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kyrofa

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About kyrofa

kyrofa is a husband, father of seven, roboticist, and a prolific open source software developer. Contributor to Ubuntu, Nextcloud, versions 1 and 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS), as well as the snapcraft CLI and snapd, two key technologies behind snaps and Ubuntu Core.

kyrofa's day job is at Miriam Technologies, a software consulting company. In the past he's worked as a staff engineer for Canonical (the company that publishes Ubuntu), and as a roboticist for the US Department of Defense.

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    My wife is a professional photographer and Darktable is a critical part of her editing workflow. It's a truly outstanding piece of software.

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    Comment #48069280

    I don't even have a smart phone, I assume there is some sort of fallback behavior?

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    Comment #47980909

    Yeah that's all it says ANYWHERE right now ( https://status.canonical.com/ , X, etc.), but so much of their infrastructure is down. Hoping for an update before too long.

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    Comment #47980839

    It appears that 313 Team is claiming credit for this. https://www.pcmag.com/news/pro-iran-hackers-hit-ubuntus-cano... https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1t0jf3p/313_..…

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    > TL;DR my motivation and experience for moving my blog from Cloudflare to bunny.net In my experience the TLDR generally gives the motivation/experience in brief. This feels more l…

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    Comment #47537675

    Heh, server time as opposed to client time at least.

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    Comment #47537645

    > The cards observe it is Friday. They have not forgotten the Great Friday Deploy of 2021. They have not forgiven it either. It's... it's Thursday.

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    Comment #46684584

    That's not actually true: cell phone rx/tx power is quite low. We can get away with that because all they need to do is get to the nearest tower, which has a ton of power, sensitiv…

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    Comment #46501346

    Thanks Ben, I wasn't aware of that.

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    There are a number of companies/products that operate under this principle (mullvad and signal come to mind). Are you saying all of those are futile and misleading? Or are you sayi…

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    Why? That's kind of the whole point of this: they can cooperate entirely and give them everything they have. You think they'll get into legal trouble because they aren't gathering …

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    Comment #46295246

    Self-hosted gitlab here. Love it, and gitlab CI is excellent as well. Almost all product development revolves around some crappy AI integration that we don't use, and it worries me…

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    > [It] runs a heavily stripped-down version of Linux that lacks systemd and apt. And these are just a few of the issues. You mean it's not Debian-based? How is this an issue?

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    Comment #45705865

    Loved this as a kid. But as a parent, even putting it in the garage is just too much noise for my household, haha!

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    Comment #45677457

    Pretty sure Immich is on github, so I assume they have a workflow for it, but in case you're interested in this concept in general, gitlab has first-class support for this which I'…

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    Comment #44715156

    Wow, my worlds are colliding right now-- although seeing Benn on HN in retrospect shouldn't be that surprising. Go check out his music, The Flashbulb, he's one of my favorite artis…

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    Heh, I suppose you've heard of one now. Fair enough, I could be in the minority here.

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    > When a drive fails, one of the key factors in data security is how fast an array can be rebuilt into a healthy status. Of course, Amazon is just one vendor, but they have the dis…