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**What Youβll Learn**: I just spent 1h+ debugging why my locally-hosted gitlab runner would fail to create pipelines. The gitlab job output would just display weird TLS errors when trying to pull a docker images. After debugging gitlab and the runner, I realized after a while I could not even run "docker pull " on my machine as root:> error pulling image configuration: download failed after attempts=6: tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate is not valid for any names, but wanted to match docker-images-prod.6aa30f8b08e16409b46e0173d6de2f56.r2.cloudflarestorage.comFirst blaming tailscale, dns…
π₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,British identity and society,Immigration and asylum π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: TThere is no shortage of creative ambition in the play by Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray, Tommy Ross Williams, and Joanna Nastare, which explores the experiences of Latina women in modern London. In the style of a pop concert, four mysterious figures stand on the pulse of techno beats mixed with selections from the UK population. βWhite, black, Asian, mixed,β as the phrase goes β Latinos are noticeably absent.Then comes the clash of identities within what…
β¨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inboxSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterSeven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures.Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also revealed…
π Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Asha Bhosle,Bollywood,India,Film,Music,Culture,South and central Asia,World news π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Indian singer Asha Bhosle, whose voice defined Bollywood music during the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 92, her family said.The two-time Grammy nominee was admitted to hospital in Mumbai with complaints of βextreme fatigueβ and a chest infection."My mother passed away today (Sunday). Her last rites will be performed tomorrow at Shivaji Park in Mumbai," her son Anand Bhosle told reporters.Bhosle's voice has resonated across film-obsessed India for nearly eight decades, during…
β¨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: No one owes you supply-chain securityApril 11, 2026 LobstersIn case youβre unaware, Iβm not a developer. Iβm actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming. Crucially, it also includes discussing foundational technology with people behind the scenes, and apparently that makes me more aware of social aspects of this sphere.So, I have opinions about criticism of crates.io for supply-chain attacks. After a dozen similar articles, I have some select words to voice about why itβs…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Arcola theatre,Relationships,Dating,Stage,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: TIts epistolary story of two people looking for love is the complete antithesis of a modern-day dating app. Set in a time when letters were not as fickle but slower as the postal service, this is a delightful romantic comedy through letters. The film features Jack (Preston Nyman) and Louise (Eva Weiler), who begin writing to each other because family members think they might be a match. It's 1942, Jack is a military doctor treating burns and amputations while Louise…
π Explore this insightful post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: In yesterday's post I briefly mentioned Claude Shannon, founder of information theory. It occurred to me that even most Oxford students wouldn't know who he was, despite his work being crucial for the subsequent development of the "Information Age". How many other intellectual revolutions in obscure fields haven't become common knowledge yet? Perhaps the best way of finding out is just to start listing the greatest and most influential intellectual achievements ever, and seeing if anyone else has more to add - particularly in the…
π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Brian Cox,Science,Astronomy,Culture,AI (artificial intelligence),People in science,Physics,Space,Technology,Social media,Music,Paul McCartney π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?It came from a book I've loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is best known for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little book about New Year's Eve in 1609, when he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague in the middle of a snowstorm. He was going to his benefactor's house and…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode. Connor Byrne, 21, adopts the uncommon but security-minded approach to iPhone passcodes, using an alphanumeric string instead of the standard four-number passcode. He updated his iPhone 13 from iOS 18 to iOS 26.4 on April 5, but in doing so lost the ability to enter his passcode. He has been locked out of the device ever since. This is…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Musicals,Sting,Brisbane,Queensland,Theatre,Stage,Australian theatre,Culture,Music π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: WWhen Sting says he grew up in the shadow of a shipyard, he means it literally. At the end of his street in Wallsend, northern England, the Swan Hunter factory dominated the skyline. Thousands of workers passed by his house every day to work on ships so large that they blocked out the sun. A royal visit sparked a childhood epiphany: after watching the Queen Mother drive a black Rolls-Royce, Sting decided he didn't want to live in the belly of…
