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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian

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  • Unfortunately that's the goal of a lot of startups. A startup is considered "successful" if they get acquired by a large company and employees of the startup make a lot of money.

  • Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more)

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  • I'm surprised this isn't an Aussie news story.

  • 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

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  • Where's the MySQL option? Some of my servers are running MySQL instead of MariaDB because it allowed binding to multiple IP addresses (although I think Maria has implemented this now), and some query plan optimizations were implemented in MySQL but not MariaDB.

  • 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

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  • You still need to know what database system is being used in order to make backups of the database. You can't just snapshot or backup the data directory while a database is running, because you might end up with an inconsistent state that won't restore properly. You need to either stop the DB before doing the backup, or use the relevant DB-specific tools to perform a backup.

  • Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO

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  • You have to meet clients where they are. These days, clients are far less likely to find you if you only have a site with no social media presence.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • So people in rural areas without good internet, or places where the network is airgapped, can't use them at all? Seems like there's be a way around it.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • I'm a C# developer and run .NET apps on Linux all the time. I usually work on CLI and server apps, but recently released my first Linux desktop app written in C#: https://flathub.org/apps/com.daniel15.wcc

    Even before .NET Core, I was using Mono to run C# apps on Linux. There used to be quite a few GNOME apps written in C#.

    There’s .NET and then there’s .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

    Nope. The old .NET Framework has been deprecated for a long time. The latest version, 4.8.1, is not very different to 4.6 which was released 10 years ago.

    The modern versions are just called .NET, which is what .NET Core used to be, but with much more of the framework implemented in a cross-platform way. Something like 95% of the Windows-only .NET Framework has been reimplemented in a cross-platform way.

    The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.

    All modern .NET code is built on the cross-platform framework. Only legacy apps used the old Windows-only .NET Framework.

    If you get the free community version of Visual Studio and create a new C# project, it'll be using the latest cross-platform framework. You can even cross-compile for Linux on a Windows system.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • I totally get where you're coming from. It's hard to find devices like that. I think the issue is that regular customers are demanding the smart features, and using them without caring about privacy aspects.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • If it wants a network then stick it on an isolated VLAN with no internet access.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • You can have a smart TV but never set up any of the smart features. I have two LG OLED TVs but rarely touch anything on the TV itself. I've got Nvidia Shields for streaming and turning it on or off also turns the TV on or off. Same with my Xbox.

    I just need to figure out if I can use CEC with my SFF gaming PC (so that turning it on also turns the TV on, and turning it off turns the TV off), then I won't have to touch the TV's remote again.

    Ethernet port or wifi are good for controlling the TV using something like Home Assistant. I have my TVs on a separate isolated VLAN with no internet access. I have a automation that runs when the TV turns on, to also turn on some LED lights behind the TV.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • Thanks, this is a good insight.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • That's a very old way of thinking of things. C# has been cross platform for a long time.

    Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs

    Not really. Most C# apps use .NET (since the framework and standard library is quite feature-rich) rather than direct Win32 calls, and .NET is cross-platform. A lot of web services are written in C# and deployed to Linux servers.

    basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore

    You can compile a C# app to a single executable that doesn't require the framework to be installed.

    Are you running Jellyfin, the *arr suite, slskd, or Technitium DNS? They're all written in C#.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • Yeah it's definitely not possible to reach 50MB with a Node.js Docker image, but <150MB should be doable with a distroless base image + compiling the app into one JS file (for example, using Parcel or esbuild).

    It's possible to reach ~50-60MB Docker image with a C# app. Rust and Go definitely produce more compact binaries though.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • This makes sense! You get the same advantage if the app uses Go or C# though, and both of those can compile to a single statically-linked executable too.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • if it were written in NodeJS or Python or something I'd be less interested.

    Does it matter if it's running in Docker and the container is lightweight (say less than 50MB), though? I like apps being written in a language I know well so I can contribute if needed, but other than that, I mostly treat a Docker image as a black box.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • Looks like a good project, but I genuinely don't quite get why Rust projects feel the need to advertise "written in Rust" as a feature. Do you find that a lot of users care which programming language your app is written in? Does it help with finding contributors?

    I don't know which programming language most of my self-hosted apps use, and I don't mind since they all work well and do their job.

  • Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet?

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  • This is a decent idea. You can configure the VPS to be an exit node on the Tailnet, and configure the clients to use it as their exit node. Then you'd just need to configure some nftables rules to masquerade (source NAT) to the VPN network interface.

    Having said that... At that point, why do you need the other VPN? You can just use the VPS as your exit node.

  • Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet?

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  • Tailscale is "mostly" self-hosted, in that the VPN connection itself is peer-to-peer almost all the time. You can host your own Headscale and DERP/Relay servers to make it fully self-hosted, but tbh I'm fine not self-hosting the control plane.

    The relay server is only used if both ends have very restrictive NAT and none of the NAT hole punching techniques work, which is rare other than on very locked down corporate networks. If you have IPv6 enabled on both ends, you shouldn't have issues making a direct connection, as IPv6 doesn't use NAT. Even with regular NAT (like a home internet connection) on both ends, Tailscale can use UDP hole punching on both ends to establish a direct connection.