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I'm glad to see a team with a new-ish approach in the DB world... I like the object-like querying! and the JS embedding.

It really looks to me like SurrealDB could become big in the future, ambitious feature set.

DBs take a lot of time to mature, so I want to congratulate you and wish you the best

"He said the number of rescues and deaths in the Mont Blanc massif had not risen this year" (last paragraph): it almost reads like the journalist and the mayor lament that those numbers didn't go up, nullifying their whole argument. Or did I miss something?

"engineers" are considered the top of the pile: as long as they're not talking salaries...

I switched to not working for french companies for that very reason. Engineer, loads of experience, low salary compared to the UK or US.

I know you could put a price on the "french social privilege", but I didn't benefit from it the least bit (no kids, working) so I was better off without it.

Incest is the massive child abuse elephant in the room, and listening to our communications won't help those millions of children who suffer. Almost 7 million in France (1).

I'm disgusted. I'm pretty sure when they say "one child in 5,6 or 7", it's really incest in 90-99% of cases, not some internet pedophile they claim to catch.

They won't protect children with that law, because it's not the right law to fight child abuse.

[1] https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/1231341/nombre-victimes...

Hey! I'm 50 actually :-) I'll keep doing the stuff nonetheless! Cheers

Hi Ivan,

I know you appreciate the issue to its fullest like no one else! Cheers

I've been using k3s on Ubuntu (for development) for a while, and I switched it to ingress-nginx and cert-manager... It was always straightforward.

But I must admit it's easy/easier when someone else is managing K8S for you, be it DigitalOcean or Tencent (which I have experience with) or AWS / Google Cloud.

K3S is quite comparable to Docker Swarm though. I liked Swarm when I developed SSLPing because of its simplicity compared to K8S, but once you learn your way through K8S, there's no point sticking to Swarm I think...

Thank you man! I'm Chris, the creator of SSLPing, and this goes straight to my heart

thank you man, straight to my heart it goes (SSLPing creator here)

it did test supported cyphers and SSL versions, common vulnerabilities, etc... (SSLPing creator here)

SSLping creator here...

Actually node.js is using openssl under the hood... SSLPing implemented a partial SSL implementation to quickly test support for SSL versions and cyphers, but used node.js native libs too. Newer node.js versions weren't able to get an SSL certificate out of a SSL v3 only server, for instance. Which didn't allow to test for expiration, etc...

But yes, there were multiple issues indeed

SSLPing creator here.

There are backups, the db is safe. But you can't easily fix a Docker Swarm cluster when Docker refuses to run, systemd tries to replace upstart, etc. The message I wrote tells the whole story, and backups were not the problem (I even had a redundant 3 way database cluster which most commercial companies don't have).

thanks man! This goes straight to my heart (yeah, I'm chris, I amended the message on sslping.com to show my HN profile). I surely didn't expect SSLPing to END its life on the first page of HN. I'm sad today, really sad :( but my users were the best!

Hey! SSLPing creator here... I feel your pain, deeply, inside me at the moment!

Hey ! I'm the creator of SSLPing... yup, I'm the guy who got famous when he killed his dream.

Switch to K3S, you won't regret it. I was hesitant to pour more work into my project to switch to K8S (which I know well, it's part of my day job !)... K3S is an excellent way to get into Kubernetes. Or use Digital Ocean's or other hosted implementations...

Kubernetes has a lot to offer... peace of mind is one of them !

Hi I'm chris, the creator of sslping.

Actually, we're talking "small" amounts. I had 3 dedicated servers hosted in France, which is cheap compared to the USA for dedicated servers. I was paying 65€ per month, for 5 years.

How could testing SSL use that much? well, I wanted an HA mongodb setup, and I wanted to support millions of servers. SSLPing was super fast, around 5 seconds to check your SSL versions, cyphers, check some vulnerabilities, etc... when SSLLabs takes 2 minutes.

And yes, despite 1100 total signups in my database, I had only 3 patreons... The maximum I had was 5.

The web is a strange place. I'm looking into sslping very differently today. Yesterday I killed it, and received tens of emails from users to thank me, and today I'm on the first page of HN... because I killed my project.

Do I have to say that I didn't dare ask people to pay for sslping because I thought is wasn't worth it?

I can't agree more... I'm the creator of SSLPing, and I can say it sucks BIG TIME to discover people loved your product and your product is on the first page of HN just after you had to kill it !

Hi I'm the creator of sslping.

I'm just discovering that sslping is on the first page of HN. It hurts to have to kill your project, but it hurts even more to become famous after your death!

I've received 30+ super kind emails from users, and even a donation... I didn't even know I had such a fan base

That's why I think combatting fake news actually promoted them and made the world a worse place: when people hear "fake news", they've learnt to doubt the "fake" part and start thinking this news is "so worth it that Facebook/Google/the media is combatting it, so I remain ignorant of that information that is vital to me".

That's how I think combatting fake news made things worse for the very people we're trying to protect: it pushed them deeper into the fakeverse (TM).

Second order effects...

My online bank account was shut because AI couldn't identify me on photos for KYC. I grew older in 30 years, who knew... I hate KYC with a passion.

No better than patent trolls

I always thank Europe for this, makes me feel so safe. I don't risk anything when I can't even accept the cookie.

I'm pretty sure the "arrangements" you're talking about are against their TOS, except if they happen after your stay booked on AirBnB...

and they can, because there's not a single EU company with an app store to harm. App stores are designed for profit, not simply for our convenience.

Imagine a government forcing AirBnb to let people pay hand to hand to the owner of the apartment. It's the same issue, right?

The west needs to stop sending "recyclable" plastics to Asia

Location: Martinique

Remote: Yes, Eastern Daylight Time

Willing to relocate: to SE Asia

Technologies: Golang, node.js, TS, Kubernetes, Mongodb, SQL, Redis, AWS, Devops

Résumé/CV: https://public-chris.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Christophe-...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe-hartwig-ba228a5

Email: chris@chris-hartwig.com

Hi, I'm Chris. I'm a senior backend engineer with strong architecture/dev/devops/ops abilities. I've been working fully remotely for 7 years, in a startup-OSS-side project mix, from abroad. See https://sslping.com for my most popular side project. Technical challenges fuel my passion since I was 12. I also love a fun and productive yet relaxed atmosphere, or I'd work for a Swiss bank's Java department, which I did already. I'd love to hear about your project and your team! Send me an email and let's talk.

If (western) governments had chosen to prevent the epidemic, apps would have helped, but they decided to let the virus spread, just slowly enough.

Also (western) journalists love stories about 3M deaths, surveillance apps or fake news, much more than success stories.

So yes, apps had no chance to save lives. Korea or Singapore show they could have, but we didn't let them.

When the woke mob hinders the very minority it's supposed to care about, it starts a vicious circle and nothing changes for the best

"due to the way they calculate their payouts": yes, I'm sure that's the real issue, but the solution isn't a penny per stream. The solution is definitely to redistribute money according to what people listen to, but I doubt the big labels will accept these terms: they are the ones who negotiated, they are the ones stealing from indies.

Best case scenario: indies will get enough pennies so they stop complaining, big labels will continue as today, Spotify will allocate some of its own money to music creation...

and the problem will remain unfixed at the roots.

remember who forced Spotify and others before it, to negotiate a deal at all cost with the Majors or be declared illegal?

only 5 full page reloads before I could finally accept that f*ing cookie dialog... gg bloomberg and europe