I was 17 in 2005 and discovered it by chance, and I’ve been binging on hard sf since then. Matrix and this were really transformative for me.

Also, for the longest of times I thought lobste.rs was a reference to this book :-)

Charles has very interesting takes on the modern world on his blog. I still read it with great passion.

It says that the parental settings (when enabled!) are just letting children do whatever they want by default:

- buying overpriced objects - chat without any restriction online - play without interruption for long time

I think the first one is probably the most poignant: piping children into disguised gambling addiction by default seems like a major fault. Borderline illegal, if you ask me.

It looks a lot like a phony feature "let's add a parental control, it will make people feel like we're trustworthy and bring back more revenue. And please don't disable ingame purchases by default, this is our cash cow".

We shouldn't be saying "if an individual chooses to do so, we could achieve political harmony".

At what point does the government says: twitter/X has attained a critical mass and should adhere to strict political neutrality and enforce net-neutral policies, otherwise be dismantled ? I know, your current US government benefits from this. But in general, a government should be working towards neutrality. Otherwise this is a power grab.

Apart from very specific people, that want to manipulate masses, having such a great power over opinion by manipulating what people see should be strictly controlled.

Joke aside, the strategic choices here and there hint at the blood lust of all other actors to dethrone Nvidia, it’s fascinating.

Since her desk is far from the internet router, I added this little guy for her to have less cables and allow more connectivity.

Uptime is in years, it’s invisible and chugs along without visible power draw. All her devices connect to it, including her Cisco voip phone. It autossh to my ovh server with remote port forward for remote admin. Cost me 15€ in 2016.

But our management has drunk the Kool Aid and has now everybody obliged to use Copilot or other LLM assists.

To be clear, the guy moved back a Docker image from being non-root (user 1000), to reusing a root user and `exec su` into the user after doing some root things in the entrypoint. The only issue is that when looking at the previous commit, you could see that the K8S deployment using this image wrongly changed the userId to be 1000 instead of 1001.

But since the coding guy didn't take the time to take a cursory look at why working things started to not work, he asked the LLM "I need to change the owner of some files so that they are 1001" and the LLM happily obliged by using the most convoluted way (about 100 lines of code change).

The actual fix I suggested was:

    securityContext:
  -    runAsUser: 1000
  +    runAsUser: 1001

For the second time of the week this morning, I spent 45 min reviewing a merge request where the guy has no idea what he did, didn’t test, and let the llm hallucinate a very bad solution to a simple problem.

He just had to read the previous commit, which introduced the bug, and think about it for 1min.

We are creating young people that have a very limited attention span, have no incentive to think about things, and have very pleasing metrics on the dora scale. When asked what their code is doing, they just don’t know. They can’t event explain the choices they made.

Honestly I think AI is just a very very sharp knife. We’re going to regret this just like regretting the mass offshoring in the 2000s.

We've been using Talos for our internal clusters for a while, but with quite small ones (3 kube node, 5 worker nodes).

Upgrading has been generally a non event, and we're quite happy with them.

How do you deploy Thanos ? In one of the clusters ?

My most important one is this: can I build a distributed k8s cluster with this?

I mean having fly machines in Europe, US and Asia acting as a solid k8s cluster and letting the kube scheduler do its job?

If yes then it is better than what the current cloud offerings are, with their region-based implementation.

My second question is obviously how is the storage handled when my workload migrates from the US to Europe: so I still profit from NVME speeds? Is it replicated synchronously?

Last but not least: does it support RWM semantics?

If all the answers are yes, kudos, you just solved many folk’s problems.

Stellar article, as usual.

In at least one instance, they fixed the cars manually by running a massive remote command on all cars after a messed up update: https://lobste.rs/s/v42zil/former_tesla_employee_ssh_d_as_ma...

I wouldn’t call that very reliable , but they indeed do it regularly

For simple projects, it’s hard to beat

Also, storing the ZFS snapshots on Blob storage would still require us to retrieve the entirety of the 80TB before being able to use it. I need native ZFS at Blobstore-competitive prices

We have many files (millions) and lots of churn over ~80Tb total.

Kopia has exhibited some issues:

- takes about 120GB (!) of ram to perform regular maintenance & takes about 5hrs to do so. There are ideas floating around to cherry pick the large inefficiencies in the GC code but it’s yet to be worked on. I’ll try to have a internship accepted to work on this in my company.

- there’s a good activity on the repository but the releases are not quick to come and the PRs are not very fast to be examined

- the local cache gets enormous and if we try to saddle it, we have huge download spikes (>10% of repo size) during maintenance. Same as above: pb is acknowledged but yet to be solved

- the documentation is very S3 centric, and we discovered too late that the tiered backup (long term files go into cold storage on s3) is only supported on S3, while we use azure. We contributed a PR to implement it in June, yet to be merged (see point 2)

So, not too bad, especially for a small-ish project maintained by mainly one person (from the looks of my interactions on slack and seeing the commit log). The maintainer is easy to reach and will answer, but external prs are slow. If I could use zfs cheaply on azure via s3, I’d use it over kopia, but as of now, it works.

The very first infusion in my case triggered such a nasty allergic reaction that they settled on a 24h infusion duration, thank god I had a port. Fun times