Hacker News: bkircher

New comment by bkircher in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

bkircher — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:15:40 +0000

Linux sucks differently every time a kernel is released.

New comment by bkircher in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

bkircher — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:06:16 +0000

I was looking for this comment. Seems to fit right in between “just” docker compose and a “fully-fledged” K8s. This book is running Erlang clusters on Swarm on EC2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216601296.

New comment by bkircher in "Secure Credentials on Comet with 1Password"

bkircher — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:20:15 +0000

A LLM in a browser has access to untrusted input (a web site) and secrets (my 1password account)? Not sure this is such a good idea.

New comment by bkircher in "Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?"

bkircher — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:15:07 +0000

Forced or not, there’s observable slop in documentation and specs in my company’s Confluence.

New comment by bkircher in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

bkircher — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:30:29 +0000

Excellent talk! Sad seeing Strange Loop go…

New comment by bkircher in "The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS"

bkircher — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:02:09 +0000

Ever used MS Teams?

New comment by bkircher in "Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made in Germany’ AWS rival"

bkircher — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 10:29:11 +0000

There are a couple of smaller "cloud" providers who do not ([1]). I think this might be simply because they lack the tech for traffic shaping here. So they usually implement a "fair use policy" (whatever that means). But yes, ingress and egress traffic is essentially offered for free.

[1]: Another one is gridscale.io, also from Germany

New comment by bkircher in "Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made in Germany’ AWS rival"

bkircher — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 10:04:56 +0000

Like the (sadly) usual "Hey, just calling you up to let you know that I just send you an email! Have you read it yet? What do you think?"

New comment by bkircher in "Slack was experiencing an outage"

bkircher — Thu, 20 May 2021 19:53:42 +0000

Productivity goes up 130%

New comment by bkircher in "We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it"

bkircher — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:24:45 +0000

I can't change my face. I can change all my passwords, though. Also, I don't own an iPhone.

New comment by bkircher in "Podman and Buildah for Docker Users"

bkircher — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:20:29 +0000

Can’t I just do all what docker-compose does with a Makefile and a couple of

  docker network create
  docker run

and so on? With much less magic involved?

New comment by bkircher in "Open-source firmware"

bkircher — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 11:59:53 +0000

Related: vendors should also support fwupd [1].

[1] https://www.fwupd.org/

New comment by bkircher in "Open-source firmware"

bkircher — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 11:55:54 +0000

Me too. Might also be a competitive factor in the future. Looking at you Intel, AMD.

New comment by bkircher in "Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications"

bkircher — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:06:15 +0000

Well, keep your head up. There are some companies worth working for out there… there must be :) Maybe you start your own thing…

New comment by bkircher in "Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications"

bkircher — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:30:39 +0000

Considered switching jobs to something more interesting?

New comment by bkircher in "How to teach yourself hard things"

bkircher — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:03:34 +0000

Turning to drugs to improve learning performance is bad advice. Note: I don’t say what you do is bad, this is totally up to you. But giving someone else the advice using drugs is just bad.

New comment by bkircher in "How to teach yourself hard things"

bkircher — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:03:17 +0000

This is bad advice, sorry. Not the financial one I mean, it’s always good to save up some money for bad times, but the “you will burn out” part.

If you think that you will eventually burn out, like in “its just a matter of time”, you should seriously consider switching jobs, work in a less demanding industry, or do something else. There is so much more to life than just this work and nothing keeps you from working just at half the pace. You even might get some different insights from that. Seriously, I don’t want to sound like a total jerk but when this is the approach you choose, it’s going to be needlessly rough.

Your username indicates your attitude, btw. Talk to a friend or professional. Maybe you need some good advice.

edit: spelling

New comment by bkircher in "IRC turns thirty"

bkircher — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:50:23 +0000

Oh, wow. I see. With push notifications, mobile clients, TLS encryption this _could_ work in a company setting …provided you keep logs and make search results available for staff, too. Cool. Thanks for the links!

New comment by bkircher in "IRC turns thirty"

bkircher — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:33:53 +0000

Sure. However simplicity is quite important when you choose IRC as company chat solution and you want not only your geeky devs to join but also not–so–geeky people like the guy from marketing and the friendly folks from the front–desk.

New comment by bkircher in "IRC turns thirty"

bkircher — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 05:29:29 +0000

Love IRC. But what client should I use on my telephone?