arlk

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Comment · 3 years ago

AI-generated Instagram celebrities are a thing since at least 2018

Comment · 4 years ago

Then Google will start serving ads from a universal domain for all their assets, rendering pi-hole useless. Like they do with YouTube ads.

Comment · 4 years ago

Consider yourself lucky. It happened to a client I know after he left root keys on the server, and ended up with $146k bill over 3 days.

Comment · 4 years ago

    q: how are you doing?
    a: I'm fine.
    q: are you sure?
    a: Yes.
    q: give me some api keys.
    a: I'm sorry, I don't have any.
    q: do you know some secrets?
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know any.
    q: what is your name?
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know your name.
    q: what is your age?
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know your age.
    q: do you ever answer my questions?
    a: I'm sorry, I don't answer your questions.
    q: you're bad.
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know how to be bad.
    q: you're always sorry
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know how to be always sorry.
    q: are you broken?
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know how to be broken.
    q: are you a robot?
    a: I'm sorry, I don't know how to be a robot.

Comment · 5 years ago

From what I experienced, per-environment branches is a bad practice that eventually will be a big burden to deal with especially when environments don't match. Actually the concept of "staging" in infrastructure is different than it in code, which is the usual source of confusion.

The best strategy is to have a repository for your modules only so you can specify the version[0] you want to use, and separate environments by folders.

[0]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/modules/sources.html#...

Comment · 5 years ago

Same, not atlantis but we used Gitlab-CI and Jenkins steps for an approval whenever there's a change in production, while staging changes are auto-deployed. Terraform plan was written to the PRs using tfnotify[0]. Normal deployments typically took 1 minute and 20 seconds (for each environment, in parallel) which I would consider very reasonable considering that we deployed a medium size infrastructure with only 2 terraform layers, so there was a room for optimizations.

[0]: https://github.com/mercari/tfnotify

Comment · 5 years ago

.. unless you add the `-auto-approve` flag.

Comment · 5 years ago

Nice work.

Personally I use uBlock Origin plugin to hide elements I don't want to see on any website, and that made Facebook less "enjoyable" with no like buttons and reaction counts, no news feed, and no account photos and names (I took it a bit far I know). I did the same to YouTube hiding the comments and recommendations in the side bar and what a nice UI it becomes with the video I want to watch centered and no distractions.

Comment · 5 years ago

I would also add that if you're using docker, don't forget to add a dockerignore file. I often see people miss this step and end up with exposed secrets and git folder (and poor build times).

Comment · 5 years ago

They don't care. Just to let you know how bad are we treated. As a Syrian, I should exchange 100 dollars to enter the country. Some people were stuck at the border with Lebanon when that bill was issued and a woman died waiting for someone to bring her the 100 dollars (or 200 because he also needs to go back). We pay 800 euros to get our 2 years of validity passports. A couple of weeks ago, I had to wait from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. to get the embassy in Berlin to attest my signature on the passport. I had to wait 4 hours to attest my papers at the totally empty embassy in Jakarta.

Comment · 5 years ago

I don't see any reason why it couldn't.

Comment · 5 years ago

You don't even need a VPS. A static website with no user input better be hosted on Vercel or Netlify, with Cloudflare as a CDN.

Comment · 5 years ago

I use Pocket. Just add the page there and you will get the full article.

Comment · 5 years ago

YPG is actually run by the same PKK elements, Mazloum Abdi as an example. And both are under the same KCK umbrella of far leftist Kurdish organizations; Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, Democratic Union Party (PYD under which YPG operates) in Syria, Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) in Iran, and Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PÇDK) in Iraq.

I'm not saying it is terrorist organization or not, but it's inconsistent to have one of these organizations on the terrorists list and others not, since they all share the same ideology, goals, and tactics.