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by progval 6y ago
I have a munin-master running on an Atom C2338 (very low-end), which monitors about 20 hosts. The whole system uses about 300MB RAM and 40% of a CPU core. It's a little intensive because it recomputes half the images every 5 min, when
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by progval 6y ago
I use(d) both. While I appreciated Zabbix's configurability, it just takes too many clicks to add a basic probe with an alert or a new system. Meanwhile Munin has everything in flat config files (easy to deploy with ansible or equivale
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by progval 6y ago
> Assuming we are talking about 1MB per visit then that is roughly 70TB. If you visit the site today with scripts blocked, the site still works and the page is only 160kB, including 140kB of images of book covers. And the "I checked
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by progval 6y ago
Yes of course, that's just an example. In practice is can happen with immutable values, like a namedtuple.
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by progval 6y ago
For HN users, sure. But most people are not aware of the choice they make when they use Chrome, or its consequences for their privacy. And web developers designing for Chrome first and Firefox second means it's more convenient for user
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by progval 6y ago
But Python has had this behavior for ever with default values: class A: def x(self, b=B()): # doesn't work return B() # works class B: pass
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by progval 6y ago
> I just don't know why people insist on writing code to stop themselves and other developers from doing things. In the hope of stopping yourself from doing the wrong things more often than the right things. It also forces some of
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by progval 6y ago
It only leaks metadata to people/systems with read access to your password folder, which is very limited. Unless you share it with someone else or publicly (eg. Dropbox or Github), but then you're leaking a lot more metadata anywa
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by progval 6y ago
> It might make for a mildly interesting SF plot point. https://qntm.org/structure It's also a minor plot point in Anathem by Neal Stephenson
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by progval 6y ago
There is even a precedent of the FSF doing this, without a takeover. The FSF published a new version (1.3) of the GFDL license specifically to allow Wikipedia to relicense its text (that was licensed as "GFDL version X or above")
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by progval 6y ago
I use an ebook reader and it lets me configure the font, size, spacing, and margins. I don't mind printed books and magazines because it's a constraint of the medium; but for websites it's a missed opportunity.
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by progval 6y ago
I block Google Font, so most of the time I end up with the default font anyway
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by progval 6y ago
> And did you let the browser choose the font? Don’t make me read such text with Times New Roman. I don't understand this attitude. If you don't like Times New Roman, why don't you change your browser's default font?
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by progval 6y ago
> EPUB 3 Reading Systems may optionally support scripting, which was explicitly discouraged in EPUB 2. http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-changes.html#sec-new-cha...
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by progval 6y ago
Notification to users is required by article 34, not 33: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-34-gdpr/ There is no 72h requirement, but "the controller shall communicate the personal data breach to the data subject without un
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by progval 6y ago
It's sometimes easier to archive everything than to find/decide what deserves to be archived.
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by progval 6y ago
This is what I meant. Replace "database" with "backend" in my previous message and it still stands.
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by progval 6y ago
What you are proposing is that third-party apps should ask Facebook's app to find the friends, right? But Facebook's app needs to access Facebook's database somehow; and anyone can impersonate Facebook's app and query th
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by progval 6y ago
It works for photos because the threat model is about protecting local files against malicious apps. But for phone numbers, you about protecting Facebook API (which is publicly available via the internet) against arbitrary devices, which Fa
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by progval 6y ago
> Once parsing's done, everything should be a string Or give a schema to the parser, defining what type is expected in each field.
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by progval 6y ago
IPFS devs commented on IA.bak back then, saying he would write a proposal to store IA.bak on IPFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9148576 AFAICT, there was no follow up at the time, according to https://wik
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by progval 6y ago
Any tips to find a server that has just started yet has players, short of convincing friends to start a game with you?
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by progval 6y ago
https://useplaintext.email/ has some recommendations, and is written by the sourcehut devs
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by progval 6y ago
Not disagreeing with your overall point, but: > - mailing lists software exist but they are another hack. There is no standard for subscribing or unsubscribing There is a standard for unsubscribing: https://tools.ietf.org&#x2F
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by progval 6y ago
We know that. No one claims websites are doing this for no reason. It's explicitly written in the article. But this sub-thread is about misbehaved crawlers.
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by progval 6y ago
You can use the same rate-limiting for all crawlers, Google or not.
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by progval 6y ago
> accessing an attribute that begins with assert Or any of the names in this surprising hardcoded list of typos https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/fdb9efce6ac211f973088...
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by progval 6y ago
It is. But even if it is strongly discouraged, some people will commit it anyway. Look at any beginner's repository, there is a high chance it contains files compiled from the source of the repo (executable, .pyc, ...), the developer&#
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by progval 6y ago
I think not. The standard tools read the token from ~/.pypirc (or the console if absent). Inadvertent commits of the token probably only happens if you have a custom script with a hardcoded token.
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by progval 6y ago
More details on the issue: https://twitter.com/Benjojo12/status/1373707799054712836 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019

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