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mobilemidget··on Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
All i think about when people row, kayak or swim these distances in these waters is 'SHARKS'. Which i read and saw enough about that the chances of meeting one isnt that big, but my brain still associates these activities/areas with it.
mobilemidget··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
My hope for more reasonable pricing so they sell all units is then perhaps naive?
mobilemidget··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
It's not a matter of time. And i dont want cloudflare to track me across many different sites, nor my website visitors.
mobilemidget··on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
Did you try uuidv7 yet?
mobilemidget··on AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
From what i remember they did the same at wetransfer. Doubling pricings without notification.
mobilemidget··on How I'm using Helix editor
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806
mobilemidget··on Become unbannable from your email
i encountered the samsung@ issue too, so that turned into sumsang@ which worked. :)
mobilemidget··on Become unbannable from your email
I'm surprised to read they had an actual physical office you _could_ show up :)

was it a very distant location to head out to?

mobilemidget··on Become unbannable from your email
Creating aliases for the addresses you are actually using, e.g. a netflix@ signup is preferred over a general catch all, .. and all that spam senders can generate approach.
mobilemidget··on Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
RAG, or Retrieval Augmented Generation, is an AI technique that improves large language models (LLMs) by connecting them to external knowledge bases to retrieve relevant, factual information before generating a response. This approach reduces LLM "hallucinations," provides more accurate and up-to-date answers, and allows for responses grounded in specialized or frequently updated data, increasing trust and relevance.

I was unaware what RAG referred to, perhaps other too.

mobilemidget··on Linux Ready to Upstream Support for Google's PSP Encryption for TCP Connections
Should the acronym not be 'PSPSP'? Or that sounds too much like luring a cat?
mobilemidget··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Does give you more things to 'hack' for the club. Not all bad I guess, and saving that amount of money is worth creating some 'new projects'.
mobilemidget··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
"I’ve not seen any file corruption when importing to Darktable, so I am convinced this is a problem with the Photos app."

Yes this argument is a bit unconvincing for me. Not saying Apple photos doesn't corrupt his files, but this is not real proper investigating either.

mobilemidget··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
Or nice idea for a new black mirror episode.
mobilemidget··on Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups
I personally think it's fair if they charge by weight. The post office does it, why not airlines?
mobilemidget··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Even setting up your own couchdb + livesync should be a small task if one can consider to 'write a whole app' to replace obsidian

edit note, if you want to build something :) please expand livesync or a new plugin to allow easily sharing of self hosted obsidian notes :) All the ones I tried use some 3rd party hosting which I don't like even if its encrypted.

mobilemidget··on A single line of code cost $8000
8 of the 10 Gbits I meant :) sorry I see it reads a bit weird yes. So 8 gbit for single line is the max currently. But huge competition on the horizon, so I expect soon more :)
mobilemidget··on It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle
I was just here to write the same thing :) imagine it being 0.01 degrees too warm or cold
mobilemidget··on A single line of code cost $8000
I got 8 :)
mobilemidget··on A single line of code cost $8000
Or.. Why on earth you need to check for updates 288x per day. It sounds and seems more like 'usage monitoring' rather than being sure that all users have the most recent bug fixes installed. What's wrong with checking for updates upon start once (and cache per day). What critical bugs or fixes could have been issued that warrant 288 update checks.
mobilemidget··on Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer
actually I just dont want any python on my servers :)
mobilemidget··on Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer
I already learned one thing regarding add_header

Worth the read already. Initially I even thought the analyzer was 'wrong' but curl tests indeed shows that add_header replaces all, surprisingly to me.

Thanks!

But I dont really like the installation of a pip/python ecosystem but that is just my issue :) I now simply copy the configurations from a python free servers and analyze them.

mobilemidget··on The State of Vim
I ran screaming from VS when I noticed how much resources it used and what software it copies on remote servers in case you want to work remote. Did this improve at all in the last year+?
mobilemidget··on PostgreSQL Support for Certificate Transparency Logs Now Available
Dont get me wrong, I agree it shouldn't happen. But that is not really my point, I also say you should not be surprised. And you kind of proof my point 'postgres fsync _bug_ is also vaguely related to the same issue'. Which would make the switch to PostgreSQL because of this, which could have been avoided by monitoring, even less strong choice. Who says there isn't a fsync like bug there still?

Corruption, empty files etc have happened before in case of exhausted disk space, with PostgreSQL, mysql and so on, so place and use additional safeguards, monitoring of disk space in this case. Because even if the data wouldn't be corrupted, a full disk leads to a failed service anyway which you want to avoid too. And even in case the table didnt get corrupted, new inserts, updates will fail, which might lead to 'missing' data too, which imho is also a sort of corruption.

Cars have airbags to avoid you getting seriously hurt in case of a crash. But dont be surprised if you do get serious hurt in case of a crash. Additional sensors that alert to the driver of a car to avoid accidents are important too.

mobilemidget··on PostgreSQL Support for Certificate Transparency Logs Now Available
Please enlighten me with some software examples that are free of bugs :)
mobilemidget··on PostgreSQL Support for Certificate Transparency Logs Now Available
If you let a disk run full weird shit happens.

But it reads to me as _we_, not mariadb, made a big oopsie and TADA \o/ now we change software. So I do strongly hope that besides changing software, they added some disk space monitoring.

mobilemidget··on Printf debugging is ok
the glorified printf :) I prefer over non glorified, as it goes to log for future reference etc, imho it has advantages over regular printf.
mobilemidget··on Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
And as ex smoker, I find it interesting it's not the smoking itself that was 'stress reducing' for me. But those 5 minutes I would make free for myself to do nothing (smoke) and just think.
mobilemidget··on Optimize Database Performance in Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord
I have seen many projects where people use activerecord for their SQL interfacing. It is only the really simple queries that are okay, but as soon as there is some complexity the generated sql query are not so good quality to put it politely. Imho raw sql is always best, build your own query generator which you understand its logic fully and is tailored for your project.
mobilemidget··on Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
This works better in my experience,

https://hailo.ai https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-kit-availab...

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