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cxcorpon Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

It was pretty easy to get up and running with Docker Compose:

  version: '3'

  services:
      mysql:
          image: mysql:8
          environment:
              MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
              MYSQL_DATABASE: matomo
      matomo:
          image: matomo:4
          ports:
              - 4000:80

This lets me in at localhost:4000 and I just enter "mysql" as the DB host, "root" as the username & password and "matomo" as the database name, and it's basically done.

Of course, I probably have to point it out or someone else will, that it's a bad idea to be using the MySQL root user, instead of creating a user with the rights that Matomo needs: https://matomo.org/faq/how-to-install/faq_23484/

cxcorpon Understanding Connections and Pools

Good read, I've been doing some work related to database bottlenecks recently and there's definitely food for thought in the article.

On a sidenote, I wonder if this part has a typo?

> These systems allow you to make as many database connections as you want and manage them inefficiently

Perhaps inefficiently should be inexpensively or efficiently?

cxcorpon Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering

cxcorpon Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

Oh wow, I didn't even know ST had a wiki! I wonder if they also have a section on the STM8 family?

cxcorpon What’s so exciting about Postgres?

Wow, what a great episode! Probably one of the info-loaded podcasts I've listened to. Definitely going to be using psql's \e command with $EDITOR set to VS Code.

cxcorpon Launched My First Startup

How do you pronounce Contentbyd? Is it like contentbid? Or like contentbud?

cxcorpon Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready

The first post's discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817

cxcorpon Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

Was trying to find the source for the extension, looks like the link was in the privacy notice. Github link here for those who are also looking for it: https://github.com/mozilla-extensions/regrets-reporter

cxcorpon Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states

To be fair, that's practically the population of Ireland.

cxcorpon Ultrafast laser pulses produce a previously unseen phase of matter

> The idea that two possible states of matter might be in competition and that the dominant mode is suppressing one or more alternative modes is fairly common in quantum materials, the researchers say. This suggests that there may be latent states lurking unseen in many kinds of matter that could be unveiled if a way can be found to suppress the dominant state.

How exciting! I can only daydream about the kind of discoveries to be found about matter in, say, 50 years.

cxcorpon Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

> Pinch-to-zoom

> On supported hardware (trackpad, touchpad, multi-touch screen), the canvas can be zoomed with the two-finger pinch gesture.

Thank god! As a macOS user, this is really one of my pet peeves because I'm so used to pinch-to-zoom that I almost forget it exists until I use a program that doesn't support it.

cxcorpon Tiler: Build Images with Images

I remember the same, IIRC it was US6137498A that was referred to. That one seems to describe a pretty specific process for the generation so I don't know how generally it applies.

Wikipedia appears to also list a few other patents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic#Trademark_...

cxcorpon Lahja – A generic event bus implementation written in Python

Good question, could also be the Finnish word "lahja" that translates to "gift"

cxcorpon German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says (2016)

Probably referring to the likes of BadUSB

cxcorpon Reverse Engineering the Soundcloud API

You wouldn't have happened to have been using the api-v2?

cxcorpon Estimating a nuclear blast with bits of paper

I think that the reason why people dismiss "duck and cover" is that they think it's issued as a recommendation for surviving inside the lethal radius.

cxcorpon Unicode is hard

Yuup, that's in the standard: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-13.html#Confusable_...

Data file mentioned in the standard: http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/9.0.0/confusables.txt