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by pilif 1y ago
that tells me my snark about i386 being the most commonly used 32 bit architecture wasn't too far off reality, doesn't it?
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by pilif 1y ago
I wasn't discounting VMs with my initial statement. I can totally imagine quite a few VMs still being around, either migrated from physical hardware or even set up fresh to conserve resources. Plus, keeping i386 the same also means any
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by pilif 1y ago
"everything" for those values of "everything" that do not include one of the most (if not the most) widely used 32 bit architectures. (snark aside: I understand the arguments for and against making the change of i386 and
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by pilif 1y ago
> The brain does not retain information that it does not need. Why do I still know how to optimize free conventional memory in DOS by configuring config.sys and autoexec.bat? I haven’t done this in 2 decades and I’m reasonably sure I n
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by pilif 1y ago
It didn’t have a back door. A third party client was used whose only purpose was to log conversations. That third party client’s archive was then hacked. Any client must by definition have access to the unencrypted data (in order to display
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by pilif 1y ago
Not on Windows and iOS. And on the mac, the most useable client isn’t open source either.
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by pilif 2y ago
here's the GitHub issue tracking the problem: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3363
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by pilif 2y ago
Tailscale on my iPhone is unusable while connected in the background. The battery consumption reporting diagram is all 100% filled light blue bars, all attributed to Tailscale. I’m using their MagicDNS feature with three domains and I think
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by pilif 2y ago
> Specifically mobile clients and battery usage. yes. Battery usage is super bad, mainly because of their DNS features which forces every DNS resolution to go through their network extension. At least recent updates have stopped the b
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by pilif 2y ago
> I guess it would be much harder to produce an iOS or Android app because of the vagaries of mobile programming. on iOS you also need a special entitlement that's only available on specific request and only to known developers, s
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by pilif 2y ago
Yes they are, unless you're using a mainstream OS and/or want to use a GUI, which is probably the most common use case.
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by pilif 2y ago
Keep in mind that for many use cases (mobile access, GUI on macOS), this relies on the official Tailscale clients keeping the ability to set the control server. The moment the inevitable enshitification will start at Tailscale, this feature
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by pilif 2y ago
If DigiCert were to lose browser trust (at this point, that's still a big if), it would happen the same way it happened with prior CAs, some of which were pretty big themselves (Symantec): all certificates issued after some date would
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by pilif 2y ago
The whole point of reverse DNS notation is to have a conflict free namespace though. Using somebody else's namespace is asking for trouble in the future. In this case it's probably additional subterfuge in case somebody examines a
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by pilif 2y ago
None the less - this was a scheduled minor release with no new features and no security relevant patches. As a PHP developer myself, I'm still not clear as to why that warrants a submission to HN, much less a promotion to the front pag
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by pilif 2y ago
Given the title I would have expected an article about how to make syscalls to the kernel. What Ingot is an article about how to use libc bindings to make libc issue syscalls. That’s not the same thing.
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by pilif 2y ago
The shell doesn't have access to the scrollback though. A multiplexer would, if you used one.
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by pilif 2y ago
Analyze itself isn’t the problem. After pg_upgrade, no stats will be available for the optimizer which means that any query will more or less sequence-scan all affected tables.
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by pilif 2y ago
These days it does analyze in stages where it does multiple passes with increasing stats sampling. From personal experience, most of the queries become useable after the first stage has completed which on my 8TB database took less than 5 mi
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by pilif 2y ago
> But we had less than a terabyte of data I really wonder how an in-place `pg_upgrade` of such small amounts of data would take 30+ minutes. My experience from a less mission-critical situation where 5 minutes of maintenance are absolu
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by pilif 2y ago
The servers could share the private key and certificate though
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by pilif 2y ago
In average half of the certs would expire in half of the time. A 3.5 days sustained DDoS attack would cause half of the sites using a 6 day certificate to be offline.
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by pilif 2y ago
> Unknown websites will get very few crawls per day whereas popular sites millions. we're hosting some pretty unknown very domain specific sites and are getting hammered by Claude and others who, compared to old-school search engi
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by pilif 2y ago
If you lose your phone and you only have your phone to access your email, then you also have lost access to your password if you're using a strong password and a password manager. Or do you remember a 20+ random character string for ea
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by pilif 2y ago
> you also have the vendor lock-in of a web browser too 1Password allows me to authenticate with my passkey in Safari (my default browser), Chrome and Firefox on macOS and Windows.
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by pilif 2y ago
> But I would dread having to try and recover a Passkey with Google, who would I even talk to same as trying to recover a password: You go through the account recovery workflow. My opinion on passkey is that they are a wonderful tool to
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by pilif 2y ago
Tangentially: interesting how we are looking for this for 60 years and then manage to have two separate teams come up with the answer independently and practically at the same time
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by pilif 2y ago
We start making sure our application runs on the next version around the time Beta 1 comes out. We upgrade the development environment around the time when our tooling (phpstan, cs-fixer) runs on the next version, but doesn't necessari
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by pilif 2y ago
All of it is opt-in and even requires joining a waiting list.
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by pilif 2y ago
There could be an enum value for "read a partial number"

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