Posts by Shaheed

Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'

Snap Chromium is broken by design

1. It won't work if $HOME is not under /home. Really. Not even if you softlink. You need a bind mount. Whatever that is.

2. Then it won't work if you use a remote display because it does not look for the X11 XAuthority file under $HOME. Even though you gave it a bind mount.

3. Then you cannot use it to test your software using Selenium because it ignores your download settings in favour of saving to a readonly location of its own choosing.

4. Then you find you cannot revert because all the .Deb files on the Ubuntu archives back to version 79 have been upgraded to use the snap too.

Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya super-pwnage

> Let the management tell their shareholders two years later why their productivity has nosedived.

Don't be silly. Those responsible will have pocketed their bonusses and on to their next gig (to rinse and repeat) before the consequences become clear...

Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech

And not just API naming and working, the API tech too

An example of what @lxndr mentions that annoys me is that sometimes the "tags", which are more-or-less everywhere, can be used to "name" an object, such that the Web management UI considers it a name, and sometimes not.

Likewise, one can access EC2 through their Python "boto3" library, but not RDS. What even more irritating about having to learn two completely different ways to access these services is that the way they are presented in aws-shell is different again, even though there has clearly been an attempt to unify everything under it.

Quite honestly, this seems amateurish to me.