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BitPirate

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    Why do you need a low ttl for those? You can add multiple IPs to your A/AAAA records for very basic load balancing. And DNS is a pretty bad idea for any kind of failover. You can s…

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    Comment #44794762

    Borg 2.0 (unreleased) is moving in a similar direction with borgstore: https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-2.0.html

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    Comment #44774632

    Alternative: Stirling PDF

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    Comment #44774621

    Took me a while, but I found the repository: https://github.com/VSRemoter/LuxPDF

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    Comment #43991945

    The play store version isn't updated anymore. You should switch to F-Droid.

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    Comment #42838773

    Asahi Linas explanation: https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input...

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    Comment #42778767

    Yet here we are in 2025, with OpenSSL still lacking a QUIC server API and RFC9000 approaching its fourth birthday.

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    Comment #42772331

    While the price of energy production is likely to continue to fall, I fear that this will be completely overshadowed by the necessary investment in the grid. Both energy storage an…

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    Comment #42695288

    That's why you should run a tarpit instead.

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    Comment #42608521

    With RFC8441 websockets are just HTTP/2 streams.

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    Comment #42513794

    Your observation doesn't contradict the use of firewall rules to accomplish this.

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    Comment #42076025

    The benchmark is apparently a bit flawed[1]. I'd take the results with a grain of salt. [1] https://caddy.community/t/nginx-vs-caddy-benchmark-video/261...

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    Comment #42073948

    Reply by Matt Holt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42073885

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    Comment #41755357

    If we stopped using things that had vulnerabilities, we'd be using sticks and stones by now. Other operating systems weren't affected, so it's not inherent in the protocol itself.

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    Comment #41084729

    The EEVDF scheduling algorithm is also a good example. Designed back in 1995 and it's the default process scheduler of Linux now.

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    Comment #40925012

    Pseudo justification? The bark beetle is wreaking havoc in our forests here in Germany.

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    Comment #40900043

    Sadly things are a bit broken if IPv6 is involved: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop/issues/55

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    Comment #40713977

    Ashton Kutcher and his Thorn organisation?

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    Comment #40060946

    The author mentions PostgreSQL's JIT compiler. Up to this day, I've only seen it degrade the performance of queries. Disabling it is on my install checklist.

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