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Once this was announced a few years back, I was very skeptical that a few dots on the screen would be all that's needed to help me. And yet, apparently it was. It's not perfect, bu…

That’s not true for Postgres however: due to its usage of a shared memory pool, whenever a subprocess is terminated unexpectedly, Postgres will kill all other processes and enter r…

This response to the post announcing the article is very telling: https://oldbytes.space/@mrrmot/116694151801834138

see also: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a... A migration like this is a monumental undertaking to the level of where the only sensible way to do a migr…

it's also very tricky to do given the current architecture on the server side where one single-threaded process handles the connection and uses (for all intents and purposes) sync …

Firefox is not in a position where it is the only browser allowed to run on a platform. On iOS, you’re either doing a native app, sharing 30% of your income with Apple, or you’re r…

On the other hand, by erroneously treating a SHOULD as a MUST, I would say that Google is the one who's not RFC-compliant

It’s open source and runs on all kinds of platforms. Original HL1 runs on old Windows and IIRC DOS. Nowhere else

I wouldn’t post some random vulnerability report, but the disclosure timeline at the end was very interesting to me and not putting the vendor in a great light

Isn't this asking for the exact trouble musl wanted so spare you from by disabling dlopen()?

You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem

what's especially strange to me is that in the more distant past, he was a pretty normal guy - at least as normal as any other linux user. Heck, he had a super great podcast (Linux…

> As for the fact that one cannot resize from inside the window, if you check the screencast I posted, you'll see that you can indeed resize from inside the window. Not by a huge m…

It wasn't meant as a rebuttal. Just as a point of thought: By showing that at least one application doesn't exhibit the problem, I thought I was showing that the problem might not …

As much as I like to hate on a new OS like the next person, I think it's worth pointing out we're probably not seeing the full picture here: When trying to reproduce the problem as…

400k would last me 13 years for a rack, power and 10Gbit/s bandwidth at my colo place (Switzerland, traditionally high prices)

Becky was so good for participating in mailing lists. I could slip by as a Unix user even though I was still mostly using Windows as my client OS.

One thing that’s not quite clear to me is how safe it is to generate v7 uuids on the client. That’s one of the nice properties of v4 uuids: you can make up a primary key of a new e…

They are the same because both projects are inspired by Norton Commander for DOS which also used those keys.

> They may not be as energy efficient as using more exotic materials yes and given that the energy you put in is practically free, it doesn't matter if it's not as efficient.

I understand this as an argument that it’s better to be down for everyone than have a minority of users switch browsers. I’m not convinced by that makes sense. Now ideally you woul…

Here’s one study https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/81... And of all the high-profile projects implementing it, like the LKML archives, none have backed down…

> This was obviously dumb when it launched: Yes. Obviously dumb but also nearly 100% successful at the current point in time. And likely going to stay successful as the non-protect…