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Re:.gitignore Everything by Default
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:33PM (#49579861)
Ha! It’s actually patch (as in select parts of the patch) though I remember it as partial.
Re:Advent of Sysadmin 2025
on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:28AM (#46106144)
I share your disdain for buzzwords but SRE is definitely a different role.
Re:Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
on Sunday May 04, 2025 @09:34AM (#43886622)
Ah got it, thanks. I thought you were testing the image somehow, a bit like inspec.
Still cool though, nice.
Re:Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
on Sunday May 04, 2025 @04:20AM (#43885351)
Could you tell me more about the playwright tests? From what I can see it's a web testing framework, I don't see how that fits in here.
Re:OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers an...
on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:08AM (#41423524)
> My CI server uses Firecracker VM's to isolate OCI containers
Is this something you built yourself? I've been looking for a CI tool that uses Firecracker but never found anything, I started building something myself but it never really got finished. Would love to drop that project and use something off the shelf.
Re:Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:56PM (#40240099)
Consul is built upon the Serf library. https://www.serf.io/intro/vs-consul.html
Re:Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
on Sunday January 21, 2024 @06:56AM (#39077674)
Yes, the article did.
Re:PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:20PM (#39047923)
Framework has open sourced the EC firmware, not the boot firmware. The UEFI implementation is still closed source proprietary InsydeH2O software.
Re:Non-interactive SSH password authentication
on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:54AM (#38770042)
Hashicorp's Vault works quite nicely. Teleport is another tool I believe handles this but haven't used it personally.
Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:51AM (#37878810)
Right, running ECS on EC2, not Fargate on EC2. When ECS launched it only had the EC2 launch type (where as you said you must manage your machines). Fargate then came along for both ECS and EKS where Amazon managed the machines for you.
Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:16AM (#37854694)
Fargate on EC2? Sorry you’ve lost me, I understood Fargate to be a layer of AWS managed compute for ECS or EKS deliberately instead of EC2.
Re:Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically a...
on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:46AM (#37479601)
I would imagine so the default behaviour could be identical across platforms.
Re:Terraform Cloud is down for nearly five hours, and counting
on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:42PM (#37265585)
I agree that it’s boring and works well. It’s also what I’m most worried about finding a reasonable alternative, we can’t just not update Vault.
Sadly Secrets Manager doesn’t hit all the features I need. Really hoping for an OpenTF-style fork of Vault.
Re:Terraform Cloud is down for nearly five hours, and counting
on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:24AM (#37260030)
What are you looking at for a Vault replacement?
Re:Installing Debian bookworm without systemd
on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:14AM (#36787825)
Obviously it’s a different OS and possibly isn’t relevant to you but I’ve found solace in OpenBSD (and other BSDs) in the search of “simplicity” of “the old days”.
Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine
on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:44PM (#33346967)
I’d like to know more about AMD specifically too. I’m well aware that PSP is their equivalent but there seems to be so little information out there about it. Is it really an equivalent? Is it as bad as ME? Can it be disabled? Does it have the same level of access as ME? Have their been any exploits of it yet?
The wikipedia page is rather bare. There’s a couple of papers linked to but frankly they go over my head. Is there any respectable analysis out there?
Re:Ask HN: What games are you having fun with?
on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:13AM (#32877671)
That’s one I heard about a while back but haven’t given it a shot yet. I will now, thanks.
Re:Ask HN: What games are you having fun with?
on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:48AM (#32877520)
Couldn’t recommend it more. Simply beautiful game. Definitely agree with going in completely blind, try not to even read the Steam description, discovering the core mechanics was very much part of the experience for me. I was left very empty when I finished it, I wanted more and more; like finishing a fantastic book. Easily one of my favourite games of all time.
I didn’t enjoy the DLC as much as the base game, it felt rather disconnected. Which was disappointing given how connected the rest of the game is. Still a nice story, just not quite as good for me.
Are there any other similar games I may also enjoy? I’ve also played Journey and found that to be similarly touching. Stray was also very enjoyable for me.
Re:Shortest URLs on the Internet
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @06:16PM (#32803791)
Bingo!
Re:Shortest URLs on the Internet
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @02:27PM (#32802019)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Addressing
> IPv4 addresses may be represented in any notation expressing a 32-bit integer value.
I remember reading a man page that explained this really succinctly but I cannot remember which one it was. A tool like ping I believe.
Re:Apple Removes SIM Card Tray on All iPhone 14 Models in U.S.
on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:03AM (#32764290)
It is possible to buy an anonymous eSIM, the only provider I have come across won’t allow outbound SMS or calls though. Inbound SMS and calls as well as data are fully functioning. (Therefore can be used for messaging services that require a verified phone number).
I know that’s not exactly what everyone would want, but for some use cases that may suffice.
Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:18AM (#32619295)
Are you perhaps conflating Discord and Discourse? Discourse is certainly a forum in my eyes.
Re:How to keep your Terraform code DRY by using Terramate
on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:01PM (#32098632)
I tend to use a similar approach, though with Terraform var files instead of env vars. It was also possible to have this work with TF Cloud (and presumably Enterprise?) with a single workspace env var specifying the var file. It might have been improved recently to be a first class feature.
I found this to be my favourite workflow for managing workspace variables in a way that was also flexible to being run outside of TFC/TFE for when that makes sense.
A day without X
Re:Ask HN: Writing my first app
on Friday July 26, 2013 @09:02AM (#6107959)
You won't be able to build and deploy iOS apps without running OS X - so that's not an option from Linux/Windows unfortunately.
You can use something like Appcelerator Titanium[1] to use HTML/JS and build native apps from that. So you will be able to use what you build to deploy to iOS should you purchase a Mac in the future.
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Re:How to kill an unresponsive SSH session
on Friday July 26, 2013 @08:21AM (#6107770)
In case anyone is having difficulty with the font used on the page, the escape sequence is: newline followed by tilde (~) and then period (.).
Re:How to kill an unresponsive SSH session
on Friday July 26, 2013 @08:19AM (#6107763)
Thanks for the tip! I don't tend to nest sessions more than two deep but this could be useful for those who have deep nestings.