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Re:Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded! on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:31PM (#45033630)
The launch video for this new Framework Laptop 16 mentioned firmware improvements to disable wake on keypress when the laptop's screen is closed, specifically to prevent the type of situation you mentioned. I've personally experienced similar issues with an XPS 15 in the past; I'm hopeful this type of change will help.
Re:Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:08PM (#44664550)
> Forgejo PR managed to twist that good announcement into seeming as a conflict of interest, because the "Gitea" name was reused for two different concepts. Now that it's CommitGo as the (legally independent) contract development agency, it's much clearer. There is a Gitea company as well but it just needs to hold trademarks and domain names and cloud stuff.

Isn't the Gitea company for-profit? Wasn't the leadership committee restructured to mandate half of its members are elected by the for-profit?

Browsing the blog archives, there doesn't appear to be any indication that the concerns that were brought up around the incorporation of the for-profit have been resolved.

Re:Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:05PM (#44655080)
> The Gitea project is still community-driven and has the same yearly elections for leadership that has been around for close to a decade now :)

[1] mentions changes to the election process that mandates half of the oversight committee to be appointed by the Gitea company. Doesn't that conflict with your assertion that the "same yearly elections" have been around?

Where can one find the governance charter for the Gitea project?

[1]: https://blog.gitea.com/quarterly-23q1/

> The final launch will be Thundermail, an email hosting service using the open-source Stalwart stack. Users will be able to pick between thundermail.com and tb.pro domains.

If the article is correct, Thundermail will be built using Stalwart[1], which appears to support JMAP

[1]: https://stalw.art/

Re:Fedora 42 Beta on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:00PM (#43407564)
Framework started selling larger batteries in 2023 (61 Whr vs the base 55 Whr), and from looking through older reviews it looks like battery life significantly improved (>25% better) with the 13th-gen Intel upgrade [1]. I've got their 13-inch AMD 7840U but can't speak to the battery life as it mostly sits docked.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-framework-lap...

Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge on Sunday January 19, 2025 @07:11PM (#42763543)
A lot of their early value-proposition were saner security defaults and additions to increase confidence in the software's security. A lot of the changes were attempted to upstream into Gitea, but not everything made its way in. They were a soft-fork for a while before hard-forking, and even after the hard-fork continued to sync changes from Gitea where possible.

Forgejo v10 is the first release I've seen where there's been a focus on tiny UX improvements (versus trying to remain compatible with Gitea). I'm hopeful these will continue to come, but it does still feel essentially identical in appearance and functionality with Gitea.

Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge on Sunday January 19, 2025 @06:54PM (#42763410)
There's a bit of a difference between a downstream commercial host and turning the open-source project into open-core. Gitea went from a rotating governance to deciding half of the decision-makers must now come from a for-profit company that now competes with the open-source offering.
Are you certain extensions can be downloaded and installed from anywhere? Firefox's documentation[1] states "Extensions and themes need to be signed by Mozilla before they can be installed in release and beta versions of Firefox." If UBlock Lite was rejected through Mozilla's signing API, they'd have no ability to create an XPI that can be installed by release/beta version of Firefox.

[1]: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-...

Re:AWS Networking Concepts in a Diagram on Saturday July 22, 2023 @04:30PM (#36829595)
Cloudtrail writes to s3 at intervals, which means it make take a few minutes for the log entry related to your request ID to show.

I've found Athena doesn't appear to search through all log entries (possible user error on my part); I've been downloading the cloudtrail logs directly from S3 and grepping through the logs directly to find the relevant entries to figure out the permissions needed.

If you need to decode an encrypted error message, use `aws sts decode-authorization-message --encoded-message $MESSAGE`. It'll return a JSON string. I typically use `aws --profile limbledevadmin sts decode-authorization-message --output text --encoded-message $MSG | jq .context.action` to extract the needed permission.

Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:35AM (#36392291)
This particular instance appears to be running Forgejo, a soft-fork of Gitea.
Re:Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:46AM (#35469006)
MariaDB Plc. appears to be the top contributor to MariaDB's codebase (81.9% of commits since the beginning of 2020)[0].

[0]: https://mariadb.org/mariadb-contribution-statistics-march-20...

speaker support is being actively worked on [1]

[1]: https://phpc.social/@[email protected]/10981800943090...

Re:GCP, AWS, and Azure ARM-based server performance comparison on Saturday September 24, 2022 @10:12PM (#32968348)
The benchmarks appear to show AWS wins by a considerable margin in all tests, and is cheaper at all quoted price points, but is hardly above Azure in the cost performance table. This appears to be due to including Azure's reserved pricing but continuing to use AWS and GCP's on-demand pricing. This is misleading, as both GCP and AWS offer discounts for yearly commitments.
Re:Firefox 94 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:00PM (#29083169)
Despite Mozilla's claim that Firefox Suggest is opt-in, many users (myself included) found the setting enabled by default when it initially shipped.

I'd recommend checking your settings to see if sponsored suggestions are enabled.

Re:Can we trust Microsoft with open source? on Saturday October 23, 2021 @03:18PM (#28971369)
Not sure what OP is referring to, but Microsoft has multiple Visual Studio Code extensions (e.g. Remote SSH) that are closed-source and hard-coded not to work with any self-compiled versions of Visual Studio Code.
Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:00PM (#28870035)
From their S-1:

> We do not have an adequate history with our subscription or pricing models to accurately predict the long-term rate of customer subscription renewals or adoption, or the impact these renewals and adoption will have on our revenues or operating results.

For context, GitLab recently axed their lowest priced plan and grandfathered in existing users at cheaper rates for the next year. Their retention rate may drop once discounts run out and the new pricing kicks in.

As to the parent's comment about "The Homer" and non-core features being bad, I'd point to their CI autoscaling solution as an example of being underdeveloped, over-marketed, and suffering from technical debt. Their autoscaler uses docker machine behind-the-scenes, which hooks into various cloud providers to abstract away the act of spinning up new VMs. It works reasonably well, but Docker has archived the repository and no longer supports the software. GitLab forked the repository and maintains it for critical fixes, but is not willing to develop or accept new features. It has been known to break against new versions of Docker, does not handle concurrency very well in new environments, and does not allow [1] executing multiple concurrent jobs within spun up VMs, despite marketing that it can [2].

While the autoscaler does work, it's limitations and quirks reduces it's utility and cost-savings significantly within smaller organizations. The technical debt leaves me doubting any improvements will come within the next few years as they try to architect a new solution to replace the existing one.

I have no idea how GitLab compares in other areas, but within CI autoscaling it seems they're stuck with a cliff to climb down before they can move forward again.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/2787#no...

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/11/23/autoscale-ci-runner...

Re:Gitlab 13.10 Released on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:09PM (#26547104)
> Free is for a single developer, with the purchasing decision led by that same person

> Premium is for team (s) usage, with the purchasing decision led by one or more Directors

Doesn't this conflict with the stewardship promise that "The open source codebase will have all the features that are essential to running a large 'forge' with public and private repositories"?

If there is a Lua library for it, it'd be possible with the Nginx Lua module [1]

[1]: https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module

Re:Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:26PM (#6491303)
Check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn , it's a fairly clean version for Android.
Re:A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution on Monday August 26, 2013 @05:10PM (#6279933)
The colon-based syntax was voted down.

What went live in 5.4 was support for brackets in lieu of array()

    // Typical array syntax
    $arr = array('key' => 'asdf');

    // Supported in 5.4+
    $arr = ['key' => 'asdf'];
Re:Web server in one line of bash on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:23AM (#6222463)
Similarly, if PHP 5.4 (or greater) is installed:

    php -S 127.0.0.1:8080
Re:Flat Developer Google Chrome Console Theme on Thursday August 15, 2013 @10:08AM (#6217818)
Hastily done comparison screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/OKwf2cG.png
There's a whole community built around making the most out of restricted server resources over at http://www.lowendtalk.com/ . People very regularly utilize virtual servers with 64MB of RAM, 10mbit or less network, and very minimal disk space. Nginx will run with just about anything you throw at it.
The other 68 essays are available online for free at OReilly: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/QA_Tea...
Re:Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless on Friday November 02, 2012 @01:14PM (#4733668)
Google Voice can forward one number to multiple phones.
Re:Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:42AM (#3980663)
Both sites have a Terms of Service that prevent the misuse of their resources. If you've ever clicked on a popular link to a file on Dropbox's servers, you may find a page that tells you "This file has reached its daily limit of downloads" or something along those means. Google likely has something similar with Google Drive.
Re:My wordpress header.php got hacked on Saturday May 12, 2012 @04:27PM (#3965003)
One of our clients had their FTP credentials compromised causing a similar effect. It may be a decent idea to check the logs and identify if this was the method of entry.
Re:Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge on Saturday September 27, 2008 @02:26AM (#316779)
It'd be nice to have one official client for the three IM services each offer.
Re:As Twitter Regains Footing, Competitors' Growth Stalls on Monday September 15, 2008 @09:07PM (#305280)
I was one of those using Plurk when it reach popularity at the end of June, and did indeed enjoy it as it growed in popularity as some web celebs joined it to play around.

However, familiarizing myself with the site, they kept promising an eventual public API, but they haven't done so even to date. There were some functions available to the user, but there was always something missing. People wanted apps, and app developers wanted to create them. It just wasn't to be.

Twitter has the API, has the app support by now, and has the friends you want to follow. No one wants to be the first one on sites like FaceBook or Myspace. They want to join for the people.

Re:Microsoft redesigns Live.com on Thursday July 31, 2008 @11:18AM (#263046)
As a Google user (gmail, calendar, reader, notebook) taking a look at the new Live.com frontpage, it looks nice. No scrollbars at all unlike yahoo.com and the images used seem to belong in the page. Unlike the text they keep adding to the Google front page, these links seem thought out as to where to place them and what to keep.

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