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Maybe but it's much more expensive upfront (3000 euros or so). And the total fuel cost depends on the distance you travel and your speed.

Something very strange, at least for me, is that Toyota seems to be pushing the electric and hybrid motors very hard.

For example, here in Greece you can only find a Hybrid Yaris and Yaris cross. No diesel, no petrol. I know a lot of people that don't care about the premium they need to pay for th Hybrid and would prefer a normal petrol (or even diesel) car with manual transmission. Toyota seems to not care about these customers.

Why don't they put there great diesel or petrol motors to Yaris and get a lot of money and prefer to only push for Hybrid ?

This is what I use. I had a minio instance that was replaced flawlessly with silo. This is an excellent project and needs more traction. All existing minio users must switch to Silo ASAP.

I had a 486 sx4 100 and was more or less ok

SeaweedFS is also great and would try it if I had a greenfield project. However I had a very big installation of Minio already so trying to move it to anoyther system would be very difficult and dangerous (and would probably need a lot of downtime). So Silo was a godsend!

I am already using this Minio fork for more than 2 months (before the rename) and it's exactly what I dreamed of: Not only it properly keeps supporing Minio and can be installed without changes to your Minio installation, but it also includes the full console that was removed some months before Minio was archived.

A big thanks to the contributors of this package!

Would the attack be successful is the Norwegian government used a way to protect itself against ddos like cloudflare or akamai?

Well one interesting thing is that if you want to buy a Toyota Yaris right now in Europe (specifically in Greece) the only options offered are hybrid. One with 116 hp and one with 136 hp. No petrol, no diesel. And only automatic transmission (a no no for me but that another discussion).

Now considering that Yaris is one of the most popular cars (if not the most popular), the increase in sales is not surprising

Has anybody actually tried AIStor ? Is it possible to migrate/upgrade from a minio installation to AIStor ? It seems to be very simple, just change the binary from minio to aistor: https://docs.min.io/enterprise/aistor-object-store/upgrade-a...

Is AIStor Free really free like they claim here https://www.min.io/pricing, i.e

  Free
  For developers, researchers, enthusiasts, small organizations, and anyone comfortable with a standalone deployment.
  Full-featured, single-node deployment architecture
  Self-service community Slack and documentation support
  Free of charge

I could use that if it didn't have hidden costs or obligations.

This is the first thing i install on windows for like 10 years. Then i set up Ctrl+alt+s to toggle the everything window.

For anybody starting with Django, I had written a bunch of guidelines some years ago https://spapas.github.io/2022/09/28/django-guidelines/ (after more than 10 years using exclusively Django for my work)

Actually the greatest thing for me is the falling asleep effortlessly part!

Thank you for the info and your kind words!

Is this actually a business that can make money? My family owns around 1000 olive oil trees in Greece that produce eatable olives and extra virgin olive oil.

The thing is that we always sell the product in intermediates that would pack it up and sell it in a much higher price. I don't know of any small producer that sells the product directly to the consumer. This seems like a very big investment and not really sustainable. Are there other people that are doing it?

Could my knowledge as a software engineer help that family business in any way to be more profitable ?

spapas.github.io

This is insteresting to me especially since this is a 2005 document. Is there a reason why C++ was chosen instead of Ada which to my knowledge was the gold standard for such software ?

For tco to be really useful you need to think in a non procedural way. Imagine that you don't have loops in your language so you need recursion to do stuff multiple times.

Also even in procedural languages there are some problems that are easier to understand and model if you use recursion, for example tree or graph like structures.

I think they should. Not sure if they will.

However Adam Johnson mentioned django-tasks as the reference implementation that may be included in Django here https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/.

Using Django for almost 15 years, almost exclusively, for both business and personal projects. Have tried a lot of other frameworks, nothing clicks so good with me.

My only (small) complain with this release would be that they included the task framework but didn't include a task backend and worker. I'd prefer to wait a bit and include everything in the next version.

Yes this is concerning for me too. Hopefully if they don't fix/merge security issues somebody will fork and maintain it. It shouldn't be too much work. I'd even do it myself if I was experienced in golang.

Minio allows you to have an s3 like interface when you have your own servers and storage.

This is a way too old version. You should use a newer one instead by downloading the source and built the binaries yourself.

Here's a simple script that does it automagically (you'll need golang installed):

> build-minio-ver.sh

  #!/bin/bash
  set -e

  VERSION=$(git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/minio/minio.git | \
  grep -Eo 'RELEASE\.[0-9T-]+Z' | sort | tail -n1)

  echo "Building MinIO $VERSION ..."

  rm -rf /tmp/minio-build
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minio/minio.git /tmp/minio-build

  cd /tmp/minio-build
  git fetch --tags
  git checkout "$VERSION"

  echo "Building minio..."

  CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
  -ldflags "-s -w \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.Version=$VERSION \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.ReleaseTag=$VERSION \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.CommitID=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" \
  -o "$OLDPWD/minio"

  echo " Binary created at: $(realpath "$OLDPWD/minio")"

  "$OLDPWD/minio" --version

Well I didn't mind when they removed it and certainly I didn't consider their paid version which is way too expensive for most use cases.

The UI was useful when first configuring the buckets and permissions; if you've got it working (and don't need to change anything) you're good to go. Also, everything can be configured without the UI (not so easily of course).

Minio is more or less feature complete for most use cases. Actually the last big update of minio removed features (the UI). I am using minio for 5 years and haven't messed with it or used any new thingie for the last 5 years (i.e since I installed it); I only update to new versions.

So if the minio maintainers (or anybody that forks the project and wants to work it) can fix any security issues that may occur I don't see any problems with using it.

Having a self hosted gitea server is a godsend in times like this!

Please read my comment again including the update:

For 15 minute cloudflare wasn't working and the status page did not mentioned anything. Yes, right now the status page mentions the serious network problem but for some time our pages were not working and we didn't know what was happening.

So for ~ 15 minutes the status page lied. The whole point of a status page is to not lie, i.e to be updated automatically when there are problem and not by a person that needs to get clearance on what and how to write.

Cloudflare seems to have degrated performance. Half the requests for my site throw cloudflare 500x errors, the other half work fine.

However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ does not really mention anything relevant. What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Update Ah I just checked the status and now I get a big red warning (however the problem existed for like 15 minutes before 11:48 UTC):

> Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

This is a good article and also reflects my opinons on the matter. All this effort should have gone else where (for example to improve the async job queues framework already introduced in Django 6)

SQL Server is actually supported in Django with this backend by microsoft https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django

This is very good. One recommendation would be to include a docker image so people can run it easily!