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Re:Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story on Monday April 01, 2024 @10:53AM (#39894760)
It seems more like the kernel was actively preventing safe memory access, albeit erroneously, and also has nothing to do with Rust per se?
Yup, same here — I see the same delay in Chrome now and then.

I guessed it was due to the cat-and-mouse adblocking prevention between YouTube and adblockers (I'm also using uBlock Origin).

Re:Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:32PM (#36065784)
Tailscale works hard to do all this stuff automatically.

Possibly you'd have more luck on a network where your client can allow incoming UDP connections on the Tailscale port, and so the exit node would be able to establish a direct connection.

But for a Tailscale peer I have running on AWS ECS, I can open the UDP port there, so a direct connection always happens regardless of what sort of network my Tailscale clients are on. I don't know if there's any Fly equivalent to get a direct connection to a UDP port.

Re:Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:06PM (#36065581)
I tried using this or a similar repo to set up a Tailscale exit node on Fly.io before.

The downside is that my traffic never went direct; it was always relayed via a Tailscale DERP node, as Fly.io machines were only accessible via anycast, and so a direct connection from Tailscale on my machine to the exit node on Fly.io couldn't be established.

So performance wasn't as great (and I felt bad about using up Tailscale's DERP bandwidth, as a free user).

I switched to Joplin a few years ago, and it was able to import my notes from Evernote.

My existing Fastmail account gives me WebDAV file storage, and Joplin can use that as a sync backend. End-to-end encrypted.

There are clients for macOS and Android. Neither of which are as relentlessly buggy as text editing with Evernote. Web Clipper browser extension. All open source.

I've had zero regrets about switching away from Evernote.

Re:Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:35PM (#35617154)
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm kinda confused about things like SSH and Funnel being moved to the Premium tier.

It feels a little odd that the Free tier lets you use Premium features indefinitely, but as soon as you get more colleagues onboard, you lose those features.

Unless you're looking carefully at the pricing page, you'd miss that Starter has many fewer features compared to Free.

Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:47PM (#30859954)
Jenkins lets you replay a Pipeline, with changes, which is massively useful — removing the need to change things locally and commit.
Re:GitHub Package Registry on Saturday May 11, 2019 @05:29PM (#19888490)
While publishing to Maven Central may be onerous, there are good reasons for it, e.g. https://twitter.com/JakeWharton/status/1073102730443526144
Unfortunately, using Dagger for DI with Kotlin requires using the Kotlin annotation processor, kapt, which is still incredibly slow, and works non-incrementally.

If you value your build times or your sanity in the slightest, I'd recommend either severely limiting use of Dagger, e.g. by only using it in certain, small Gradle modules, or using a different DI solution.

No, the text says that all .eu registrars will no longer be able to accept .eu registrations or renewals from entities in the UK.
The GDPR applies to the data of anyone using a service while in the EU, not just to companies that are based in the EU.
Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:04PM (#15809176)
Yeah, looks very similar. I will be interested to see how quickly containers can be provisioned on FarGate.

Maybe I was doing something wrong, but my experience so far with ACI is that it consistently took about three to four minutes until a smallish container was ready for use.

Re:Welcome to Glitch on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:17PM (#13861930)
That seems reasonable, but the new name is already in wide use in software/hardware. Even outside, its dictionary definition is "a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan".

That seems like an odd choice, though the blog seems to suggest it's because everyone will be fixing each other's bugs.

Re:Google Cloud Platform Free Tier on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:42PM (#13834955)
Unfortunately, you're still not allowed to use Google Cloud Platform for personal usage if you're based in Europe.

Several years ago they emailed (presumably) everyone without a tax number in their account, saying so: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602

Trying to add a billing account just now from a European country doesn't give the choice of account type; it's fixed to "business" and can't be edited.

So without a billing account, it seems nobody in Europe can use the free tier for personal use.

Re:Berlin Living Rooms on Friday March 03, 2017 @07:48PM (#13788380)
And they say it's been more than thirty years since the Berlin Wall came down…
I don't think that they're all related. Gerrit, for example, isn't part of Chrome; it was initially developed for Android, AFAIK. Nor is Monorail. I think Breakpad even predates Chrome.

But it's quite likely they all had their bug trackers on Google Code.

Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:34PM (#13757570)
0.1% of 28 days is 40 minutes, so it seems likely to happen.
Quite a few projects have issue trackers hosted on that hostname: https://bugs.chromium.org/hosting/

I believe those projects switched to using this instance of the Monorail bug tracker since Google Code shut down.

Thanks. Is this setup with the per-build VM and Docker server access intended so that users could set up multiple linked containers for integration testing, etc.?
Do the Docker containers that builds run in still provide root access to the Docker socket, allowing people to break out of the container?
Re:The Problem with AMP on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:19AM (#13417208)
> Techniques such as subresource integrity should be used where appropriate.

While this is a good recommendation, I'm not sure this is possible with AMP, as they don't provide versioned URLs; the JS loaded keeps changing over time.

Edit: Indeed, this was rejected: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/534

Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:10PM (#13190513)
Interesting to read there (and nowhere else that I could find) that GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon left the company this year.
Re:Sharing National Security Letters with the Public on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:21PM (#13172663)
Are you sure that's the NSL number being redacted at the top-left?

The NSL numbers are also listed in the Google blog entry, and are in the URLs of each PDF, so the numbers definitely aren't something that Google intended to censor.

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