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kiney commented on Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie lwn.net/Articles/1033474/... · Posted by u/signa11

These kinds of statements suit servers with high availability requirements but really shouldn’t be made without context. Adding the Mozilla Debian Firefox repos probably won’t break anything catastrophic, and the time cost / risk of containers is non zero too.

I’ve had more trouble and time wasted with snap Firefox than I’ve had with official Mozilla repos under both Debian and Ubuntu.

kiney · a day ago

flatpak is not snap

kiney commented on Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie lwn.net/Articles/1033474/... · Posted by u/signa11

scorpioxy · a day ago

Installed trixie a few days ago and test driving it and it's been going very well. Coming from Ubuntu so it wasn't a big change but initially I went with Ubuntu many years ago due to its reputation in making Debian a more user-friendly distribution. I can say that my experience with trixie was quite friendly. This may have been the case for a few releases but I was invested in the Ubuntu platform so didn't see the need to switch.

Was bummed to see firefox at version 128 as I've been missing features from the more recent versions. I don't know how I'm going to address that yet as I prefer not to add external apt sources, if I can. This is on a desktop system so somewhat recent versions of software is desirable.

What do other people do for desktop systems? Go with testing/unstable or just another distro for desktops?

kiney · a day ago

if you want a newer firefox use flatpak, don't pollute your system with unofficial debs or source installs

kiney commented on 1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” historyofinformation.com/... · Posted by u/thomassmith65

croisillon · 17 days ago

so in french there is an expression derived from this, condemning/forbidding can be called "putting things on the index" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mettre_%C3%A0_l%27index), and "index" is also the name of the pointer finger... so in 1990 a politician said (about a bishop, or was it about the pope himself?): "he doesn't understand how condom is to be used since he put it on the index"

kiney · 17 days ago

same in germany

kiney commented on Vibechart vibechart.net/... · Posted by u/datadrivenangel

djhn · 22 days ago

Is there an MCP or API to do that? Can it take a template and layout and produce coherent sentences in a consistent format?

kiney · 22 days ago

just let it create plaintext files like latex

kiney commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz

paulluuk · 2 months ago

Interesting, I also just installed Firefox because of OPs comment, and I'm amazed at how much faster it is then Chrome.

kiney · 2 months ago

For me it depends on open tabs: with modern firefox 4 digit number of open tabs on a 64GB machine is no problem. Chromium crawls to a halt at low 3 digits.

kiney commented on I don't think AGI is right around the corner dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-... · Posted by u/mooreds

kadushka · 2 months ago

Are you ready to lose your job, permanently?

kiney · 2 months ago

looking forward to it

kiney commented on We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible medium.com/@accounts_7307... · Posted by u/sksjvsla

jillesvangurp · 2 months ago

> We rebuilt key AWS features ourselves

At what cost? People usually exclude the cost of DIY style hosting. Which usually is the most expensive part. Providing 24x7 support for the stuff that you've home grown alone is probably going to make large dent into any savings you got by not outsourcing that to amazon.

> $24,000 annual bill felt disproportionate

That's around 1-2 months of time for a decent devops freelancer. If you underpay your devs, about 1/3rd of an FTE per year. And you are not going to get 24x7 support with such a budget.

This still could make sense. But you aren't telling the full story here. And I bet it's a lot less glamorous when you factor in development time for this.

Don't get me wrong; I'm actually considering making a similar move but more for business reasons (some of our German customers really don't like US hosting companies) than for cost savings. But this will raise cost and hassle for us and I probably will need some re-enforcements on my team. As the CTO, my time is a very scarce commodity. So, the absolute worst use of my time would be doing this myself. My focus should be making our company and product better. Your techstack is fine. Been there done that. IMHO Terraform is overkill for small setups like this; fits solidly in the YAGNI category. But I like Ansible.

kiney · 2 months ago

your implicit assumption that AWS requires less (exoensive) labour is just not true

kiney commented on Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023) hal.science/hal-04179324v... · Posted by u/exceptione

msgodel · 2 months ago

I think spotify doesn't work without it but I switched back to keeping all my music local long ago.

kiney · 2 months ago

ok, never used that...

kiney commented on Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023) hal.science/hal-04179324v... · Posted by u/exceptione

JCattheATM · 2 months ago

I flat out have DRM disabled in my browser. If I really really need it, then that's what VMs and VPNs are for.

kiney · 2 months ago

I'm curious what are those use-cases where you really need it? I have DRM disabled since forever and never experience any problems that I can relate to that.