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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/lupus-car...
Remember back in June when Facebook/meta got caught tracking users trough a webserver on Android phone thought Messenger and Instagram? Same thing.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175940
Note that Excel and Google Sheet can also not export to sc (spreadsheet calculator), to DuckDB, etc. Just because something is possible, does not mean it therefore must exist.
* It works out of the box, and continues to work with no (or only minimal) tuning (no vacuum, etc)
* Scaling up through replication is straightforward
* Every techstack supports MySQL/MariaDB
In short: Good enough, No drama.
In my experience developers prefer PostgreSQL, while SysOps / DevOps / SRE's prefer MariaDB.
Following your interests and going on weird adventures/side-tracks outside your comfort-zone won't make you very rich, but you'll always have enough, and a life that is fun.
It helps if you don't care to much about collecting useless stuff: Travel light!
Used mostly in bookkeeping and nucleair monitoring, but very usefull outside it as well.
In other words: relax, experiment, take a change on new or weird things, and don;t believe that the thing you're working on right now is super-duper important in the big scheme of things. Consider the size of the Universe (Douglas Adam's style), and remember that any change you make (even if traveling at the speed of light), will still be insignificant for the universe. Use this information not to paralyse you, but gain a sense of unlimited freedom.
You are free.
* encrypted * automatic NAT punching * complete location independence * use 0MQ with tor as transport if you want a queue on top .
Or if it has to be fast and low latency: 0MQ with eliptic curve encryption.
It is the nuts and bolts that do the low level real work of implementing a call / interface.
1, It used to be that the only 'real' domain name was .com. Nowadays this artificial scarecity is over. If you want to launch a service as foo.io, that is fine.
2, You can sue to have a domain name confiscated if you own the trademark with the same name
My demands were:
1. Long battery life 2. Small attack surface (security) 3. A phone that is so uncomfortable to use that I would use it only for calling, and some sms. 4. 4G network 5. Thetering 6. Google maps (the only thing that is really, really needed) 7. Flip phone (strong, no worryes about scratches, etc, and easy to put in a pocket).
It turns out to be the best decision I made in years .. no more distractions.