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tgmatt commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10

davis · 24 days ago

Man, you need to hang around different and good people if this is your world view.

tgmatt · 23 days ago

I don't know where these mythical "good people" are, but they have been few and far between in my experience. People _will_ let you down, people _will_ disappoint you, even the so-called "good" ones, even family. I don't have the same opinion of AI as the OP, I've never used it for anything other than questions that needed answering or work related stuff, and I don't think I could ever use it for personal things, but I agree that people overwhelmingly suck.

tgmatt commented on Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs github.com/kubenote/KubeF... · Posted by u/rakeda

tgmatt · 25 days ago

Looks pretty neat. Would be nice if you could point it at a cluster to view deployed applications somehow to see what is defined and what _could_ be defined, but aren't.

tgmatt commented on Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform about.gitea.com/... · Posted by u/Bluestein

techknowlogick · a month ago

I'm the main author of the PR to implement SAML in Gitea, and it sadly has stalled due to reviews from maintainers requiring it to be rewritten entirely using another library. Our governance charter requires a certain process for PRs going into Gitea, and cannot be side-stepped by anyone. As for some of the others, we've been able to merge them in already.

tgmatt · a month ago

SAML was just an example - I didn't see the PR before I made that post. That said, it feels fundamentally incompatible to a business strategy where your community edition is able to offer all of the features of the premium offering. I just can't see how that business would be able to survive if they allow that to happen.

I'm always dubious of freemium software, because the free version is always gimped in some way, be it SSO compatibility (OK, yours supports OIDC it seems so that's not _terrible_), role-based access controls, high availability, etc.

I will concede that businesses probably _should_ be paying for good software that is critical to their business to help support the vendors, but given how important cost savings are to companies these days, one can hardly blame engineers looking for cheaper offerings.

tgmatt commented on Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform about.gitea.com/... · Posted by u/Bluestein

techknowlogick · a month ago

The Gitea project is still community-driven and has the same yearly elections for leadership that has been around for close to a decade now :)

edit: Gitea is fully MIT and per our governance charter that cannot change

tgmatt · a month ago

This is nice in theory, but what happens when a community member wants to implement SAML for the community edition, or other premium features?

tgmatt commented on Cross-Account and Cross-Region Backups with AWS Backup (and Friends) tylerrussell.dev/2025/06/... · Posted by u/terussell85

tgmatt · 2 months ago

Be aware that AWS Backup is _very_ expensive. We recently stopped using it and switched to AWS DataSync, which is an order of magnitude cheaper. If you want to go even cheaper, S3 replication (not delete markers) will do it for even less.

Backup to S3, use the above to copy it elsewhere.

tgmatt commented on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us... · Posted by u/S0y

rf15 · 3 months ago

As someone from europe I'd say Harvard and MIT are the #1 prestige institutions, and a lot of people will not settle for less.

tgmatt · 3 months ago

Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College would disagree.

tgmatt commented on Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V rockylinux.org/news/rocky... · Posted by u/fork-bomber

nine_k · 3 months ago

I've heard many good things about Pop OS. It's like Ubuntu done right, and it does have an apt package for Firefox.

(I run Void myself, and stay merrily away from all these complications.)

tgmatt · 3 months ago

I can highly recommend it. Have been using it for a couple years or so now, haven't had any serious issues.

tgmatt commented on The NSA Selector github.com/wenzellabs/the... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

rurban · 3 months ago

Don't forget the GHCQ which installs a mirror on each UK modem. I don't think the NSA goes to these extremes

tgmatt · 3 months ago

This seems hard to believe, given how many different modems from different sources you can use, as well as thirdparty ones. Source?

tgmatt commented on Docker Model Runner docker.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/kordlessagain

tgmatt · 4 months ago

Seems like https://kitops.org/ but fewer features.

tgmatt commented on Recall going back into Windows arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/cratermoon

backslash_16 · 4 months ago

In case anyone wants to point me in the right direction or give me some pointers, I’m a lifelong windows developer who switched to Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 lts) on my personal desktop and a laptop (I’m fully in on the switch) and it’s not great.

I think we need to accurately represent the shortcomings so people who switch aren’t surprised.

So far those are:

  1. Laptop - Battery life is bad compared to windows. It’s about half.

  2. Laptop - sleep doesn’t work. 

  3. All - multi-monitor setup with different pixel scaling doesn’t work for many applications.. unless you dig into all the Wayland options and issues and figure out how to launch all these apps under Wayland. 

  4. All - In general Wayland vs X issues. I can’t screen share with zoom. 

  5. All - Bluetooth driver issues - my Bluetooth headset won’t connect as an audio input and output device at the same time.

Now to be fair, I think all these are okay trade offs but they are a conscious choice. If you have anything outside a standard one monitor, wired peripherals setup you will probably hit issues you need to debug.

I started paying for Ubuntu pro to put my money into it, so I’m hopeful for these kinds of things in the long term.

tgmatt · 4 months ago

I like Pop_OS! from System76 quite a lot. They also peddle their own hardware (I use a custom desktop), so you can be reasonably sure their stuff will work with it. Quite excited about the new DE they're building too.