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nullcipher··on Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
It's really not meant for public facing servers. Now people will say it can but sandstorm like any other software can be hacked into doing whatever. It's meant to host "documents", think Google docs style hosting. You can make documents public which is quite different from a public server.
nullcipher··on George Carlin's "Soft Language" (2019)
Would we put foxconn related in the QR code of all apple software etc also ?

I agree with the spirit of what you are saying but this is hardly the solution. I don't think people are against killing of animals, we have been doing this since man was born. What we are against is modern industrial animal farming.

nullcipher··on Open Source does not win by being cheaper
> While the core product is typically maintained by a central engineering team, integrations or plugins are often built by community developers and then occasionally merged into the main branch.

One of the things I really dislike about opensource deployments is plugins. Often the core team is happy to let something go to a plugin and 99.99% of the time plugins just get abandoned. It's worse when some projects "outsource" basic functionality like authentication (say via saml or oidc) to a plugin.

nullcipher··on It's okay to make something nobody wants
there's plenty of people who cook for others when they don't like it themselves? like meat, eggs, seafood etc.
nullcipher··on Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
8m
nullcipher··on mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites
Where is the code? I couldn't find a link.

edit: https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

nullcipher··on What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (2014)
neither is it like that to be a multi millionaire. rare is the multimillionaire who "retires" to a village and enjoys siesta. usually, they want to move even more money (which is fine).
nullcipher··on Jupyter Notebook 7
Thanks for explanation. I still don't get what is the motivation to keep Jupyter Notebook going. Is it different feature wise? Or it's just a chrome over JupyterLab because people like the retro look of Jupyter Notebook?
nullcipher··on Jupyter Notebook 7
I thought Notebook is getting deprecated. What is the difference between Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook ? Are these developed by two completely different teams? Why maintain two code bases?
nullcipher··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
Great write up!
nullcipher··on Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation
or vpn
nullcipher··on Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
https://hoppscotch.io/ is an alternative
nullcipher··on Self hosted YouTube media server
Maybe I misunderstood this but why does a personal youtube listing / downloading app need ES ? Seems so heavyweight for such a lightweight use.
nullcipher··on Self hosted YouTube media server
I couldn't find docs for installing from source. Is docker really mandatory ?

Also, "Tube Archivist depends on Elasticsearch 8." . Wow, why?

nullcipher··on WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
The link in your profile doesnt work - http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808177
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?
I mean just search for "is forEach functional programming"
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?
If i ask you to add from 1 to 10 , is that how you add ? 1 + 10 + let_me_add_from2_9 ? So yeah, not at all natural.
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?
The functional programmers (in my circle) have latched on to forEach/map/reduce/filter etc as the bibile of functional programming. Writing a simple for..each loop will make them reject PRs
nullcipher··on PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
Well, I don't want to run untrusted apps for a start. I am not that desperate :)
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?
Ah, i hate those coding styles where everything must use forEach/map/reduce
nullcipher··on PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
I have tried to install this from source but it's quite difficult. I don't like deploying opaque docker images.
nullcipher··on Firefox address bar
This is like perl but better
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why is there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?
As you sad, it was an attempt. We need more attempts.
nullcipher··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Easily one of the best tech writings ever. This was a thread on the joelonsoftware forum. Good ol' days.
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why is there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?
privacy, data sovereignty , data ownership ?

Would you host your email in china or say srilanka ? I prefer hosting stuff in my country .

nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why is there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?
I mean automtated driving cars is not simple either. It's not stopping people from trying.
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why is there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?
OP is talking about having a mechanism / Operating system for servers to easily deploy and manage. Atleast, that's what I understood from the original post. How does k8s help me deploy say a blog ? It's just too technical and geeky. If this was "Android", I just download some blog app, click and install. Don't have to worry about updates either.
nullcipher··on Ask HN: Why is there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?
Your comment on complex deployment reminded me of https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box#cloudron - "Web applications like email, contacts, blog, chat are the backbone of the modern internet. Yet, we live in a world where hosting these essential applications is a complex task."

What you are saying is so true. I don't understand why no standardization work is being done to make server deployments simpler with high reliability. We have some takes like cloudron, sandstorm, yunohost but nothing is "mainstream".

nullcipher··on Sourcegraph is no longer open source
It was open first. Then closed. Then open again. So, now it's closed again...
nullcipher··on Things that surprised me while running SQLite in production
> Yes, just not at the same time.

Does this mean that my processes need some synchronization primitive of their own to not to concurrent writes?

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