Hacker News: g_host

New comment by g_host in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

g_host — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:19:45 +0000

"The company formalized the idea that defects could be fixed through human intervention on live production systems" (From Part 5).

Uh...yeah. I think we all realized that years ago.

New comment by g_host in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

g_host — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:19:15 +0000

"The company formalized the idea that defects could be fixed through human intervention on live production systems"

Uh...yeah. I think we all realized that years ago.

New comment by g_host in "The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?"

g_host — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:21:52 +0000

Reader mode for the win

New comment by g_host in "I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads with NextDNS"

g_host — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:45:48 +0000

It is understandable that one would be frustrated with a Raspberry Pi handling critical network services like DNS.

I've been running pi-hole in KVM guest virtual machines for more years than I can remember and never had any problems. I would expect a Raspberry Pi to eventually choke on the demand of providing 24/7 service to a network.

But not everyone has a hypervisor in their basement. Forking over $20/year is definitely better on the budget than buying a server.

But if you already have a server or some reliable hardware in your LAN, there's no good reason to leave anything important up to a Raspberry Pi.