lomereiter

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by lomereiter 4mo ago
PocketBook is by far the most hackable, especially their b/w readers, which still run Linux 3.10 because of hardware limitations - for these, getting root permissions is trivial with an old jailbreak script based on Dirty COW. (That sa
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by lomereiter 2y ago
IMO the actual difference between introverts and extroverts is that the latter use @here and @channel a lot more frequently
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by lomereiter 2y ago
...or Korg NTS-1 (or even both together), which is not as modular but fun and hackable in its own way
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by lomereiter 2y ago
For some Mini PCs there are fanless cases, e.g. from Akasa: https://akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&... I've got one of those, and it houses a system with 8 CPU cores, 32 GB RAM (can be upgraded
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by lomereiter 2y ago
This is even handier: https://github.com/NikolayS/postgres_dba
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by lomereiter 2y ago
The community can agree to always call it "Redpanda Connect™ (former Benthos)"
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by lomereiter 2y ago
Don't you ever get inspired by reading good books? You can learn new tricks and apply them elsewhere, and it's much easier than actually contributing to a big open-source project.
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by lomereiter 2y ago
If this were indeed the average attitude, there wouldn't be this big of an outcry with regards to the move from fully open-source to source-available licenses (Mongo/ELK/Hashicorp/etc.)
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by lomereiter 2y ago
FWIW I had decent success with Xpra on Linux, and it's still being actively developed, e.g. the HTML5 client is considered stable now: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/
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by lomereiter 3y ago
"Large teams" is the key, there has to be enough services and/or language diversity to justify the extra complexity.
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by lomereiter 3y ago
To set up an open-source service mesh, the infra team anyway has to configure a private certificate authority and cert-manager to create k8s secrets for the service mesh components. From there, it's straightforward to extend the common
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by lomereiter 3y ago
Reminds me of a Russian joke. A secretary applies for a job; the interviewer asks her: "In your CV you claim that you can type 1000 characters per minute - for real?!" "Yes!", she replies, then adds in a low voice: &quot
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by lomereiter 3y ago
Arrow format is not intended for storage, it's for in-memory data exchange between different libraries and languages.
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by lomereiter 3y ago
Glad to see usability improvements here, but I won't be using it until there's a light theme (asking an application to respect the OS theme is apparently too much these days).
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by lomereiter 3y ago
You could buy a USB enclosure for an M.2 NVMe SSD - a bit bulkier but still portable and addresses your concerns.
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by lomereiter 3y ago
This article was written in 2015, a year before idle_in_transaction_session_timeout parameter was added (in Postgres 9.6) - which is unfortunately still disabled by default, but that's the easiest way to make sure no transaction sits i
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by lomereiter 3y ago
Yes, you absolutely need to set a reasonable idle transaction timeout to avoid a disaster (bugs in the code happen) - this can also be done globally in the database settings.
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by lomereiter 3y ago
Better yet, oauth2-proxy in case of an organization: only admins need to know the secrets, every user simply uses SSO to get access.
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by lomereiter 3y ago
We ran into a similar issue once, and addressed it by changing the sorting column from id to created_at which has the same ordering but doesn't have an index on it. Good to know Postgres optimizer can be tricked even easier.
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by lomereiter 4y ago
Our industry is so disorganized that after half a century 'Software Engineer' is still not a recognized profession, and there is just as little interest in unionizing. I lack the audacity to make sweeping judgments about it.
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by lomereiter 4y ago
Who are these 'we'? It's all up to personal preference in the end. As Github demonstrates by postponing SPA framework adoption, there are enough companies out there that share your desire to keep things simple.
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by lomereiter 4y ago
What you describe is solved with GraphQL, which is a very mature technology by now.
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by lomereiter 4y ago
You can shift your focus to mentoring your teammates and presenting at developer meetups / conferences. Simply tell your manager that you are greatly concerned about the bus factor (cite the 71% figure), and hopefully you two will figu
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by lomereiter 4y ago
Check out "Hobo: Tough Life", it's at the extreme end of the spectrum, where you have to beg and steal in the beginning.
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by lomereiter 5y ago
Why give your money to a manufacturer who explicitly wants you to run MacOS on their hardware, and not to its Linux-friendlier competitors?
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by lomereiter 5y ago
If I were a kid, I'd ask my parents to switch to a family plan, and negotiate how I can help with home chores in exchange for those extra $6/month. (Of course, very few kids actually think this way.)
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by lomereiter 5y ago
My wild guess is that Putin's goal has always been cleansing the power circles of the oligarchs who got there in the 1990s, and now that he's running out of time as he's getting old, he needs help in that from the West. Now h
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by lomereiter 5y ago
How about solving a sudoku? E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/sudoku - choose the level so it takes you less than 10 minutes.
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by lomereiter 5y ago
You are describing Tidelift ( https://tidelift.com/ ) except the bit where the users would "need to pay" - although that could be addressed e.g. via regulations for enterprises but not individuals.
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by lomereiter 5y ago
AGPL doesn't prevent running unmodified software and offering it as a service by large vendors. See the controversy around SSPL and the recent ElasticSearch fork by AWS - I suggest reading Kyle Mitchell's take on this: https:&#x2

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