The author tried running rsyncd demon so it's not _just_ the ssh protocol.
Great point, and even beyond that I think (based on the paths) it was just a command line invocation, with something like NFS handling all the networking.
Readit Newsruperthair commented on 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
Would be nice, but unlikely given that they are going in the opposite direction and having YouTube silently add AI to videos without the author even requesting it: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using...
Wow! I hadn't seen this, thanks. Do you think they are doing it with relatively innocent motives?
ruperthair commented on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC androidauthority.com/alum... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
MacOS requires dropping to the terminal to install unsigned applications. There is literally no need for this, except to ensure apple profits.
When do you see this? For me, I just go to System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Scroll down to Security and look for the message about the blocked app, click Allow Anyway, and then reopen the app.
Funny, from the title I was expecting a productivity-adjacent "What have you even built?" article.
Except it's really a "What over-engineered monstrosity have you built?" in the theme of "choose boring technology"
p.s. MariaDB (MySQL fork) is technically older and more boring than PostgreSQL so they're both equally valid choices. Best choice is ultimately whatever you're most familiar with.
Not that oldness is much of a metric for quality, but Postgres does go quite a lot further back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Ingres_and_Universi...
ruperthair commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn
it will get more exciting once those solar panel can charge electronic cars
They can do so today. Works great for my parents.
ruperthair commented on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" engineering.nanit.com/how... · Posted by u/mpweiher
This may be an obvious point, but I didn't see it mentioned in the (otherwise excellent) article: I would have been interested in the cost saving in just implementing the 'delete on read' with S3 that they ended up using with the home-made in-memory cache solution. I can't see this on the S3 billing page, but if the usage is billed per-second, as with some other AWS services, then the savings may be significant.
The solution they document also matches the S3 'reduced redundancy' storage option, so I hope they had this enabled from day one.
ruperthair commented on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" engineering.nanit.com/how... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Maybe they’re not using keepalives in their clients causing thousands of handshakes per second?
Yes, they mention this as a 'fix' for connection-related memory usage:
> Disable keep-alive: close the connection immediately after each upload completes.
Very odd idea.
Finally, a complete modular portable desktop, made in Europe, for about $350 usd (keyboard, mouse, camera, mic, display, power supply).
I'm impressed. Although, a little late in the race to compete with US or Chinese PC makers. However, they've a good chance to influence drone and robotic computing, same goes for Arduino.
Sorry to say that I don't think any of it is made in Europe. From https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-the-engineers-behind-r...:
Hardware engineers Simon Martin and Chris Martin have been beavering away on Raspberry Pi 500+ for years, through a process of iteration that’s seen a total of ten factory trips to China, six PCB revisions...
ruperthair commented on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta blog.cloudflare.com/email... · Posted by u/tosh
Interesting read, thanks! One almost LOL moment for me was at the end of this paragraph:
That is also an important part of AWS’s retention strategy: for most AWS customers the easiest solution to rising costs is to simply sign a long-term contract, dramatically decreasing their prices (again, Amazon has the margin to spare) while ensuring they stay on AWS that much longer, accumulating that much more data and relying on that many more AWS-specific services. Hotel Seattle, as it were.
ruperthair commented on Website is hosted on a disposable vape ewaste.fka.wtf/... · Posted by u/BogdanTheGeek
This repurposing is of only one he owns and the novelty of reusing it will likely wear off within a couple of weeks as having an extremely weak web server is not particularly useful.
It may not be my storage space but people in this site do have a higher chance of hoarding ewaste for no logical reasons and I'm hoping that pointing this out can help people realize that they don't need to hold on to every random gadget forever.
Making something out of it and getting a hit on HN would easily be 'enough' for me. Your replies read like you've had some personal issue with a hoarder. Digging into that may help you in the long run.