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Because the linux kernel is not a company.

It's mainly built with people employed in bigger companies, where they have fruitful exchanges with their company peers. The contributions they push in the kernel is part of a larger effort in their respective companies. And the mailing list is the way they communicate around the kernel. They still have physical colleagues in their day jobs.

I mean that I'd wager about 90% of my great ideas were not found during technical meetings in remote, but rather by bouncing ideas with my collegues in our work space during informal pauses. We don't have that anymore: I have meetings at a certain hour, to discuss a specific subject, and in between I am alone in front of my screen at home. I eat alone and watch $shitty_youtube to pass time at noon, and I get back to work. There's no incentive to discuss things informally, and whatever things we tried to motivate people quickly died: we had a "coffee google meet" for people coming online before 9, but this meet is now empty all the time; we have IRL meetings but people are now wary of taking the car to come (25km) because they are used to their comfort and only the local minority bothers to come.

The company culture is going down the drain, people don't know each other anymore and the retention is starting to wither: why stay in a company where I don't have anything other that money to gain? Seeing each other twice a year in seminars isn't going to spur much camaraderie, if the next day it's "wake up, walk 3m, sit at desk, eat at 12, back at desk, shower, sleep".

Also, the communication was way more fluid when all my team was at work in the same room: people didn't expect me to answer if I wasn't at my desk; now I get notifications even at 8PM because people started to work strange hours at their home and expect everybody else to answer when they need them to. Whereas in our room, 5 people were constantly bouncing ideas, problems, and possible solutions. We would draft things on the walls (they are writable) and reach conclusion fast. If I needed an answer from another team they were a room away, and I could quickly pass the head and get a chat. At 6Pm I could go home, have a wind down on the road, and switch contexts to have a meaningful exchange with my kids an wife.

Now I have to summon everybody in a google meet for 30 min, preferably with 1 day forewarning. Half of the invitees don't even bother to put their cam, and if I forgot to invite somebody, there's 80% chance that he's unreachable, doing whatever, and I have to send an email to get an answer later during the day.

Maybe I'm one of people that like the human aspect of work? Am I a minority?

How do you cope when you are onboarding people?

And how do you keep a semblance of work culture if you’ve never actually met half your team?

This is a real struggle, I feel old when I see myself and just a few other mates coming back to work to have a nice coffee discussion, bouncing around ideas and printing a meme for people to see in the toilets and raise a chuckle. We’ve lost track of 80% of the rest, they only come say hello every 3 or 4 months. There are people in our dev department (45 heads) that I won’t ever see because we don’t share the same domain.

How do you concile this with 90% of people working remote? Am I that old? (I’m 36)

I'll be the one to ask for it: you saying that without any hint on where and how to procure this means that I can't take your message seriously.

Provide proof?

https://imgur.com/a/snP071C So much ads on this website …

I’m using the collectd package with remote output, and I configured my influxdb with collectd input!

Owrt is such a great firmware, just the right amount of power user features and works-fine-out-of-the-box simplicity.

I use it on small GL iNet 150 (9€ on eBay) for plenty of things:

- a wifi repeater at my wife’s work building, with an autossh with reverse tunnel for remote admin. It also sends metrics to influxdb for monitoring. Uptime is in the 100s of days (due to electrical cut)

- another as wifi client and dhcp server on the two ethernet ports, to isolate and test devices as if they were on another network.

- a small nas with USB disk storage as a 2nd backup disk from my nas

All in a sub-powered package the size of a credit card.

You can do so much with so little things (4Mb flash, 32M ram). Owrt rocks!

Am I the only one shocked that this is required ? This is essentially advocating for SERP spam, which is the bane of my existence.

Websites with generic sentences like this make everyone lose their time when they are looking for tangible information.

If Amazon asks for that kind of shitty content to justify the existence of a valuable site like yours, I’d skip them entirely and search elsewhere to monetize…

> That's 4 good years to see if the grass is greener on the Unix side

There, I fixed it

This doesn't make sense, and I'm a bit worried: I "cheaped" out and have a "left side only USB-C" MBPro from 2019.

Should I understand that having any kind of load on the measly 2 ports I have on my 1600€ computer will lead to abysmal performance? Like, attaching a USB hub to add basic necessity like HDMI or USB A?

I’m sorry I’ll be bashing your content but this is, to me, the worst spam of all: the one that doesn’t add a single thing to the problem, an endless list of subject-verb-complement with phrases like “this tire is cheaper than other tires”. This is the epitome of taking people for idiots and you having the hubris to tell others that this is not spam is just wrong to me. You’re making people lose time while you rack up their eyeball’s worth of ad revenue.

See your article: https://www.car-engineer.com/general-altimax-rt43-tire-revie...

This is NOT a review, this is an alternate serp where you don’t even have the correct sources. People will read that, spend time figuring out this is just rolling them into fake words, and close the page in rage because they just lost 5 min. Nowhere in that site is there any sign of expertise, value add, or just the barest human touch. You’re alone maintaining the illusion of a professional website where in reality you don’t have a single clue of what your bot is writing.

Sorry this is harsh but I have the baffling feeling that people like you are taking over the internet and waste immense amount of time for the 99% of people who use the web for actual, hands on, research about any topic.

Do you have power consumption numbers? Compared to the Pi Zero W, hom much more does it consumes?

Anybody has a recommendation on litterature/blogs addressing the subject of observability? I’m contemplating an SRE job offer and although I have my share of knowledge, I am still out of my league whenever I glance at the cncf map in the observability category. I feel that the field has exploded with new components and new ways, and I’m sometimes afraid of taking the wrong path.

Not related to the OP but I’ve had many issues with non standard vendors placing breaking changes in their patch/minor releases. You think you’re updating to a relatively normal version and it actually breaks your entire production.

I’m looking at you, MySQL, docker, Mongodb, or harbor.

I’m not complaining, those are provided free of charge and we are happy when it works, but semver is really all that matters in this: either you adhere and it’s smooth sailing, or you don’t and then please don’t use semver-looking numbering.

I see all comments here and I’m wondering if anybody actually read TFA.

This is NOT a drop-in replacement on Mac, very far from it.

No volumes mount from the host, no auto port forward, complications when building images, bugs where the socket isn’t cleared etc.

They will get there eventually but this is way over hyped for a sensible replacement for docker on Mac.

Because if you can do it, any rootkit will be able to do it too.

> *near-orbital re-entry

The first stage is far from orbital velocities when it reaches MECO and starts down, even though I strongly agree with you: SpaceX is in an entire other league.

You can create an entire VFX short film with an high end pc. You can simulate fluid mechanics and invent a new revolutionary propulsion system for aircrafts with an high end Pc. You can train a NN to recognize perilous situation from webcam footage and distribute the weights freely on GitHub With a HPC. There are Miriam of things you can do with a powerful computer.

This law is stupid, a single EV recharge consumes 100x more than a HPC every single second.

Yes that was not very subtle, sorry about that.

It might be iridium flares, although it looks like he got slow moving sats, so higher in altitude. Either way, they all look like that, fast straight moving lights, not pulsating like stars, not red/green like planes.

You can see the ISS very clearly when it passes above. It sometimes disappears mid-pass when it is late and the shadow of the earth is obscuring half your sky. You can also see the SpaceX sat train (60 sats in a straight line) passing by just after a launch. This will freak you out though, it looks like a straight comet trail moving half the sky in 1 min.

Somebody just posted (and deleted?) an answer to your post with a video of the night sky and a man tracking satellites as they disappear at the terminator. That guy was telling “this is cloak tech” whereas he doesn’t even understand that a satellite is bright only when lit up with the sun. Satellites you see crossing the sky can, and will, disappear mid-sky because they get into the shaded part of the earth. This is why you can’t see LEO sats long after the sun go down, and brainless interpolation is why idiots like the poster of that video believe they see cloak tech.

No, not ALL backups, just the first backup you do: you test that you can restore the data from it.

Then you can be confident that following backups will be restorable.

Corrolary: If you introduce a new folder for another service in your backup, make sure you can restore it too.

I'm not so sure, the engines are great but they cheap out on suspensions lately.

I had an MT09 Tracer that was wobbly as f. in curves and on stright lines at high speed. The rear shock was just too loose. Same for the MT07 since 2014.

I think the idea is that you plug the car after the mains switch, and you disconnect the mains from your utility when you use the car’s batteries as a source of current.

So it’s manual but it makes sense, you don’t want (yet) to send back energy to the network.

Maybe later on there’ll be a way for the energy network to broker power from plugger cars in the neighborhood.

Reminds me of https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=buildroo...

I'd wager you could actually put a real linux shell in your website with that!

It's not really how apt works but rather how Debian works: you use apt with a specific release repository of Debian (stretch, buster or whatever ISO you installed).

Debian is really strict about its releases and won't push a breaking change in a specific version of the OS.

For instance, `apt install htop` will only ever install the 2.X version of htop in Buster. Including security patches and all, but you won't get a 3.0.0 version without going sideways and add a specific repository for that. Debian will ship with htop version 3 in the next release, but you'll have to upgrade the entire distro for that.

Brew is different in that it allows anybody to merge a new breaking version of the software you use, so `brew install htop` on Monday could give you the 2.x version, and on Tuesday will install the 3.0.0 version.

You could maybe compare it to the rolling releases of Arch. But Arch has a better way of handling it than Brew: they test, they prepare, they communicate for bug changes..

Brew would benefit from segmenting their offering, but you'd lose the bleeding-edginess of it. Really, if you want reproducible packaging on Mac, I'd use nix or docker. If you want convenience and edge, use brew and deal with it.

They should be required to mark it accordingly on the box with bold marking, on the front face: “I come without charger and without earplugs”

I think that saying it is for the environment and increasing prices while removing things from the box is false advertising and should be fined.

Also, it should be marked prominently on the box that the device doesn’t come with a charger or earplugs and won’t be self-sufficient. Let’s just regulate by making any device sold without charger display a 2x2cm logo on the box saying « I come without charger ».

I don’t buy a car expecting it to be missing tires or wheel.

« Why is is nighttime on your cam? It’s 1PM?! »

Yep this is the issue: Sendgrid offers "well-seen" ips in their pro tier at 50$/month or so, which is 10 times what we spend on hosting..

Does mailgun have a trusted IP from where I can send emails? Sendgrid is about the same: you get a free slot for 100 mails/day but the IP is blacklisted by spamhaus so it has no use to me :/

If mailgun has the same issue, it might not be worth it. Anybody has an experience with Mailgun's free tier?

I'd be happy to pay on the order of $1 or $2 per month for my usage and be sure to send emails without issues.