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Forest management can help prevent wildfires by thinning the amount of fuel available for blazes to feed upon. But forestry experts often suggest the removal of undergrowth that doesn’t yield timber

Can't have forest fires that produce smoke pollution if there's no forests left. Good thinking /s

Here's a good reason why you should pin to specific sha hashes, not just release versions.

it doesn't seem to open when I'm on the extension store

Firefox marks certain pages as privileged and no extensions will run on them. You're probably encountering this issue. You can see the full list here.

Its only everything from other instances and communities that the current instance subscribes to. It doesn't subscribe to the full pipe of everything.

What's likely happening is people in aggregate generally subscribe to the most popular communities and those communities have the most upvoted posts.

It all depends on how it's represented on disk though and how the query is executed. Sqlite only supports numbers and strings, and if you keep using a VARCHAR, a read of those rows are going to have materialize a string into memory inside the sqlite library. DuckDB has more types, but if you're using varchars everywhere, something has to read that string into memory unless you can push down logic into a query that doesn't actually have to read the actual value, such as one that can use indices.

The best way is to change the representation on disk, such as converting low-cardinality columns like the station into a numeric id. A standard int being four bytes is a lot more efficient than an n-byte string + a header and it can be compared by value.

This is where file formats, like Parquet, shine. They're oriented more towards parsing by systems. JSON is geared towards human parsing.

Back in early 2024, I got a survey asking me why I chose to cancel my prime membership and I gave them multiple reasons.

The companion post, I Went To SQL Injection Court, goes into detail about the court process and witness testimony. One of the interesting things is just how different computer people think about security vs lawyers. Somebody might say that having a schema would help a malicious actor a small amount, and a lawyer will jump on that to deny the request. The idea that the schema would help a malicious actor is the same as a map helping a bank robber. The vault security and security guards are the relevant factors for this, not the map.

I'll keep this in mind the next time I'm an expert witness in a computer case (based on this, I hope I'm not.)

I use Jellyfin for music mostly and it struggles with metadata. For example, if a song has two artists on it and I edit to correct it, it won't update correctly and I'll edit up with the artist "Artist A; Artist B".

Have you tried a packet capture with Wireshark or tcpdump to see what it's doing? It might give better clues than a general error message.

Yeah, I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping Unifi would do something like release an AP with integrated Thread support so users could benefit from the already pre-positioned APs to then add Thread coverage.

On Windows the system wakes up when connected or disconnected from an AC adapter. On Linux the system will momentarily wake up but immediately go back into suspend.

I get why this could be a source of bugs, but if I unplug my laptop while its asleep why would I want it to turn on?

I'm working on adding ActivityPub to my Hugo blog right now. I support RSS, but I figured AP support means that you can get it into your Mastodon feed or even Lemmy feed making it easy to follow. Additionally, commenting (assuming it doesn't get taken over by spammers.)