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brinox··on Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet
I was just wondering if pg_parquet could be combined with pg_azure_storage to write Parquet files to Azure Storage.

I had problems with pg_azure_storage in the past, because the roles pg_read_server_files and pg_write_server_files are unassignable on Azure PostgreSQL databases which makes the use of `COPY {FROM,TO}` impossible.

brinox··on Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
Running signed binaries neither is as long as the corresponding keys leak all the time [1].

Anyone can just get their malware signed by just throwing some dollars at it.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=100

brinox··on Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
`docker-compose` is the old style of doing it.

Newer versions of Docker have Compose available as a CLI plugin, so the command `docker compose` with space is correct.

brinox··on Watching Facebook Burn
Mastodon.
brinox··on JiraCLI
Do you also audit / control web browsers the clients are using?
brinox··on Show HN: Simple method to create complex Excel formulas
Congrats, you've just discovered referential transparency :-)

Such a nice feature of functional programming languages, like excel formulae.

brinox··on Worst Things About Windows 11
> You Still Need Third-Party Antivirus With Windows 11

At that point I stopped reading.

> PCMag security expert Neil Rubenking states that you still need third-party antivirus software.

Please stop suggesting snake oil software to the folks out there calling yourself an "expert".

brinox··on BitDefender Free has been discontinued
Good, one fewer snake oil product on the market.
brinox··on Google wants every account to use 2FA, starts auto-enrolling users
It's very convenient, yes.

If your Bitwarden vault is compromised however, you only have a single factor, because both the password and the TOTP secret are stored in the same place.

brinox··on Researchers Identify Weakness in Microsoft WPBT
It would be really nice to always spell out the abbreviation once, put in in brackets and then use it afterwards. That would save so many people precious time.
brinox··on gRPC for Microservices Communication
You can configure the message size limit on your gRPC server, doesn't that fix your issue?
brinox··on The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
I don't want to know what other security holes exist in applications that don't even support TLS 1.2.
brinox··on Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
ZetaSQL[1] seems like it could be a fit for your use case. I've worked with Apache Calcite in the past and found it to be very complex to work with. I found ZetaSQL to be a little easier to use.

[1] https://github.com/google/zetasql

brinox··on addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired
Even if your certificate expires after 3 years, the certificate renewal process should be automated. The long validity of 3 years leads many people to not consider this necessary.

If the certificate is only valid for three months however, many people will automate the renewal right away, because nobody wants to do this manually every couple weeks.

From a security POV, shorter lifetimes require more periodic checks for the server's identity. E. g. a Letsencrypt-issued certificate using the ACME protocol will validate the server really belongs to the given domain more often, which is a nice property I think.

brinox··on Finally a plug and play VPN router for grandmas
Why should my grandma use a VPN anyway? I could not think of any reason.
brinox··on Sockets in Your Shell
I think this would be nice to wait for a socket to be available instead of doing `sleep n`.
brinox··on New Features in the Fish Shell
You can just type in anything you'd like as when using Ctrl+R and then just press the up arrow key to perform a fuzzy match in your history.
brinox··on Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling Like Jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
I'd recommend to at least give the option to have the text rendered in a font suitable for long texts, which is a font with serifs.

I like monospace font for programming tasks but it is just not the right choice for long reads.

brinox··on 38 People are looking at this post right now
I can only speak for Germany, where it's definitely not.