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zimmertr··on Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
I've been starting to refuse 4 hour technicals myself and they all immediately drop me. I don't have your seniority but I have some. As well as a powerful online presence across Github and LinkedIn. At what level of seniority did you start doing this and what is your success rate?
zimmertr··on A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)
Richard Stallman told me this was his favorite book.
zimmertr··on Deleting Facebook permanently
I was totally indifferent when I deleted Facebook. Maybe for a week after I would catch myself subconsciously opening a new tab and typing `fb.com` when I was bored before realizing what I was doing.

I held out on deleting Instagram for literal years until about 2 months ago. I finally got fed up when they overhauled the UI to focus on selling cheap and crappy goods. I always thought it provided a lot of benefit to my life because it was fun to share pictures. Turns out I didn't even care when I deleted it lol.

I think about deleting Twitter too, but it's just so darn useful for breaking news. And I could never get rid of Reddit. It is certainly an echo chamber but unless something bad happens it's basically the best website to find other hobbyists and even ask technical questions.

zimmertr··on Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app
I respect your approach to advertising. This was well executed :)
zimmertr··on As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
One of my most visited websites to this day is a 20 year old hiking forum that doesn't even have an SSL certificate.
zimmertr··on Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
I cut out all alcohol and caffeine for the month of November. It has done wonders for my mental health. So no, I haven't. But I can definitely say I was in the months prior.
zimmertr··on Let’s Build a Video Card
I think it was a tongue-in-cheek joke about requiring Javascript.
zimmertr··on Civilization VI UI, but made in Webflow (a no-code tool)
I have it running on Arch Linux about as well as MacOS. Which plainly speaking means absolutely awful.

My biggest frustration is that the game crashes when it attempts to submit a play by cloud turn if webhooks are turned on. And it has for a year now. With no indication it will ever be fixed.

And don't get me started with the game on MacOS completely ignoring mouse clicks for the right third of the screen.

zimmertr··on New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Hi, I want a physical copy. I went to see how much they were to ask HR to buy one for me and found it was $52 on Amazon! What's up with that?
zimmertr··on Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster
Kubernetes supports pretty much any type of storage through API Extensions so network mounts are supported. People often use the NFS-Client & NFS-Provisioner projects for this.
zimmertr··on Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster
NFS-Provisioner and NFS-Client have been around for a while. They're about to be promoted from Incubator actually.
zimmertr··on Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster
Have you used OpenEBS?
zimmertr··on i3 4.18
I love that feature though!
zimmertr··on Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer
Of course they can. In fact I believe the definition pertains explicitly to them. My comment was in reference to the homophobic slur that being pegged is somehow wrong. Like men should feel ashamed to derive pleasure from anal sex. Regardless of whose performing said pegging.
zimmertr··on Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer
Is there something wrong with that? Nice casual homophobia by the way.
zimmertr··on Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer
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zimmertr··on The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark
I'm not sure I'd consider this a possibility as much as a guaranteed evolution of defense.
zimmertr··on My Business Card Runs Linux
Oh geez I can't imagine how long it would take to compile Linux on that slow of a processor.
zimmertr··on Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
Didn't Microsoft Calculator used to have a browser built into the help menu somehow? I remember it being exploitable to get around stringent GPOs....
zimmertr··on Running Proxmox? Interested in Kubernetes? Ansible Project to Build a Cluster
Hi all, OP here with some more context.

I've recently been working on an Ansible project to declaratively build a 4 node Kubernetes cluster. I feel like it's getting to be stable and I would love some testers and some ideas for how it can be improved.

My goal in all of this is to help get people started with running Kubernetes in their bare metal homelab environments as I feel like the learning curve to create a fully functional environment is quite steep at the moment. Especially since the Kubernetes ecosystem is so fragmented.

The project is currently capable of configuring the virtual machines through cloud-init and provisioning them with a custom networking definition so you can put them on specific VLANs. It uses Calico as the CNI and has support for provisioning an array of additional deployments such as an NFS Storage Class, MetalLB Load Balancer, NGINX-Ingress Controller, and DataDog Stateful Set.

If you're interested in contributing, there are two big things I could use help with right now.

1. Adding multi-node support as I only have a single Proxmox compute node. 2. Working out how to dynamically build the MetalbLB configuration file based on whether the user wants to use BGP or Layer 2 and how many Address Pools the user wishes to configure.

More to come in the future, as soon as I better understand what the community is looking for. :)

PS: Here is another repository containing my other Ansible projects for deploying common home server applications to Kubernetes. Currently I have support for Unifi Controller, Plex Media Server, Deluge, Radarr, & Sonarr. All of which work well with this deployment method. https://github.com/zimmertr/Kubernetes-Manifests