blue_cookeh (u/blue_cookeh)

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

wg0 · 4 months ago

Kubernetes is never maturing. It keeps moving. An installation just a year ago would have things that would require significant planning to upgrade.

What is missing is an open source orchestrator that has a feature freeze and isn't Nomad or docker swarm.

blue_cookeh · 4 months ago

I don't really get this mentality targing K8s specifically nowadays - perhaps that was true in the early days but I'm managing several clusters that are all a few years old at this point. Cluster services like Cilium, Traefik, etc are all managed through ArgoCD the same as our applications... every so often I go through the automated PRs for infra services, check for breaking changes and hit merge. They go to dev/staging/prod as tests pass.

I think services take me literally half an hour a month or so to deal with unless something major has changed, and a major K8s version upgrade where I roll all nodes is a few hours.

If people are deploying clusters and not touching them for a year+ then like any system you're going to end up with endless tech debt that takes "significant planning" to upgrade. I wouldn't do a distro upgrade between Ubuntu LTS releases without expecting a lot of work, in fact I'd probably just rebuild the server(s) using tool of choice.

blue_cookeh commented on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/alecmuffett

PaulKeeble · 5 months ago

Age restricted filtering of the internet is the default on all UK mobile networks as far as I know, it might even be the law that it defaults to filtering. You have to actually ring them up and say you want the filtering switched off or some do it as part of the sign up process.

All the routers also come with filtering settings as well and ISPs ship with the filtering on by default, since that is the law and has been for several decades.

blue_cookeh · 5 months ago

It's generally just a toggle in the account settings so no need for a phone call, but yes. It is default-on when you take out a new broadband connection or mobile phone contract.

blue_cookeh commented on How to Run WordPress completely from RAM rickconlee.com/how-to-run... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

tkubacki · 5 months ago

It's always "in most cases". I simply don't see space for WordPress on green field sites anymore. If something is so small it does not require CMS - it's better to use pure HTML. Otherwise "in most cases" it's better to use headless CMS.

blue_cookeh · 5 months ago

Do you work with non-technical users? There are few (none that I'm actually aware of) static site generators that are friendly enough for a comms team in a large enterprise for example. I note that Strapi also puts key features such as SSO behind an Enterprise pay wall... so that's already a massive negative.

WordPress has it's place, a blanket no against one of the most popular CMSes on the Internet is a pretty hot take.

blue_cookeh commented on Domain Sniped on Launch Day kill-saas.com/posts/domai... · Posted by u/skilldeliver

blue_cookeh · a year ago

Honestly, there have been so many businesses and individuals that lose out on their domain because they just didn't buy it as soon as they saw it was available. I don't understand why - in the grand scheme of things a 5, 10 or even $100 domain isn't going to break the bank. Just buy the thing as soon as you find it and avoid this mess.

blue_cookeh commented on Is Wordpress.org GDPR Compliant? shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/... · Posted by u/robin_reala

rikafurude21 · a year ago

Just to be clear, getting banned from a slack got you mad enough to spend weeks (?) arguing with some random guy over email about GDPR - all because you desperately need to know what was said about you in a groupchat? And then you write an article about your experience to get sympathy on HN?

blue_cookeh · a year ago

An operation as large as Wordpress.com or .org should be GDPR compliant. I don't see any cry for sympathy here but more that OP is holding someone to a baseline standard expected of entities operating in Europe.

blue_cookeh commented on Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers github.com/steelbrain/ffm... · Posted by u/steelbrain

steelbrain · a year ago

Thanks! I developed this primarily for plex & jellyfin after struggling with Tdarr myself. For people running plex/jellyfin in containers, it's as simple as mounting the client binary at the ffmpeg path (using docker -v) and adding the config somewhere accessible (also using docker -v? lots of options here).

blue_cookeh · a year ago

Does this work well with Plex and if so, what binary are you replacing? Last I looked they used a customised fork of ffmpeg which meant replacing it was more awkward. It would be a nice way to avoid passing a GPU through to a virtual machine.

blue_cookeh commented on The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 venturebeat.com/games/the... · Posted by u/tosh

dybber · a year ago

My biggest issue with Flight Simulator 2020 doesn’t seem to be addressed.

It contains tutorials on how to control the planes, but no storyline, no built in missions. If you are motivated by a narrative, this is not a game for you. It only does the simulation, but doesn’t really help people get into the game through a kind of narrative.

I have no desire to learn all the details of an aircrafts controls. I might have that, if there was a reason for me to learn those things, as a motivating story that would drag me in. I think it’s an enormous missed opportunity in terms of making the game appeal to a wider audience.

I still hope it will be there in 2024 edition, but this interview didn’t give me much hope.

blue_cookeh · a year ago

This is already confirmed as at least somewhat implemented. There are missions for things like search and rescue, farming, and oil rigs. There's also a new avatar mode to enable doing virtual walk arounds and the like.

https://msfsaddons.com/2024/09/19/heres-how-the-career-mode-...

blue_cookeh commented on Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL grafana.com/blog/2024/04/... · Posted by u/matryer

wsatb · 2 years ago

I'll preface this with the fact I haven't look at Loki in a bit, so maybe this has changed. But I found the documentation needing a lot of work and the configuration for promtail to be obtuse and not very user friendly. I haven't used it for those reasons, not because of the query language.

blue_cookeh · 2 years ago

It's also incredibly easy to shoot yourself in the foot and rack up huge cloud bills - something we recently hit: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/8756

blue_cookeh commented on UK middle classes 'struggling despite incomes of up to £60k a year' theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

blue_cookeh · 2 years ago

I can't help but feel the only way to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the UK at this point is to be a couple (alongside realistic expectations around housing location, too many people are hell bent on London for some reason). As a single person, getting on the property ladder and keeping your head above water on £60k would be difficult, yet as a childless dual income (DINK) couple it's a comfortable life in the Midlands or North of the country. If you add children to the mix, suddenly it's very difficult again.

The tax burden is insane nowadays. The 40% bracket is frozen at an insanely low level until at least 2028 AFAIK - it's hugely demoralising to know that anything I earn outside of my day job is taxed at 40% unless I want to squirrel the money away into a pension or buy shit I don't need to reduce my tax bill.

blue_cookeh commented on NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach goodlawproject.org/nhs-to... · Posted by u/rokkitmensch

cedws · 2 years ago

I just don't get it. NHS needs a big data platform so they go to a... spy tech company? Why are they so insistent that it must be Palantir that builds this, instead of choosing from a dozen of other consulting companies that don't have a dodgy track record?

Ideally the NHS would just build it in house, but sadly it's a slow and bloated organisation unable to innovate (as most government managed things usually become).

blue_cookeh · 2 years ago

> Ideally the NHS would just build it in house, but sadly it's a slow and bloated organisation unable to innovate (as most government managed things usually become).

This is patently false, a narrative often parroted by people who don't understand or have never worked in the NHS.

There are many intelligent people in technical/digital roles in the NHS that innovate on a daily basis - heck, many build systems internally at a hugely reduced cost compared to outsourcing yet decisions come from parliament/gov agencies that overrule internal decision making and waste insane amounts of cash on vanity projects, or scrapping internal work to be redone by the likes of Accenture.