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by plqbfbv 17d ago
docker access == root, as long as you can use volume mounts to arbitrarily mount anything else on the machine to a container. If the user is in the `docker` group, he's effectively root because he can patch around system files. I once
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by plqbfbv 29d ago
> on nightly Just to make it clear: it wasn't pinned to `latest`, we created a small script that would probe the docker registry and enumerate all the tagged images (e.g. 15.3.2, 16.4.1, ...), sort, pick the latest of those tagged,
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by plqbfbv 29d ago
I also examined Tuta (in addition to Proton) as replacement for Gmail, and as others have said for Proton, the big no for me was having to deal with other software components to have IMAP or other access options. I have integrations e.g. fo
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
> There also seems to have been a major shift in strategy from AMD / Intel / Apple / NVidia due to this, as I was used to CPU / GPU / chipset upgrades coming out more regularly with double-digit percentage improv
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
> I mean OK. But also, if I want a reliable service in my business, I wouldn't typically auto-upgrade docker images nightly to "*". Well fair, but we had been using it for 4+y at the time before running into that, and the
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: we did it for 6+ years in my company, and it's not always a smooth sailing. We had our own runners and we made it auto-upgrade across docker images daily before business start. It mostly wo
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
> The Tx SoCs communicated with the main system over Ethernet, IIRC, at least with the T2 SoC. The Wikipedia page linked in your other comment reports: "The T2 communicates with the host via a USB-attached Ethernet port.". So i
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
> It actually ran on the separate T1 CPU. Thanks for the clarification, I guess that didn't really change the result. Perhaps the Intel CPU was busy burning CPU cycles and couldn't process interrupts properly, or because the co
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
No, the biggest problem was the hardware. It replaced a well-known decades-old paradigm of engage-only-on-user-input buttons with a glowing slider that would always engage out of turn. I can't count the number of times I reached for nu
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
> I did say it's excellent at boiling water, didn't I? Indeed, sorry, long workday :)
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
I have stainless steel and anti-stick pans from a high end brand, and with one of the cheapest induction stoves a liter of water boils in literally 2m, compared to 10m+ of gas. Cast iron pots have additional challenges unless they're d
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
As a customer, thank you, Fastmail. I recall reading a few months back that this was rumored to be in the works, glad it panned out.
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by plqbfbv 1mo ago
> The CLOUD Act authorizes bilateral agreements between the United States and trusted foreign partners that will make both nations’ citizens safer, while at the same time ensuring a high level of protection of those citizens’ rights. I t
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> I think this opinion fails to explain why Tesla is faltering so badly in China. Apparently not so much, the restyle and a consolidated assistance and charging network make people prefer it over the homemade products lately, which keep
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
I stopped long ago buying brand jeans because there's literally none that will fit my build (fit guy with normal waist, huge upper leg, big but smaller lower leg), so I wondered if anybody did custom ones. I've been very happy wit
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
I daily drive Sonnet 5/medium because it gets most things right most of the time at first try, while costing a lot less than Fable. Opus can give better results on architectural/concept tasks and I use it sparingly, but it still c
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
I closed all my Reddit accounts after they instantly shadow-banned my 8+y main account after I shared a single gdrive link to reply to a user with actual data. I've been appreciated as contributor in various places for being helpful, t
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> Do you mean that the titlebar would be off screen so you couldn't move/close the window? Not just the title bar, but often also e.g. half of the settings and the Cancel/Save/Ok buttons. Basically the screen was 600
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> the OTAs break shit all the time Uh? I can literally count the times my Model 3 2019 software broke something on one hand: - when they redesigned the AC controls to make them more visually appealing but less functional (no button borde
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> Actual link speeds of Starlink terminals don't seem to be published in the open, but it's at least throttled to up to 310Mbps down/44Mbps up for Priority plans. I had it last year in the Canary Islands (where I assume su
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
I guess things keep getting more features and complexity but all of it is 80% done because it's "shippable" and updates are cheap. This is most visibile for me on Windows/MacOS and complex web apps (e.g. GitHub and GitLa
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> Ordinary plebs trying to prevent climate change is like subtracting $100 from a billion dollars - it does not make any meaningful difference. It stops making any difference if everyone stops trying. You compare this to subtracting $100
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
I think I saw a few years ago another version of this for IC and simpler CPUs. For me the takeaway is: - the libraries we use for chip design are small and reproducible, and we can reason about and account for their properties properly, so
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> What about the losses in the electricity transmission and the batteries and the conversion to motive force in the motor? Is it way less than that 40%? And wouldn’t there be more than 0% losses because refinery -> power plant shippin
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
I have the Fairphone 5, for which they picked the IoT equivalent of the mobile chipset so they could ensure 10 years of driver availability from the vendor (8 years of majors + 2 of security patching IIRC). Fairphone 2 came out in December
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> There's no way to verify the integrity of the system, and any malicious app can just grab your banking credentials or enable criminals to unlock and drive away with your car. I get that Google doesn't want to be sued for fail
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> Sure people care about the environment, but it is always lower than all the other factors in their personal list of things they worry about. Emissions scale with performance, and inversely of fuel efficiency. So the environment may not
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
Early adopter and subscriber (I think I saw the link here on HN), have been happily paying for 4 years now. It does one job and does it well, and you have additional features if you want/need to configure them or tweak the results to y
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them I normally have 5-50 tabs open (so perhaps on the lower end), but I can't reca
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> Solar is a massive maintenance liability that a majority of buyers will avoid My parents put up solar in 2005 when it was very expensive. The original panels, inverters, cables are all still there, nothing had to be replaced in the las

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