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Even if "clean-room" reimplementations turn out to be infringing, it'll be a case-by-case question that will take years to prove in court, often against a better funded legal team. So I think restrictive source licenses are pretty much dead regardless of that legal question.

these fucking guys, man. “surely there must have been some mistake” “nah bro we did that on purpose and our company culture is so wild this is a normal thing to say on the public Internet”

Because apparently this needs to be said: if you’re part of a coordinated disclosure process the appropriate thing to do is to talk to the rest of the group before you make unilateral decisions because the process is *coordinated*. It’s right there in the name Don’t agree to that? Don’t be in one

macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W...

Finding out that an intermediate CA was using single byte private keys is like finding out the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed because it was made of pudding. Our profession is not serious.

TIL: yaml parses tilde as null. I never quite realised this. This is madness. mounts: - location: ~ mounts: - ~: location All valid but that tilde is a null. And yes, guess who tried to use ~ for the home folder 😂

The invincible airplane

huge_pages is a huge deal for huge workloads. Available now for Postgres and Neki databases.

I don’t like the UX around passkeys, but the conspiracy post is monumentally misguided.

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

wolfpupy seasonal tip to save candy from Oct 31, 2019 - patreon.com/wolfpupy

TIN is the fastest text search for Postgres. Again.

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day 6 of weird web october 🕰️ i took apart my analog clock to make a digital version of it jennschiffer.com/www/wwo26/06

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Everything's faster when your database is close to your app. Today we're launching dedicated read replicas for Postgres. Run replicas across the globe, near both your apps and your end-users.

I think "kWh / 1000h" is a very silly unit.

It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact

i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...

ways to terrify your colleagues: "i have an aws whitepaper for you"

there is no substitute for giving a fuck and there never will be

rip cat, an internet legend

My Town's Ocktoberfest is fun but also kinda unfortunately named ummmmm

At this point I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero smart features and physical controls for everything.

God I would pay actual money dollars for a TV that just functioned as a HDMI to photon converter. I don't want much. I just want to see the photons from the HDMI frames with basically zero latency.

Read more about TIN's performance and how to get started: planetscale.com/blog/introdu...

Today we introduce TIN: a powerful and reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN works with complicated WHERE clauses, replication, backups, and maintains correct transaction visibility. It's also mind-blowingly fast.

new mortal enemy: sea urchins

a little birdie told me your father was seen at the argos counter of the big sainsburys in lewisham shopping centre typing 'chastity cage' into the self-service interface

118,538,803 queries per second. 1.22 PiB of data. 512 shards. Powered by Neki. planetscale.com/blog/118-mil...

lololol this reminds me of when my pal had the /soundgarden fb url taken away and it’s how we found out soundgarden reunited

To better understand how Neki works, follow the journey of a sharded Postgres query in this interactive article: planetscale.com/blog/the-lif...

Sign up for a PlanetScale account, opt into the platform preview, and create a Neki cluster today. Read more about Neki, who it's for, and why we built it: planetscale.com/blog/introdu...

Neki is now available.

wasn’t expecting to learn quite so much about secure boot & measured boot this weekend, but I don’t regret it ✌🏻

one of the most consistent pitfalls when building an infrastructure product is not accidentally selling $2 for $1 cloud networking has a million pricing gotchas to trip you up

We're pulling back the curtain on Neki, our sharded Postgres product, on Sept 10. The lineup: @nvw.io — A look at Neki's architecture @benjdd.com — Why Postgres needs sharding Harshit Gangal — The lifecycle of a query in Neki And more! Limited spots:

Last call! Three hours to get those lightning talk submissions in. #SREcon

A sure sign that your bodged LAN party over 5G setup is finally working is that the League of Legends players are shouting at each other instead of the lag 🫣

Multi Page Webapps were actually ok

I love how this is basically every webpage now, even on a 1G connection