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Yesterday we had a Kubernetes version upgrade automatically initiated by DigitalOcean which broke our Kafka instance and I solved it with a somewhat atypical, insane solution, by reading the operator code, understanding it, patching it and deploying it manually. (keep in mind, I have never looked at this codebase.)

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/issues/6136#issuecomment-1828476027

What seemed impossible, becomes possible. No matter the layer of complexity, your Kubernetes operator, the Kubernetes codebase, you can DOWNLOAD IT, MODIFY IT and PUSH IT. This is NOT the first time I've cloned code that may seem complicated to fix and understand and did it.

The lesson is basically this:

Give yourself no limits, you will have no limits. Dive deeper!

Of course other lessons (which are more obvious.)

1.Make sure you upgrade your software

2. If your backups are disk snapshots, you may not be able to actually recover from them if the running software cannot resume

I've recently switched from Emacs to VSCode and I've recently been looking at VSCode Development Environments and their more recent VSCode Server offering / Remote Development Environments (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server)

I thought wow, how cool, I could run VSCode Server on one of my remote servers or use SSH with Remote Development (which sets up VSCode Server for you and tunnels it I believe.) and edit remotely.

What's super concerning is the license term for VSCode Server (https://code.visualstudio.com/license/server):

You cannot...

host, share, publish, rent or lease the software; or

But I'm pretty sure Remote Development extension installs and runs VSCode Server for you (which means hosting the software.), essentially setting you up to break the license and open your organization to legal trouble since you're now hosting VSCode Server...

Holly molly, there's currently 13,462,303 users using the Remote - SSH extension, all of them breaking the licensing terms of VSCode Server?

I'm pretty salty, I've been paying for Adobe Stock for about $40/month and you get about 10 assets a month. I had 240 assets, so spent about $960 to get it. They failed to charge my credit card and now they removed all credits and said they cannot give it back.

My credit card is on file and is working fine for all other products. I basically feel robbed. It just seems silly that they cannot give the assets back. The manager told me the same thing and told me to look at the Terms of Service.

Is this my fault given they had the credit card on file and its working fine for everything else? It just seems like Adobe has zero accountability.

Also I guess a bit of a warning to anyone who has Adobe Stock, make sure your payments are being processed or they will remove years of credits... To buy the amount of credits I have on their site, it's like $3000.

So my BitWarden master password stopped working. I am 100% confident that my password has not changed, but the developers changed the way passwords are handled.

In the past, my password would work on Chrome, but would fail to work on Mobile. I opened an issue and it was ignored.

Now my master password does not work anywhere (APART FROM THS LAPTOP and I was lucky to export my passwords.)

So heres a warning to all. Do not use BitWarden, they handle passwords incorrectly and you may lose all your passwords if they decide to randomly change password handling.

Possible Problem: They truncate passwords before sending to server? IDK at what length they truncate.

Has anyone else dealt with this and do you possibly know at what length they started truncating passwords?

Mystery solved:

My e-mail address was wrong. It was .ccom instead of .com

Oops. Can't delete this post but it would be good if BitWarden verified emails before creation! I guess I added an extra c when I made my account on accident.

Guess I'm the stupid one here, sorry BitWarden!

What actually happened:

My 2016 MacBook Pro Keyboard randomly adds extra letterrs whhen typing (see?) and wheen II made the acccount it addeed an extra l and extra c.

I was lucky to find the original email by clicking "Change Master Password" and it auto-filled my e-mail (or maybe Chrome remembered it.)

Darn you Apple Keyboards, luckily I'm migrating to my new M1 mac!

It's interesting that HN does not like Bitcoin, yet HN is one of the most technical places on the internet. 13 years ago I was working on MapleStory Emulators in C/C++ at the age of 16 and was extremely overconfident in my abilities. Around the same time Bitcoin came out and I brushed it off since I was too cool for Bitcoin. I could reverse engineer the encryption on MapleStory and make the server from scratch, so Bitcoin as money sounded stupid. Why would I download this? This overconfidence/dismissal probably stayed with more for 10 years

The reality was that Bitcoin was actually super cool just on a technical level, ignoring the economic utility. I should have spinned up a miner, played with it because of the technology. HN and my 16 year old self, was probably in the best position to play with technology that would probably have been the best financial decision of my entire life including this entire community.

To me, if anything, missing out on Bitcoin is a good example of how overconfidence, arrogance and dismal of new ideas in the technical space leads to missing out. What could we name this concept?

- Dismissal by Confidence

- Overconfidence Bias

- Arrogance because of Technical Ability

- Blindsided by Contrarian Rashness

The fact that Bitcoins market cap is 2.2T makes it one of the most successful open source projects in the history of humanity.

If anything, missing out on Bitcoin for me has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but a subtle reminder that being open, accepting and playful with ideas is important and who knows where that idea will take you.

What other ideas will HN dismiss and miss out on?