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Gustav H Meyer
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daniel:// stenberg://I am awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for my work on #curl
A royal gold medal
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (IVA, the same org that selects winners for three of the Nobel prize categories) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl. This academy, established 1919 by the Swedish king Gustav V, has been awarding great achievers for over one hundred years and the simple idea … Continue reading A royal gold medal →
JP MensThe things I learn, even at my age, simply by reading documentation are WILD!
Today: #SQLite3
"In addition to reading and writing SQLite database files, the sqlite3 program will also read and write ZIP archives."
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Open RSS offers feeds that are a much healthier alternative to the intrusive, algorithmic feeds on websites that harm and manipulate us. But several sites, including Tumblr and Craigslist, have removed their RSS feeds, so that you are forced into th ...continues
I can’t help but wonder how they arrived at that number, 193,000 Linux users. What kind of analytical wizardry or data sorcery could have generated such precise numbers with such certainty? And don’t even get me started on the claim of 27 million South African readers. I’d genuinely love to know more about how these figures were calculated.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/technology/575064-mybroadband-in-2024.html
The HTTP workshop, day one: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/13/the-2024-http-workshop/
The 2024 HTTP Workshop
Day one. For the sixth time, this informal group of HTTP implementers and related "interested parties" unite in a room over a couple of days doing a HTTP Workshop. Nine years since that first event in Münster, Germany. If you are someone like me, obsessed with networking and HTTP in particular this is certainly the … Continue reading The 2024 HTTP Workshop →
very relevant
This comic is about the difficulty of dealing psychologically with 50/50 odds [...]
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3007:_Probabilistic_Uncertainty
Allen but one of the good ones@inetpro Not minor upgrade, no - just the bigger ones like 4.1 to 4.2, or 4.2 to 4.3.
Minor upgrades tend not to mess with dependencies, so there's usually no change to the system outside ~mastodon, so there's not much point in a rebuild. But when dependencies *do* change, I see it as an opportunity to see if I can improve things, make my install process more efficient, try include things that I'd previously avoided because I wasn't yet comfortable with them, and so on.
As is my habit, I won't be upgrading my Mastodon servers from 4.2 to 4.3
Instead, I'll build all-new servers, from scratch, so that I can troubleshoot and update my install notes, and then I'll migrate my instances across.
This is a long way around, but it helps clear out cruft from previous efforts, helps make sure my understanding of how this stuff works is as current as possible, and finally serves as both practice and verification of my ability to help new customers to migrate their instances to my service :)
@inetpro since this is how it has worked on Windows for decades already, I consider it unlikely that they can or even want to change this.
But it would be useful to have control over it on a per-connect basis.