arlk · HackerTrans

4 yıl öncediscuss

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

4 yıl öncediscuss

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

arlk

4 yıl öncediscuss

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.

arlk

5 yıl öncediscuss

    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.

arlk

5 yıl öncediscuss

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#...

arlk

5 yıl öncediscuss

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

arlk

5 yıl öncediscuss

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

arlk

5 yıl öncediscuss

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.