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It's generally not great form as a 2 day old account on HN to be copying and pasting the same stuff all over. Some of your language also looks a bit unusual: you're replying to thr…

Why should he have to afford heavy security? Why is this behavior normal?

Looking forward to the follow up post, State of Bunker 2029.

This isn't really surprising from the UK. If you go back 15-20 years, taxing a vehicle to drive on public roads used to involve displaying a "Tax Disc" in your windscreen, on the o…

This exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

Happy New Year, HN!

A fair number of sites hosted and operated outside the European Union reacted to GDPR by instituting blocks of EU users, many returning HTTP 451. Regardless of whether you believe …

https://x.com/filosottile/status/987376021589692416?s=21 I'm not sure that counts as an impeccable track record.

For me, Firefox and without iCloud Private Relay engaged, Maxmind is within about 2km and doesn't get the city correct (but we're right on a border), and IPinfo is about 15km as th…

Why does your website just say “ROFLMAO” — pretty hard to take seriously.

There’s a middle ground: For cloud-like provisioning experiences and paying by the hour you can use DigitalOcean, Vultr, or alternatives. Deploying GPUs? Something like CoreWeave m…

I’m hoping that they finally execute an M4 Extreme, oriented towards Mac Pro. There was rumor they’d do this in M2 era but it didn’t come to pass unfortunately. https://9to5mac.com…

Be aware that discussing anything in the CM5 Forward Guidance document is tricky, the document still says - "This whitepaper is restricted and covered by the Raspberry Pi Ltd non-d…

They get installed in stuff like the Home Assistant Yellow, or the Timecard Mini. https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/time-card-mini-adds-p…

Eben Upton was refusing to be drawn on specifics when Jeff Geerling and others chatted to him [1] about roadmaps recently. Nevertheless, the rumor is that CM5 will be drop-in compa…

Every 12 months or so because it’s mostly automated with netboot.xyz and Ansible.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS went EOL in May 2023 for anyone not paying Canonical for ESM, so their choice to not build for it seems entirely reasonable.

Best for what, and for whom? Just saying “Best Distro” feels like an extraordinary claim. To give two examples of where it might not be best — running Fedora on a server, or runnin…

Brilliant was a Smart Home company who made light switches you could install, replacing your existing ones. They only offered cloud control and APIs were private — they actively re…