terrywang

Joined 15 years ago

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/terrywang; my proof: https://keybase.io/terrywang/sigs/zthLkcqteNeFOwZCg_kAKkgJfK7rOiZABzO0Ujnkf-E ]
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Comment · 11 months ago
The good old Internet was "del.icio.us".
Comment · 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing. Gemini CLI doing live troubleshooting for a K8s cluster is surreal. I am keen to try that out, since I have just created RKE2 clusters.
Comment · 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing, insightful.

Personally, I consider Antigravity was a positive & ambitious launch. Initial impression was that there are many rough edges to be smoothed out. I hit many errors like 1. communicating with Gemini (Model-as-a-Service) 2. Agent execution terminated due to errors, etc., but somehow it completed the task (verification/review UX is bad).

Pricing for paid plans with AI Pro or Workspace would be key for its adoption, when Gemini 3.x and Antigravity IDE are ready for serious work.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Great idea to let the bullets fly. After taking a nap, the issue was fixed by X

Text message and Authenticator were disabled, two Yubikeys present in Security Keys. I don't get the idea of this process.

Comment · 11 months ago
Uh-oh, looks like the only way out is to unenroll security key completely (if it was enrolled when DNS rebrand was not done).
Comment · 11 months ago
Prompted a couple of times only on the mobile device. I have a YibiKey 4 so it's inconvenient to do it with a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Ignored it for a while and eventually I wasn't able to use X without "re-enroll".

So I did it on a laptop. The process seemed legit, the entire flow was weird and not intuitive, I had to stop and read twice before proceeding (e.g. "Where to store passkey", disable all other MFA ans only use Security Key, a backup recovery code was given...). After going through all that, find myself locked out of X because of the infinite re-enroll loop, OMG.

Contacted support, let's see how long it takes. After this, I don't think I'll continue to use Security Key with X...

Comment · 3 years ago
BimmerCode / BimmerLink makes coding/customising supported BMW models even easier, as long as you've got a mobile device and an adaptor (e.g. OBD II to Bluetooth, inexpensive), you can DIY coding and obtain visibility into a lot of the car runtime parameters (e.g. engine oil temperature, boost, etc.) - can connect a screen and display whatever you like, turn off the pesky `ASD` (fake exhaust sound pumped into the cabin via speakers...).

What's more amazing these days is that technology like `bootmod3` (bm3) makes flashing (remmaping) stage one as easy as 1-2-3. One needs to understand what they are doing though.

Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the input. Had similar experience with solution based on top of on-prem flavour (gravity - name came from pulling stuff from cloud back into traditional data centre) of k8s. Countless effort and resources have been wasted on troubleshooting customers' infrastructure rather than focusing on the real goal, get apps/APIs up and running quickly to generate value and realise goals for the business. The solution ultimately become a burden to both engineering and customers... Long sad / bad story.

Fortunately, decision makes heard the voice from the field and customers, eventually offloaded the container orchestration layer (and underlying infrastructure) to managed k8s service provider, the solution is delivered as helm charts to be installed on customers' own managed k8s (EKS, AKS, GKE and OpenShift - oh, the Red Hat OpenShi(f)t is just another rabbit hole...). But again, lack of knowledge and hands-on skill operating / running k8s (not yet a commodity although it is hyped to be...) makes the journey quite turbulent from a business PoV (technically it's easy, built the skills in house, hire the right talents).

Comment · 4 years ago
Make sure you read it ;-) I tried to finish reading it in 5 mins but fell asleep on bed, didn’t finish until now, will do that after getting up.
Comment · 4 years ago
Started using Cockpit when installing Fedora 21 on the old dog NAS - HP ProLiant MicroServer N54l), it has been continuously improved over time and become a easy to use & robust Web UI for beginners (very intuitive, e.g. enabling metric collection will trigger toggling `pmlogger.service` and so on), even CLI warriors love it as a supplement.

Found it a useful single point of view / administration covering networking, storage, virtualization, containerization, etc. when managing a small group of servers over nebula (overlay network), across home, multiple cloud service providers. Haven't used it at scale though, will dip into it when time comes (it supports FreeIPA).

Comment · 4 years ago
The problem with running Pi-hole on the Pi 1 (original) is that it does not have enough physical memory after installing pi-hole stack (I used Nginx + php-fpm for the web UI), otherwise there is way to use utils like `vmtouch` to read the sqlite database file and keep it in page cache, even "lock" it.

On Pi 2 and 3 it's no longer an issue (even if you don't do anything about it) to a memory buff and better I/O (using faster micro SD).

Pi-hole provides a mechanism to backup and rotate the database from time to time, one can do that whatever way suits their use cases.

Comment · 4 years ago
Running Pi-hole on the original Pi (1) model B for over a year and really happy with it. The original Pi running Raspbian has been very reliable and working tirelessly, the only problem is the I/O bottleneck - performance querying SQLite database is unbearable.

Last Nov I spent half day installing Pi-hole on spare Pi 2 and Pi 3 (Ubuntu LTS) serving as two internal DNS Servers for home network), router (AsusWrt-Merlin) as its upstream doing DoT (DNS over HTTPS). Really happy with the performance and cost (quite, low power consumption, no heating issue, no dust collection issue, etc.)

Comment · 4 years ago
Attracted by the title, clicked thru and interestingly found the website is named "Windows Central".

It has been the fact for me since 2003, not for gaming though ;-) Don't get me wrong, I do think gaming on Linux is cool and it helped at picking up new "Linux desktop" users.

What's more interesting is, with WSLg it is even possible to run GUI (X / Wayland).

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