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throwaywson Reddit raises $410M in new funding

They are probably too busy fighting against their own users and subreddits that keep them afloat. Too much ideology in there to make sense, business wise.

throwaywson Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view

Planting false evidence is getting a new twist here. The attacker doesn't even have to make a report! The victim's computer does it for him. Disk encryption malware may have new successor. Effective and scalable extortion as a service.

throwaywson SRE Teams: Hash

I thought an SRE is contacted when your house burns down due to for example scaling and to improve operations where much more load/customers are expected, no? Where the house is expected to fall but where it is not allowed to happen.

throwaywson Apple learned automation can't match human skill

Which is where the push to general AI comes from.

throwaywson The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance

This sounds like an interesting optimization possibility. Do you know will this be patched?

throwaywson Show HN: Deploy to K8s without YAML using ShuttleOps

How does it compare to Terraform, which it is based on?

throwaywson Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

I actually got the idea from Hamilton, the musical about the founding father. I loved the Washington-character there.

throwaywson Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

> You make a simple mistake(like looking weak, with no friends or too smart) and you die, it was as simple as that.

Dying is simple, life living is harder.

throwaywson Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book

Anchoring the mind ... small thoughts.

Deciding what to focus on yourself instead of the app showing you random screens which the developer thinks are currently important. The tool being out of the way and only the important things in-front of you. Where only you yourself decide what is important.

throwaywson They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9374251?hl=en

> It’s important that creators always have detailed knowledge about who is claiming content in their videos, where it appears, and what they can do to resolve the claim. That’s why all new manual claims will require copyright owners to provide timestamps to indicate exactly where their copyrighted content appears in videos they claim, and we’ve updated our editing tools to make it easier to automatically release a claim.

Is it a bug with Youtube or do they not follow this policy (consistently)?

throwaywson Removing email registration improved retention

How do you avoid getting spam to random addresses using catchall?

throwaywson App Review process updates

I can imagine reviewers getting bonuses for each app they force to offer IAP. Just speculation though.

throwaywson The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

Your point makes totally sense. Though I also like to be able to bring up (and destroy) my servers, with a single command, when needed. Going through the same ui every time is a little annoying.

throwaywson The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

What do you use to provision managed services like rds? Or are you describing your dream UI :)

throwaywson The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

Maybe it makes sense for development, short-lived resources or cattle. Don't start about cross-cluster use though, having to think about where a resource is defined/used is a mess.

The same issue is with Service Catalog and the open service broker model. AWS ACK is way better in its expressiveness, in comparison. (one crd per resource) It is more difficult to generate them though, compared to simply adding existing brokers.

throwaywson Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?

Assigning programs/roles to certain screens helped me there. For example the left monitor is the browser, the center the editor and the right for consoles.

Though when a task only needs one screen for more than a couple of minutes to stay focused shutting off the other screens does help.

throwaywson How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company

It seems they activate the paywall after a post gets traction. Because there was none before.

throwaywson Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering

There was a proposal to add a new go-source-2 meta tag, but that was abandoned because a lot of code hosting sites would not have been supported yet:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39559

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40477

That is why they decided to turn it into an internal/source package inside pkgsite first to have test cases for a later go-source-2. If your site does not show source links on pkg.go.dev then add a comment to issue 40477 above and an exception will be added.

- internal/source: https://github.com/golang/pkgsite/blob/master/internal/sourc...

Note1: Maybe mention this on your website because that took a little to find. It does not fit into the narrative though.

Note2: Requiring frontends to offer meta tags is the only way to make code discoverable with the url alone. cgit not offering this is on cgit and not on Go/pkgsite (haven't checked whether they do)

throwaywson Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering

I'm thankful they open sourced pkg.dev and that they continue to bring it on par with godoc.org. Keep up the good work!

throwaywson Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering

That does not work in the old godoc.org either:

https://godoc.org/git.lukeshu.com/go/libfastimport

So that's not against pkg.dev. Did somebody look into why?

Anyway it seems that the repo was not added to pkg.dev automatically:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38326

and the automatic fetching should work now:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37002

throwaywson Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious

Ohh nice! I wondered where scroll to fragment did lead to.

throwaywson Study of over 1m people finds association between lifespan and blood iron levels

Blood donations are the modern positive equivalent.

throwaywson What’s New in Thunderbird 78

It should be declarative. Apply the settings like in Kubernetes/Terraform/Kustomize. Done.

A little naive I know. I don't see any other way to scale though.

throwaywson Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'

I mean topics different from the usual exact matches. I had only that word in mind. Sorry for the confusion, I fixed it.

I didn't know about this though. Thanks for mentioning it.

throwaywson Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'

See TikTok [1] as an example. The idea is to mix in different content. Making the goal not to match perfectly but to match different topics.

- [1]: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/how-tiktok-recommends-vide...

throwaywson How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS

Though you have to think about not leaking passwords by accident :)

throwaywson 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

1Blocker works fine here. One filter (Ads) is for free.

throwaywson Some popular self help books

The first step: become somebody else. That's the only step though. If you can't do that then don't get your hopes up to adapt the mindset.

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