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RainbowFriendson Ext4 data corruption in 6.1 stable

I guess this falls into the class of Linux bugs that causes regressions on the LTS kernel, where you'd be safer running stable.

RainbowFriendson Developer account removed by Apple

Hitting the front page of Hacker News will lead to a much cheaper resolution of this issue than paying their law firm.

RainbowFriendson Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

I have a personal GCP account with an average spend of $12/month over the last year or so. The past week, I've been bombarded with messages and phone calls from a GCP saleswoman trying to get me to spend more. These business practices reek of desperation.

RainbowFriendson Zeitpyramide

I thought this article would be about a pharmaceutical.

RainbowFriendson Ask HN: How can I get Google Maps to stop routing people to the wrong address?

The way to get an issue like this fixed is a post on Hacker News with an sufficient number of upvotes to get to the front page for a long enough time. Good luck!

RainbowFriendson FreeBSD on Firecracker

Citation needed. gvisor seems to be under active development and just added support for the systrap platform, deprecating ptrace: https://gvisor.dev/blog/2023/04/28/systrap-release/

RainbowFriendson Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center

Webtrees is open source, and allows for easy sharing with your family through http: https://github.com/fisharebest/webtrees

RainbowFriendson Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center

For the DIY folks, Webtrees is a halfway decent platform: https://www.webtrees.net/index.php/en/

RainbowFriendson Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN

Slack's Nebula is another great open source mesh VPN application: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

RainbowFriendson Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews

The behavior of Reddit's management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contributed to. Doesn't management realize they are dependent on people like us to create content to generate value for the website?

RainbowFriendson Ask HN: What is the most cost effective way to do backups?

https://www.tarsnap.com/ or if you really want to DIY move AWS S3 to Glacier Deep Archive at $0.00099 per GB/month

RainbowFriendson Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them

Revoke the medical licenses of the doctors who rubber stamp the denials.