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tempest_··on ChatGPT Search
I know the internet lately incentivizes low effort comments like this but be better.
tempest_··on ChatGPT Search
I think you need to define "decent search skills" since google will straight up ignore most boolean stuff or return ads.

The LLMs are nice because they are not yet enshitified to the point of uselessness.

tempest_··on New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs
If you want to include anyone with an android device as a linux user then most of them are not.
tempest_··on Toasty, an async ORM for Rust
A blocking function is one that blocks the event loop from switching to another task. It doesnt matter what it is doing only that it is doing something and not hitting another await to release the loop to work on another task. A simple function with while loop can block the event loop if it doesnt contain any awaits in it.
tempest_··on A new JSON data type for ClickHouse
It depends, if you want to do any kind of aggregation, counts, or count distinct pg falls over pretty quickly.
tempest_··on Helping wikis move away from Fandom
Have any of Intels server offerings been "premium" since epyc hit the scene?

I just assumed they were still there based on momentum.

tempest_··on OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
My experience in principally in python and the number of integrations that are auto used on common dependent libs and frameworks is long https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/integrations/
tempest_··on Rio: Web apps in pure Python
The VC bit is the entire reason I would not use something like this.

Just waiting for them to want their money out and then I am stuck deep in a product fast headed for enshitifaction or abandonment when it fails to make a billion dollars in 2 years.

tempest_··on OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
Sentry has been nice.

I do not know what unholy monkey patching they do with that sentry_sdk.init call and I try not to think about it but for web apps it is fire and forget.

tempest_··on Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
> they've already paid for.

That is the crux, rarely is it a service being scraped that they paid for

tempest_··on Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
Honestly the reason I am "against" cruising is because they are usually floating environmental travesties
tempest_··on AnandTech Farewell
I would describe him as a tech enthusiast.

His content doesn't have the journalistic quality that feels like he is going out and digging for stories etc. The content is given to him by companies and he chooses to showcase what he is given.

There is not really anything wrong with that either but I don't expect any real scoops to come from his channel.

tempest_··on Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
I would wager that most users find the settings using the search bar in whatever OS they are in.

Android and the like will just link you directly to the settings and most peoples computer now a days is a phone, not a laptop.

tempest_··on Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
How about 300 years? anyone with half a brain can see the problem with that ruling.

Likely someone with lawyers could get that lowered to nothing and as a layman that feels like a feature not a bug.

tempest_··on Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again
Presumably it has some accounts it is rotating through and they are being rate limited in some capacity.
tempest_··on Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
It isnt really "putting the responsibility to mitigate this problem in its entirety" on them so much as it is "putting the responsibility to mitigate this problem * on their service * "

Large software companies seem to enjoy passing the buck in recent years if it might impact their profitability which is fine but to say the could not do anything about it incorrect. It may not be feasible to do so an still operate the service but that doesnt mean it isnt possible.

tempest_··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
I think Googles good will in recent years is the problem.

I think Rust is better divorced from Mozilla, and Go would be better if it was divorced a bit from Google for a lot of the same reasons.

tempest_··on Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
Why should they not be responsible for the things they allow on their service?

(note that I don't necessarily agree but that statement is loaded)

tempest_··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
What do you mean it doesnt really work? There are a large number of programming languages and open source projects and a large number of approaches to this problem.

Python, Postgres, Rust..

A small amount of core contributors doesn't mean they all have to come from a single corporate entity either.

The notion that only Google could shepherd a programming language is hilarious.

tempest_··on Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
Often give or display a menu with prices.
tempest_··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
To be fair when netflix started they were solving legitimate problems that a major streaming provider would have.

In the time since those problems have been solved and now are offered as a service by most cloud providers (for a hefty fee of course)

tempest_··on PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client
This looks nice.

I have been looking for a DB client for postgres that seems to match the correct amount of features and interface that phpmyadmin has.

Not really a fan of pgadmin, I just find the interface to be too clunky.

tempest_··on Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums
Boston Dynamics has a contact sales button on their site aha
tempest_··on Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
I am using seaweed for a project right now. Some things to consider with seaweed.

- It works pretty well, at least up to the 15B objects I am using it for. Running on 2 machines with about 300TB, (500 raw) storage on each.

- The documentation, specifically with regards to operations like how to backup things, or different failure modes of the components can be sparse.

- One example of the above is I spun up a second filer instance (which is supposed to sync automatically) which caused the master server to emit an error while it was syncing. The only way to know if it was working was watching the new filers storage slowly grow.

- Seaweed has a pretty high bus factor, though the dev is pretty responsive and seems to accept PRs at a steady rate.

tempest_··on Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager
Alright but the last time I did this the answer to "which websites I need JavaScript on" was "All of them". Is that still the case.
tempest_··on Debian GNU/Hurd now can compile 71% of the packages from the Debian archive
Huh, I always assumed the switch ran on some flavour of custom android, I suppose for not other reason than it seems every digital device in the last 10 years has done so.

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

tempest_··on NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop
15 years ago something like this was sold for my Moto Atrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Accessories

Never bought but seemed interesting at the time.

tempest_··on gRPC: The Bad Parts
One of my favourite bits is having to pass a json string to the python library to configure a service. To this day I am not entirely sure it is adhering to the config
tempest_··on Firefox 3rd Party Installer Campaign – Mozilla Community Portal
Presumably telemetry coming back
tempest_··on Waymo the Leapfrog
They don't tend to operate anywhere it might snow.
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