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Re:About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:15PM (#50276098)
This is some weak sauce. I've just ditched iPhone for GrapheneOS and Apple Watch for Pebble. I'm getting more convinced something like a Framework with Linux is the answer.
This seems like a shitty way to approach this. Would love to hear from Proton on this.
Curve currently works great for me but I am hoping Walt will launch soon.

https://walt.is/

Re:I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:59AM (#49773574)
If this came with GrapheneOS and had the updates on time I'd buy in a heartbeat.
Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:58PM (#49760166)
Would buy in a heartbeat if it did.
I couldn't get over this after moving here from the UK where you can pick up a pack for 10p in a supermarket.
Re:Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:45PM (#47430511)
A window in Russia is likely far more deadly than any of the western security services.
Re:DARPA's new X-76 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:31AM (#47320499)
All these comments and not one single reference to Airwolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwolf

Re:The Falkirk Wheel [the only rotating boat lift] on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @08:15AM (#46974561)
Yes, sadly aware. It's never a good thing to see the old homeland in the news.
Re:The Falkirk Wheel [the only rotating boat lift] on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:46PM (#46969724)
One of the truly great things from my old homeland. In the year 2000 Falkirk invented the wheel...
Re:UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:48PM (#46861301)
This is exactly the sort of thing a government should be doing in a free market. Fair access to pricing information is essential to the operation of a free market. Now do this for all EV charging stations.
Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:51PM (#46858913)
About a year ago I had to buy a new Xbox. It took me time to figure out what model I had and what the new models are. It’s the least intuitive marketing on the market.
Re:Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:48PM (#46468595)
A physical keyboard like a Treo/Palm Pre, enough storage to store all my photos and say GrapheneOS and I would be in.
Re:Tell HN: Happy New Year on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:13PM (#46446685)
Happy Hogmanay to everyone in HN land.
Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:33AM (#46271802)
Sir Leon Bagrit covered this topic in the first BBC Reith Lecture and it’s worth a read/listen if you’re interested in this topic.

https://archive.org/details/ageofautomation0000sirl/mode/1up

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hbdmj

Making the two new UK aircraft carriers dependent on natural gas has to be one of the worst military procurement decisions of the modern era.
Re:Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+ on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:11PM (#45645561)
I am clearly the only person that enjoyed this movie.
Re:Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:49AM (#45371373)
Framework wen?
Fantastic software, I am surprise more people don't use it.
Re:US Nuclear Weapons Return to UK After 2008 Withdrawal on Monday August 04, 2025 @08:29PM (#44792990)
The only winning move is not to play.
What sort of people get O-1 visas? I assume it is people with multiple degrees and have decades of experience in a specific field?

I am good at what I do, have done public speaking at major conferences on what I do but no degree and so assume that i've no chance of ever getting into the USA. Currently a UK citizen living in Ireland.

Re:UK Startup working on fusion powered rocket engines on Monday April 21, 2025 @09:04PM (#43758159)
A UK startup is working on fusion powered rocket boosters with intentions to have a working demonstration in 2027.

While this sounds like a lot of vapourware it would be excellent if it does work.

Re:Pope Francis Has Died on Monday April 21, 2025 @07:48AM (#43750843)
A man has died, that is sad.

Under his watch he did not move the church to fully acknowledge or deal with the historical and widespread abuses the organization he led was involved with. He had opportunity to be the leader to bring the organization around and he did not. Let's all hope his replacement will.

Re:Show HN: Compare Cloud and Bare Metal Servers on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:55PM (#43563545)
This is neat and I share your frustration. I've wanted to build this for a while and nice to see you've got something up.

Can't wait to see this grow into the tool I think we all need.

This doesn’t sound good to me. Would you do the same with some functional code rather than creating an external versioned library?

Terraform or CDK I would want a simple shareable thing that did the boilerplate that I called with any variables I needed to change.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) on Sunday November 03, 2024 @05:46AM (#42032322)
Location: Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, for something interesting

Technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton, DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lazzurs

Email: [email protected]

Re:System Intiative is generally available on Thursday September 26, 2024 @02:24PM (#41661531)
Importing from the state would be good.

Doing this with resources is going to be the easy path. Translating the state representation of re-usable modules I expect is going to be more difficult but necessary for the migration path to be useful. A lot of power in Terraform is being able to stack re-usable components, say an internal module representing a service on top of a public module that provides sensible defaults like the terraform-aws-modules collection which then sits on top of resources.

If you can get this to a place where an existing deployment of Terraform modules can be imported into SI as a collection of re-usable templates and then users can easily deploy n+1 of those templates the same way they would do with Terraform I think you will have an easy migration path.

If not importing from the state at least some way of automatically importing those re-usable components and allowing the deployment of n+1 of a reusable component would be helpful to migration from existing patterns.

Not sure how this makes sense when I am driving an excellent Mercedes EV today.

While they do sell ICE vehicles still they have a great line of EVs and clearly are moving more in that direction.

Re:OpenTofu Registry Search Launches on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @09:49AM (#41445845)
The Terraform fork OpenTofu has now launched search for its registry.

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