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ty_aon Reasons to Abandon Windows for Linux

I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far:

- The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don't have the correct user permissions.

- The buggy corporate printer helper has caused the laptop to shutdown due to overheating twice so far in two weeks. I'd disable it since I will never print from this thing, but...

- I've been trying to figure out how to install software I need without local admin privileges and now I have a Git installation that takes ~30 seconds to update the shell after each command. I tried everything in StackOverflow...

In all fairness, picking a laptop to use with Linux takes a little homework, but I've had no issues with Thinkpads or my current XPS 13 running Fedora.

ty_aon The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook

Facebook will delete itself.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Facebook interest has been steadily trending down for years.

ty_aon Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories about bad recruiters

Recruiters are not your buddy. Just like the salesperson at the car dealership is not your buddy.

ty_aon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

I don't think that Red Hat announces release dates for RHEL. At least I don't remember one in the last 10 years.

ty_aon Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption

Remember that time S3 went down and the only updates were on Twitter because the status page was hosted on S3?

ty_aon RHEL is deprecating KDE

Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.

ty_aon Build a 100% Serverless Website with AWS in 7 Easy Steps

You could run pgbouncer in a fargate container in ECS. Still serverless technically?

ty_aon Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.

ty_aon Perl 11

Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.

ty_aon How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC

Iirc there are some free servers you can use provided by Google and/or twilio.

Edit: STUN is free, Turn is not. Been a while since I worked with those.

ty_aon Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder

Well there's iron.io (which just got bought by Oracle) and there are several FaaS projects for Kubernetes such as: OpenFaaS and Kubeless.

Edit: OpenFaaS can run on Nomad as well apparently: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-n...

ty_aon Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain

Blockchain is perfect for its original use case, a distributed trustless database. The tradeoffs don't make any sense for a trusted system, i.e. replacing SWIFT or storing titles to property.

ty_aon Bezos Says He’ll Spend ‘Amazon Lottery Winnings’ on Space Travel

Bezos is an investor in General Fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

ty_aon Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw

Maybe you could count number of Ph.D contributors? I bet Bitcoin has as many or more than every other project combined.

ty_aon Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Go Web-Apps

The major problem with very large containers is that it can cause failed jobs in container schedulers due to the holdoff timer expiring before the container is even downloaded. I've only seen this with Marathon so far but I've not yet tried to launch a 2GB container in k8s.

ty_aon Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

Bitcoin transactions are confirming for less than 5 Sat/b since the spamming stopped.

http://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h

ty_aon New fake SegWit2X: premining millions

What you describe is not unlike the coin debasement that occurred during the latter period of the Roman Empire. However, unlike coin debasement, forking a cryptocurrency imposes no requirement to actually use it.

ty_aon First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system

It's broadcasting something that sounds like ... humpback whales?

ty_aon Chrony: Comparison of NTP implementations

There should be competition but no one is willing to step up to the plate. That's the real issue.

ty_aon The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

I'm curious where this leaves things like the ZFS appliances? They aren't going to use openzfs on oel are they?

ty_aon X-Seed 4000

https://www.seasteading.org/

That's the goal of the Seasteading institute.

ty_aon HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system

Serious question, are Beowulf clusters still a thing?

ty_aon Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin

Not buying, replacing, installing, or disposing of three washers: Priceless.

ty_aon Blockstream Satellite: broadcast Bitcoin transactions and blocks from space

It looks like digital TV dishes meant for marine purposes would work.

ty_aon Blockstream Satellite: broadcast Bitcoin transactions and blocks from space

Does anyone know if there is an auto following dish that would be somewhat portable? I'm thinking of a solar powered Bitcoin station that would be mobile.

ty_aon Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Very much appreciate what you give away for free!

ty_aon Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Holy crap, Brendan Gregg's site went down. Proof he is human I guess?

ty_aon Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review

Cache size and clock speed. In Ultrabooks i[3,5,7] are all 2 core 4 thread differentiated by cache and clock.

You can get 4 core CPUs in larger laptops where the i5 is 4 core, 4 thread and i7 4/8. Similar to desktops.

ty_aon Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ‘Tether’

At what point would people start using Bitcoin as currency? When it hits 5k, 10k, 100k, 1m?

ty_aon Startups should run on cloud providers

1. Start with Heroku or similar 2. Get customers 3. Profit??? 4. Hire people to help migrate to Kubernetes or similar

Stick with what you are good at and pay for everything else.