joostdecock

We use rqlite in production, it's the database we chose for (the control plane of) an open source observability solution we're building (morio.it).

Just came here to say two things:

- rqlite is amazing and warmly recommend - Philip is an exceptionally dedicated, kind, and helpful maintainer

5 stars, no notes. Thank you Philip, I'm eternally grateful for all your great work.

As someone who lives in Antwerp, this museum is my number one recommendation for people visiting the city.

It is also a Unesco World Heritage site, which is very unusual for a museum. But that's because the museum occupies what historically was a printing business stretching back many many generations who had -- fortunately -- a bit of a hoarding streak.

Well worth a visit. While you're at it, 'Goodie Foodie' on the same square as the museum serves the best pancakes in the city.

Plenty of advice here, which I'm certain is well intended, but it feels like we're victim blaming here.

Things like "you cannot mix marketing and transactional email" are good advice, but they do nothing if you're using different subdomains but the same infrastructure (IP address) to send them out.

Microsoft is simply trying to squeeze smaller operators out of the market.

I run an open source project, we send out transaction emails from ome subdomain, and a newsletter to 50K+ subscribers once every 3 months.

I can't afford to pay for different/dedicated IO addresses for each. We use Scaleway for email delivery and it's constant trouble with two providers: qq.com who don't give a damn about non-chinese senders, and Microsoft, who are simply trying to break the ipen internet.

Before, we were on AWS SES. Guess what, we didn't even bother using different subdomains. We also didn't have dedicated IPs. Yet Microsoft did not block us because the sender IP was AWS.

It's pay to play, as simple as that.

Fortunately, we're an open source project, not a business. So when people reach out, I simply explain to them that they have chosen a mail provider that is openly hostile to small volunteer-run projects like us and that that choice has consequences. No emails for you.

IMHO we need to be more vocal about what's really going on here (the rent-seeking on the open internet by big tech), and less victim blaming (what about dns-sec).

When it's a meeting I run/control my rule is that I will wait 150 seconds for people who are late, after which I start the meeting.

You can join later, that's fine, but I'm not waiting longer than 150 seconds.

Waiting 150 seconds feels like waiting a long time. Whereas being 2.5 minutes late feels like being on time.

So I find that phrasing it this way is more impactful.

(by now you probably figured out that I am not very popular ar work)

No matter how hard I try, I cannot make two pairs of jeans that are identical.

Same pattern, same denim, same person making them (me), they don't fit/feel the same.

Consistent results when using fabric is hard. Also keep in mind that good denim is practically sheet metal in comparison to most fabrics, so on one hand easier to get consistent results, but on the other hand, even small differences are more noticeable than something lighter or (god forbid) stretchy.

You cannot just engineer your way out of some of the challenges inherit in garment construction (trust me, Ive tried).

Kudos for trying to make clothes for yourself. I feel everyone should do that at some point.

I am not here de defend politicians, but...

The title says "France rejects backdoor mandate" but TFA makes it clear that France is not a hive-mind:

- The rejection was by the French National Assembly (think parliament/congres) - Ths happened despite pressure from the internal ministry (the government)

I find it interesting that it is often a similar story at the EU level where the European Parliament puts a stop to the worst impulses of the European Commission.

> some interesting stuff on MR

I'm drawing a blank for MR. What does it stand for?

> Ease of deployment and operation are also important, and that's an area in which rqlite excels

Amen. I've been building something appliance-like where I want to support clustering but I don't want to manage a database cluster inside the project.

Rqlite is so easy to run either stand-alone or clustered. It's a godsend.

And when people want postgres or whatever, I let them bring their own database. It's not hard to abstract a database storage layet if you plan ahead.

But if you want it to 'just work' rqlite is doing that with flying colors.