I have lost faith in Proton forever when they started putting ragebait predatory ads on social media spreading deceit and FUD. It's easy to try to build popularity riding on the back of Google, but your lies won't make me become your customer ever.
It's so great. One thing that I'd like to be changed in PostgreSQL, which may be done in this rewrite, is resigning from the "one connection = one process" design choice and instead handle the connections using threads/tasks within the main process.
NetBSD tragedy is even more saddening. They struggle to raise $50k despite their system be great and solid to the point that it was used by NASA, Apple (terminal commands), BlackBerry and Playstations.
They just treat MIT-licensed software like a public road which "somebody" is going to upkeep, but there's nobody except tireless open source developers who do that, especially in case of NetBSD.
I just dream of times when signing half a million check is not an issue for a company that is worth trillions. It's way less than every single one of them spend annually on t-shirts for their employees.
My utopian vision would be to change the selection/voting process so that our representatives are chosen based on real achievements and scientific understanding of the world, and not based on popularity and ability to persuade the crowd on standup-like rallies lasting 20 minutes, with empty words, populist-like propaganda, and lies hitting people's emotions instead of critical thinking.
My another utopian wish would be to held them accountable for what they promised in the campaign and how they align with their constituents' needs.
Instead we get corrupted idiots who don't even know what they're voting for, why they're voting that way, and if it's important at all. Chat control is one blatant example, mandatory cameras inside cars constantly spying on drivers is another one. Whoever advises them idiots, they're in real control of what's happening in EU.
As much as I love FreeBSD, it has its rough edges when it comes to daily use. And an upgrade, while much smoother than it used to be in the "make buildkernel; make buildworld" times, is still lacking and can break the system.
The saddest is that FreeBSD is massively underfunded. They still manage to do great stuff, make massive improvements. If the big corporations like Apple, who made billions on FreeBSD, could just return a couple millions in donations to the FreeBSD Foundation on a yearly basis, which for them would be less than a rounding error, the OS would be in a vastly different place now. But their corporate greed knows no bounds.
Using server-side cursors is a sign of bad design. You use the PostgreSQL server's resources as a cache when you're fetching and processing stuff row by row, which is very bad. Just get the data you requested in the first place in one go and do your stuff in your app. Or process all data on the server and then get the processed data in one batch as well.
Many American companies fell into that. Intel, Nvidia, AMD control panels all contained keyboard shortcut keys that interfered with Polish diacritics. Even Google at one point had the exact issue described in this article.
Medium is trying to be little too convenient here. They could just save stuff automatically every few seconds, and that wouldn't require users to press any combination of keys.
France over 85%, Germany 75%, and on the other side of the scale Italy 20%, Poland and Turkey 18%, Spain 11%, former Yugoslavia bloc from 0 to at most 9. Slovenia at 7.5%...