The urge to move to Codeberg grows with every passing day.
Readit Newspojntfx commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david
Reading this was so so refreshing. People seem to be using Linux instead of MacBooks, all of the posts linked go to Mastodon instead of Twitter, everything mentioned is OSS ... feels like a parallel world compared to how hackathons (esp. LLM-related ones) are here in NA these days
Some excerpts:
Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA):
"Ensure that electronic services providers (ESPs) have the capabilities in place to support law enforcement agencies and CSIS in criminal and intelligence investigations by requiring them to fulfil lawfully authorized requests to access or intercept information and communications."
"Clarify the ability of law enforcement to exercise specific powers and seize specific information without a warrant in urgent, time-sensitive circumstances (e.g., live abuse of a child);"
Canada Post Corporation Act:
"Remove barriers that prevent police from searching mail, where authorized to do so in accordance with an Act of Parliament, to carry out a criminal investigation."
Hey HN! We've built a system that lets you run any application on spot instances without worrying about preemption. It works by running VMs on top of VMs - without the need for nested virtualization or hardware acceleration support - by integrating our open-source projects: Drafter (https://github.com/loopholelabs/drafter - handles VM live migration), PVM (https://github.com/loopholelabs/linux-pvm-ci - enables nested virtualization without hardware support), and Silo (https://github.com/loopholelabs/silo - provides efficient live storage migration over the public internet). The cool part is that we can migrate workloads between spot instances faster than they get preempted, with no dropped connections - even across different cloud providers and regions.
While there are other solutions that try to handle spot instance preemption through checkpointing, we take a fundamentally different approach by making preemption irrelevant through continuous state capture and seamless migration. We showed this off at KubeCon NA 2024 by migrating a Redis pod between AWS, GCP, and Azure while maintaining active client connections.
All core components are open source, including our Firecracker patches (https://github.com/loopholelabs/firecracker/tree/main-live-m...). We're currently in the process of launching with GitHub Actions runners that can safely run on spot instances (which are 75%+ cheaper!) without risk of interruption, even for long-running builds and stateful workloads at https://architect.run/.
More info in the linked blog post! Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the technical implementation and potential use cases.
The idea of privacy has been thoroughly frustrated. Today, there's no expectation of privacy any more, let alone “reasonable expectation of privacy”. Expecting privacy has become unreasonable by definition.
> Expecting privacy has become unreasonable by definition.
*in the US that is. Basically everywhere else, esp. Europe, has been moving into the complete opposite direction here. There is _more_ privacy rights - and recourse, like the right to delete - then there has been at any point in the past.
pojntfx commented on Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks by Default phoronix.com/news/Linux-M... · Posted by u/mikece
Wow, this include VS Code https://flathub.org/apps/com.visualstudio.code
Yeah, Microsoft doesn't really support Flatpak. VSCodium is verified though and there isn't really any reason to use the proprietary VSCode anymore these days: https://flathub.org/apps/com.vscodium.codium
pojntfx commented on Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare techradar.com/computing/c... · Posted by u/segasaturn
A lot of people try and deflect from Bluesky's governance issues by pointing at the fact that you _could_, in theory, self-host it or use another instance to bypass it. In practice though, that's something almost nobody does (unlike with the fediverse), which allows the company behind it to make decisions like this for effectively everyone with no checks whatsoever.