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There are actually two separate pricing increases. One was introduced about 1-2 months ago. The one from today was announced at the end of May, without actually revealing new prici…

Lead: "I am pleased to announce that pgBackRest will continue! Over the last few weeks, a coalition of sponsors has come together to fund ongoing development. Their support means t…

AI bots (or clients claiming to be one) appear quite fast on new sites, at least that's what I saw recently in few places. They probably monitor Certificate Transparency logs - you…

https://notes.aflukasz.pl - some writing about software plus experimenting with https://indieweb.org/POSSE . Main site at https://aflukasz.pl .

> However, they absolutely also lower the barrier to entry and dethrone “pure single tech” (ie backend only, frontend only, “I don’t know Kubernetes”, or other limited scope) softw…

But that moves the burden of maintenance from the provider of the service to its users (and/or partially to intermediary in form of "skills registry" of sorts, which apparently is …

> Anyone here use this testing in the wild? Where's it most useful? Do you have the issue I described? Is there an easy way to overcome it? One example would be when you have a nai…

I do for some time now, on the scale of around 20 hosts in their cloud offering. No restarts or network outages. I do see "migrations" from time to time (vm migrating to a differen…

You can decouple Postgres and surrounding userspace upgrade cycles from your host os, if this is something that you want. Or run multiple different PG versions (have independent up…

Ah, good point.

Yeah, but then you can just as well use http-01 with like same effort.

> It's a lot more nuanced than that. If you use the free edition of Code Assist, your data can be used UNLESS you opt out, Well... you are sending your data to a remote location th…

Truly a new breakthrough in home video marketing.

Fair point, but it's a place with some useful properties. All the rest of the effect will depend on the specifics of your network. Observing the impact on localhost shows scale of …

For those interested - I've checked and observed a difference of 0.2ms on average across 1000 connection attempts on localhost.

And mostly if you are behind CISCO firewall during TLS Server Identity Discovery or some equivalent setup. 3 seconds mentioned in the article were coming mostly from that. From the…

Some of you cite your favorite strips. I will too. Dilbert comes down to the caves where trolls (accountants) reside and gets a tour. The guide points to a troll sitting behind a d…

> AWS Aurora Postgres Serverless v2 has that capability Was just about to react to someone being wrong on the internet and say that this is not true. Instead, TIL that this is, in …

FWIW seems open to me right now.

I find consumer vs producer to be very interesting and useful distinction. Sometimes very enlightening and somewhat scary when applied to personal time spending.

In this particular case cloudinit presence in the story is incidental, delivery mechanism of said config file could have been different. It's useful for initializing state that cou…

Yes. Run this as a validation step during base os image creation, if such image is intended to start system with sshd. That way you can verify that distro you use did not pull the …

> For example, if you're designing GPUs and/or GPU drivers? If your next-generation product has the aim of providing 25% more frames per second in "Baldur's Gate 3" and "Call of Du…

I like your argument about implicit index. But is an article an index to the attached media? Not even "just", but "at all"? Is this the right abstraction? Or do we have a better on…