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tgmatt··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
The whole point of my company using Bedrock is so that we knew our data wasn't being shipped off anywhere. This means we will a) block Mythos-class models at the organisation level and b) further consider using smaller, self-hosted models for our purposes. Nice footgun Anthropic.
tgmatt··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I'd be careful with the name and the way you're describing it, as Nintendo are notoriously litigious. Best of luck with the project, though!
tgmatt··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
I don't know where these mythical "good people" are, but they have been few and far between in my experience. People _will_ let you down, people _will_ disappoint you, even the so-called "good" ones, even family. I don't have the same opinion of AI as the OP, I've never used it for anything other than questions that needed answering or work related stuff, and I don't think I could ever use it for personal things, but I agree that people overwhelmingly suck.
tgmatt··on Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs
Looks pretty neat. Would be nice if you could point it at a cluster to view deployed applications somehow to see what is defined and what _could_ be defined, but aren't.
tgmatt··on Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform
SAML was just an example - I didn't see the PR before I made that post. That said, it feels fundamentally incompatible to a business strategy where your community edition is able to offer all of the features of the premium offering. I just can't see how that business would be able to survive if they allow that to happen.

I'm always dubious of freemium software, because the free version is always gimped in some way, be it SSO compatibility (OK, yours supports OIDC it seems so that's not _terrible_), role-based access controls, high availability, etc.

I will concede that businesses probably _should_ be paying for good software that is critical to their business to help support the vendors, but given how important cost savings are to companies these days, one can hardly blame engineers looking for cheaper offerings.

tgmatt··on Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform
This is nice in theory, but what happens when a community member wants to implement SAML for the community edition, or other premium features?
tgmatt··on Cross-Account and Cross-Region Backups with AWS Backup (and Friends)
Be aware that AWS Backup is _very_ expensive. We recently stopped using it and switched to AWS DataSync, which is an order of magnitude cheaper. If you want to go even cheaper, S3 replication (not delete markers) will do it for even less.

Backup to S3, use the above to copy it elsewhere.

tgmatt··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College would disagree.
tgmatt··on Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V
I can highly recommend it. Have been using it for a couple years or so now, haven't had any serious issues.
tgmatt··on The NSA Selector
This seems hard to believe, given how many different modems from different sources you can use, as well as thirdparty ones. Source?
tgmatt··on Docker Model Runner
Seems like https://kitops.org/ but fewer features.
tgmatt··on Recall going back into Windows
I like Pop_OS! from System76 quite a lot. They also peddle their own hardware (I use a custom desktop), so you can be reasonably sure their stuff will work with it. Quite excited about the new DE they're building too.
tgmatt··on That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows
This is true, there are a select few that use a particular anti-cheat that doesn't work on Linux and that's unfortunately unavoidable. That said, as others have stated, several of them do work like Easy Anti-Cheat, which means I can happily play those online without getting kicked.
tgmatt··on Recall going back into Windows
As someone that ditched Windows for Linux over a year ago, I have to say I haven't really looked back. I can do anything I need to, and I don't need to worry about all this garbage. I can play all the games I want to play, even brand new releases, usually with little to no tinkering.

If you're technically minded, and are at least somewhat familiar with Linux, I can't recommend it enough. I wouldn't recommend it for a layman though; I did have to do some initial tinkering to get it spot on.

tgmatt··on AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
Contrary to what other people are saying, I've had no significant issues with nvidia drivers on Linux either, but I use X not Wayland so that may be why. Play tons of games, even brand new releases, without issues.
tgmatt··on Macrodata Refinement
In refining BA3FAB:154AD1 (Labrador) in 00h 07m 55s 602ms I have brought glory to the company. Praise Kier. 1⃣0⃣2⃣0⃣2⃣ 8⃣9⃣2⃣0⃣3⃣ 9⃣1⃣8⃣5⃣2⃣ 8⃣6⃣5⃣0⃣8⃣ 8⃣1⃣6⃣2⃣5⃣ #mdrlumon #severance lumon-industries.com
tgmatt··on Just: Just a Command Runner
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Rake yet. Having the full capability of Ruby and whatever gem you want makes it a dream for these kind of tasks. Absolutely love it.
tgmatt··on Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
Another language comparison repo that's been going for longer with more languages https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison.
tgmatt··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
Maybe this will lead to Chromium finally getting proper vertical tabs which Google clearly otherwise block due to it eating up horizontal real estate that would otherwise be used for ads.
tgmatt··on Sq.io: jq for databases and more
Sorry but I am pronouncing that as 'ess-cue` and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Looks kinda neat for when I don't want or need anything more than bash for a script.

tgmatt··on Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide
While this is true, a manager really shouldn't be giving an inexperienced dev enough rope to hang himself with.
tgmatt··on FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)
I don't use it personally but know several people that do. It has different levels of blocking, and so if you have the patience, you can go full block mode and gradually peel back the blocking to sites that you want to use. My friends thoroughly recommend it.
tgmatt··on Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
Sure: https://pastebin.com/tFPadBVZ

Again, I didn't write it, but did add some timestamps.

tgmatt··on Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
Curious. I tried with a C program that ChatGPT spat out using 12 threads of my CPU and I get the 8 zeroes almost instantly. It calculates 1 billion in about 13 seconds, apparently.

Start time: 1718742386

1718742387 SHA-256 hash of "NAHWheatCracker/486005487" is: 00000000cbed8e14c5e52b0c9bef443f017564aa6870da37f85ec92dd01b544d

1718742394 SHA-256 hash of "NAHWheatCracker/993155254" is: 0000000031fadb4805db8036ec66d872bdd9f04a507e0bbfea9f60d1d00b86f2

1718742395 SHA-256 hash of "NAHWheatCracker/436316829" is: 00000000e20d059e8a7dc687b85bd6b33e891f7d4b27e98aaf0c991d0264066e

End time: 1718742403

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not submitting anything to the leaderboard as I appreciate the spirit of the challenge is writing your own code. I'm just having some fun.

EDIT 2: Added some better timing. Interestingly, I modified it to use 64 bit integers and it was dramatically slower. Like, orders of magnitude slower.

tgmatt··on What is the worst AWS service? I vote for Amplify
Nope, me too.
tgmatt··on TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads
I regularly do this. If I go to watch a stream and I get an unskippable ad, I just leave the site entirely. Would rather watch other content.
tgmatt··on Show HN: A CLI tool that enables you to remove files easily and safely
Perhaps replace `delete` with `destroy`. To me, that feels more deliberate, but again I spend a lot of time using terraform so maybe it's just me.
tgmatt··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
I don't think we're comparing apples to apples here (excuse the pun). These chips have something like 10% of the instructions that a typical x86 chip does. Once the big CPU players start producing the same kind of chips, I greatly expect Apple's power to performance advantage to drop significantly, if not be overtaken by the likes of AMD, etc.
tgmatt··on AWS Icon Quiz
I got 9/20 and got called a noob - glad I'm not the only one that had a lower than perhaps expected score despite using AWS daily for years and years. Not going to miss those icons though.
tgmatt··on The Bcrypt Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye
https://archive.is/TOGAy
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