Or use shellcheck: https://www.shellcheck.net/
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kayson commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst
The Thunderbird Pro Add-on Repo [1] doesn't really make it clear - if I want to self host Appointment and Send, do I need to build the addon myself and change the endpoints? Or is there some kind of config?
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kayson commented on Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers ergaster.org/posts/2025/0... · Posted by u/JNRowe
After some research, it seems much easier to just back up the Proxmox config (and VM disk images, if they're needed) than to define or deploy Proxmox VMs with OpenTofu or ansible.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_Cluster_File_System_(pm...
> According to Cadence’s admissions and court documents, employees of Cadence China did not disclose to and/or concealed from other Cadence personnel, including Cadence’s export compliance personnel, that exports to CSCC were in fact intended for delivery to NUDT and/or the PRC military. For example, in May 2015, a few months after NUDT was added to the Entity List, Cadence’s then-head of sales in China emailed colleagues, cautioning them to refer to their customer as CSCC in English and NUDT only in Chinese characters, writing that “the subject [was] too sensitive.”
Interesting. Sounds like Cadence China employees went rogue. Nonetheless, Cadence USA is on the hook.
EDA vendors know this is a risk, so EDA tools constantly need to "phone back home" to load updates and validate licenses. Plenty of functionality falls apart as well without that connectivity or support.
Furthermore, the resources that you would need to spend constantly cracking newer versions just isn't worth it when similar capital could be spent building home grown alternatives.
Finally, cracking and building a clone does cause liability risks for Chinese companies attempting to expand abroad. Companies are companies first - even in China - and the appetite for Huawei getting completely blocked from all of the EU, Singapore, SK, JP, India, etc where both the large EDA vendors and Chinese vendors coexist makes it a proposition that isn't worth it.
> EDA tools constantly need to "phone back home" to load updates and validate licenses
This isn't true in my experience. Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens tools all use local license files or license servers (mainly FlexLM). Updates are just downloaded from their website.
I think the downvoting on you is a little harsh. TFA does allude to it, but doesn't explicitly answer your question. I presume the implicit answer is here:
> With growing customer enthusiasm, we were increasingly getting questions about what it would look like to buy a large number of Oxide racks. Could we manufacture them? Could we support them? Could we make them easy to operate together?
i.e. they need the capital in order to be able to satisfy large orders on sane timeframes - but that's very expensive when you're a hardware business.
Thanks. It was a genuine question but I guess I can see how it might be taken otherwise.
What do they need so much capital for?
kayson commented on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts it-notes.dragas.net/2025/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
The thing that always gets me about backup consistency is that it's impossibly difficult to ensure that application data is in a consistent state without bringing everything down. You can create a disk snapshot, but there's no guarantee that some service isn't mid-write or mid-procedure at the point of the snapshot. So if you were to restore the backup from the snapshot you would encounter some kind of corruption.
Database dumps help with this, to a large extent, especially if the application itself is making the dumps at an appropriate time. But often you have to make the dump outside the application, meaning you could hit it in the middle of a sequence of queries.
Curious if anyone has useful tips for dealing with this.