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bbu··on Post mortem on Mastodon outage with 30k users
>Perhaps someone could explain to me why 30k users, even assuming concurrent users would be an issue for hardware that size?

the main problem was slow io because of faulty disks which brought everything to a crawl.

bbu··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Europe is big. That statement is only valid for some European countries.
bbu··on Indieweb and self-hosting my own space
$15/m for cloudron is a hefty price…
bbu··on EU electricity production by country and source
The additional cost for the battery etc. makes this a less desirable solution. Meaning you won’t make up the money you invest.
bbu··on Microsoft Full Circle
Something to rival google photos would be great!
bbu··on You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list
I think cloudflare updated their bot detection algorithms because we had multiple customers who complained that they get challenged. I verified that they got a bot score of 1. As usual, CF support is not that helpful…
bbu··on Shortest URLs on the Internet
Also doesn’t work on my iPhone.
bbu··on My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey
>That's because public schooling was initially invented by industrialists as a way to control the populace and get them to be good little factory workers and to avoid rebellions.

are you sure about this? industrialists were adamantly against mandatory school because that pulled the kids out of the factory into the schools.

bbu··on Show HN: SaveSlack – create searchable knowledgebase from your Slack community
A few days ago I've used https://github.com/nthitz/discord-slack-import to import the slack channels to Discord. It's not perfect (doesn't use threads) but it's one of the better tools I've found.

If somebody knows a more recent/feature rich tool, I'd love to hear it!

rereading your comment: I guess you are looking for a way to export your discord history, not import your slack history into discord. sorry!

bbu··on ISO name change for Türkiye
Only sz should use ß. Ss stays ss even in German-german. Switzerland got rid of the sz/ss distinction a long time ago. So you need to be culture and word aware to do it „right“.
bbu··on Reasons to tour by bicycle
thanks for creating cycle.travel, this is a really great resource!
bbu··on Reasons to tour by bicycle
since it doesn't require a lot of money you simply quit your job if you want to do that for an extend period or take unpaid leave if you can arrange something w/ your employeer.
bbu··on Reasons to tour by bicycle
I've travelled ("overlanding") the panamerican highway for roughly 2 1/2 years and I've always admired the people doing this on a bicycle. Since I'm back I've done much more bike touring than before and I do enjoy it a lot. The best thing about bike travelling is that speed, you really do get a sense of the landscape and the changing of it. On the other hand, a quick detour up to a mountain that you saw from the coast is not an easy feat and you will have to skip a lot of things that are not on your route.
bbu··on Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise
I expected a playlist of Rick astley songs. I guess there’s a whole form of „music“ I am not aware of.
bbu··on Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
Solid whataboutism.
bbu··on Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
Has anyone built a facility to store the waste for 1 million years yet? I think Finland is the only country in earth who started for real. It is mind boggling to me that people even consider building more waste before having the slightest idea what to do with nuclear waste. And the talking about how clean it is. Lol.
bbu··on A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV
> Not true in Western Europe. They are heavily overrepresented in crime statistics and their own communities have grown big enough that there’s no need anymore to try to fit in.

you can't just say something like that without any supporting facts.

bbu··on An Open Letter from the CEO of Puppet: Puppet and Perforce
Puppet was great about 10-12 years ago. It made the management of hundreds of VMs a breeze. Thank you Puppet Labs!

But the time of VMs has passed for most companies and by now there are better solutions available, so it makes sense to sell this off as long as it's worth something.

Not sure why this announcement was called an Open Letter?

bbu··on Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
this makes me realize how old my 2014 macbook pro is. at least it kinda worked in safari.
bbu··on Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
The thing I hate about this: when you spend hours and hours in interviews and you get rejected at the last stage the least they could do is to provide some meaningful feedback. But nope. They promise feedback but just ignore you.

I think 3-4 interviews is fine, depending on context.

bbu··on Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
i don't get why there's so much hate here.

cortex is a pain to configure and maintain. would be awesome to have mimir address these issue!

bbu··on Start Self Hosting
>You have no idea what tailscale is really doing.

please elaborate...

bbu··on What's my place in the world population?
it has an "Impressum" link that's broken. Parent(?) company is says this about themself:

> World Data Lab (WDL) is a data enterprise which produces the most consistent and credible estimates for spending and demography. Our data models are global, granular, and forward looking and track the Sustainable Development Goals in real time, helping provide unique insights for businesses. Our research has appeared on CNN, in the Economist, and the Financial Times. Our clients include HSBC, L'Oreal, and Citibank. Our advisory board includes leading representatives of the World Bank, Brookings Institution, and academia.

yikes!

bbu··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
>I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site.

me too. however, the reality is that I haven't worked in a company where everybody is in the same location in over 15 years. under that circumstances, fully remote is the better choice and I will not be forced back into an office.

bbu··on Ask HN: How Is Your Neck?
Got a physiotherapist, work an you muscles and posture, setup your work environment ergonomically
bbu··on Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
panoramio was amazing, thank you! a shame it was shutdown by g*gle.
bbu··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?
I enjoy Developing Leadership a lot. So much good content: https://www.developingleadership.co/
bbu··on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
It’s not noyb who built the slope, it’s the ever greedy companies trying to trick people I to all kinds of shady shit. Everything they get they deserve and I truly hope trustarc, onetrust and whatever their names are end up in bankruptcy.
bbu··on Rails 7 Released
>ruby, with its runtime, is complex and hard to build and deploy and host. Heroku et al take that away from you, but "getting it running on your laptop" alone is a sysyphian task. I've worked at and managed teams where this remained a timesink: where devs spend significant time "Debugging their environments".

I've solved that problem with docker compose. it took a while to get it right, but since then everybody can clone the repository, run one command and start developing.

but, yeah these are all valid points. As always, YMMV.

bbu··on Rails 7 Released
Very excited about this! Rails has enabled me, a non-developer, to build great webapps.
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