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I am using Baserow (https://baserow.io/) happily.
Re:My Homelab Setup in 2026 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:15PM (#46606256)
Yet another state of homelab post.
Re:Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog? on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:36AM (#29793737)
A while ago I saw Linux kernel people[0] using Writefreely[1] so I tried it and I've been using it ever since.

It's a bit clunky, initial Docker based deployment is not straightforward, but I like it. It's using Markdown, supports ActivityPub out of the box, and has static blog feeling even though it's not.

[0] https://people.kernel.org/

[1] https://writefreely.org/

Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:31PM (#17761625)
What I really, really, like is location of all the public toilets. This is precious information while exploring big cities.
They are not struggling with QC, they are cutting corners and trying to sell cheap parts under a big markup.

Please remember that this is the same Lenovo that had issues with installing spyware to muzzle change from their own customers.

I was 10+ years Thinkpad user, bought T480s (over 2.5k euros) that had failing keyboard. I sent it back, and after 6 weeks got the same keyboard, only the key 9 is now collapsed, and as a bonus I can not enter BIOS anymore: computer just happily reboots now.

I believe that this will be studied in schools as a lesson on good brands being destroyed for short term profits.

Re:Chromium Re-Enables HTTP/2 Over NPN on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:54AM (#10614553)
Re:Amazon CloudFront is (again) having issues on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @03:08AM (#8787265)
For at least half of an hour, most requests failed with 503.
"The agency said it had now added more flight-processing memory to the computer system."

int32_t to the rescue!

Says the company specialized in MongoDB training.
Canadian nuclear industry has committed to continue the use of PDP-11 until 2050. I guess they have some software there running from 70s. Here's a recent ad for PDP-11 assembly coders they're in dire need of:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?37827...

Re:GitHub is "experiencing major service outages" on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:54AM (#6069801)
It was a DDoS attack. Nothing to do with their infrastructure.
Re:Why I Left OpenBSD on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @05:03AM (#6011747)
"Jonestown-like atmosphere of OpenBSD."

Wow.

For a (much) more detailed story, go here: https://www.cs.duke.edu/~carla/mars.html
Picture overlaps text, in my version of Chromium.
One alternative is GSanitizer extension.