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wtfishackernews··on Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
If you're using Linux (especially with Gnome), I can highly recommend Pods[1] as a desktop client for Podman. It's much less cluttered than Podman Desktop, but still supports most of its features.

[1] https://github.com/marhkb/pods#readme

wtfishackernews··on Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
Only for their managed solution at the moment.
wtfishackernews··on Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics (2022)
I got similar improvements when porting hashicorp/golang-lru[1]

  name         old time/op    new time/op    delta
  2Q_Rand-16     1.22µs ±10%    0.52µs ± 8%   -57.69%  (p=0.000 n=20+19)
  2Q_Freq-16     1.03µs ±10%    0.44µs ±12%   -57.42%  (p=0.000 n=18+20)
  ARC_Rand-16    1.51µs ± 9%    0.70µs ±15%   -53.63%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
  ARC_Freq-16    1.22µs ±12%    0.54µs ± 7%   -56.20%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
  LRU_Rand-16     401ns ± 9%     215ns ± 6%   -46.46%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
  LRU_Freq-16     376ns ±13%     194ns ± 7%   -48.51%  (p=0.000 n=19+20)
[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/pull/111
wtfishackernews··on Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
Storage space is cheap
wtfishackernews··on Some models of Gigabyte motherboards download firmware updates insecurely
While fwupd does have a windows client, the obvious mechanism to use would be windows update, but anything is better than custom software for each vendor.
wtfishackernews··on Git security vulnerabilities announced
The patched version is in testing https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git
wtfishackernews··on Go 1.18
For json marshalling, I would defer to the underlying type's marshalling if it's present, and return `null` otherwise.
wtfishackernews··on Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
It's currently impossible to write alert rules for Prometheus vectors. https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/35663

Missing basic functionality like that is a dealbreaker.

wtfishackernews··on Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
No, rampant corruption in your government and an active criminal investigation against you makes you a disgrace.
wtfishackernews··on Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
x Nanometer or y Ångström isn't based on physical size anymore and is just a marketing term.

From the article:

>A lot of the industry, for whatever reason, hasn’t learned that these numbers aren’t actually a physical measurement. They used to be, but when we moved from 2D planar transistors to 3D FinFET transistors, the numbers became nothing more than a marketing tool.

wtfishackernews··on Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo
sudo --version

anything below version 1.9.5p2 is affected

wtfishackernews··on Firefox 82
Many pages "only support chrome" but work perfectly fine if you switch your user agent to appear like you're using chrome

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

wtfishackernews··on Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
good
wtfishackernews··on Oregon, Journalists Sue U.S. over Portland Arrests, Violence
>pretty fair video

>title is "Fed bois are destroying Portland Antifa"

lol

wtfishackernews··on Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address
If their website is accessible from the EU then they are subject to GDPR.
wtfishackernews··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
vscode supports all of these and is free. The go language server has been buggy in the past but it's been improving quickly.
wtfishackernews··on US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code
Directly from tax payers to the military industrial complex.
wtfishackernews··on Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
Bitcoin is traceable
wtfishackernews··on F-Droids statement on their ban of Gab
Being a nazi isn't a protected class.
wtfishackernews··on A Tesla Model X beat a Lamborghini in a drag race
The difference is that the Lamborgini isn't only fast for a few seconds in a straight line.
wtfishackernews··on As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
>It's only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR.

This is the case for any crowded public space. It is unavoidable.

wtfishackernews··on Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS
Google's Tango is AR
wtfishackernews··on Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
This is not the app's fault. The compass sometimes needs to be re-calibrated and that involves waving your phone around. The app should prompt you to do so if it thinks the calibration is off though...
wtfishackernews··on Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B
Excuse my potentially dumb question, but what is the point of hoarding cash like that? would it not be more useful to reinvest it?
wtfishackernews··on Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
Reddit is known for it's Elon Musk fanboyism, and at least the Tesla subreddit where heavily botting.
wtfishackernews··on Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support and only support Vulkan
I don't what the problem is. They are extremely transparent with development and internal timelines. No one expects the game to be finished anytime soon, but there is continuous progress.

(I'm not backer, just interested in the game)

wtfishackernews··on Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
As long as you don't run an exit relay, it should be completely safe and legal. The EFF has a good write-up about it https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html
wtfishackernews··on Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
Through the admin console, you can whitelist domains or disable all blocking for a given amount of time.
wtfishackernews··on Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
Not strictly useful for yourself, but you could run a tor relay https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
wtfishackernews··on Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
You can choose to only use it on the machine it is running on, or point other computers to it selectively.
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