in London are down
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