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giis

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About giis

Founder www.webminal.org

FOSS Programmer.Winner of FOSS India Awards. Storage projects: www.giis.co.in

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    As soon as I read this >Shared dev boxes, shell-as-a-service, jump hosts, build servers — anywhere multiple users share a kernel. any user becomes root jumped out of bed and went s…

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    Comment #47752321

    Yes, GIF in PR is really nice in my view too :) Our reproduction runs in a sandboxed per-repo environment that we re-verify the fix in before opening the PR. Would love to have you…

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    Comment #47746612

    https://neverbreak.ai that fixes failing CI and opens a PR with _proof_. Most "AI CI fix" tools read the error log and guess a patch. We actually reproduce the failure, fix it then…

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    Comment #47579722

    Sure. We had quite a lot of universities and schools used this platform for their classes. I'll be away from system for next 48hrs though.Drop us a mail,will respond.

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    Comment #47579438

    Actually I opened up GitHub Sponsor just few weeks ago. Few tims i received enquiry from users (professors) who wanted to contribute back.only now i have proper channel to redirect…

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    Comment #47573457

    Only UML is the resource consuming part kept as option available on request. Rest of them all shared Shellinabox, nginx,Flask and each active user session consumes little RAM since…

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    Comment #47573387

    There will be little latency if you access from different region. Server located at Singapore. From India, I checked right now directly via this link https://www.webminal.org/termi…

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    Comment #47572777

    Thanks, most of these came out restriction, we cant afford to throw money on horizontal scaling (adding more server,load server etc). So we kind of forced to try out new things to …

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    Comment #47572703

    Until few days server ago was using 8GB and I did a cost cutting measure and its running on 4GB server for last week or so. :)

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    Comment #47571833

    In past I have seen around 10 process, but I think with current setup, it could support around upto 20 UML. Remember this runs on the same server where others login and get their n…

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    Comment #47571793

    It began as on-prem, Freston hosted in his house (we shared server cost, some people called it crazy, because I sent money to someone I met in Linuxforums.org and never seen this p…

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    Comment #47571582

    Yes, User mode linux pretty cool project. If I'm not wrong, UML is kind of predecessor to gvisor or firecracker from a different era.

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    Comment #47571156

    Sure thanks, Let me know if you have feedback.

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    Show HN: PostgreSQL backup manager with BTRFS block-level deduplication

    I wrote BTRFS block level de-duplication sometime in 2020 as use-case for a patch sent in 2015 https://stackoverflow.com/a/34163236 and now after 6 more years created an use-case f…

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    Comment #46147268

    Yes, I know the risk involved. Just 1 or 2 trades per day not more. Always used the amount that I can afford to lose. No gambling.

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    Comment #46117995

    Quantitative Trading Co-Founder | US https://0dte.tech/ Seeking US-based co-founder with _strong_ FOSS credentials to establish and operate quantitative trading firm. Prior Trading…

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    Comment #44810086

    To be honest, I do regret it. After 20 years of working on FOSS projects, I've invested enormous amounts of time, effort, and money into these and other free/open-source initiative…

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    Comment #42389850

    Looks nice. Is it possible start_chrome() with specific chrome browser profile name or re-use existing open firefox/chrome browser session and launch a new tab with specific domain…

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    Comment #41816396

    If you have recent kernel version and using ext4, case insensitivity for specific directory can be enabled using casefold feature. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5589…