kyrofa is a husband, father of seven, roboticist, and a prolific open source software developer. Contributor to Ubuntu, Nextcloud, versions 1 and 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS), as well as the snapcraft CLI and snapd, two key technologies behind snaps and Ubuntu Core.
kyrofa's day job is at Miriam Technologies, a software consulting company. In the past he's worked as a staff engineer for Canonical (the company that publishes Ubuntu), and as a roboticist for the US Department of Defense.
Submissions
Could China and Russia Destroy Starlink? Only with a Boomerang
arstechnica.com
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Tests suggest Russian satellites can jam GPS on a continental scale
arstechnica.com
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Update concerning DDoS attack on Canonical and Ubuntu
discourse.ubuntu.com
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What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?
arstechnica.com
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Google settles for $68M after lawsuit claimed it recorded users
thehill.com
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School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error
arstechnica.com
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Breaking the Creepy AI in Police Cameras [video]
youtube.com
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EUCLEAK: Side-Channel Attack on the Yubikey 5 Series [pdf]
ninjalab.io
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Losing the Imitation Game
jenniferplusplus.com
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New and improved way to review GitHub pull requests for snaps
kyrofa.com
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“Either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which”
twitter.com
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Nextcloud snap finds a new home
kyrofa.com
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Demystifying Rails Autoloading
kyrofa.com
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My phone isn't as smart as yours
kyrofa.com
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Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT
ubuntu.com
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Enhanced security monitoring in newest ROS 2 release
ubuntu.com
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Last minute robotic Christmas present
youtu.be
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Nextcloud snap to be updated to v12
kyrofa.com
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Snap install-time setup: the install hook
kyrofa.com
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Want to take your Linux-based robot to market? Join my webinar tomorrow
Yeah that's all it says ANYWHERE right now (https://status.canonical.com/, X, etc.), but so much of their infrastructure is down. Hoping for an update before too long.
That's not actually true: cell phone rx/tx power is quite low. We can get away with that because all they need to do is get to the nearest tower, which has a ton of power, sensitive antennas, and is very tall. Amateur radios have far more power available to them, but any "p2p" (i.e. simplex in amateur radio) runs into normal RF issues, like obstacles and interference. If you used the existing radios in cell phones to communicate directly with other cell phones, you wouldn't get very far. Even amateur radios, with all their power, use repeaters to the same effect as cell towers.
There are a number of companies/products that operate under this principle (mullvad and signal come to mind). Are you saying all of those are futile and misleading? Or are you saying that you expect they all have significant money and legal teams to defend against a crooked cop's thirst for vengeance for not responding the way they wanted during an investigation?
Why? That's kind of the whole point of this: they can cooperate entirely and give them everything they have. You think they'll get into legal trouble because they aren't gathering data?
Self-hosted gitlab here. Love it, and gitlab CI is excellent as well. Almost all product development revolves around some crappy AI integration that we don't use, and it worries me to see so much focus there instead of the core product, but the core product is still excellent.
Pretty sure Immich is on github, so I assume they have a workflow for it, but in case you're interested in this concept in general, gitlab has first-class support for this which I've been using for years: https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/review_apps/ . Very cool and handy stuff.
Wow, my worlds are colliding right now-- although seeing Benn on HN in retrospect shouldn't be that surprising. Go check out his music, The Flashbulb, he's one of my favorite artists.
> When a drive fails, one of the key factors in data security is how fast an array can be rebuilt into a healthy status. Of course, Amazon is just one vendor, but they have the distribution to do same-day and early morning overnight parts to a large portion of the US. Even overnighting a drive that arrives by noon from another vendor would be slower to arrive than two of the four other options at Amazon.
In a way this is a valid point, but it also feels a bit silly. Do people really make use of devices like this and then try to overnight a drive when something fails? You're building an array-- you're designing for failure-- but then you don't plan on it? You should have spare drives on hand. Replenishing those spares is rarely an emergency situation.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that Linux was doing anything wrong, just that some hardware seems to work better with other approaches, for the reasons you state.
The Linux kernel supports rebooting using a number of different strategies[1]. Some PCs need a different one than the default in order to make sure everything is properly reset.
kyrofa's day job is at Miriam Technologies, a software consulting company. In the past he's worked as a staff engineer for Canonical (the company that publishes Ubuntu), and as a roboticist for the US Department of Defense.