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I have a 36GB MBP M3, basically running slack, zed, a markdown editor, Claude Desktop and Conductor with Claude Code. I have docker running (Orbstack actually) with no containers running, and it seems conductor is…

Click login, get sent an email link that you have to first wait to be delivered (sometimes takes a full minute, sometimes you have to resend the link). Sometimes the link goes to spam, sometimes you have to search for…

I am building an application and I do not indent to use token by reference, so using JWTs. But there is a requirement that admins need to be able to revoke user sessions, which would require storing revoked unexpired…

Why is it that clicking on the title of HN entry takes you to the external link, but clicking on the actual link in front of it, takes you to the discussion?

Not too long ago, everyone started putting users through authentication hell in favor of requiring 2FA. I settled on 1Password. Setting aside the "2FA on same storage as passwords" argument, this flow is pretty secure.…

This is a game changer, since this keeps me form having to roll my own Minio. I was considering moving from S3 to R2, but if I can keep all traffic away from the internet until it needs to leave, that is ideal to me.…

Traveled to SA, Uber worked for the first day, then all payments started failing and it asks me to try another payment method. I tried 3 different methods, none work. There is no phone support for Uber, you have to hope…

I have a paid account (ChatGPT plus), and supposedly it can take in a file, like a PDF and allow you to chat with it about he PDF. I says it's able to take in up to 100mb files, bit even with 3mb files I noticed the…

For me it always fails saying there are encoding issues with the file. I've fed it simple PDFs that I exported from markdown, and I've fed it Linkedin exported resumes, etc. Never once succeeded.

I’ve had Roku tvs for about 8 years, and the screen saver was always a mystery/spooky city, invaded by monsters. Then, while in the US, I turned on a Roku tv at an Airbnb, and the screensaver was riddled with ads and I…

I just got access to bing chat, and they asked me to also download Edge. I downloaded it but I'm so reluctant to have anything microsoft in my life (except VSCode), that somehow I'm willing to tolerate Google over them.…

Until 2019, I used uber everytime I traveled abroad. Then one day, suddenly I login and it logs me out, says my account is blocked. There was no way for me to reach support or figure out why. We've been using my wife's…

As a parent I have a hard time finding good apps for my daughter (games, education and others). They’re usually crap, but all of them have in common that are all subscription based. Games are the biggest offenders,…

It's like multiple times every day someone has some Wordle post or implementation. Why are they all making it to the top of the front page? To me it looks so much like spam posting and getting very annoying, what are…

I've setup several k8s clusters on bare metal in the last few years, and by far the biggest challenges are storage and control plane corruption. The last one is usually due to multiple etcd failure modes (corruption,…

I'm assuming a lot here, but I believe many recent data breaches are due to some company leaving their servers wide open. I'm assuming a lot here, but its reasonable that most deployments today are containerized, and if…