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I think the license change and initial fork was back in 2019? It's been a while.


A few years ago, Chef (configuration software, sort of like ansible) changed their license, and this is a fork which maintains the open source.


Respectfully, I don't see how that comment relates to this discussion, can you help me better understand what you're going for?

In this case, DOGE confused 8M for 8B. That's 3 orders of magnitude of difference.

I don't see how having payments labeled differently would change that. Can you clarify what you're implying the problem was here?


DOGE didn't even confuse it - the system of record was wrong then updated later to a lower amount. These are exactly the kinds of problems with the system.


Having used both at home, Tomato is much easier for doing standard home WiFi things. You can change wireless power levels, setup guest networks, etc easily within the UI.

Pfsense/opensense is easier when you have complicated routing needs, like multiple vlans with various split tunnels, etc.

It’s not 100% accurate, but imo if you want a short-hand you could say tomato is WiFi focused with routing support, and opensense is routing focused with WiFi support.


The American state of Vermont has banned billboards since 1968. It makes spending time in the state extraordinarily pleasant.


Hawaii also has a billboard ban. It was really jarring moving back to Illinois after getting used to not having them. It seems pretty clear that the negative impact of billboards far outweigh the benefits so I'm always hoping more places outlaw them.


There is a ban on billboards in Marin County (on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco).

Legally speaking, billboards are only banned within 500 yards or some other distance from the highway with the most traffic (where billboards would be most valuable, namely, US 101) but actually there are no billboards anywhere in the county and this has been the case since the 1960s (according to an old newspaper article). My guess is that the community has some way to exert "informal" (not based on formal governmental processes) pressure on landlords. Real estate prices are very high here in part because it is a very attractive landscape with plenty of hills and greenery and bodies of water, so maybe most landlords perceive that billboards have the potential to depress prices and keep the occasional landlord who contemplates erecting billboards in line somehow.

Also as an exception to the general rule, bus shelters (structures owned and maintained by the city or the county to keep the rain and the sun off people waiting for a bus) near US 101 have ads on them (4' by 6' or so) and the buses themselves do, too, or at least they used to--it's been a few years since I noticed.


Marin's billboard ban is older than I'd thought, having been adopted in 1936 according to this article:

<https://marinmagazine.com/community/history/history-of-a-hig...>

At least one billboard, along 101 at the highway cut between San Rafael and Larkspur, survived until the late 1970s or early 1980s, but was burned down in what has been described as the closest an act of arson has come to earning an award of commendation by the Marin County Board of Supervisors.

More recently, a "flower billboard" was created, and in 2010 removed, along US-101 in Novato:

<https://www.marinij.com/2010/08/24/controversial-flower-bill...>

(That article also places the county-wide ban more recently, in the 1970s.)


Real estate prices are very high here in part because it is a very scenic place with a lot of hills and trees and such

I have a hard time accepting the "in part" even, and sort of align with "the only reason it's expensive is because of the closeness to SV".

But yes it is very nice. And yes billboards would make it less nice.


Marin County to SV is a really nasty commute, but I concede if it weren't close to downtown SF it would cost a lot less to live in Marin County.

Large numbers of high paying jobs are necessary for high housing prices except in tax havens like Monaco.


When I was a kid, I lived on lake which was connected to Lake Ontario.

One summer a job was across the our small lake, a 40 minute drive by car, but maybe 10 minutes by boat as the crow flies. Sure, I got wet during rain and wavy days, but clothes get dry, and it sure was convenient.

I often wondered, if the job was in SF itself, do people take boats to get to work? If so, why not? I presume docking costs? The place I worked had their own dock, so ... "sure, just tie up over there every day".


Ferries are a popular way to commute from Marin Country to SF:

https://www.goldengate.org/ferry/schedules-maps/

https://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/sausalito/

I don't know of anyone using or having used a private boat to make the commute.


When I was a kid in Miami, I read about people commuting to work by jet ski. This was before they replaced the Rickenbacker Causeway drawbridge with the William Powell Bridge, and the commute from Key Biscayne into Miami could be delayed and backed up, as boats had the right-of-way.


I had a friend who lived in New Jersey in a water front property - he used to ride a jetski over to New York to stop for a drink at a bar in a marina. The issue was you had to pay marina fees to be allowed to dock there, so while it was fun it was actually a pretty pricey way to get to NY (and you'd be wearing damp clothes) - but he still thought it was a lot of fun.

He was OK but apparently the was a lot of boat theft in that area too.


There are people who live waaaaay out there and commute to their Silicon Valley job via a light airplane like a Cessna, quarterly, monthly, weekly, probably even daily. "Commutes, uh... find a way"


I knew one of those too. I consulted for a company across the street from the Palo Alto general aviation airport. The doc/pubs manager lived some place north of Sonoma. She would fly in, walk across the street, and go to work.

At another job, the project manager lived in WA but worked in Palo Alto. He flew (commercial) in early Monday, with a small apartment to live in during the week, then take off mid-afternoon Friday to be back in WA with his family for the weekend.


Fun fact: it was once envisioned that there would be a second Marin–SF bridge via Angel Island: https://cahighways.org/ROUTE131.html


And resort/premium retirement areas like Aspen. I'd also argue that although jobs helped create a lot of the "elite" cities, once they were created, there's a fair bit to keep people in their orbit if not in the city proper even if employment opportunities become less of a consideration.


No it's also because they systematically oppose increasing housing.


The benefits of billboards are a zero sum game, it's absurdly easy for the benefits of a ban to outweigh them.

Here in Germany regulation of outside ads has zero novelty value, it's so much a given that I don't know anything about the history of it. And it turns out the benefits of a ban are much bigger than just more pleasant views, because the ad spend does not simply disappear. Much of it gets channeled into event sponsoring, sports clubs and the like, in short things that actually improve life for all instead of just providing some more passive income for property owners. It's a total no-brainer if there ever was one.


Still plenty of outside ads in Germany. The regulation needs to be stronger.


The worst are the super bright lcd/led screen billboards.

They are incredibly obnoxious. I’m surprised if they don’t case car crashes.


Right up there with LED cop lights.

Fucking blinding.

I got stopped at a roadblock even before LED's, the highway patrol officer said "I wasn't sure you were going to stop, you nearly ran over [X] over there" and my reply was, "Your lights are so bright, and blue, and right here on the road, that I can't see a thing. I'm glad I didn't."


I'm sure they do


Yes travelling can really create a sense of what you have, or lack.

Where I live there are very few billboards. I rarely see them. When I travel (especially to the US) it's very jarring. They are very visually polluting.


This pretty much mirrors my experience: I live in Washington, and when I drive down the freeway, I see nothing but trees and mountains. When I go back to Minnesota to visit family, I'm bombarded with billboards -- often political or religious content. I don't miss that at all.


One of the nice side effects of hosting the Olympics was the ban on new advertising billboards in the downtown core of Atlanta. There are a few old signs that were grandfathered in but it's close to impossible to get new billboards added. One of the nice side effects of having a tornado rip through downtown a decade later was that it destroyed some of the grandfathered in billboards which the city did not allow to be replaced despite crying from the billboard companies.

To prevent "ambush marketing", the IOC demands control over advertising in the area around the games. Given what a big deal it was for a city like Atlanta to get to host the games, this was one of the few times when the public was going to win despite the money and influence of the advertising industry. To its credit, Atlanta has mostly stuck by those Olympic era billboard laws. The biggest exception probably is the huge video board next to the Ernst & Young building but it replaced a much more modest video sign that had already been there.

Being a large city, Atlanta has the resources to fight court challenges against the well funded advertising industry. Several of the suburban and exurban communities I lived in had citizens and governments united in their hatred of billboards but they lacked the resources to prevent them as the billboard companies have lots of experience with bleeding local governments dry in court, sending a message to other local governments to not even bother trying to oppose them. Big cities however can do better... if they wish to.

Los Angeles, you have an opportunity in 2028. Will you take advantage of it like Atlanta did?


Hah. Washington doesn't ban billboards, but we don't have that many of them. They are also usually not too garish.

I was shocked by the number of "One call, that's all" accident attorney billboards in LA and FL when I drove through them several years ago.


> Washington doesn't ban billboards

Not entirely, but it impose some very important limits on any signs near highways, such as requiring them to be advertising something that's available from the same property under them.

That effectively blocks the most spammy and egregious forests of signs, because one can't just purchase a small rectangle of near-highway grass and start auctioning space above it to a large shifting pool of national bidders.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.42.040


They are also usually not too garish.

Don’t drive I-5 by Fife much, eh? Okay, you did say “usually”.

Redmond has an outright ban on billboards. That’s how I know where the Redmond/Kirkland border is (there’s a billboard on 124th St.) Now if they if they’d just follow King County on those fucking political signs. (King County says “not on public right-of-ways”, Redmond says “where ever you see a patch of grass”.)


Wow. I drive up 124th all the time, and never noticed. checking now on street view does prove you right though, there are three just west of willows.


It used to be true that near the FL/GA border you'd see billboards advertising "TOPLESS DANCERS" for 50 miles on either side of the fine establishment buying these billboards. The sheer number of them was almost a parody of billboards in a way.


Maine followed in 1978. The way life should be.


Should be a no-brainer in any U.S. state with ballot measures.


Various localities have similar bans. I'm aware of at least one with strict signage controls, shopping centers generally have an directory near the entrance(s) and that's about it other than the signage on the stores themselves.


Irvine, CA has an outdoor advertising ban. Driving the 405 through OC you quickly see the difference.


It makes living in the state extraordinarily pleasant, too!


Meanwhile in LA, I see 305 billboards on my morning walk through sunset blvd.


My old office was decorated with a picture of an art installation which was a house painted entirely white, even the palm trees. Someplace east LA. But in front there was a bus with a huge Marvel whatever advert pasted on the side passing by.


In 77 (way before me) Maine also did this and yes it really makes the state much more beautiful especially in the fall.


one of the few NIMBY regulations i'll get behind


This looks interesting, thanks for sharing it.

Feel free to disregard, but it would help me understand if you briefly explain how this fits in with / compares to existing tools like argocd.

I watched your video and I saw that argo was one of the tools you were installing, so clearly this is occupying a different niche - But I'm not sure what that is yet :)


ArgoCD is a great tool to sync the state from your GitOps repository to your cluster and helps by visualizing the installed resources and showcase potentials errors.

It is often used by developers to get a glimpse of the state of core application of a company without cluster access.

Glasskube focuses on the packages your core application depends on. Managing the life cycle of these infrastructure components, testing updates and providing upgrading paths. You can still put Glasskube packages into your GitOps repo and sync them via ArgoCD into the cluster. Our PackageController will do the rest.


There isn't anything like that currently - The integration that's been announced/shown is more like the current fallback in Siri of "Would you like me to Google that for you?"


No, there is - from official Apple Intelligence announcement:

> With ChatGPT from OpenAI integrated into Siri and Writing Tools, you get even more expertise when it might be helpful for you — no need to jump between tools. Siri can tap into ChatGPT for certain requests, including questions about photos or documents. And with Compose in Writing Tools, you can create and illustrate original content from scratch.

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/


I watched WWDC and clearly, GPT4 is an option for inferencing email/text at the OS level. It's not just Siri fallback.


Would imagine the same sort of reasons people do v tubing in general, such as safety and anonymity.


I would like that sort of service but often am unable to find it. Do you have any suggestions? Perhaps you just have particularly good local shops?


North West repair on YouTube is one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdymB1vLdF8


I'll have to ask my friend, he sent his GPU to Wales for the repair.

Personally I'll happily spend a week fixing something purely out of spite, against all economic incentives, but I wouldn't want to do it for a job. I have in the past replaced a friend's SSD and recovered his data from the older one that he somehow reformatted by accident. But it's a lot of effort.


It seems bizarre to me that they wouldn’t have that sensor, I wonder if maybe it’s because they somehow didn’t calibrate properly for the force at the top angle?

I don’t have/want to cybertruck, but I wonder if it would stop properly if you were to have something at the bottom blocking it.


It does have it, lots of videos of people putting their arm/hand/whatever in the cyber truck frunk to demonstrate it stops closing.

If you get pinched close to the hinge your reaction won't generate a lot of torque on the motor, it will be less than the weight of the trunk itself.


It's not bizarre when you realize how Tesla cuts corners under the guise of innovation.

Take their power seats not stopping for obstructions: most auto manufacturers do not make their own power seat modules.

They buy those from suppliers like Bosch and Continental (yes, the tire guys): https://www.continental-automotive.com/en/components/seat-co...

But Tesla loves "innovations" that are just an excuse to vertically integrate in an inferior manner. That's stuff like the "superbottle" which integrates a bunch of parts you could normally replace independently with common parts into one (super easy to integrate on the assembly line) package


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