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We had to roll back to an earlier version of Sentry for this exact reason. It went from a few gb to using 18gb+ of RAM and a factor more number of containers. The older version had every feature we wanted, so there was no need to move forward.
Extremely poor response. You can't blame him for contacting others affected when you marked it as out of scope. And yet you fail to mention that in your blog post..
Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account on Sunday September 22, 2024 @10:32PM (#41621919)
Completely anecdotal.

I feel if I open Uber ahead of a planned travel and type in a destination to get an idea on the price, the price is $X. I then open the app back later when I'm ready to travel (say 15 minutes later after packing and leaving the hotel) and the price has gone up (sometimes by quite a bit).

Now maybe I'm just unlucky and the dynamic market prices have gone up every time, but I've never seen the same price or less.

Which makes me wonder if Uber records your interest in using them to get to a destination and then increases the price when you come back after committing to using them for your trip.

I now only open the app and search when I'm ready for the trip.

Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links on Sunday September 15, 2024 @04:07AM (#41546035)
From the article:

  For now, you can still view Google’s cache by typing “cache:” before the URL, but that’s on its way out too.
Re:Android now allows apps to block sideloading on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @07:16PM (#41516133)
How will this affect those running MicroG? Is it as simple as implementing that API and returning "trustworthy", or is there some kind of signing going on that will make it harder?
Re:macOS in Docker Container on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @04:08AM (#41117243)
Docker can run on macOS (albeit in a VM), but its still running on a Mac "that is already running the Apple Software". So its a perfectly valid option for Mac owners, even if its a VM + container + VM deep.
Yep. My WiFi has had _optout_nomap ever since it was introduced. People always ask my why and I've never seen another SSID with it included.
Re:Integrating Email Aliases with Bitwarden on Monday July 08, 2024 @09:49PM (#40911786)
I've used <site/company>@domain.com for many many years and never had someone do that.

Spammers simply obtain lists of emails through hacking or purchasing them and then spam them, they don't pick a particular address and modify it.

At our org we run code-server in docker with no network access except pre-allowed DNS, and a white listed squid proxy, due to this.

It works really well for us and prevents potentially bad extensions, python libraries, etc exfilling our code, data, etc.

I'm guessing because perplexity is now based on llama 3. If you look at their labs [1] the choices of models seems to suggest this.

[1] https://labs.perplexity.ai

I just told my young boys about this sad news.

They've recently gotten very into visiting retro gaming stores and buying DS, Wii and other console games.

The death of physical media means the death of video game stores (eg. EB games), and the death of the second hand market, the very market which allows retro gaming stores of this generation to thrive.

The kids of my boys won't be able to experience the games of the next generation of consoles because their game stores will have been shut and entire generations of games no longer available unless said company decides to re-release them again.

That's just games.

Movies have a similar problem. I can see Archive.org becoming very popular for accessing what publishers have decided they no longer want, or care for, being available.

We have HTML templates for sending transactional email in our SaaS applications.

The templates are very basic, eg. <p> <b> <a>, etc. Users can also customise these via a WYSIWYG editor.

We then use turndown.js to convert the rendered HTML email to markdown which we then use for the text version of the email.

The API was reverse proxied. Possibly a caching issue?
Re:K-9 Mail is poised to be Thunderbird for Android on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:37PM (#40570445)
K-9 Mail is great. Coming from iOS to a google-less android, I'd be lost without it.

The decision to keep both names is strange though. If its just a name and colour theme, what is the point? Thunderbird already has far more brand recognition, so it makes sense to just switch.

Re:Caddy 2.8 on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:26PM (#40518769)
Love caddy. Only minor downside is having to build your own container to get route53 DNS support.

Would be awesome if they provided a pre-built container for each module, but understand it'd create a very large number of builds for them, and then people would want module+module which would create an exponentional number of possibilities.

Maybe an all modules build and the ability to toggle them via ENV?

Here's our experience with rootless docker.

We've used it in a single-user (a docker user) and multi-user (user for each dev) environment.

Most, if not all, containers work fine, there are some, like mailcow which don't work well with it.

If you have multiple IPs on the one machine, there is a longstanding bug that means you can't bind the same port on different IPs. Eg IP1:80 and IP2:80. The workaround for this is separate rootless docker users + runtime for each container that shares ports, nasty.

In a multi-user environment we simply setup rootless docker under each devs user, so they have their own runtime and their own containers isolated from other devs. This works really well.

Overall it works well for us.

Re:Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:55PM (#40217916)
How does it compare to Fabric? At first glance it looks quite similar. All our scripts are written in Fabric, but Fabric appears to be somewhat abandoned and the latest version never reached full parity with v1. I'd be looking to try something new next time.
Re:I am So Disappointed with Ubuntu 24.04 on Saturday April 27, 2024 @06:35AM (#40178888)
Don't agree with this. All of googles apps come via debs (chrome, google earth, etc), as does microsofts (edge, vscode) and numerous other big name applications. They then use the deb to add their apt repository and from then on they are self updating. Deb is actually a great way of distributing an app other than via an app store, and it seems Ubuntu clearly want to kill that.
Re:Mixtral 8x22B on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:00AM (#40075262)
The instruct version is now on labs.
Re:Mixtral 8x22B on Thursday April 18, 2024 @06:45AM (#40074823)
labs.perplexity.ai now has mixtral-8x22b-instruct.

I asked it what it's knowledge cutoff was, and it said 2021-09.

Anyone know why it's trained on such old data?

Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:18PM (#40034968)
Yes in AU this, and so websites don't know my real IP, are the only reasons I use a VPN.

I don't ever do anything illegal, I just don't like being tracked.

Re:DNS over Wikipedia on Friday April 12, 2024 @08:38AM (#40011890)
I will happily switch from Google when a search engine provides really good local results ^. It seems DDG and Startpage are mainly tailored for US. ^ Random suburb in random state in AU
Re:Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator on Sunday April 07, 2024 @06:21PM (#39964475)
They could've implemented their own virtual memory and paged it to disk. Very easy to do. That's what we had to do to load 64mb ROMs when creating an n64 emulator for Xbox.
100% agree. When we installed it we looked at the setup.sh and extracted what was needed from it. It was as simple as:

  curl -o docker-compose.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeplane/plane/master/deploy/selfhost/docker-compose.yml
  curl -o .env https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeplane/plane/master/deploy/selfhost/variables.env
  vim .env # adjust for your environment
  docker compose up -d
I really don't understand how the above is too complex that it required the creation of a bash script.

Some other notable docker-based projects that I've seen require an .sh are Sentry [1] and Postal [2].

[1] https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/ [2] https://docs.postalserver.io/getting-started/prerequisites

It would have been nice to provide a source to back up this argument. So I looked it up.

4% of global cobalt use is used by refineries. 62% of global cobalt use is for EVs, and growing.

[1] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/How-much-cobalt-5scBTFEHRym...

[2] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/How-much-cobalt-5scBTFEHRym...

Re:Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @08:16PM (#39211790)
We recently interviewed some candidates and got them to complete an initial DevSkiller test. In the interview I asked each what tools they used to complete the DevSkiller test. All admitted to using ChatGPT or Copilot to complete the test. So now DevSkiller is really just a litmus test to determine whether they can be bothered completing the test in order to get interviewed.
Considering both repositories are on Github, actually forking it instead of re-commiting it all as 'init commit' would be a good start.

As you said, nothing compels srikanth235 to do this though, but it's a generally more respectable (acceptable?) way to continue someone elses work as a new project.

Also not sure why you had to bring the race of srikanth235 into it.

Tabby is another alternative.

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby

Re:YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution on Saturday January 13, 2024 @07:03AM (#38979223)
We use PsiTransfer [1] in docker. Recently updated, so not abandonware. Serves our needs really well.

[1] https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer

Re:DMARC required by Gmail and Yahoo from Feb 2024 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:59PM (#38936395)
Postmark have a free DMARC service [1] that emails you a report once a week. I use it for all my domains. Note that they also have a paid offering, but this one is free.

[1] https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com

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