lars_francke

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Working on an Open-Source Data Platform based on Kubernetes as a founder of Stackable https://stackable.tech - You can reach me at [email protected]
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As someone working in standardization: I don't know any standardization organization where the people doing the actual work of writing standards are paid for their work. I certainly am not.

In the organizations I know - including ISO - the money is basically exclusively spent on "overhead".

Comment · 6 months ago
Because of bureacratic overhead. We did employee people from other EU countries in the past because I personally honestly don't care where someone is from or where someone lives. But you need to learn the rules of every country. And they are often subtly different. We even struggle with UK & Germany already. It's annoying. And we have like 0,1 FTE to take care of HR stuff and anything "out of the ordinary" eats into that time and money budget.

The rules need to change. The rules will not change. So we're stuck.

Comment · 6 months ago
It's not us. It's the customers that struggle with the pace already. In the enterprise world we operate in having more than one release a year is already considered breakneck speed.
Comment · 7 months ago
Thank you :)
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Comment · 9 months ago
Because that's what everyone is used to.

Maplibre supports different projections if you want.

Comment · 9 months ago
This is a terrible idea in my opinion and it's been tried/is being tried by services like thanks.dev. Yes, we need something here but this is not it. The reality is more complex.

It doesn't work well in practice. Because then people like https://github.com/sindresorhus?tab=repositories&type=source would get a shit ton of money because of the pure number of dependencies. And yes our stack also contains his code somewhere in a debug UI but our main product is entirely written in a different programming language with way fewer dependencies but if one of them goes away we'd be in trouble. In other words: Dependency count is not a good metric for this.

GitHub actually offers something in that direction: https://github.com/sponsors/explore

My "idea": Lots of companies will have to create SBOMs anyway. Take all of those but also scan your machines and take all the open source software running on there (your package.lock does not contain VLC etc.) and throw it in a big company wide BOM, then somehow prioritise those using algorithms, data and just manual voting and then upload that to some distributor who then distributes this to all the relevant organisations and people and then (crucially) sends me (as a company) an invoice.

We've tried doing the right thing but sponsoring is hard - it works differently for every project/foundation and the administrative overhead is huge.

The reality is that "we" as an open-source community suck at taking money and I believe this is partially on us.

Comment · 11 months ago
A battery truck is allowed to have 42 tons.

I'm no expert but a far stretch but if this most basic fact is already wrong then my trust in the remaining stuff diminishes. On top of that they is only relevant if all truck loads were limited by weight.

So, I believe that argument to be wrong in its entirety. And if we then factor in the CO2 costs, hydrogen is the clear loser in all regards.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
In case it makes you feel better: I wondered the same thing. It's not explained anywhere on the blog post. In that poste they assume everyone knows how pricing works already I guess.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm using a different approach for local testing where I don't want to redownload images over and over: https://github.com/stackabletech/k8s-local-dev

Basically it's a k3s configured to use a local mirror and that local mirror is running the Zot registry (https://zotregistry.dev/v2.1.8/). It is configured to automatically expired old images so my local hard drive isn't filled up).

Comment · 1 year ago
That is not true.

There is a process, it's usually tedious but it exists. I did it for Singapore, the US and Israel. They mostly took multiple months but I never wanted to take any chances. For the US it was a "B-1 in lieu of H-1B" visa for example.

Attending a conference is something different than what these workers did. There are rules around what a "business trip" is and what is not and what "work" is.

Comment · 1 year ago
Please don't run them at night to protect animals like hedgehogs and others that are active at night.

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