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Would the attack be successful is the Norwegian government used a way to protect itself against ddos like cloudflare or akamai?

Well one interesting thing is that if you want to buy a Toyota Yaris right now in Europe (specifically in Greece) the only options offered are hybrid. One with 116 hp and one with …

I am using ChatGPT voice on my phone and it's great. It even understands greek (my language). But it's jailed inside the phone. Why? Why can't it control my phone? Is it technical?…

Has anybody actually tried AIStor ? Is it possible to migrate/upgrade from a minio installation to AIStor ? It seems to be very simple, just change the binary from minio to aistor:…

This is the first thing i install on windows for like 10 years. Then i set up Ctrl+alt+s to toggle the everything window.

For anybody starting with Django, I had written a bunch of guidelines some years ago https://spapas.github.io/2022/09/28/django-guidelines/ (after more than 10 years using exclusiv…

Actually the greatest thing for me is the falling asleep effortlessly part!

Thank you for the info and your kind words!

Is this actually a business that can make money? My family owns around 1000 olive oil trees in Greece that produce eatable olives and extra virgin olive oil. The thing is that we a…

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This is insteresting to me especially since this is a 2005 document. Is there a reason why C++ was chosen instead of Ada which to my knowledge was the gold standard for such softwa…

For tco to be really useful you need to think in a non procedural way. Imagine that you don't have loops in your language so you need recursion to do stuff multiple times. Also eve…

I think they should. Not sure if they will. However Adam Johnson mentioned django-tasks as the reference implementation that may be included in Django here https://adamj.eu/tech/20…

Using Django for almost 15 years, almost exclusively, for both business and personal projects. Have tried a lot of other frameworks, nothing clicks so good with me. My only (small)…

Yes this is concerning for me too. Hopefully if they don't fix/merge security issues somebody will fork and maintain it. It shouldn't be too much work. I'd even do it myself if I w…

Minio allows you to have an s3 like interface when you have your own servers and storage.

This is a way too old version. You should use a newer one instead by downloading the source and built the binaries yourself. Here's a simple script that does it automagically (you'…

Well I didn't mind when they removed it and certainly I didn't consider their paid version which is way too expensive for most use cases. The UI was useful when first configuring t…

Minio is more or less feature complete for most use cases. Actually the last big update of minio removed features (the UI). I am using minio for 5 years and haven't messed with it …

Having a self hosted gitea server is a godsend in times like this!

Please read my comment again including the update: For 15 minute cloudflare wasn't working and the status page did not mentioned anything. Yes, right now the status page mentions t…

Cloudflare seems to have degrated performance. Half the requests for my site throw cloudflare 500x errors, the other half work fine. However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ d…

This is a good article and also reflects my opinons on the matter. All this effort should have gone else where (for example to improve the async job queues framework already introd…

SQL Server is actually supported in Django with this backend by microsoft https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django

This is very good. One recommendation would be to include a docker image so people can run it easily!