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Re:Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform on Sunday April 26, 2026 @10:45PM (#47917172)
I still remember their Sun Server JBOD posts.
Re:Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform on Sunday April 26, 2026 @10:41PM (#47917144)
Saw some other folks starting to use https://glass.photo
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026) on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:44PM (#47696673)
b.well | Sr SRE | US - Remote | bwell.com | Salary: $154-190,000 DOE

https://www.icanbwell.com/careers/?gnk=job&gni=8a78859e9cd55...

Company: We are the Healthtech powering brands like Google, Samsung, Perplexity, OpenAI, Noom and others. We are empowering people to own their health data and to drive detailed insights so they can make more informed decisions.

Stack: AWS, EKS (Bottlerocket), Alpine Imagges, Groundcover (Obersvability)

Job Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will be tasked with making sure we build a reliable, secure and efficient platform for the b. Well network. You will be encouraged to blog, speak, and join events to talk about the work you are doing and encourage other companies to follow our lead. We will build solutions to delight our customers, employees and business. This role will also focus heavily on automation as it is a core value to our business from reliability to scaling.

What you will do:

-Let the robots do the work! We want you to focus on automating everything from building infrastructure, monitoring and disaster recovery

-Python, Rust, Go Go Go. Whatever you are comfortable in programming/scripting in we just want to see you deliver

-Love Penguins? We do too, whatever your flavor of Linux is bring your deep technical experience to the team

-New Platform, who dis? Build new solutions that enable our business and pass the knowledge on to your peers

-Like the Eye of Sauron you will monitor our infrastructure for anomalies and issues

-Code is for building solutions, not in how you communicate. Work well with your peers and communicate clearly so they understand the WHY behind what we do

-Must feed, water and provide high fidelity low friction platform solutions to engineers to keep them happy

-Write the ancient artifacts of documentation so your peers know how things work in the environment and write policies/procedures that make sense for the business

-Pass on your knowledge and wisdom to your other team members

-You like reading about the latest technology and trying it out? Come get paid for it!

Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:58PM (#46368156)
I've been running servers for the pool for years. They are checked regularly for accuracy/uptime or it's score goes down in the pool and eventually gets removed. I sync from 5 stratum 1 servers and use chrony these days.

Facebook had a really interesting engineering blog about building their own timeservers: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/18/production-engineering...

Really well written for anyone who is interested.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:06PM (#43918865)
b.well | https://www.icanbwell.com | Fully Remote | Sr. Sre

b.well is on a mission to change the healthcare industry by empowering patients with their data to make informed decisions. We have partnered with some of the largest tech companies, pharmacies, health systems and insurers to ensure patient right of access to their data so patients and their health care providers can make better informed decisions about their health. We are building the first interconnected health network and we want you to join us to change healthcare for the better!

Job Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will be tasked with making sure we build a reliable, secure and efficient platform for the b. Well network. You will be encouraged to blog, speak, and join events to talk about the work you are doing and encourage other companies to follow our lead. We will build solutions to delight our customers, employees and business. This role will also focus heavily on automation as it is a core value to our business from reliability to scaling.

What you will do:

- Let the robots do the work! We want you to focus on automating everything from building infrastructure, monitoring and disaster recovery

- Python, Rust, Go Go Go. Whatever you are comfortable in programming/scripting in we just want to see you deliver

- Love Penguins? We do too, whatever your flavor of Linux is bring your deep technical experience to the team

- New Platform, who dis? Build new solutions that enable our business and pass the knowledge on to your peers

- Like the Eye of Sauron you will monitor our infrastructure for anomalies and issues

- Code is for building solutions, not in how you communicate. Work well with your peers and communicate clearly so they understand the WHY behind what we do

- Must feed, water and provide high fidelity low friction platform solutions to engineers to keep them happy

- Write the ancient artifacts of documentation so your peers know how things work in the environment and write policies/procedures that make sense for the business

- Pass on your knowledge and wisdom to your other team members

- You like reading about the latest technology and trying it out? Come get paid for it!

https://www.icanbwell.com/careers/?gnk=job&gni=8a7885ac958c3...

Comp Range: $153,000 - $190,000 per year

Why do they have dns records around copilot and openai then?
When looking at this I became suspicious because Deepseek has/had dns records referencing openai and co-pilot. Then I got their chat to tell me what their model is based off of and it said ChatGPT. Hope my own bluesky account is okay for screenshots:

https://bsky.app/profile/rosshosman.bsky.social/post/3lgu4c5...

Re:Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:16PM (#39997448)
You have no idea, it is your opinion and employee counts don't mean anything there as you don't know what their org looks like or what their productivity looks like. You keep stating things as fact without any real knowledge. You have no real evidence to back up your claim of "fact" and I don't wish to argue with you. I hope you progress and learn how arrogant you are here with your claim of fact and change your attitude in the future and to give people the benefit of the doubt. Best of luck to you.
Re:Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:38PM (#39994188)
It's not a fact, it is your opinion and you should really learn the difference.
Re:Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:36PM (#39994167)
* Android version was last updated April 10 2024.

* iOS has had some issues, I actually had to remove myself from the TestFlight due to a bug but it is actively being worked on (the beta version). I'm assuming they are waiting on the iOS beta to be stable before another release but I'm not part of the team.

* Proton Drive for Mac was last updated March 29th.

Just because a team is having an issue with one piece of their software doesn't mean it's abandoned or unsupported. Again, there is a lot of hyperbole here.

Re:Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:25PM (#39993348)
I'm not sure why you think this just because they don't support Linux yet. They have a few core key products such as Mail, Calendar, Drive, VPN and Pass. All of these are great for a Google Workspace convert. Adding Notes to that makes perfect sense as I want my Notes secured end to end and as a Voyager subscriber I'm really happy they are going down this path and it seems right in their wheelhouse.

To address your Proton Drive comment directly, they are a small team and they are rolling out Web, iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. The most common platforms today which is what they should focus on. Android already has photo backup, iOS it's in beta. They are continually having new releases for all of these products and you can see that on /r/ProtonDrive. Saying they have abandoned these products or don't care about them is hyperbole. Is it taking longer than I would like, sure, do I want them to release a Public API for Drive (for rclone) and a Linux client, absolutely but lets give teams the benefit of the doubt.

I'm not sure the logic, since you have problems everyone else must have them too? Google DNS / Cloudflare DNS are both DNSSEC validating revolvers, two of the most popular DNS services on the planet. Most US based ISP resolvers are DNSSEC validating (Xfinity's 75.75.75.75 is). Google Chrome ships with DOH going to Google DNS on by default now, Firefox does DOH by default as well.

So I can absolutely see where this would easily be the case, if not more.

You can view a map of DNSSEC validation rates here: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec

Re:The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:00AM (#38863193)
Just remember, local external drives can still burn up in fires or drown in floods. I thought about this recently a lot and went with a Synology where I can have all of my data locally but backup that data to B2 (Backblaze) automatically.
Re:The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:56PM (#38863172)
Backblaze, Google Photos, iCloud, Dropbox, Onedrive or buy a Synology and use Synology Photos and then backup to one of them.
Re:The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:55PM (#38863165)
I just went through this so I can well you B&H and Microcenter both did well for me. I actually had a failed drive from B&H (one of two) who took care of it and refunded my money. The best advice I can give though it order drives from different suppliers or batches so you don't get two from the same batch which can sometimes have a problem.
Re:The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:53PM (#38863147)
I'm cautious so I sync to Backblaze from my Synology as well as S3 with a lifecycle rule to Glacier. You could easily just do B2, C2 or S3 depending on your needs.
Re:The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:51PM (#38863139)
My guess would be vibration at the top of the rack which is why when you relocate them they do much better. This is such a great thing to call out explicitly with data.
There are some options:

Mega.io

Proton Drive

Rclone to your own encrypted bucket

Mountain Duck / Cloud Mounter to your own encrypted bucket

I would recommend Protonmail because you can also have a plan and use your own domain. The interface is much better than Google IMHO and the spam filtering is up there as well.

Other alternatives:

https://www.hey.com

https://www.skiff.com

https://www.fastmail.com

https://www.icloud.com with advanced protection turned on

Re:GitHub Passkeys are generally available on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:50PM (#37649602)
1password can store passkeys for you and sync between multiple devices. Then I add a Yubikey Bio to add of these accounts as a backup.
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:52AM (#37612821)
sorry thats https://matano.dev
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:07PM (#37600634)
There are some players that are more established than others but check out:

https://panther.com - Built on top of Snowflake, so it scales well and they are building a more Splunk like interface.

https://runreveal.com - Still seed but shows a lot of promise

https://matando.dev - Still seed and don't have a hosted product yet but smart founders that have the right idea

https://hunters.ai - More threat hunting than SIEM but maybe that what certain folks need

https://gem.security - Still fairly early but if you are focused on cloud use cases this could be more of an option. (Disclaimer: I'm an Investor)

Re:Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend on Monday September 11, 2023 @11:48AM (#37469049)
AWS, Dynadot or Porkbun are all great options.
Re:Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:56PM (#36545511)
Would love one for myself if you don't mind.
Re:The New Bing with ChatGPT on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:46PM (#34699308)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:17PM (#31255344)
Drata | IT Manager | Remote

Careers Site: https://apply.workable.com/drata/j/9E07199430/

Description

As a leader in the Information Technology team you will be on the front line to make sure Drata can be successful in meeting its goals. You will keep Drata on the cutting edge of technology so our teams can operate efficiently. You will be encouraged to blog, speak, and join events to talk about the work you are doing and how other companies can follow our lead. Beyond standard IT work we will ask that you focus on automation as much as possible to make our employee experience the best we absolutely can. You will also be using Drata’s security and compliance automation platform to ensure we are meeting our security/compliance controls for IT systems.

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Drata | Salesforce Administrator | Remote

Careers Site: https://apply.workable.com/drata/j/C41E829022/

Description

Drata is looking for a Salesforce magician to help our company get to the next level in rev ops. This person will be a key member of the IT team, but work cross functionally with Sales, Marketing, and other key teams. This person will move quickly to help the go-to-market engine hum, while ensuring they are following security best practices that Drata has built its foundation upon. You will be encouraged to blog, speak, and join events to talk about the work you are doing and how other companies can follow our lead. Beyond standard Salesforce administration work we will ask that you focus on automation as much as possible to make our employee experience the best we absolutely can, let the robots do the work.

It is based on osquery and we are happy to share any information including our third party security validation of the agent with prospects/customers.

Source: I am the Drata CISO

You are 100% correct.

Source: I am the Drata CISO

This is correct. The privacy policy listed here is for the website.

Source: I am the Drata CISO

The Drata agent does exactly what you are talking about with a lightweight osquery based read-only agent. Literally just monitors some system settings like screen lock timeout, av-install, updates, etc. We collect that data to then be able to show your auditor you are meeting your controls.

Source: I am the Drata CISO

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