tikkabhuna

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by tikkabhuna 1mo ago
Really? I've been very happy with how easy GitLab Runners are to manage. We were running 20,000 jobs a week on 6 bare metal boxes and we had tons of spare capacity. Simple Ansible script to deploy the runner and register it. Tags for t
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by tikkabhuna 1mo ago
Isn't it a step in that direction? The first data centre in Europe shows a commitment and it will likely be easier to do the next data centre(s).
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
I share your disappointment. I just want a screen with a tuner. If I want any “apps”, I’ll pair it with another device which will probably be an Apple TV. I’m starting to wonder if a monitor and a soundbar with an external tuner is possible
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
Do you have that the wrong way round? In the UK, you go to bbc.co.uk (and bbc.com redirects to bbc.co.uk). From memory, in the US you get pushed to bbc.com.
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
Doesn't the "how to implement" determine whether to implement it? A poor implementation shouldn't be done, but a good implementation could make it simpler for companies to verify the ages of users, limit information pass
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
Why would an age verification app need to know your ethnicity/religion? Governments likely already know your name, age, place of birth, so having an app with a standard API for verifying users isn't giving the government additiona
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
I think that's on you. I'd expect it to be on me. If I bought another physical product (a bike, football, scissors, knives), I'd expect to buy a replacement if I couldn't fix it. That's definitely a perk of digital
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
Lots of leaseholds now start at 999 years. It’s a weird system. The previous and current governments have been looking to modernise it.
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
You can pay for services and you may use the term “buy”, but it is clear you’re receiving a service, and a service in its nature is temporary. Buy a night in a hotel, dinner in a restaurant, haircut, shoe shine. These are all services. Buyi
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by tikkabhuna 2mo ago
There’s no perfect solution here. Publishing to a separate registry can survive a Git repo rename, migration or deletion. Locking into a Git host seems undesirable. By separating VCS and registry they can offer different feature sets. There
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
Yes! It put me off Podman for years. I do now think it has some clever ideas and if you’re running RHEL it’s a no brainer, but they should be more upfront that you will have to adapt. Especially if you’re moving from rootful docker to rootl
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
The word “slop” was a good choice to talk about the mass of code generated by AI. I think it resonates with non-tech people and it conveys disgust. It’s clear that we should avoid slop. “Technical debt” never hooked management in the same w
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
Neither the automobile nor a gun can operate without a human. You could say “bull runs amok in a market” after it was released intentionally.
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
Is that including or excluding bank holidays? In the UK, 25 days excluding the 8 bank holidays is pretty standard.
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
Is the end state that countries regulate app stores and approve apps? Apple has legit concerns. The majority of users would happily sell their own data for some tiny benefit. However, like you say, Apple has a perceived or real conflict of
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
In the UK we have that scenario with people turning on kettles during breaks in TV programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
I don’t think anyone is going to be working at the hospital if they have to start dedicating their time to survival?
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
There is a huge gap between capitalism and communism. Just like how pure communism doesn’t work, neither does pure capitalism.
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by tikkabhuna 3mo ago
Yeah, this has been my experience too. I don't know how much easier it could be.
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by tikkabhuna 4mo ago
It feels rather odd to see a local place on HN. On a tangent, Diamond Geezer posted about their 15,000,000th visitor[1]. HN came in 4th for referrals and was noted “Hacker News are an American aggregator portal who've only sent people
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by tikkabhuna 4mo ago
As someone who has had to deal with vendor management at a financial services company, I couldn't agree more. We were going through a process to make vendor management more standardised and it reached a point where we couldn't eve
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by tikkabhuna 5mo ago
The problem is that destruction isn't contained to the company. If an AI agent exposes all company data and that includes PII or health information, that could have an impact on a large number of people.
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by tikkabhuna 5mo ago
I’m coming at this as a complete Claude amateur, but caching for any other service is an optimisation for the company and transparent for the user. I don’t think I’ve ever used a service and thought “oh there’s a cache miss. Gotta be carefu
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by tikkabhuna 5mo ago
I was looking into hibernation on my Framework 13 with Ubuntu. Debian doesn't support it with SecureBoot enabled. Now you might say "just disable SecureBoot", but that is a whole new concept to understand. I've found sus
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by tikkabhuna 5mo ago
Billionaires aren’t becoming billionaires from income. It’s increased stock valuations that create that level of wealth. I constantly see posts focused on high earners already paying tons of tax. They do, but this should reinforce the point
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by tikkabhuna 7mo ago
Zero our contracts is used far beyond the "Uber"-style gig work where people can choose when they want to work. Often its used in for any sort of minimum wage job where there is a significant imbalance where employers have the pow
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by tikkabhuna 7mo ago
Yep. GitHub wrote a blog post on removing their cookie banner years ago. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/no-cookie-for...
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by tikkabhuna 10mo ago
Bear in mind that the UK has a “national speed limit” of 60mph for much of the countryside. This is very much a limit, a maximum, and you’re expected to drive to the conditions of the road. If it’s perfect weather conditions and twisting ro
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by tikkabhuna 1y ago
I’m pretty sure UK security services can link bank accounts to you already. Hell, credit score companies like Experian already do it. This is beneficial for public services and companies that need to identify you. Having a single ID for a p
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by tikkabhuna 1y ago
The Scam Inc podcast from the Economist was very interesting. You need an Economist subscription, unfortunately. Amazing how much infrastructure is built up to support these operations. https://www.economist.com/audio/p

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