fredthomsen's comments

On: Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian...

[fredthomsen]

Swedish foreign policy and neutrality originates from all the wars they fought against Russia prior to the 1800s.

On: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

[fredthomsen]

Seems like the social and commerce aspects are drawing scrutiny. I think MS will escape unscathed here

On: The Decline of Django

[fredthomsen]

wow... yeah... strongly strongly agree. I love email, rss, irc, etc and still use them today and strongly disagree that we shouldn't educate people coming up about these tools.

On: Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 1...

[fredthomsen]

Can you provide some more info about the raspberry pi and Ubuntu config changes done without user consent?

[flyinghamster → fredthomsen]

Ubuntu: the appearance of ubuntu-advantage-tools, or moving Chromium to a snap. Raspberry Pi: the addition of a Microsoft apt repository without so much as asking.

On: What the Crypto Crowd Doesn’t Understand About Eco...

[fredthomsen]

It's very easy for people today to forget the 1800s that had significant periods of deflation and thus one of the reasons the federal reserve was created... although they allowed deflation to happen during the great depression as well. There is certainly some debate that can be had about the way to easy money policies that exist today (and I do think it's far too dovish), but people need to learn their history and realize the damage that deflation does.

On: Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyf...

[fredthomsen]

I was very happy to see this tool mentioned and recommend it highly. Very nice tool to add album art and cleaning up the tags for your existing music

On: Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

[fredthomsen]

Family and friends have starting using it as the main messaging app the past 3 months. Definitely growing.

On: Docker's Second Death

[fredthomsen]

Had the same experience and the compose equivalent was barely functional.

On: Docker's Second Death

[fredthomsen]

Couldn't agree more. compose is a wonderful tool that lets you avoid the k8s complexity if you don't need it.

On: Transitioning from Docker to Podman

[fredthomsen]

Heavy compose user here, and when I tried the podman equivalent of compose was missing some functionality that made me move back.

[ziftface → fredthomsen]

I had the same experience, and I'm not really sure why I can't use docker-compose with podman. If it's a drop in replacement, why can't I alias podman as docker and use docker-compose like normal?

I did try that and it doesn't work, and podman compose isn't as useable. So I switched back to docker.

[fuzxi → ziftface]

>If it's a drop in replacement, why can't I alias podman as docker and use docker-compose like normal?

Podman is (mostly) a drop-in replacement for docker. However, docker-compose is a separate package from docker that requires explicit installation. So too is podman-compose separate from podman, though unfortunately it still needs more work.

[fatherlinnux → fuzxi]

I can explain this. Because docker-compose talks to the docker socket and uses the docker protocol. This was the last piece that we nailed with podman. As of Podman 2.0 with the new REST based API with a Docker compatibility layer, we are very close to just being able to use the docker-compose binary to talk to a socket (ran by systemd) which fires up podman.

It doesn't quite work yet today because we are still implementing some of the REST verbs, but it's close. It's definitely a strategic direction for the roadmap. Stay tuned.