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waplot··on PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
These changes are way too big to integrated into postgresql's engine itself. It fundamentally changes how MVCC is done.
waplot··on Document reasoning to block DNS to 127.0.0.1
Could you bring back the original title since it provides context as to what's going on?
waplot··on Desktop Linux is insecure
> the bonus point is that I can have access to its source code

Are you actually reading all the code before you run it? Are you re-reading it for each update? If not, then what's the point of bragging about having access to the source?

The point of sandboxing is that it's impractical to reliably audit, on a continuous basis, the massive volume of software that the average person runs. It's more economical to apply the least-privileged principle, and only give apps access to the things they need to function.

waplot··on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
Nothing wrong with using the DB as a mq, especially if the load is small enough. Plenty of tools are built on that, these two come to mind

https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

waplot··on Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
have your upvote. now show yourself out.
waplot··on Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before
Does this finally mean they'll can bring back image preview for file upload modals?
waplot··on WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?
Just use sub-addressing, then discard all emails send to that address.
waplot··on WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?
>reddit

no thanks

waplot··on Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
>What's the point of mentioning Rust

marketing

waplot··on Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups
bitwarden allows you to add custom fields and secure notes for anything that falls outside the usual email/password data.
waplot··on Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups
>because I don't like how it was designed

can you elaborate?

waplot··on Find a good available .com domain
I just use dig or whois to see if the domain exists
waplot··on Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
They're just webhooks, not sure what the issue is (?)
waplot··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
it won't be stateless then, and you might as well just use traditional sessions then
waplot··on Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
Monolith vs microservices is not the problem. It's architecture and code design in most cases.

When i hear "Rails monolith is a disaster" what it usually boils down to 8 out of 10 times is people putting their business logic inside models or controllers, when really it should live in its own set of classes, usually called services or service objects.

Here's a guide https://codeclimate.com/blog/7-ways-to-decompose-fat-activer...

waplot··on PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update
Can someone explain to me what pipewire's goal is? to be a better pulseaudio? if so, in what way is it trying to be better? also, how's the codebase quality? from what i heard, pulse's codebase is a mess, so if it can improve in that sense, i guess that's a win (?)

why does it do video? is trying to do media capture like OBS or be a compositor like wayland? if so why bother? those solutions exist already... maybe it should just stick to audio, cuz that part of it feels like feature creep.

waplot··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
till this day, i still don't know what RMS's agenda is. can someone enlighten me?
waplot··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
> Now, more free games? It doesn't satisfy an urgent practical need, obviously... But the crucial thing is, free ones might make it easier for some people to say, 'Let's move off this non-free thing, and play a game that is free. So we can have the same pleasure, but without paying freedom as the price.'“

i'm sorry but i just can't read this without laughing. what does stallman think gamers are like?

i can only imagine the average teenage gamer trying to get their friends to stop playing virtually every game on the market and instead play some obscure game and trying to teach them how to install gcc and git to get it running

waplot··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
gittea is nice, but for more advanced project management with a self-hosted option, check out youtrack
waplot··on Elementary OS is imploding
I've seen the pay-for-binaries model in a few places. Not sure if it's scalable since someone can write a build script and share it with the community.
waplot··on Elementary OS is imploding
No offense, but it's hard to monetize FOSS operating systems. I've yet to see a scalable business model. All FOSS OS's rely on either donations or consulting/support for revenue. There's just no money to be made there, unless someone comes up with something innovative.
waplot··on Why might you run your own DNS server?
I run dnsmasq backed by dnscrypt-proxy, haven't had issues.
waplot··on If this woman stays off her smartphone for an entire year, she'll win $100k
Why do people need to be rewarded money to do something like this? Why can't the reward be a better social life or better mental health? As the person says in the article, "Getting away from the smartphone has been freeing, and it has opened my eyes and made me more aware of some of my other bad health habits." That's a pretty good reward for most. I'd take that $100k and use it to spread awareness about social media and its health effects. All a project like this does is reinforce the idea that people should only do things for monetary gains, including bettering their body and mind.
waplot··on Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
Well color me surprised.
waplot··on Scientists Find Cocaine in Shrimps
Darling it's better, Down where it's wetter, Take it from me ;)
waplot··on Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
Can someone explain what happens to the money when a big company pays a government agency this much? Does it go into the federal budget? or does the ftc use it for its own purposes?
waplot··on Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of WhatsApp
>-save my chat history in the cloud so that i dont lose everything when i move from iOS to Android or vise versa.

the key is that the data has to be encrypted. currently i think whatsapp uploads your chat history as plaintext. this basically allows the corps. to get your data.

waplot··on Arctic now locked into devastating temperature rise, UN report says
So i tried to find the actual UN report. The article linked to this http://www.grida.no/publications/431 but it doesn't appear to exist anymore (??) Luckily there is a Google cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w_-_g9l... which links to the report https://gridarendal-website-live.s3.amazonaws.com/production...

In the cbc article, they say "According to one study cited in the report, up to 70 per cent of Arctic infrastructure could be threatened because of thawing permafrost by 2050. ". This refers to page 17 of the report, which cites this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07557-4

In the abstract, they clearly state "We show that nearly four million people and 70% of current infrastructure in the permafrost domain are in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost." While the CBC sub-headline says "70% of infrastructure will be threatened because of thawing permafrost by 2050"

Seems quite misleading. CBC will have people think that 70% of all infrastructure is threatened (subjective interpretation) whereas the study clearly indicates it's 70% of the infrastructure in the permafrost domain, which affects a whopping 4 million people. I'm sure there will be plans to help those affected in time.

I'm not saying it's not a problem, I'm just saying, as usual, the media hypes and sensationalizes it, most likely for some ulterior agenda.

waplot··on Arctic now locked into devastating temperature rise, UN report says
>Prepare for a tough, violent future. Be scared to death.

This is exactly the type of fearmongering Science avoids.

waplot··on The Industrial Revolution of Shame
the media produces a lot of manufactured outrage as well.
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