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berkle4455

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berkle4455··on KIP-932: Queues for Kafka
Don’t use Kafka (or PostgreSQL ) as a job queue. Can we just stop forcing this?

Kafka is an amazing event streaming platform.

berkle4455··on The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
Wait til you find out about chatGPT
berkle4455··on 9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who rape traveler
Dissolve the TSA. Biggest fucking waste of tax payer money and aggregate loss of GDP ever invented.
berkle4455··on Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
When you realize Apache is a hospice organization
berkle4455··on Woman loses over $44k after downloading third-party app to buy fish
It's mind boggling how crypto people still trust hot wallets that run as fucking browser extensions.
berkle4455··on CloudNativePG – Postgres Operator for Kubernetes
I think with any database the solution is simply backups no? backups that preferably aren’t tied to the hosted solution at all.
berkle4455··on Tailscale Kubernetes Operator
k8s cluster and simple are rarely found together.
berkle4455··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
They didn't terminate my contract though, they just nullrouted my server. They even had the audacity at the end of the month to send me a bill.
berkle4455··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
Do not host anything of importance on Hetzner. They'll gladly blackhole your server with zero recourse.
berkle4455··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
They also do it when their system incorrectly flags traffic. They're the Paypal of web hosting. Stay far, far away.
berkle4455··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
> Companies will very successfully have their contracts enforced

Hetzner turned off all access to my paid server due to a false-positive on their netscan/DDOS (literally it was tailscaled doing a netcheck) protection and equally incompetent technical support staff.

Can I sue them for breach of contract and subsequent damages? I moved all my hosting off Hetzner as a result, but I'm still very disappointed in their actions.

berkle4455··on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives
It’s enabled thousands of indie devs and small studios to release games every year for the last decade. I think that’s pretty awesome. Unity, the game engine, has undoubtedly been a net positive, and now that torch is being passed onto others.

The company management just totally sullied all that goodwill in a week however.

berkle4455··on Baldurs Gate 3 comes out on Mac tomorrow. I will not play it
It's strange how people lambast video games like they're a dangerous addiction but praise those who take time to read, watch cinema, or attend theatrical performances. We all consume our art in our own ways.

Maybe we should appreciate what was made by humans while it's still being produced.

berkle4455··on Generative AI's Act Two
Just remember that Sequoia deleted their Sam Bankman-Fried puff piece.
berkle4455··on Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
> Most of us however do not have endless stacks of money to burn runing our code.

This is such an absurd take. Do you really think startups lose runway because of the runtime performance of their code, and not failing to achieve PMF, overhiring, or spending too much on stupid techbro bullshit?

berkle4455··on Svelte 5: Runes
What is the difference between $derived/computed and $effect/watch?
berkle4455··on Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
> And how many instances would be required if Go/Rust would have been used?

Zero. Because Shopify would have waited until Rust came out in 2015, instead of launching in 2006, and they would never have gotten off the ground and been another failed techbro startup that instead of getting shit done, bikeshedded over languages.

PHP and Ruby apps have generated far more revenues than all the Rust and Golang code combined.

berkle4455··on Marine Corps orders safety stand-down of all aircraft after F-35 disappearance
This is mostly just how the Marine Corps fixes fuckups. LCpl Schmuckatelli gets one hooker pregnant and suddenly the entire battalion has their 96 canked, we’re all having 0700 safe-sex safety briefings Saturday morning, and Doc is handing out condoms.
berkle4455··on Unity: We Have Heard You
Just get started using anything but Unity.
berkle4455··on Unity's Self-Combustion Engine
<edit: nevermind, myopic HNers are right as always>
berkle4455··on Unity's Self-Combustion Engine
Unity has no incentive to solve this. They’ll push it onto developers to provide a deduplication in a clumsy process after they’ve already been billed for the month
berkle4455··on The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)
Would their needs be met by a simple key-value store?
berkle4455··on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
Nah, we used and paid for Unity because the licensing structure we signed on with made sense. They’re literally changing the terms on us in a way we cannot push back against. Games made years ago are subject to this new fee structure. Games which are no longer sold at the same nominal price and a massive existing install base who anytime they reinstall our game we get the privilege of paying Unity each time forever.
berkle4455··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
Maybe they've added a fix to their detection system since? I quite literally have a netscan abuse report from them filled with the above UDP IP and port.
berkle4455··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
I'm most familiar with AWS so I went back to a trusted (and far more expensive) platform where I didn't have to deal with amateurs literally turning off a paid service.

I may explore OVH in the future, nothing against them at all.

berkle4455··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
tailscale runs a continuous netcheck to an unroutable IP (203.0.113.1:12345:UDP) [1] for whatever reason. This triggered Hetzner's ghetto-ass DDOS protection, thinking my server was compromised or I was netscanning the world. They sent me an email saying my server was compromised and I had 24hrs to remedy it.

I responded to the email and filled out this attestation form declaring that my server was not under attack, it was a false positive, and explained what they were seeing (not to mention it's an unroutable IP). They still null routed my server and refused to turn it back on, and their arrogant support told me there was no way I was in control of this server etc. They took my box offline during a peak user day, so I migrated to AWS and never looked back.

Don't do anything of importance on Hetzner. No wonder they only get people running pirated plex boxes.

[1] https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/94304819263b0553...

berkle4455··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
Hetzner is a garbage company when trying to host there as a legitimate SaaS creator. Stay far, far away from them. They disabled access to my server for running tailscale.
berkle4455··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
> has since clarified that transmission of the runtime over the web via streaming

How's that affect twitch streamers?

berkle4455··on $2.70 supermarket wine wins gold medal at international wine contest
> Its AMAZING that it seems like 99% of average people are convinced that they can taste the difference between red and white wine

I'm not sure what sort of high-quality wine you drink, cause I drink cheap stuff, and I can 100% tell the difference between a pinot noir and pinot grigio.

Red vs. white isn't a coke vs pepsi thing, it's a coke vs mountain dew.

berkle4455··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
You're arguing in bad faith, just stop, you've been a total dick to the community and you keep digging this hole deeper.
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