1500100900 | 6 months ago | on: Recreating the US/* time zone situation
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1500100900 | 1 year ago | on: Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite
The last time I checked, audio and video firmware wasn't there.
1500100900 | 2 years ago | on: OpenBSD Workstation Hardening
I'm surprised that not only is there no application firewall for any of the BSDs, there doesn't even seem to be any need for it. There is OpenSnitch, but only for Linux.
1500100900 | 2 years ago | on: A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['
I'd be interested in learning which commands you have in mind and what specifically is a bit nicer about their coreutils implementation.
1500100900 | 2 years ago | on: Postgres: The next generation
Unless you're Tom, you'll have to work on tickets assigned to you by some manager.
1500100900 | 2 years ago | on: Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL
In a world where HA is key, PostgreSQL has nothing to offer.
1500100900 | 2 years ago | on: Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
Give Mastodon a threaded view and technically it's the same as reddit, but federated? Usenet, but not just for nerds.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Waiting for Postgres 16: Cumulative I/O statistics with pg_stat_io
While waiting for PG 16 you can upgrade to 15.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is there so little info on the web about IBM mainframe programming?
So you DO search for answers to mainframe questions on s**overflow?
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Postgres actually does have thousands of engineers but it's not easy to notice because they all share the same name.
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/04/20/analyzing-postgres...
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: The FreeBSD/Firecracker Platform
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: PostgreSQL 15
Not for free (have to pay EnterpriseDB for that). Every free option here is basically "glue pieces together to build your own HA".
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
Gavin's personal project is being used in production.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Ushering out strlcpy()
> The BSD answer to the problems with strncpy() was to introduce a new function called strlcpy()
Not BSD, it was OpenBSD specifically.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults
Have you tried auditing ZFS? That's way too much code to be secure, it's best for OpenBSD to never import it.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
> Don't know what keeps him going. A desire to see FreeBSD fix those defaults?
And when they do fix any of those things, what is his reaction going to be? So far it's been "it took them so much time to fix this, let's keep that in mind".
The point of it is clearly to convince people to use OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
> The flag is called in-place for a reason.
What's the reason? Surprisingly, the file is never edited in place.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Use one big server
How is backup restoration any easier if your whole PostgreSQL cluster goes back in time when you only wanted to rewind that one tenant?
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: Use one big server
Cassandra may be great when you have to scale your database that you no longer develop significantly. The problem with this DB system is that you have to know all the queries before you can define the schema.
1500100900 | 3 years ago | on: What FreeBSD can offer compared to other operating systems (2020)
You can disable building the "whole fucking C compiler suite" using WITHOUT_CLANG as documented in
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=src.conf
By the way, as an example, you can also disable IPv4 and IPv6 in the kernel, I'm not sure how to do it in Linux.
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For the event, your backend only needs to store the timestamp in a timestamptz field and make sure that clients set the correct time zone on session start (this you might want the backend to store in the database too, but probably in the users table).