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Even HN comment sections?

• tux3 1y ago
  ACK
  • pwagland 1y ago
    Although latency is shockingly bad.
  • unmotivated-hmn 1y ago
    Even HN comment sections?
    • therein 1y ago
      At least once delivery.
• npteljes 1y ago
  Of course. A message queue is database, and software that handles it in a specific way to make it a message queue. So, HN could basically be that database backend for that imaginary software that turns it into a message queue. I don't have fun examples with message queues, but I do remember some with filesystems - a popular target to connect cursed backends to. You can store data in Ping packets [0]. You can store data in the digits of Pi - achieving unbelievable compression [1]. You can store data in the metadata and other unused blocks of images - also known as steganography [2]. People wrote software to use Gmail emails as a file system [3]. That's just from the top of my head, and it really shows that sky's the limit with software. [0] https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs [1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/99933/ https://lwn.net/Articles/99933/