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RcrdBrt··on Who makes the most reliable new cars?
It's safe to say that the bathtub curve applies to cars, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

RcrdBrt··on Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
Hi Ruben!

Great to see Windmill advancements

RcrdBrt··on New Upcoming Telegram Premium Features
There is Dendrite, a complete rewrite of Synapse in Golang by the same authors

https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

RcrdBrt··on ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant
Didn't know that project. Sounds like an opensource Tailscale with more features. Love it, thanks for sharing!
RcrdBrt··on How we put IPFS in Brave (2021)
Golang has only 1 tunable GC parameter by design so it could be not opaque enough for certain loads but I learned that putting a ballast in ram fixes the too frequent GC sweeps

https://eng.uber.com/how-we-saved-70k-cores-across-30-missio...

RcrdBrt··on Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat
Yes, it does
RcrdBrt··on Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
By default GNOME has the same distinction between apps and windows and works with the backtick, too. I find it comfortable enough once you get used to it. You can do 2 different things with almost the same command (in terms of fingers position). It's only manageable with a US keyboard layout though, I give you that.
RcrdBrt··on Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python
Anecdotal data: I found that data.table ingestion speed with fread() trumps absolutely everything else
RcrdBrt··on Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013)
Awesome, I'm the author of that thread you linked!

Pay attention especially on the duty-cycle warning/limitations. It might be illegal in your country to follow that guide.

RcrdBrt··on The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin
Some are even "assume bad faith and verify"
RcrdBrt··on We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks
A major utilities provider (A2A) of the Milan, Italy area uses LoRa-enabled (~865MHz) meters to get automatic measurements from the customers
RcrdBrt··on A deep-dive into the future of subscription gaming
Long live the nameless hero fellow Piranha Bytes customer!
RcrdBrt··on M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time
I put my stats here for the sake of reporting.

3.5 years old Samsung 970 evo 500GB

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 28 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 9,208,241 [4.71 TB] Data Units Written: 21,345,634 [10.9 TB] Host Read Commands: 132,245,782 Host Write Commands: 346,141,507 Controller Busy Time: 924 Power Cycles: 312 Power On Hours: 2,453 Unsafe Shutdowns: 114

RcrdBrt··on Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies
Google will track you more since adblockers will do nothing against this new practice.

So, again, this is not an improvement for users privacy.

RcrdBrt··on Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP
Deltachat maybe? Check it out. You might like it, it's a federated chat (since mail is) and built on top of the email tech stack

https://delta.chat

RcrdBrt··on Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server in Go
I've been using a docker mail server[0] pre-configured for years without issues. I switched from DigitalOcean to Vultr and finally landed on Hetzner. Always had no issues delivering or receiving messages from/to the big guys. I'm also addicted to watchtower[1] to keep it automatically updated without hassle.

[0] https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

RcrdBrt··on 750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
Sterility for only 1 sex type maybe?
RcrdBrt··on This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power
LoRa as a Data Link and thr RadioHead library on top of it is probably more flexible
RcrdBrt··on Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack
What about docker swarm? It seems to answer your request about an orchestrator as easy to use as Docker
RcrdBrt··on Modern and Cross Platform Stack for WebRTC
I think that adds up some latency
RcrdBrt··on Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health
Long time ago Ezekeel, a xda-developers user, published a kernel mod for the Nexus S that let you choose the max percentage that the battery could reach while charging. It was called BLX aka Battery Life eXtender. I always set it to 80%. I've always been intrigued by extending the life of li-ion cells and that's the only work that goes into that direction AFAIK. I believe it was 2011. There hasn't been anything like that ever since.
RcrdBrt··on WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6
It's not that bad. Overhead is less than a full TCP encapsulation. I use it all the time
RcrdBrt··on WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6
https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel
RcrdBrt··on WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
I use wireguard on top of udp2raw to power through UDP-blocking firewalls all the time

https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel

Added bonus: it's not TCP

RcrdBrt··on Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
Isn't it just for paying G Suite customers?