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BodyCulture··on PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
Is your comment referring to this project specifically?

Because the docs say:

  PgQue avoids that whole class of problems. It uses snapshot-based batching and TRUNCATE-based table rotation instead of per-row deletion.

Would be great if you could specify if you had problems with the exact implementation linked by op or if you did write about a different thing, thanks!
BodyCulture··on State of Kdenlive
Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an advanced project state has a high potential of total destruction.

Choose wisely! Resolve is available for very little money and not only a much safer choice, but you will also learn to use an industry standard tool and might be able to monetise that skill one day.

Kdenlive is a hobbiest project and is probably still ok for occasionally splitting a downloaded YouTube video or converting your OBS recordings, but never should you remotely think about using it for a project where you need to rely on your tools.

The developers are not warning you enough, instead still trying to market this software as kind of a serious competitor to pro software, so I do that as a service for the aspiring video editor, taking your downvotes proudly as the price honest people have to pay.

Yes, obviously I write from experience.

BodyCulture··on I’m spending months coding the old way
What are you using instead of pandas? Thanks!
BodyCulture··on RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update
No.
BodyCulture··on Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
Can we study this second pipeline? Is it open so we can understand how it works? Did not find any hints about it in the article, unfortunately.
BodyCulture··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Thank you very much for sharing your research results!

I really appreciate your work and even more that you took time and risk exposing your findings, I wish more people did this.

BodyCulture··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Distribution of the content as static html or in any other format is a very tiny aspect of managing content and mostly a solved problem for any CMS nowadays. Focusing on that minimal aspect seems grotesque as there are much bigger challenges in making potentially large amounts of content actually manageable by a potentially very heterogeneous group of content creators with varying skills, responsibilities and relationships.
BodyCulture··on Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
We need more aggressive laws to prevent privacy destroying platforms. Every person who creates a website or platform that advertises any kind of private communication but does not fully encrypt user data must go to jail. This cancer needs to be stopped.
BodyCulture··on Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released
Seems like it still has no official support for any kind of disk encryption, so you are on your own if you fiddle that in somehow and things may break. Such a beautiful, peaceful world where disk encryption is not needed!
BodyCulture··on 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
You underestimate the value of this piece of information taken at different times. It can be enough to know in which country a person was yesterday or is today.
BodyCulture··on We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
Thank you very much!
BodyCulture··on We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
Wound be great if you posted the URL to the relevant documentation for this… I guess there must be some docs about these delicate details? Thank you very much!
BodyCulture··on Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies
How many people do the security code review with this process? How do they avoid piling dozens of well hidden holes when you not use a library that is publicly available and seen by thousands of eyes?

Isn’t the best argument for open source code that it has so many people, most companies can not afford such a global quality assurance.

BodyCulture··on ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
How well tested is this in combination with encryption?

Is the ZFS team handling encryption as a first class priority at all?

ZFS on Linux inherited a lot of fame from ZFS on Solaris, but everyone using it in production should study the issue tracker very well for a realistic impression of the situation.

BodyCulture··on ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
You probably don’t realise how important encryption is.

It’s still not supported by Proxmox, yes, you can do it yourself somehow but you are alone then and miss features and people report problems with double or triple file system layers.

I do not understand how they have not encryption out of the box, this seems to be a problem.

BodyCulture··on A job platform for developers by developers (built by an experienced developer)
No, it is not good, please remove it. There are many devs with overlapping experiences.

Bad decision to force people to put a stamp on them just to sign up!

BodyCulture··on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
What is the evidence for people being confused about that? Did any scientist some research about this, are there any facts or studies about this issue? Or does just someone think it is an issue?
BodyCulture··on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
Can you please give some more details about the pressure methods in mastodon you are writing about, this is very interesting and important.

Is there any systematic study going on about the mechanism of censorship in the fediverse?

BodyCulture··on They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard
Digitone II is available since a few weeks and is an excellent choice for exploring FM!
BodyCulture··on They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard
For people interested in this product but not sure buying a hardware synth: opsix native is the name for the software only version of it available at the Korg website…
BodyCulture··on Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Proxmox looks great, but unfortunately it doesn’t come with encryption oob and manually applying it comes with feature loss and other problems. ZFS vs encryption is a bad place to live. You of course need encryption for your VMs on the Enterprise.
BodyCulture··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
Unfortunately until this day Proxmox doesn’t support full disk encryption oob, despite using the word „Enterprise“ in the first paragraph of their website. Yes, you can go your own way and install on an encrypted Debian, but you will miss important features and are on your own. It all comes down to ZFS not treating FDE as a first class citizen.

Very sad state of affairs.

BodyCulture··on OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
In the Proxmox forum some people tried this method and do not report big success. Can not recommend for production.

Still the same picture, encryption seems to be not a first class citizen in ZFS land.

BodyCulture··on OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
I wanted to use ZFS badly, but of course all data must be encrypted. It was surprising to see how usage gets much more complicated than expected and so many people just don’t encrypt their data because things get wild then.

Look, even Proxmox, which I totally expected to support encryption with default installation (it has „Enterprise“ on the website) does loose important features when trying to use with encryption.

Also please study the issue tracker, there are a few surprising things I would not have expected to exist in a productive file system.

BodyCulture··on Algorithmic Music Generation with Python
The videos do not work, what is a pity, I really would like to hear some results!

Would it be easier to just provide simple audio files?

BodyCulture··on Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
This discussion is about an open source password manager. I wonder why you are recommending a closed source software? Are you aware that many people prefer open source for security software for a reason?
BodyCulture··on Eartho: Open-Source, Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Sign-In
Can you please provide a source for your information about Google handling login data? Your words are very interesting, but they would have more impact if you could provide a source.
BodyCulture··on Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
The ideology here is „enterprise security platform“. This is marketing brainwash.
BodyCulture··on Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
This is wrong. What you see as fragments are security boundaries for others.
BodyCulture··on Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
Mostly it’s the other way around: attackers follow MS „security software“ to get deep into your systems.
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