Posts by alcachofas

30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world

Re: OTT

Oh you’re adorable.

OTT

Oh boy the reg comentariat can never just not like anything can they? Where does the hyperbolic whining come from?

It’s not a ‘toy database’. It’s not ‘awful’. You may disagree with some key decisions in it but eeesh… grow up.

And the person who “refuses to work” with MySQL? I’d rather have data integrity issues than have someone like that on my team

Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic

Decent response

Reading that GitHub thread, this is an almost perfect example of how to acknowledge, handle and communicate around a serious issue.

This shouldn’t be a surprise but I’m so used now to deflection, weasel words and excuses, that the clear response and expected timelines are seriously good to see

Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

Gatekeepers

The joy of missing out is an interesting concept. I like it, but I think I’d find it hard to embrace it.

There’s a real problem in how we’ve done away with gatekeepers, or rather, just added a lot more gatekeepers. None of us trust a single source to curate our news and knowledge for us. In some senses it’s empowering - each and every one can be an independent researcher - but in reality it’s both exhausting and a con: trusting to an algorithm doesn’t actually ensure greater transparency or variety than just reading a newspaper ever did.

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

China!

The tp-link award is just xenophobia really, isn’t it? As if American companies are that much better at resisting government intervention and reporting issues.

It’s not as if the router that “won” the award has any specific known flaws, they’ve just decided china=bad

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed

Re: Important? You decide.

Ha, good spot.

I was reading the article and thinking “critical flaw in OpenSSL? I feel like we should have heard about that already”

Reading the linked bug report makes it clear why we haven’t…

To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork

Dead in the water.

Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing

Re: Fastest:

To be fair, this happened to me the other day.

My excuse is I was using a laptop downstairs and the weight was resting on a connected bluetooth keyboard upstairs.

Took me bloody ages and several restarts before I worked it out.

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it

Re: Finance dept. are at the root of this issue

I have to google to check bear with me every. single. time. It just doesn’t stick in my head

Automotive AI player Cerence appoints ex-Intel boss Brian Krzanich as its CEO

Re: Hmmm.

Dismissing claims concerns that the CEO is having relationships with an employee as ‘woke BS’ is desperate stuff.

Relationships with a colleague and a subordinate are very different things.

MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads

Re: Popular with people who don't know what they're doing

“ And no, being "easy" is not a valid reason.”

What a silly argument. All things being equal (and I’m not saying they always are), then picking the easiest of two solutions is valid and sensible.

SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig

I’m not sure that being a generally well intentioned computer science phd is quite the blocker to being a creep that you think it is

DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder

Or, alternatively, the developer of the original code had built a sprawling, spaghetti mess of undocumented essential functionality and pottered off into retirement without ensuring any transfer of knowledge…

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

As someone who worked in this space for years and years… I’m not surprised. A lot of these orgs just aren’t talking to each other and/or not listening.

We spent a lot of time pushing back against half thought through plans around data sharing and control and were frequently accused of simply being “opposed to joining up healthcare” rather than flagging up concerns that proposals were unworkable.

I am not sad that I do not work in this domain any more.

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Except I’m not arguing the other way. I… don’t have strong feelings either way. And I have no problem with those that do but oh boy some of the commenters here are taking their pigeon chess to heart.

The groupthink here is so strong! You’d think systemd personally shat in all of your cornflakes

You don’t have to love it but the frothing and raging here is genuinely beyond parody.

It’s not hard to see why people with opinions like these lost the argument.

Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for 'uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure'

Re: and these are the good guys?

Agreed. I’m not sure anyone comes out of this looking good.

I get what Rapid7 are trying to achieve but IMO saying “you must behave as we dictate or we’ll publicly drop exploits for your software” doesn’t exactly look great.

Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories

Interesting piece.

I’m not at all sure that this guy’s approach is going to be a sustainable and widely used one but it’s good to see people attacking the problem from a different angle. There’s way too much groupthink right now - we get bursts of innovation and then just a truckload of people all doing the same thing.

KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04

Re: Wait, what?

Came to say the same thing.

KDE having no current, supported, stable version is a bit silly really.

Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format

Most of those quotes are from students. And they’re angry/shocked/appalled that Google, Mozilla, Apple etc aren’t accountable to them. Yikes.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

Re: Milk?

Yes. This. I’m more scandalised by the milk going in at the same time as the bag than any of this salt business. Outrageous behaviour.