wildfire

Aside: Is titus still being developed?

GitHub repo says it was archived 2 years ago: https://github.com/Netflix/titus

A bit miffed that there was no mention of L4S though.

Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38597744

AWS, like every company, is really the culture+ managers.

Some managers can deflect the culture enough for you to feel "loved".

Others can't. They embody the culture. The AWS culture really is that ruthless.

How odd. I have, and continue, to use Signal without auto-update enabled.

I have been prompted, twice in three years to update though.

Perhaps the requirement depends on your country?

> Groups do not have guilt, individuals do.

When we can treat corporations as legal individuals, then groups also have guilt.

Your comment does not highlight anything which indicates that Australians blindly follow the rules.

I'm Australian, currently live in Sydney and I feel as you do, but none of your examples explain your claim.

No, I don't have time to list the ways Australians follow rules (more so that Germans), it is 1:15am, and I'm going to bed.

A low-cost way to make plastic polymer lenses which enable infra-red photography

See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/45830 for the fallout.

GitHub upgrades git, decides to "clarify" source archive policy, which breaks Homebrew, bazel, etc.

I'm Australian and have the direct counter experience. Most of the business I've worked for consider Slack as ephermal.

Email is for significant communications.

Outside of work, I'm using daily for things like booking bands, talking to strata, etc.

While email in a lot of large companies might tend to be becoming a one-way distribution system; it is still vibrant and heavily used in smaller enterprises.

The bar is per-team at Amazon, which is one of the bug hiring problems.

Worse, your title - and your quality of life at Amazon - is entirely dependent upon what your manager thinks of you.

It matters way more than at other companies.

If they were "customer obsessed" even though they are not doing development of a service, they would lauch it anyway in all regions.

By not doing this, they make it hard for their customers to be multi-regional.

It is easy to spin "customer obsession" any way you like.

I am skeptical that is actually the case though, there are so many use-cases where you have to think through the consequences too carefully:

- what happens when the source repository rewrites all the commits (to remove one); should the forks also be re-written? - what happens when the source repository disappears?

_All_ of the problems go away when you actually do a "git clone" of the source repository and have your own objects. More storage, yes, but way fewer corner cases to think through.

How did your charity function when Facebook "accidently" removed all AU-based pages during their fight with the Australian Government?

AWS' Hypervisor is Nitro.

Which is based upon KVM - AIUI.

https://www.kovarus.com/blog/deep-dive-into-the-aws-nitro-sy...

This repository is:

- the WP-sqlite-db plugin

- akismet added

- themes before twentytwenty removed

- an empty 'wordpress.db'

- wp-config.db setup set to use the WP-sqlite-db plugin with the right file

- README

Which is all work to do to get setup correctly.

NOTE: the wp-config.php also needs to be modified to remove the keys and salts as well.

(edit: formatting).

Why not let the user decide what their personal privacy trade-off is?

That is, fundamentally, what the original post is about.

What other things we use daily are "draft standards"?

> Wayland isn't ready, I have serious doubts it's ever going to be ready.

I don't know enough to have opinion about Wayland - could you share more details about why you do not think it is ready?

A common problem when using Gerrit is the Change-Id being copied across from different branches (via, for example, git cherry-pick).

The idea is ... interesting, but the implementation of Change-Id has quite a few problematic corner-cases which make normal git operations (rebase, cherry-pick, merge) more delicate than the need to be.

However, git has all those features; whereas each of the other DVCSes had only a couple of them.

That is what made git successful.

The git cli is, comparatively, a lot easier to grok than it was at the start.

One thing about software, once you've had a (bad) first impression it is very hard to reformulate your opinion.

If the grandparent is lucky enough to find an advocate for git, who is willing to spend time with them, perhaps their opinion might change.

UK direct debits are only for debit accounts.

But most of the commentators are talking about credit cards.

There is no equivalent system for credit cards.

That isn't true for AWS, the nitro card is used for all that jazz.

I have to agree, FF mobile is a breath of fresh air.

I have now switched to it as my default ( am using it now).

Features like auto-closing tabs after X time (days, weeks, months) are things I always wanted but never knew I needed.

See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/auto-close-open-tabs-fi...

yes.

And they are starting to understand more and people know that too.

Typically banks, when challenged here in Australia, will ask you to hang up and call the number on the back of your card (debit or credit).

Normally they give you a reference number so when you are speaking with someone, you can bypass things and pick-up with the person you were originally speaking with.

Indeed.

I was once "detained" whilst going from France to England while the customs official searched my bag.

I complained to the UK immigration and the same customs officier called me back, searched my bag again, and said "unless you agree to withdraw your complaint, we are going to have to continue searching your bag until the train departs and you miss it".

i.e. costing me about £150 in expenses.

As expected, I withdraw it and went on my way.

However I now make a point to record the name / number of custom officials I make a complaint to -- in case they turn out to be jerks like the UK one was.

They run more than 2 already. Look carefully at the botocore source (for example).

This highlights they cater to every US classification level:

https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/government/

This announces their secret region, and references their top-secret one.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...

Note: you might have to dig to find the non-US government classified clouds. They are documented in plain sight though.

Left as an exercise for the reader.

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100%.

I wish I could upvote this more.

How are they getting your phone number?

Name and shame them.

Why isn't a tax rate that increases proportionate to your wealth workable?