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nginy?
Bump each letter in nginx and we get.... ohjoy!
Dude, please, just create a fork & explain the name.
ohjoy sounds perfect and the meaning is brilliant.
This must be it.
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#222It is scary to think about how much of web relies on projects maintained by 1 or 2 people.
>> It is scary to think about how much of web relies on projects maintained by 1 or 2 people.
This is one reason maintainability is very important for the survival of a project. If it takes an extra person to maintain your build system or manage dependencies or... or... it makes it all the more fragile.
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#223I don't understand why some people use a Russian software! Especially in this age.
While I may share the general sentiment, there’s a freaking lot of “Russian software” out there which you may be knowingly or unknowingly use.
There is JetBrains, for example.
But there is also core-js which is a little polyfill library being used by like way more than half of high profile websites. Also written by a Russian national.
If you excise all contributions by Russian nationals to PostgreSQL or the Linux kernel, they will be left in a not very runnable state, I’m afraid.
On the other hand, it’s not like you are giving them money directly, unless you do; I also can see that in, say, both Linux and PostgreSQL there is also enough people from the “geopolitical opposition” so that even if the Russian contributors are asked by some stern people from the Apparat to sneak something backdoory in, it will be sniffed rather quickly and prevented from going much further.
So tl;dr is that there is no simple response.
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Lots of people are using haproxy
My org moved off nginx for haproxy after we learned that (at the time, maybe it changed) reloading an nginx config, even if done gracefully through kernel signals, would drop existing connections, where haproxy could handle it gracefully. That was a fun week of diving in to some C code looking for why it was behaving that way.
nginx supports graceful reloading and I’m pretty sure it has for a very long time - there are references to it in the changelog from 2005
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> Also this is kind of why everything is ever so slightly broken, IMHO. OTOH, things that update too often seem to be more than slightly broken on an ongoing basis, due to ill-advised design changes, new bugs and regressions, etc.
I am thinking with things that don't update often, we just get used to the broken parts. People learned to save every five minutes in Maya since the app crashes so often, for example. Every now and then, a PuTTY session will fill the screen with "PuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTY[...]" but it's been that way for at least 20 years, so it's not that remarkable.
tangent but i havent seen that happen on any of my putty clients in years and i use it everyday, so i think that finally got fixed? or maybe was a side effect of something stupid
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#226It is scary to think about how much of web relies on projects maintained by 1 or 2 people.
IME, the best software is written by "1 or 2" people and the worst software is written by salaried teams. As an end user, it's only the encroachment by the later that scares me.
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Perhaps someone with more knowledge can chime in. But, my impression is that there are vulnerabilities with TTY, it's just that we stay educated on what those are. And we build systems around it (e.g. SSH) that are secure enough to mitigate the effects of those issues.
SSH was a replacement for Telnet. But any weaknesses at the TTY level is orthogonal to that, right? Unless you mean, having thin clients use SSH as opposed to directly running serial cables throughout a building to VT100 style hardware terminals, and therefore being vulnerable to eavesdropping and hijacking? But I think when we talk about TTY we mostly don’t refer to that kind of situation. If someone talks about TTY…
SSH was a replacement for RSH, not telnet.
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#228I don't understand why some people use a Russian software! Especially in this age.
While I may share the general sentiment, there’s a freaking lot of “Russian software” out there which you may be knowingly or unknowingly use. There is JetBrains, for example. But there is also core-js which is a little polyfill library being used by like way more than half of high profile websites. Also written by a Russian national. If you excise all contributions by Russian nationals to PostgreSQL or the Linux ker…
Jetbrains is Czech and most Czech people would get offended by your characterization of them as Russian.
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HTTP 1.1 isn’t really changing is it? That and a small collection of other things are standards based and not going though changes.
Sure, but HTTP3 was proposed in 2022.
Yeah but you can just continue to use HTTP/1.1, which is simpler and works in more scenarios anyway (e.g. doesn't require TLS for browsers to accept it).
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I may share the general sentiment, there’s a freaking lot of “Russian software” out there which you may be knowingly or unknowingly use. There is JetBrains, for example. But there is also core-js which is a little polyfill library being used by like way more than half of high profile websites. Also written by a Russian national. If you excise all contributions by Russian nationals to PostgreSQL or the Linux ker…
Jetbrains is Czech and most Czech people would get offended by your characterization of them as Russian.
Sales, yes. Development, has been in Saint Petersburg not so long ago.