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Re:Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:38AM (#37996319)
It's really not meant for public facing servers. Now people will say it can but sandstorm like any other software can be hacked into doing whatever. It's meant to host "documents", think Google docs style hosting. You can make documents public which is quite different from a public server.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:09AM (#37976026)
Would we put foxconn related in the QR code of all apple software etc also ?

I agree with the spirit of what you are saying but this is hardly the solution. I don't think people are against killing of animals, we have been doing this since man was born. What we are against is modern industrial animal farming.

Re:Open Source doesn't win by being cheaper on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:25PM (#37684834)
> While the core product is typically maintained by a central engineering team, integrations or plugins are often built by community developers and then occasionally merged into the main branch.

One of the things I really dislike about opensource deployments is plugins. Often the core team is happy to let something go to a plugin and 99.99% of the time plugins just get abandoned. It's worse when some projects "outsource" basic functionality like authentication (say via saml or oidc) to a plugin.

Re:Make Something Nobody Wants on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:39AM (#37621616)
there's plenty of people who cook for others when they don't like it themselves? like meat, eggs, seafood etc.
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:35AM (#37234907)
8m
Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:52AM (#37058831)
Where is the code? I couldn't find a link.

edit: https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:33AM (#36929761)
neither is it like that to be a multi millionaire. rare is the multimillionaire who "retires" to a village and enjoys siesta. usually, they want to move even more money (which is fine).
Re:Jupyter Notebook 7 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:54AM (#36890775)
Thanks for explanation. I still don't get what is the motivation to keep Jupyter Notebook going. Is it different feature wise? Or it's just a chrome over JupyterLab because people like the retro look of Jupyter Notebook?
Re:Jupyter Notebook 7 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:43AM (#36890250)
I thought Notebook is getting deprecated. What is the difference between Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook ? Are these developed by two completely different teams? Why maintain two code bases?
Great write up!
or vpn
Re:Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:49PM (#36789441)
https://hoppscotch.io/ is an alternative
Re:Self hosted YouTube media server – Tube Archivist on Sunday July 16, 2023 @01:11PM (#36749269)
Maybe I misunderstood this but why does a personal youtube listing / downloading app need ES ? Seems so heavyweight for such a lightweight use.
Re:Self hosted YouTube media server – Tube Archivist on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:37AM (#36746853)
I couldn't find docs for installing from source. Is docker really mandatory ?

Also, "Tube Archivist depends on Elasticsearch 8." . Wow, why?

The link in your profile doesnt work - http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808177
I mean just search for "is forEach functional programming"
If i ask you to add from 1 to 10 , is that how you add ? 1 + 10 + let_me_add_from2_9 ? So yeah, not at all natural.
The functional programmers (in my circle) have latched on to forEach/map/reduce/filter etc as the bibile of functional programming. Writing a simple for..each loop will make them reject PRs
Re:PhotoPrism: Browse Your Life in Pictures on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:52AM (#36680988)
Well, I don't want to run untrusted apps for a start. I am not that desperate :)
Ah, i hate those coding styles where everything must use forEach/map/reduce
Re:PhotoPrism: Browse Your Life in Pictures on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:37AM (#36680123)
I have tried to install this from source but it's quite difficult. I don't like deploying opaque docker images.
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:07PM (#36670463)
This is like perl but better
As you sad, it was an attempt. We need more attempts.
Re:Factory Factory Factory on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:45PM (#36641189)
Easily one of the best tech writings ever. This was a thread on the joelonsoftware forum. Good ol' days.
privacy, data sovereignty , data ownership ?

Would you host your email in china or say srilanka ? I prefer hosting stuff in my country .

I mean automtated driving cars is not simple either. It's not stopping people from trying.
OP is talking about having a mechanism / Operating system for servers to easily deploy and manage. Atleast, that's what I understood from the original post. How does k8s help me deploy say a blog ? It's just too technical and geeky. If this was "Android", I just download some blog app, click and install. Don't have to worry about updates either.
Your comment on complex deployment reminded me of https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box#cloudron - "Web applications like email, contacts, blog, chat are the backbone of the modern internet. Yet, we live in a world where hosting these essential applications is a complex task."

What you are saying is so true. I don't understand why no standardization work is being done to make server deployments simpler with high reliability. We have some takes like cloudron, sandstorm, yunohost but nothing is "mainstream".

Re:Sourcegraph is no longer Open Source on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @07:31AM (#36585250)
It was open first. Then closed. Then open again. So, now it's closed again...
> Yes, just not at the same time.

Does this mean that my processes need some synchronization primitive of their own to not to concurrent writes?

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