Yes. I have a family member that has had many hospital stays over the last few years, and one of the most obnoxious things is that the staff just lets everything beep. The last time we were in the emergency room the…
Maybe some people don't remember anymore, but there was a time when Ruby was HN's favorite language. I miss those days. I kind of get why everybody leaned into Python instead, but I'm never going to be happy about it.
If you manage to avoid scope creep then sure, static YAML has advantages. But that's not usually what happens, is it? The minute you allow users to execute an outside program -- which is strictly necessary for a CI/CD…
It is very difficult to misconfigure Wireguard -- there's just not that much to tune aside from MTU. We've had a 1 Gbps tunnel between AWS and OVH for years and it worked mostly fine, except for the handful of times…
Sorry, I misremembered the issue. Looking at my notes the issue is they don't allow disabling their NAT-T implementation, which detects NAT scenarios and automatically forces encapsulation on port 4500/udp. The issue is…
> The retransmit-in-retransmit behavior is precisely the issue. But you're concerned about an issue I do not have. In practice retransmits are rare between my endpoints, and if they did occur poor performance is…
I've just spent the last month learning exactly why I definitely do want a TCP over TCP VPN. The short answer is almost every cloud vendor assumes you're doing TCP, and they've taken the "unreliable" part of UDP to…
I've been considering switching from Fastmail to Proton for Mail/Calendar/Contacts, but I didn't realize their bridge didn't do CalDAV or CardDAV. Also, apparently the bridge is desktop-only -- no mobile? That's kind of…
I've previously worked for a place that ran most of their production network "on-prem". They had a few thousand physical machines spread across 6 or so colocation sites on three continents. I enjoyed that job immensely;…
Chef vs Ansible was the first example that popped into my mind. I had a very love/hate relationship with Chef when I used it, but writing cookbooks was definitely one of the good parts.
Sony's network has been compromised something like a half dozen times over the last decade or so. They can't seem to secure their systems. Bad behavior aside, it's probably not a good idea to give them any sensitive…
My M2 Macbook Air has been flawless about sleep, but I set "Wake for network access" to "Never" so maybe I'm just avoiding Apple's issues there. At least it can be disabled; with Windows Modern Standby it was impossible…
> OEMs like Dell could try using a MacBook and mimic the trackpad. You know what's crazy about the trackpad situation? You can put Windows or Linux on a real live Macbook and the trackpad gets worse. Everybody except…
Agreed. I've been using Gandi as my domain registrar of choice for years now. No complaints.
We're moving towards dual DNS providers. We've been bit by DNS hosting failures too many times, and they're always painful because everything, including monitoring and control systems, end up dead or inaccessible. Not…
systemd-timesyncd is an SNTP client; that's what an SNTP client does. For a lot of use cases, desktops and even most servers, it's perfectly fine and a whole lot less complex. I understand it's not a good fit in some…
> updates can be made on any DNS server (e.g., "multi-master") This cannot be overstated. I'm currently in the process of trying to rehabilitate an existing DNS infrastructure based on BIND, and it is a complete…
Datadog has shit the bed for us multiple times in the last six months. Unannounced breaking API changes, unaddressed bugs, and now their embedded cert expired. Our org is currently divided over further commitment to the…
I've noticed that two-finger scrolling, which should be one of the easiest things to get right, is wrong on basically anything that's not MacOS. Windows and Linux arbitrarily insist on 3-line scrolling in a lot of apps.…
Google has you covered on the smugness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rykmwn0SMWU&t=42s They specifically called out Apple for losing the jack, and a year later the Pixel 2 didn't have one either.
I hadn't realized that they didn't sell them with just the integrated GPU anymore. Combined with the reduced battery, that seems like a poor decision. As far as I'm aware, you've never been able to fully disable the…
- Escape button is on the touchbar - Touchbar at all - Battery reduced from 99 whr to 76 whr - Lost magnetic charging port - Lost every other useful port - Keyboard generally considered worse I currently have a 15"…
Brighthouse did it before they became Spectrum. They did allow me to turn it off though. I've heard that this is still the case with Spectrum, but I haven't tested.
I don't recall anybody ever having a kind word to say about them. As I recall the product used to be the cheapest Atheros chips the vendor could find plus a proprietary driver that was snake oil and bugs. Not better…
The previous model of the Retina Macbook Pro 15" (the one without the touchbar) had a 99 watt hour battery, which is right at the limit for what they'll allow you to take on a plane. The new one with the touchbar is 76…
Yes. I have a family member that has had many hospital stays over the last few years, and one of the most obnoxious things is that the staff just lets everything beep. The last time we were in the emergency room the…
Maybe some people don't remember anymore, but there was a time when Ruby was HN's favorite language. I miss those days. I kind of get why everybody leaned into Python instead, but I'm never going to be happy about it.
If you manage to avoid scope creep then sure, static YAML has advantages. But that's not usually what happens, is it? The minute you allow users to execute an outside program -- which is strictly necessary for a CI/CD…
It is very difficult to misconfigure Wireguard -- there's just not that much to tune aside from MTU. We've had a 1 Gbps tunnel between AWS and OVH for years and it worked mostly fine, except for the handful of times…
Sorry, I misremembered the issue. Looking at my notes the issue is they don't allow disabling their NAT-T implementation, which detects NAT scenarios and automatically forces encapsulation on port 4500/udp. The issue is…
> The retransmit-in-retransmit behavior is precisely the issue. But you're concerned about an issue I do not have. In practice retransmits are rare between my endpoints, and if they did occur poor performance is…
I've just spent the last month learning exactly why I definitely do want a TCP over TCP VPN. The short answer is almost every cloud vendor assumes you're doing TCP, and they've taken the "unreliable" part of UDP to…
I've been considering switching from Fastmail to Proton for Mail/Calendar/Contacts, but I didn't realize their bridge didn't do CalDAV or CardDAV. Also, apparently the bridge is desktop-only -- no mobile? That's kind of…
I've previously worked for a place that ran most of their production network "on-prem". They had a few thousand physical machines spread across 6 or so colocation sites on three continents. I enjoyed that job immensely;…
Chef vs Ansible was the first example that popped into my mind. I had a very love/hate relationship with Chef when I used it, but writing cookbooks was definitely one of the good parts.
Sony's network has been compromised something like a half dozen times over the last decade or so. They can't seem to secure their systems. Bad behavior aside, it's probably not a good idea to give them any sensitive…
My M2 Macbook Air has been flawless about sleep, but I set "Wake for network access" to "Never" so maybe I'm just avoiding Apple's issues there. At least it can be disabled; with Windows Modern Standby it was impossible…
> OEMs like Dell could try using a MacBook and mimic the trackpad. You know what's crazy about the trackpad situation? You can put Windows or Linux on a real live Macbook and the trackpad gets worse. Everybody except…
Agreed. I've been using Gandi as my domain registrar of choice for years now. No complaints.
We're moving towards dual DNS providers. We've been bit by DNS hosting failures too many times, and they're always painful because everything, including monitoring and control systems, end up dead or inaccessible. Not…
systemd-timesyncd is an SNTP client; that's what an SNTP client does. For a lot of use cases, desktops and even most servers, it's perfectly fine and a whole lot less complex. I understand it's not a good fit in some…
> updates can be made on any DNS server (e.g., "multi-master") This cannot be overstated. I'm currently in the process of trying to rehabilitate an existing DNS infrastructure based on BIND, and it is a complete…
Datadog has shit the bed for us multiple times in the last six months. Unannounced breaking API changes, unaddressed bugs, and now their embedded cert expired. Our org is currently divided over further commitment to the…
I've noticed that two-finger scrolling, which should be one of the easiest things to get right, is wrong on basically anything that's not MacOS. Windows and Linux arbitrarily insist on 3-line scrolling in a lot of apps.…
Google has you covered on the smugness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rykmwn0SMWU&t=42s They specifically called out Apple for losing the jack, and a year later the Pixel 2 didn't have one either.
I hadn't realized that they didn't sell them with just the integrated GPU anymore. Combined with the reduced battery, that seems like a poor decision. As far as I'm aware, you've never been able to fully disable the…
- Escape button is on the touchbar - Touchbar at all - Battery reduced from 99 whr to 76 whr - Lost magnetic charging port - Lost every other useful port - Keyboard generally considered worse I currently have a 15"…
Brighthouse did it before they became Spectrum. They did allow me to turn it off though. I've heard that this is still the case with Spectrum, but I haven't tested.
I don't recall anybody ever having a kind word to say about them. As I recall the product used to be the cheapest Atheros chips the vendor could find plus a proprietary driver that was snake oil and bugs. Not better…
The previous model of the Retina Macbook Pro 15" (the one without the touchbar) had a 99 watt hour battery, which is right at the limit for what they'll allow you to take on a plane. The new one with the touchbar is 76…