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bgschulman31··on Hacking Moltbook
My thought exactly. Is this standard practice with using Supabase to simply expose the production database endpoint to the world with only RLS to protect you?
bgschulman31··on The side hustle from hell
Loved this article! And I appreciated the BCS references - especially the subtler ones like the use of the word 'chicanery'
bgschulman31··on MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
I think the media is attributing too much to the bats. I was at the Yankees game, and the wind was blowing straight out and hard. Many of the home runs I saw hit would have been fly outs on a day with more normal wind.
bgschulman31··on Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests
This seems like mostly a nothingburger. If you want to communicate privately there are plenty of pieces of software that allow for that.
bgschulman31··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
I canceled my Apple Music subscription a few years ago after leaving the app open for long times would heat up my computer and use 100% of the cpu. It no longer feels like they have the "it just works" feeling they used to in all of their software.
bgschulman31··on GitHub Is Down
nearly there :)
bgschulman31··on Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan?
If you're into cooking a Japanese steel knife
bgschulman31··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
This is a pretty amazing exploit by the attackers. Either they had access to the pagers during shipment and installed malware or had access to RCE on the devices.
bgschulman31··on Ask HN: Is GitHub actions down?
They updated their status page, looks like actions and pages are impacted https://www.githubstatus.com/
bgschulman31··on Docker Is Having an Outage
Same here. 503 when we try to pull an image during our deployment pipeline.
bgschulman31··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
Many of the projects in my OS class in college involved building on top of the xv6 operating system. I remember one of the projects was building a scheduler for xv. It was definitely a great way to learn about different pieces of an operating system!
bgschulman31··on We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
We recently did this on my team over Christmas this year. We opted not to use Blue/Green for this but instead spun up an encrypted snapshot and began replication from the old database to the new database using MySQL’s tools. Once traffic on our platform was sufficiently low, we cut connections to the database, waited for for replica lag to reach 0 and relaunch the servers with the new databases host info. Our downtime was around a minute.
bgschulman31··on MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
OSTEP by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau is a great read for anybody interested in operating systems (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/). The projects in their class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were mainly making edits to the xv6 OS.
bgschulman31··on Money Horror
I never understood why some shops/restaurants do not take cash. It's only a minor inconvenience having to deposit the cash in-person and you don't lose money on any transaction fee. Maybe to protect against theft? But still, using cash saves the seller 1-3% on that transaction.
bgschulman31··on YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
As a private company, I don’t believe YouTube should be obligated to be a platform to host people’s free speech. However, they do advertise themselves as a public forum so by restricting viewpoints that they disagree with they really aren’t the public forum they claim to be.