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The article discusses how to prevent malware infections and suggests running antivirus scans on personal devices or asking network administrators to check corporate networks for misconfigured or infected devices.
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The comment thread discusses various alternatives to Tailscale for home lab and enterprise use cases. Key topics include self-hosted solutions like NetBird and Pangolin, authentication key expiration in Tailscale, and the importance of digital sovereignty under European regulations.
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The article discusses the author's experience in building a custom opinionated and minimal coding agent, detailing its components, design philosophy, and features compared to existing tools like Claude Code, Codex, Amp, Droid, and opencode.
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The comment thread discusses the ease of building custom agent setups, performance optimization with subagents, and the main moats in the field such as capital and data. There is a debate on vendor extensions and opinions about different agent architectures like Pi and Claude Code.
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The Book of PF, 4th edition is a comprehensive guide to the OpenBSD firewall, covering updates in PF including IPv6, dual stack configurations, traffic shaping systems, and more. It offers early access to full chapters for preorder customers.
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The comment thread discusses the quality, preference, and availability of technical books from No Starch Press compared to O'Reilly. It also touches on the perceived failure of DRM in book distribution.
Article: 56 min
This article provides an in-depth guide on scaling systems from zero to 10 million users. It outlines seven stages of scaling, starting with a single server and progressing through separate databases, load balancers, caching, read replicas, CDN, auto-scaling, microservices, message queues, multi-region deployment, and advanced patterns like CQRS. The article emphasizes the importance of identifying bottlenecks before adding infrastructure, maintaining stateless servers for horizontal scaling, using caching to improve performance, adopting asynchronous processing where possible, sharding databases reluctantly, accepting trade-offs in consistency and availability during network partitions, and understanding that complexity has costs.
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The discussion revolves around the nonsensical user figures in a post, with arguments on scaling issues and hardware performance. There's agreement that the core idea is sound but criticism about the low numbers provided.
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The article discusses the privacy implications of mobile carriers' ability to obtain GPS location data from devices, which is not limited by Apple's new privacy feature in iOS 26.3. It explains that cellular standards include protocols allowing carriers to silently receive GNSS coordinates with high precision.
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The discussion revolves around concerns over carriers and emergency services accessing precise GPS location data from mobile devices without explicit user consent. The conversation delves into historical context, technical details, and legal implications, with varying levels of agreement on the issue's severity.
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The article discusses a small Thunderbolt to 25 Gigabit Ethernet adapter that is powered from the host and comes with a travel pouch. It has received mixed reviews on Amazon due to its heat issue but performs well for data transfer tasks.
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The comment thread discusses various opinions on USB transfer speeds, with some users expressing dissatisfaction and others comparing it to Thunderbolt's performance. The conversation also touches upon cloud storage as an alternative for saving photos and videos.
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The comment thread discusses the need for a new language with specific features, such as memory safety and minimalism. Suggestions include Go, C#, and TypeScript. Opinions vary on the benefits of type inference in languages like TypeScript compared to explicit types.
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The Amiga Unix wiki is a resource dedicated to preserving and sharing information about Amix, Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 Unix to the Amiga in 1990. It offers guides on installation (real hardware or emulation), software compatibility, networking, and tips for experienced Unix administrators looking to run AMIX.
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VisualJJ is an extension for Visual Studio Code that simplifies commit rebase and conflict resolution processes while integrating seamlessly with GitHub.
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The comment expresses positive sentiment and appreciation for a concise, humorous description of 'JJ' as 'Git-out-of-the-way source control'. It also mentions an open-source Jujutsu extension.
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The article discusses the author's experience of adding a 'dry-run' option to their reporting application, which proved useful during development and testing. The dry-run feature allows users to preview the steps that would be taken by the command without actually executing them.
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The discussion revolves around preferences for default actions when executing destructive commands, with a focus on the use of dry run versus wet run. Opinions are divided on terminology and default behaviors, but there is agreement that explicit confirmation or a --commit flag should be used to prevent accidental changes.
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