nieve · HackerTrans

4개월 전discuss

They were stuck in a never-ending series of legal battles because the current administration is trying to block all wind power, so their money was not actually going anywhere useful. Coincidentally Trump hates wind power and is still bringing up his golf course having some offshore wind near it after years.

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4개월 전discuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund

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7개월 전discuss

> Fediverse users should be able to have private chats with each other, that not even their instance admins can snoop on. > This encryption should be accessible to mere mortals, without sophisticated training or discipline.

E2EE seems like it should be table stakes in 2025, but it's just one or two people making it happen.

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3년 전discuss

For me everything about rsync.net was great except for the throughput. It didn't matter which continent, isp, or operating system I tested, I couldn't get past single digit Mbps and sometimes had trouble reaching that. Support tried moving me to another server, but the problem persisted. Other than that I was pretty happy, but it was completely infeasible to store PostgreSQL backups there, much less server & laptop backups. Every now and then I consider going back in case they've fixed the root problem.

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7년 전discuss

Full disclosure: I'm a sql & emacs geek so that may warp my views on interfaces. I suspect there are a lot of features that are used by no more than 5-10% of users, but we'd scream bloody murder if they were taken away. No two of my heavy Calibre user friends use exactly the same set of features and we're always swapping tricks. Calibre does a decent job for so many use cases that I'm not sure there's any way to have a completely coherent UI that covers them all. That doesn't mean it's not krufty and occasionally frustrating, but I've no exaggeration never seen an alternative that did even 20% of what I wanted.

Calibre can seem pretty overgrown and I used for years without missing features like search-based virtual libraries, but now an ebook management app that doesn't let me slice and dice with that kind of power. For me it's a mix of how easy it is switching between tabbed views like new last 30 days, unread (custom tag automatically added on import), various reading lists from the Reading List plugin, author sets I tend to read together, missing metadata, etc. and the composability of virtual libraries.

When you combine virtual libraries with the slightly misleadingly named FanFicFare plugin's metadata it's a lot easier to keep track of both original[1] & fan fictions from dozens of sites (out of several hundred supported) and separate it out from regular books. Similarly the Reading List & Import List plugins are great for pulling in info from outside calibre, but they need a lot of the features that people generally ignore to do their jobs.

On the flip side most people don't seem to use multiple real libraries and they are great for topic-specific book collections or when I really don't want to see a book again, but don't want to just delete it.

Even simple things like being able to arbitrarily color column text based on filters I ignored until I realized lets me set the titles of all books missing a description red. It makes cleaning up my library easier, but nothing else I've tried has a similar features.

[1] https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites It's the only thing that makes reading fiction from spacebattles.com not soul-destroyingly annoying.

nieve

7년 전discuss

A something else that you're avoiding naming?

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13년 전discuss

I'd say that in the US Social Security Numbers run neck-and-neck with names for causing problems, though the data is less screwed up. The problem is that they look simple, unique, and universal so they're an obvious primary key... but only the first of those is close enough for most uses. Duplicate SSNs have been issued often enough that I've run into multiple collisions in a single production DB (and confusing two people on electronic home arrest can be pretty bad). Even more common are people who simply don't have one - religious objectors, non-citizens who haven't acquired them (though some have them), etc. The net result is that people keep using them as primary keys, as join keys, and as unique constraints and then get bitten hard.

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