Grimburger (u/Grimburger)

Grimburger commented on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/TheApplicant

MrDarcy · a month ago

Love haproxy but if we’re shilling projects istio is superior. Multi cluster, hbone, ambient.

Grimburger · a month ago

> istio is superior

It's also eating a significant amount of your compute and memory

Grimburger commented on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/TheApplicant

mrweasel · a month ago

You can manage and reason about ~2000+ servers without Kubernetes, even with a relatively small team, say about 100 - 150, depending on what kind of business you're in. I'd recommend either Puppet, Ansible (with AWX) and/or Ubuntu Landscape (assuming that your in the Ubuntu ecosystem).

Kubernetes is for rather special case environments. I am coming around to the idea of using Kubernetes more, but I still think that if you're not provisioning bare-metal worker nodes, then don't bother with Kubernetes.

The problem is that Kubernetes provides orchestration which is missing, or at least limited, in the VM and bare-metal world, so I can understand reaching for Kubernetes, because it is providing a relatively uniform interface for your infrastructure. It just comes at the cost of additional complexity.

Generally speaking I think people need to be more comfortable with build packages for their operating system of choice and install applications that way. Then it's mostly configuration that needs to be pushed and that simplifies things somewhat.

Grimburger · a month ago

> You can manage and reason about ~2000+ servers without Kubernetes, even with a relatively small team, say about 100 - 150

Oh wow, so uh... I'm managing around 1000 nodes over 6 clusters, alone. There's others able to handle things when I'm not around or on leave and meticulously updated docs for them to do so but in general am the only one touching our infra.

I also do dev work the other half of the week for our company.

Ask your boss if he needs a hand :)

Grimburger commented on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wr... · Posted by u/speckx

latexr · 2 months ago

> trash a.txt b.png moves `a.txt` and `b.png` to the trash. Supports macOS and Linux.

The way you’re doing it trashes files sequentially, meaning you hear the trashing sound once per file and ⌘Z in the Finder will only restore the last one. You can improve that (I did it for years) but consider just using the `trash` commands which ships with macOS. Doesn’t use the Finder, so no sound and no ⌘Z, but it’s fast, official, and still allows “Put Back”.

> jsonformat takes JSON at stdin and pretty-prints it to stdout.

Why prioritise node instead of jq? The latter is considerably less code and even comes preinstalled with macOS, now.

> uuid prints a v4 UUID. I use this about once a month.

Any reason to not simply use `uuidgen`, which ships with macOS and likely your Linux distro?

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/uuidgen.1.html

Grimburger · 2 months ago

Shoutout to rip as an alternative to rm and trash:

https://github.com/nivekuil/rip

Grimburger commented on Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/GavinAnderegg

killingtime74 · 2 months ago

For me as an employee in Australia, I could buy this and write it off my tax as a work expense myself. To rent, it would be much more cumbersome, involving the company. That's 45% off (our top marginal tax rate).

Grimburger · 2 months ago

> That's 45% off (our top marginal tax rate)

Can people please not listen to this terrible advice that gets repeated so oft, especially in Australian IT circles somehow by young naive folks.

You really need to talk to your accountant here.

It's probably under 25% in deduction at double the median wage, little bit over @ triple, and that's *only* if you are using the device entirely for work, as in it sits in an office and nowhere else, if you are using it personally you open yourself up to all sorts of drama if and when the ATO ever decides to audit you for making a $6k AUD claim for a computing device beyond what you normally to use to do your job.

Grimburger commented on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO waymo.com/blog/#short-all... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

shakna · 3 months ago

There are already self-driving trucks on the roads. Their pilots came earlier, because the problem space is much smaller.

They don't need to "catch up" to Waymo, because of the niche.

https://bigrigs.com.au/2024/04/18/driverless-trucks-trial-be...

Grimburger · 3 months ago

I see Australia in the article and pardon my rampant scepticism, simply don't believe it.

Lo and behold:

>A six-month trial of driverless trucks on public Victorian roads has been put on hold just hours before it was meant to begin after the transport union labelled it “shambolic” and “sneaky”

> "the futures of our truck drivers are jeopardised due to this poorly executed plan."

> “It’s unacceptable that these trials are being pushed by corporations that continue to disadvantage our hard-working mums and dads that work day in, day out to carry Victorians.”

Now this sounds far more like the Australia I know.

Looks like the entire trial was scrapped due to union pressure and never resumed. Same reason we can't even have Driver-Only Operation on NSW trains, despite specifically purchasing DOO trains that operate safely worldwide.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/-shambolic---victorian-dr...

Grimburger commented on Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day english.kyodonews.net/art... · Posted by u/_p2zi

averageRoyalty · 4 months ago

> You definitely need a source for that comment given that it only just happened.

I don't know a lot about the impact, but this happened about 2 years ago in multiple states. Here's some thoughts from those who have looked further:

https://thepostsa.au/education/2025/03/26/more-laughter-more...https://theconversation.com/we-looked-at-all-the-recent-evid...https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/mobile-phone-ban-impro...

Grimburger · 4 months ago

> https://thepostsa.au

Anyone can read that site and make up their minds about the scientific merit of it's claims.

I assume it's very intentional that it's right down the bottom in tiny text that's it state government owned media vehicle

> https://theconversation.com/we-looked-at-all-the-recent-evid...

"Our team screened 1,317 articles and reports as well as dissertations from masters and PhD students. We identified 22 studies that examined schools before and after phone bans."

"Our research found four studies that identified a slight improvement in academic achievement when phones were banned in schools. However, two of these studies found this improvement only applied to disadvantaged or low-achieving students."

"In a sign of just how little research there is on this topic, 12 of the studies we identified were done by masters and doctoral students. This means they are not peer-reviewed"

Do you really want to keep wasting people's times here because I'm more than happy to debate it with someone who actually cares.

Nothing in that article suggests it's of overwhelming benefit. I'm talking much bigger than teachers having an easier job too, education outcomes like this take decades to be seen.

> https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/mobile-phone-ban-impro...

>gov.au/media-releases/

Mate you've spammed us all with the first things you've found on google. Correct?

Grimburger commented on Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day english.kyodonews.net/art... · Posted by u/_p2zi

lll-o-lll · 4 months ago

Smartphones are banned at school in Aus, for a strong net positive. Kids still sneak them into toilets and so on (and vapes), but the overwhelming impact has been positive.

Grimburger · 4 months ago

> but the overwhelming impact has been positive

You definitely need a source for that comment given that it only just happened.

Smartphones are neutral pieces of technology. It can create the next Einstein or radicalise the next terrorist, the 1's and 0's don't mind.

Why not ban them at universities also? Are these kids suddenly protected the moment they leave high school?

Like your opinion I have my own, and banning smartphones in Australian high schools will turn out to be overwhelmingly negative for outcomes. I predict it will be reversed and looked back upon as a failure.

Khan academy taught me more than dozens of different teachers. Kids are now blocked from accessing it for their entire time at school and when they would be most intruiged to learn.

Just like terrible having internet, Australians seem intent on being left behind in a hypercompetitive world.

Grimburger commented on Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years cnbc.com/2025/08/15/croat... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

FirmwareBurner · 4 months ago

>The local economy also gains from the small but continuous spend on restaurants and cafes etc

Speaking as someone living in Austria ATM, that's the worst kind of industry you want to boost if you want more money in the community, as it only creates dead-end low wage unskilled jobs(often taken by seasonal immigrants who send that money home) and is rife with cash-driven tax evasion, leading to more wealth and income disparity. If you get more and richer tourists, you won't get better paid baristas or waiters with better pension plans, but wealthier business owners who will buy more properties and flashy cars while still hiring the cheapest most desperate labor possible from abroad.

As a government, you should do the opposite, focus on attracting or creating highly skilled innovation jobs (like NL or Sweden did) and the hospitality jobs will follow naturally.

There's a reason countries where the tourism industry is a big part of the GDP, are low income countries.

Grimburger · 4 months ago

> There's a reason countries where the tourism industry is a big part of the GDP, are low income countries.

Unreal that you can't see the obvious logical flaw in this argument.

Grimburger commented on Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years cnbc.com/2025/08/15/croat... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

mattmanser · 4 months ago

I don't think it's ridiculous, you might even argue we're at "peak" digital nomad. There's definitely pushback building, here's an example from recently:

‘There’s an arrogance to the way they move around the city’: is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/lisbon-portuga...

I know the guardian can be very hand wringy, but digital nomads are going to get swept up in the general anti-migration narrative that most populaces are now feeling. Anti-mass-migration in most populations, anti-tourist in Venice, anti-nomad in Portugal.

Locals are feeling betrayed by their politicians and foreigners are an easy target to point at and say "why is this happening". The Lisbon example is especially egregious, with the digital nomads being taxed less than locals. Locals are subsidizing their lifestyles.

Grimburger · 4 months ago

> but digital nomads are going to get swept up in the general anti-migration narrative that most populaces are now feeling

Can you name one digital nomad visa that has been scrapped in the last year or two?

I can name a few dozen that have been implemented.

When I started in 2017 there was maybe 3 or 4 places you could move on Earth with a six figure USD salary as a remote worker, it was always a grey zone to go places on tourist visas but that's how people rolled and countries knew how good a deal it was for them compared to raising/educating/supporting locals so let it slide. There's over 70 legal valid options now for remote workers in 2025.

The easily proven evidence doesn't stack up with the narrative people and newspapers likes the Guardian are trying to push for clicks.

I personally couldn't care less if locals don't like me. My own countrymen are jealous about me having a good paying remote job too.

Grimburger commented on Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years cnbc.com/2025/08/15/croat... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

tmountain · 4 months ago

I live in Portugal, and there is a robust debate around this topic. It's far from ridiculous, and nationality laws are in the process of changing as a component of this discussion.

Also, many countries are "tightening down" their golden visa programs or removing them entirely. I have a friend who works for a golden visa consultancy, and they're already in the process of pivoting because of so many changes.

Grimburger · 4 months ago

> I live in Portugal, and there is a robust debate around this topic.

Assumed it was somewhere in that region because my European friends usually talk about it. Personally find it bizarre because the few thousand digital nomads are barely moving the needle compared to tourism or normal migration. It comes across as people getting very upset about a minor issue because they have rigid ideological views that prevent them from touching the main one. A convenient scapegoat but nothing will change in the slightest if the Portugese DN visa is scrapped.

You've created the easiest pathway to a EU passport and then wonder why the planet flocks there.

The simple solution here is to build enough housing to meet demand.