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Re:Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] by naikrovek on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:01AM (#48672149)
why the hell does that require a postgres database instance? has no one heard of sqlite?

"It's just `docker compose up` dude." that's not excuse for unnecessary complexity. software for a single person should be a single binary that anyone can run how they choose. If they want to use Docker, great. If they want to run it in a terminal, great. If they want to run it on a server, great. If they want to run it on their phone, great.

developers: avoid limiting people artificially like this. There is no way that Sqlite is insufficient for this.

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Re:Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] by knowaveragejoe on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:53AM (#48674365)
The database gets quite large and the developers put in a lot of effort for tuning it for searchability.
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Re:Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] by naikrovek on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:22PM (#48737029)
People don't understand how fast SQLite is, it seems. You have to know what you're doing, but that's the same requirement that Postgres has if you want to get the most out of it.
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