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> The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers".

Spoken like a true dinosaur. How can a certificate based on open, public and proven secure protocols be cheap?

> So my question: has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt?

No, but I personally judge businesses which claim to be tech savvy if they don’t have an ACME issued certificate, because to me that instantly shows I’m not dealing with someone who has kept up with technology for the last 10 years.

> archived version becasue original one gives 404

Thanks, fixed now. I literally just migrated from GCP to Hetzner over the weekend and was about to finish the migration today :)

That's not what Microsoft's own sponsored benchmarks say:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23

> unrelated but jesus christ I'm so pissed at west as a russian > So if I sell my appartment in Russia and want to transfer money to Europe now I would need to prove this is not money I pillaged from Ukraine.

Just stay at home then, whats the problem? If you are so pissed with the West then why is it a problem that you cannot come here? Just stay in Russia then.

This works as designed. Sanctions like these are meant to piss off the people living in terrorist states so that you either rise up and rid yourself of all terrorist roots or you accept that the rest of the world doesn’t want to play ball with terrorists or terrorist enablers.

Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.

Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.

Very cool, reminds me of SigNoz.

How would I self host this in k8s? Would I deploy a ClickHouse cluster using the Altinity operator and then connect it using the HyperDX local mode or what is the recommended approach to self-host ClickStack?

I tried it and found it to be such an abomination. I can’t understand why any self respecting software developer would use Windows with a bastard linux like WSL instead of just using actual Linux. Feels like a massive skill issue.

This is not the first or last time this has happened. Microsoft does it intentionally and when they get caught they then give a fake apology and pretend it was a mistake. These mistakes keep happening and the pattern is always the same, MS teams engaging with a developer to learn all about their business idea and then they steal it:

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

Biggest bs response. Microsoft either creates trash like Windows, WSL and Azure or they steal.

Huh? Nobody made any statements about bathroom usage or such, nor has the UK ruling anything to do with bathroom access. We are discussing the definition of sex and how the court ruling came to the conclusion .

Ok what you both say makes sense but none of what you said so far negates the fact that strictly speaking sex is binary, defined by the existence of a Y chromosome and that this is also immutable. It’s completely possible that the externalities presented at birth may lead to a wrong sex assignment, but that is a separate issue of human error isn’t it?

Isn't what you described here just a variation of chromosomes? We know there are more than two combinations, but Sex is still determined binary via the existence or absence of the Y chromosome, no?

> biologists and anthropologists recognize that human biological sex is complex

Have you got any credible sources which support this statement? I have only seen papers which confirm that sex is binary and immutable.

Am I the only one who finds it weird that people want to migrate their tweets? Is it just sentimental feelings or what is the purpose of that? To me tweets have always just been in-the-moment brain farts. People have tens of thousands of tweets with the vast majority being just completely irrelevant now and really rather uninteresting. This reminds me of people who keep all their school notebooks in shelves from when they were 5 years old, as if you'd ever go back and look at some scribbles from 50 years ago.

C# has become a poor jack of all trades, trying to be Java, Go and F# at the same time and actually being a shity poor version of all of them. On top of that .NET has become a very enterprisey bloatware. In all honesty, I'm not surprised that they went with Go, as it has a clear identity, a clear use-case which it caters for extremely well and doesn't lose focus with trying to be too many other unrelated things at the same time.

Maybe it's time to stop eating everything that Microsoft sales folks/evangelists spoon feed you and wake up to the fact that only because people paid by Microsoft to roll the drum about Microsoft products telling you that .NET and C# is oh so good and the best in everything, maybe it's not actually that credible?

Look at the hard facts. Every single product which Microsoft has built that actually matters (e.g. all their Azure CNCF stuff, Dapr, now this) is using non Microsoft languages and technologies.

You won't see Blazor being used by Microsoft or the 73rd reinvention of ASP.NET Core MVC Minimal APIs Razor Pages Hocus Pocus WCF XAML Enterprise (TM) for anything mission critical.

Meanwhile .NET developers are still waiting for Microsoft to use their own "inventions" like Blazor, .NET MAUI, Aspire, etc. for anything meaningful. Bless them.

must be a paid troll, no self respecting intelligent engineer would find the Azure portal good. it’s horrible ux, really convoluted and complicated, very unintuitive, horizontal scroll is a joke when the web scrolls vertically, tiny fonts making everything hard to read and screens overloaded with so much shit and yet they managed to not put on the screen the main thing that developers would care about. it’s a complete joke

I am constantly forced to use Azure by idiotic companies which use .NET and the entire .NET mono culture which fetishises Azure and I can say with clear conscience that Azure is the shittiest dumbest most ill engineered clusterfuck of a cloud that has ever been unleashed on developers. It’s so bad that in the last 5 years even some of the most die-hard C# shops in the UK have changed their leadership and started to move away from Azure because they cannot afford to ignore the absolute insane state of it. Literally at every junction where Microsoft could have gone with a feature in Azure one way or another they somehow managed to not only pick the worse of the two, they somehow managed to bastardise it even more beyond anyone’s imagination.

I am European and I live in the UK, so I don't think I have voted my way out of anything unfortunately. Also I don't care about white, my own children are not white. I care about the core values and principles of the Western world and to preserve them. It doesn't matter what people look like as long as we all believe and share the same values and principles that have made Western countries the great nations they have been.

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, no blasphemy laws, equality of opportunity, not being afraid of having difficult debates and conversations and to say uncomfortable things if we believe them to be true, etc. etc.

Those are the foundations of a progressive society. What we have seen in recent years is the opposite of it.

I know ISO 8601, but that doesn't answer my question. Let me rephrase this, why was a format intuitive to a machine chosen instead of a format which feels more intuitive to a human?

I think YYYY/MM/DD - YYYY/MM/DD will mean the correct thing to many more people than YYYY-MM-DD / YYYY-MM-DD, which I suspect many will interpret as an OR and not a RANGE.

Things like Markdown work because they are intuitive, but the date range syntax in Markwhen is anything but intuitive.

Why 2025-01-22 / 2026-10-24?

Why not 2025/01/22 - 2026/10/24?

I run https://msgdrop.io which is a commercial alternative with a great API and handy features.

Bluesky is basically the Nostr/Parler/Truth Social equivalent of the radical left. That's truthfully its biggest selling point right now. Diversity (of thought) is non existent on Bluesky. It's <20M people all posting the same stuff, which is mostly:

- Anti-Trump

- Anti-Republican

- Anti-Musk

- Pro Trans

- Pronouns everywhere

- Everyone telling each other how "nice" everything is. OMG this is so nice. Yes very nice. Yes much nicer than the not so nice place. Oh your pronouns are nice. Thanks babe, your pronouns are even nicer. You totally pass, you're so nice. Guuurl, you pass and you're nice. Isn't everyone so nice here. Hey hello, I'm no to Bluesky, this is soooo nice. Yeeeeah babe, comments are really nice.

- Whenever someone posts a "I just moved to Bluesky" everyone piles on saying how nice it is there. And everyone getting a semi of the thought that they are so punk because they changed a social media app and they are so tough because of it. Like no humans did ever have to go through such a tough time like they did and the changing a social media app is the biggest most significant moment in the history of all of humanity when we look back 5000 years later, and because of this significance you can sense how everyone is so pleased with themselves

That's basically it.

Of course it won't stay like this. Either it will all wind down after a while and people will keep flocking back to X, or if X migrates to Bluesky then Bluesky will become indistinguishable from X today, unless... they will start cencoring everyone except the radical left again, and we're going to go through another cycle like we just did.

So... nothing will change long term. Enjoy.