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Sidero Labs (Talos Linux) Joins Yardi(siderolabs.com)
18 points by noodlesUK 2d ago|10 comments
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by noodlesUK 7d ago
I have no business other than as a customer but we’ve had decent success with getting cheap archive imagery at fairly high res out of SkyWatch. It’s worth a look. If you need a very large area the price will grow quite a lot though.
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by noodlesUK 7d ago
I really hope that in the coming years we will be able to get smaller phones back into the market. Apple compared this to the size of a passport. A passport seems even bigger than a normal iPhone, even when folded. A number of people (espec
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by noodlesUK 1mo ago
I look forward to DuckDB being the engine that underpins the next gen of analytical data tooling. DuckLake already looks amazing and with the Quack protocol seems like it will be a great natural fit for lots more types of tooling, such as s
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
I think what has surprised me is just how quickly the pendulum has swung. From becoming useful in early 2025 to cracking down on costs has been maybe 18m in total.
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
This is literally the purpose of most of the European EUDI wallets, but automated. You create an account with whatever part of government handles ID, you get a "wallet", and then services can ask you to share minimised data from t
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
I think that if we are considering technical solutions to the social problems here, the answer is well understood by professionals working in age/ID verification. You allow someone to perform a more thorough check verifying your ag
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
I have but it seems to me that the stuff that's actually particularly well priced is really old (2016-2018ish). Even a single DIMM of used 32G DDR4 from ETB is now > 250GBP. The used market is also blown to pieces because of the p
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
> If you serve large files, a CDN may have a very narrow use case where the budgets make sense. If you are already pushing 23 TiB/month, than cloud providers are usually not work the effort. Some rent colocation rack space. =3 Unfor
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
Yes but paying massively inflated prices for compute are not anymore. Even for consumer gear I am being quoted prices that are more than 2x what they were only a year ago (and availability is hard).
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
This is such disappointing news. I was planning on migrating some of our workloads to hetzner specifically to take advantage of the AX162 pricing which was incredibly competitive. Does anyone else have any suggestions for competitive pricin
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
I would love to see regulation that required making bootloaders unlockable to enable this sort of thing. People have been making clusters of consumer hardware for decades: I’m sure people remember the PS3 supercomputers of the mid 2000s. I
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
To what extent is this possible for actual metal hardware? I'm sure lots of us are running PXE/TFTP systems and HTTP would be a heck of a lot simpler.
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
I think that SUSE and RH can definitely work well in a fairly secure setting as needed. I certainly don't think it's any less secure than your typical corporate windows setup.
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
It definitely isn't a good look but I'm not entirely sure where this lands on "the line drawing on my IKEA instruction manual doesn't look like the furniture" to "VW diesel emissions report" spectrum. I&#x
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by noodlesUK 3mo ago
Exactly what is the "data" that's being shown here? Is it essentially some kind of marketing material showing "this sort of thing is what you should expect to see" or is it actually data or for compliance? If it&#
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
I don’t think it needs to be the FTSE and I don’t think it even needs to be all that much in UK funds but if you look at the default allocations of many large pensions it’s single digit UK equity exposure which I think isn’t really acceptab
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
I think European countries need to get serious about investing money locally. The UK is a particularly egregious example but it’s taking begging and pleading with the mansion house accord to even convince pensions to try to invest in the UK
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
From initial application to permanent residency it costs around £6k in visa fees and around £5k in health surcharges over the course of 5 years. Citizenship is another ~£2k all in. You make three applications with those fees divided slightl
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
The asylum system and immigration system are surprisingly disconnected from each other in the UK. Pretty much all forms of permission to stay in the UK other than asylum can only be granted from within the country if you hold an existing lo
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
Many other countries including UK enforce a similar rule. It's very inconvenient in those countries, but there's a significant difference: in most other countries that have this kind of policy, visas can typically be processed in
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
I'm really looking forward to the temporal api being universally available. Moment and Luxon are fairly good but sensible date/time handling is something that really ought to be baked into the platform ootb.
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
I think all of this article is true, but I suspect that the vast bulk of people entering retirement each year have few if any of these things beyond perhaps the sense of identity. It's very true that retirement means losing many of the
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
I'm shocked that someone would write a blog post like this in which they openly admit to something that is widely understood to be fraud. Even if I'm sympathetic to why this individual chose to do this, and the technical side is
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by noodlesUK 4mo ago
IMO this is not at all sensible. Hiring does not require an AI agent on the candidate's side engaging with an AI agent on the prospective employer's side. What needs to happen is a sensible evaluation of the candidate's and e
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by noodlesUK 5mo ago
I think many of these issues are also solved by Podman and systemd depending on what kind of "production" you're building for. If you're building a linux-y appliance and you need to run a few containers I think Podman is
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by noodlesUK 5mo ago
I think it's hard to overstate how annoying working in a hardware-adjacent part of the industry has been in the past few years. We've only just recovered from the covid era supply chain issues, and it looks like we will continue t
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by noodlesUK 5mo ago
Fair enough. Fragility is probably more important than price in this scenario.
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by noodlesUK 5mo ago
I'm not sure - the level of scrutiny that usage/abusage of expensive equipment gets varies wildly from organisation to organisation. I've worked in some places where very expensive equipment is handled roughly, or even taken
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by noodlesUK 5mo ago
I think the reality is that most "knowledge work" jobs involve being a wet meat interface between many different systems, other people, the physical world, etc. I think there are very few roles where someone has a nice clean set o

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