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Re:Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:57PM (#29236618)
Outline is another (more mature) option: https://github.com/outline/outline
Re:RIP Flynn.io on Sunday February 28, 2021 @06:41PM (#26298212)
Other cofounder here. I just wanted to add that we still have some t-shirts and stickers left. So if you want some defunct project/startup swag, we'd love to send it to you! https://shop.flynn.io
Re:WireGuard: Great protocol, but skip the Mac app on Friday December 25, 2020 @02:42PM (#25538527)
Jason (the creator of Wireguard) wrote a great response to this: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-December/00...
Sure, I combined the two tables in the spreadsheet linked below, and there are many occupations that are more dangerous than police officer if we look at fatalities by per-capita occupation.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dXtv2wnutujfXWUHB9Bm...

This is correct. In fact, landscaping and groundskeeping workers (among many other categories) suffered more fatalities than police officers in 2018 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cftb0326.htm
Re:Remote-Powered Developer Tools on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:40PM (#19841089)
It's worth noting that the new VS Code Remote Development extensions are not open source, which means that it is impossible for the community to fix bugs, and add new platforms/environments/features, or see the code that's running in their environment without reverse engineering.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the...

Re:Apple Censoring the News App on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:20PM (#19493917)
Yes, when you use a US carrier roaming in China you have a US IP:

>This censorship occurs despite the fact that when in China a cell phone using a foreign SIM is not subject to the firewall restrictions (all traffic is tunneled back to your provider first), so Google, Twitter, Facebook, et al all work fine on a non-mainland China SIM even though you’re connected via China Mobile or China Unicom’s network.

Re:Apple Censoring the News App on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:37PM (#19493410)
I vouched it after it got flagged dead which resurrected, but it hasn't returned to the front page.
Re:Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:25PM (#19321797)
Here's what they are actually collecting: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
Re:Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:12PM (#19321669)
In case anyone is wondering what telemetry is collected: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
Work has already started on a new challenge using ALPN: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/acme/mrKOeRK1K6H_42Hxb...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13449398

(edited for clarity)

Re:Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:23PM (#12895266)
Flynn developer here. This is correct, a three node cluster can withstand loss of any single host before things start failing.

Also, log shipping and Let's Encrypt support are coming soon.

Re:Flynn: open source PaaS on Friday October 14, 2016 @10:24AM (#12708247)
You can use S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Storage even if you're running on DigitalOcean.
Re:An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku on Friday October 14, 2016 @08:39AM (#12707656)
Yeah, check out this blog post about how to deploy Phoenix: http://nsomar.com/how-to-use-flynn-to-deploy-a-phenix-app/

Distributed communication should work fine, feel free to ping us on IRC or GitHub if you run into any trouble or have any questions!

Re:Flynn: open source PaaS on Friday October 14, 2016 @08:35AM (#12707644)
That's at the process level only currently.
Re:Flynn: open source PaaS on Friday October 14, 2016 @08:34AM (#12707638)
No current plans, but feel free to request it in a GitHub issue. We consider the number of votes on GitHub when adding to the roadmap.
Re:An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:17PM (#12704991)
When we started in 2013, the only open source scheduler available was Mesos and the ecosystem didn't have community efforts like Kubernetes, so we had to write our own components to build Flynn.

Flynn is designed to be an end-to-end solution for production deployment, and all of our components are created to work together. The whole system is self-bootstrapping and self-hosting, so installation is easy, and the same APIs are used to manage the whole platform as are used to manage apps deployed on it.

In addition to the twelve-factor stateless webapps that Deis Workflow supports, Flynn also includes highly available database appliances with safe, automatic failover (currently PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB with more coming in the future). We also have a bunch of security features coming over the next few months like Let's Encrypt support and flexible user authentication with 2FA and very granular access control.

If you don't need or want our database appliances and you are comfortable with Kubernetes and happy to install and operate it, then Deis Workflow is a good option. If you don't care about using Kubernetes specifically, Flynn is a good pick as it is easier to get up and running with.

Re:An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:54PM (#12704828)
There are healthcare companies that already use Flynn today, though not for HIPAA compliance specifically.

Compliance is a really interesting vertical. As we make progress on our security roadmap, Flynn will become a very compelling option for environments like HIPAA, PCI, etc. especially when combined with clouds like AWS that are also compliant.

Re:An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:46PM (#12704778)
Yeah, we ship unmodified Heroku buildpacks, plus one Cloud Foundry buildpack (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/staticfile-buildpack).

So far no one is using Flynn in a fully disconnected environment, and we're aware of this limitation. My take on this is that we need a replacement for buildpacks that allows for repeatable/functional builds (think Nix for app deployment).

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