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bert_hubert

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Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist. https://berthub.eu/

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bert_hubert, to random
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So I live in one of the most light polluted places on Earth, and still my phone managed to produce this. It must be a total sensation if you live in a dark place!

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People should have "radios, batteries and a generator" ready in the rare case of disruptions to the power grid, advises NOAA.

bert_hubert,
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@w7voa EGNOS, the European WAAS equivalent, is reporting severe degradation. Dashboard https://egnos.gsc-europa.eu/aviation-portal/aviation-dashboard

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gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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[serious, no joke replies or guesses / autotranslation please]

do I know anyone native or otherwise very fluent in Chinese who can tell me the correct term for a plated edge connector, like you might find on a PCIe card? specifically the "gold fingers" style connector feature you would find on the PCB side, not the plastic connector it slots into.

I've had an absolute nightmare trying to communicate this feature to a Shenzhen-based PCB vendor and I would like it to be easier in future.

bert_hubert,
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@gsuberland @bunnie might know perhaps?

jpmens, to random German
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FEIERABEND

bert_hubert,
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@jpmens it is a uniquely German concept though. Especially since you can apparently declare Feierabend in the early afternoon if your schedule allows it.

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Waiting for a delayed flight, some idle thoughts on what Google needs to fix itself:

  1. Find a replacement for Sundar. This person needs to be both able if articulating a coherent vision for Google as a company, and inspire great engineers to want to work on great problems.
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@againsthimself @HalvarFlake I don't even know many examples of companies returning to being technical or technology led (at least here in Europe). Weirdly enough the corollary of this that apparently you can somehow stay around as a rebadging operation.

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@againsthimself @HalvarFlake good examples. I'm also pondering Siemens who appear to be much less a financial engineering construct these days. But this is a very superficial impression.

bert_hubert,
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@hikhvar @againsthimself @HalvarFlake https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/businesses/financial-services/siemens-bank.html they actually became a bank even.

bert_hubert, to random
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I continue to wonder what makes people send emails where they clearly state they have no experience with X and then confidently go on to say that I'm wrong about X. Anyhow, do enjoy my page about Parsing Expression Grammars which has led to such an email: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/practical-peg-parsing/

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Some people here are trying to convince me we have serious full featured cloud native providers here in Europe. The Nile is not just a river it appears. Having said that, I'd love to hear first hand stories from people that actually made this work outside the big hyperscalers. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-naive-europe-and-the-megascaler/

bert_hubert, to random
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Recently places like @SIDN (Dutch national operator of .NL) have been claiming that nobody in Europe can deliver their computer needs, and that they are therefore forced to outsource operations to American cloud providers. Meanwhile our own IT industry denies this. Here I delve into what's going on, and how Europe is being Cloud Naïve instead of Cloud Native.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-naive-europe-and-the-megascaler/

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@jornfranke @SIDN nevertheless people I trust tell me managed kuberenetes works for their usecase. It is in any case not great to offer an unnecessarily poor kubernetes experience.

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@jornfranke @huitema @SIDN I wrote the piece very carefully and in consultation with users of such services. I note in the article the many limitations of these services.

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@jornfranke @huitema @SIDN ovh for example offers 99.9% availability.

bert_hubert,
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@huitema so this is indeed a thing, hence my suggestion that companies at least flesh out a minimal and reliable set of cloud native services. This would allow them to at least get government tenders and appreciable revenues. From that point on the weakness of 'big cloud' is currently their complexity and surprise billing, which is also something new entrants to the market could address. But it will be very hard work.

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@huitema meanwhile the incentives for European providers up to now have been rather simple it appears, cost cutting and delivering rock bottom pricing on simple server services. I can't blame them, there is money to be made there. But then don't complain if you don't get business for more advanced services which they've neglected.

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@huitema that part is relatively simple as far as I can see - customers aren't even migrating between GCP/AWS/Azure. It is a total lock-in once you are up and running. Switching costs are huge since people assemble services they barely understand let alone can migrate. Also customers quickly lose the competence required to do such things once locked in. It is a dream scenario.

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Embarrassingly for Europe, they had to turn to SpaceX to launch two new Galileo satellites (EU GPS). This happened yesterday but they gave this exactly 0 publicity. I had missed the launch entirely. https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-nagu-2024020 - eventually these two new satellites will appear on https://galmon.eu/ - but might be a while.

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Is @syncthing as good as it definitely appears to be? Quite impressed. Tried to get it to fail today and it didn't fall for any of my stunts. I'm especially impressed by the extensive versioning features.

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Regarding previous post, ponder also this "WiFi Cable" sign:

bert_hubert, to random
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Fun thing I learned today. To normal people "ethernet" sounds like some kind of wireless network. And they will tell you that the wifi isn't working after selecting ethernet in the Windows 11 installer (since they don't know ethernet needs a cable). I can't even blame them, "ethernet" does sound like some kind of radio thing ("in the ether").

bert_hubert, to random
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Writing blog posts on a 128GB tricked out Xeon feels kind of like sacrilege. I should be doing science on this thing!

bert_hubert,
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@jpmens that's why I run emacs on the 128GB xeon ;-)

bert_hubert, to random
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After the recent publicity I have updated the Google beeper / googerteller somewhat, including new Google IP addresses. I've browsed the web a bit with it and things are as terrible as ever. Lots of noise. I've also reinstated the bpftrace based per-process capability. https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller

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I just tried to help a friend and found this - wait what, Save As a PDF in MS Office on your local computer, it ... funnels your local document through their cloud service? 🤯

Sure, no data leak at all.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-for-mac-saving-as-pdf-requires-internet/a14c45c6-c524-4e77-9f01-5fc62ded14cb

bert_hubert,
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@larsmb this is a 2016 page though, might no longer be true. But it could be!

bert_hubert, to random
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Just upgraded from PostgreSQL 13 to 15 and the process was so smooth that at first I worried nothing had happened. But turns out PostgreSQL is just that good. Deeply impressed.

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