Hacker News: gerhardhaering

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff"

gerhardhaering — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:20:36 +0000

Ok, 7%. With all the cost, I wonder if just stopping hiring and letting normal attrition rate play out would have had almost the same effect.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Anonymous Messenger"

gerhardhaering — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:55:01 +0000

Threema is proven. The ome-time licence fee of EUR 5 are probably very well spent on it. At least on Android, you can skip Google App store and buy a licence directly with threema. And even bitcoin is supported for this.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated by Pedophiles and Child Porn"

gerhardhaering — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:21:35 +0000

Of course there will be child pornography on self-hosted social networking servers. Just as with owncloud instances, shady ftp hosts, etc.

Same with political extremists. It's unfortunate all of this exists, but it's a side effect of freedom to self-host.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "How to Get Rich (2019)"

gerhardhaering — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:57:14 +0000

Gold.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

gerhardhaering — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:38:21 +0000

There was a page called something like hasliztrussresignedyet.com - it should return true now. Does anybody have the actual URL?

New comment by gerhardhaering in "We will never have enough software developers (2020)"

gerhardhaering — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:36:39 +0000

Good luck if you spend 40-70 % of your working time in meetings and pair programming sessions, like I do.

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

gerhardhaering — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:55:58 +0000

This is yet another attempt to put something together on top of Openstack and sell it as an alternative to the big three cloud providers. As a German, it always annoys me when crap like this is presented as "made in Germany". No sign-up process, no IaC first approach, documentation is a joke. No,thanks.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Ask HN: Cloud vs. Dedicated Hosting"

gerhardhaering — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:06:57 +0000

Current status sounds like Wild West. It's probably because you don't have any people who know about infrastructure on board, yet.

I'd challenge the idea of dedicated infrastructure per developer in the first place. There's little reason why this could not be done locally on a developer machine using Vagrant, local Kubernetes, Docker Compose, whatever.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?"

gerhardhaering — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:44:42 +0000

It's nice that code that I wrote more than a decade ago is mentioned here.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Python finally offloads some batteries"

gerhardhaering — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 05:33:33 +0000

Thank $deity there's an 'urllib3' that's mostly used from 'requests' to add confusion back.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "LXC vs. Docker"

gerhardhaering — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:57:58 +0000

This would have been an ok article in 2013-2015. Nothing really has changed wrt. these two technologies since.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Cloudflare Email Routing is now in open beta"

gerhardhaering — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:21:32 +0000

Care to explain what prompts you to write this? You think that they should act like a publishing platform instead of an infrastructure provider?

New comment by gerhardhaering in "The Future of E-Bikes"

gerhardhaering — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:01:57 +0000

Closer as in the price? It is certainly a question of volume, but given that I can get an actual combustion car Dacia Sandero for 8.990,00 € - these prices seem ridiculously high!

New comment by gerhardhaering in "ABit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard (1999)"

gerhardhaering — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:35:48 +0000

I had one of these for years, with two 400 MHz Celerons clocked up to 500 MHz. The setup was not really stable, though. Used it on Windows NT4, Linux and FreeBSD.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board"

gerhardhaering — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:35:05 +0000

I fail to see how any of this is intolerant, or transphobic. You might not like these opinions. Or disagree that there is good reasoning behind some of this. This does not make the one you are disagreeing with intolerant.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "SQLite: Code of Ethics"

gerhardhaering — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:48:50 +0000

This would not affect my decicion to use SQLite, which is still my choice for quick database setups. Not saying that they did it here, but the notion that atheism is synonymous with immorality would be absurd. It is usually quite the opposite, most orthodox religion leads to immorality due to the simple fact that it applies codes that might maybe have made sense centuries or millenia ago to modern day societies.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "SQLite: Code of Ethics"

gerhardhaering — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:39:46 +0000

I agree very much with you.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "We Don’t Use Docker"

gerhardhaering — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 07:27:30 +0000

Apparently I am underpaid and this must be in the valley, right? That should be standard technology for an SRE by now. I have been using Docker since 2013, and I rarely encounter developers who don't have at least basic knowledge. Once you dive really deep into Kubernetes with service meshes etc., that's where it gets interesting.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)"

gerhardhaering — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 06:50:22 +0000

I use the Neo layout since 2013. In my optinion, it is optimized for the German language and for programming. I really love it.

On Linux this worked perfectly for me, but on Macs there are some (Electron?) applications which have their own idea of keybindings. Notably MS Teams. They have their own idea of keybindings and assume some kind of quertz layout. Which using neo makes typing a questionmark, which works using "layer 3 key" (caps lock) and what is "h" on querty impossible. So I end up mostly just typing :question in chat, which produces a questionmark emoticon. Talk about workarounds. Oh yeah, it does not work because Teams opens the "help" window instead.

New comment by gerhardhaering in "EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)"

gerhardhaering — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:58:37 +0000

I thought about that too, but as far as I see with OpenVPN you have the single OpenVPN server as single point of failure and all the traffic goes through the server, which quickly becomes a chokepoint. If I needed this again, I'd try out tinc first. It does not appear to have the single point of failure issue.