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zie commented on Notion releases offline mode notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo

I guess for a lot of users like myself using Notion ship has sailed. Most of them have moved to Obsidian, with the new database feature of Obsidian, and it being free, I do not see why users would choose Notion over Obsidian.

zie · 5 days ago

I switched to silverbullet[0], you get to write lua instead of YAML or whatever these apps are pushing.

0: https://silverbullet.md

zie commented on 19% of California houses are owned by investors ocregister.com/2025/07/21... · Posted by u/milleramp

nemomarx · 19 days ago

Why'd you set up an LLC for this?

zie · 19 days ago

There are a few reasons:

* Multi-ownership can be easier. I.e. you can "hide" who owns the house and it disconnects ownership from property records.

* People think it adds liability protections.

* It might make transferring the house at death easier to control(i.e. LLC rules apply, not state real estate rules)

In the case of owning the house you live in under an LLC, the chances of it protecting you from most liability is 0%. The only thing I can think og it maybe protecting you from is debt obligations, if the person trying to collect from you didn't bother to find out why you don't own your house on property records. This probably has a very low chance of working anymore, but low is > 0 I guess.

In order to have LLC liability protections you have to separate the LLC from your personal life, i.e. you have to treat the LLC as a real business, no mixing bank accounts, etc

zie commented on Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos github.com/andrewarrow/st... · Posted by u/fcpguru

danieldk · 23 days ago

I am the exact opposite and sell or throw away pretty much everything that I don't use. I find that doing so not only clutters the house less, but also gives you less to worry about.

My general rule is - if I didn't use it for a year, I don't need it. There are obviously some exceptions like a fire extinguisher (which I hope to never use) and digitized photos, which only go through a careful selection.

I think the thing I kept the longest was a Libranet Linux 3.0 CD set because I worked for Libra Computer Systems for a while and this was the release that I helped building. A few years ago I threw it away, I think after I saw someone uploaded it to archive.org. When I'm 60 and want to install it again for good old time's sake I can.

tl;de: if you don't use something for a year, you probably don't need it.

zie · 22 days ago

> fire extinguisher (which I hope to never use)

These expire, so make sure you check yours is still good!

Otherwise I agree with and do basically the same thing. I also make exceptions for most tools and emotional connection items.

zie commented on Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication tesseral.com/blog/i-desig... · Posted by u/noleary

smokel · a month ago

One aspect I find puzzling is why most two-factor authentication (2FA) applications restrict authentication to only a single valid code at any given time. This constraint inevitably creates a window during which it is inconvenient or impractical to copy the code to another device. Allowing the previous code to remain briefly valid would eliminate this unnecessary delay, enhancing usability without significantly compromising security.

zie · a month ago

See RFC-6238: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238

This is all in the standard, most places have implemented one of the options. I've implemented all of the options at least once. It's configurable based on how lax/secure you want to be.

Most places I've dealt with allow the previous and next code to also be used, so instead of a 30s window you actually have a 1.5m window.

zie commented on A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023) neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-... · Posted by u/ColinWright

rlpb · a month ago

I've been a big XMPP fan, having deployed it at customer sites more than a decade ago, running my own self-hosted service for friends and family, and so forth.

I'm disappointed that the experience is still not at feature parity with proprietary solutions. For example, Conversations.im is a great Android client for XMPP, but it still does not support live location.

There's so much potential to be better than the proprietary solutions, too, for example with OsmAnd integration (https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Conversations/issues/11).

zie · a month ago

Interesting. I would have never thought of using XMPP to share location info like that.

I use Overland[0] and a custom server implementation that lets people I care about see where my phone is(and presumably me).

0: https://overland.p3k.app

zie commented on Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots xata.io/blog/behind-the-s... · Posted by u/tudorg

hnarn · 2 months ago

I guess it all depends on your requirements, since this would still cause data loss for the delta time between failure and your last snapshot, but I'm a huge fan of ZFS, and it might be one reason to try out Postgres on FreeBSD, since the only Linux distro that ships ZFS painlessly out of the box is Ubuntu to my knowledge.

I'm also curious how Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) would perform, it would cause obvious latency but perhaps it would be an easier and more efficient solution for a "hot spare" setup than using Postgres native functionality. To my understanding, DRBD can be configured to protect you from hardware IO errors by "detaching" from an erroring disk.

I also don't know if it's a valid point, but I've heard people say that you don't want a fancy CoW filesystem for databases, since much of the functionality offered are things that databases already solve themselves, so you might be sacrificing performance for safety from things that "should not happen"(tm) anyway, depending on how it's set up I guess.

zie · 2 months ago

I agree with your overall point. That said: ZFS on Debian is pretty painless. If you have to build/link the kernel, apt will do it all for you, so you don't have to do anything.

ZFS on NixOS is usually quite easy as well, even on / : https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/ZFS

zie commented on Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots xata.io/blog/behind-the-s... · Posted by u/tudorg

hadlock · 2 months ago

Yes but did you have to write your own, or did you pull it from an official repo? I'm all for customizing things but we're a long, long ways from pg8.0, something besides the bare bones official pgdump and pgrestore binaries with their very agnostic and vanilla man pages would be tremendously useful.

zie · 2 months ago

Agreed. We use barman[0] and some shell.

0: https://pgbarman.org

zie commented on Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots xata.io/blog/behind-the-s... · Posted by u/tudorg

hadlock · 2 months ago

One thing that's sorely needed in the official documentation is a "best practice" for backup/restore from "cold and dark" where you lose your main db in a fire and are now restoring from offsite backups for business continuity. Particularly in the 100-2TB range where probably most businesses lie, and backup/restore can take anywhere from 6 to 72 hours, often in less than ideal conditions. Like many things with SQL there's many ways to do it, but an official roadmap for order of operations would be very useful for backup/restore of roles/permissions, schema etc. You will figure it out eventually, but in my experience the dev and prod db size delta is so large many things that "just work" in the sub-1gb scale really trip you up over 200-500gb. Finding out you did one step out of order (manually, or badly written script) halfway through the restore process can mean hours and hours of rework. Heaven help you if you didn't start a screen session on your EC2 instance when you logged in.

zie · 2 months ago

What we do, is automated restores. We have a _hourly and an _daily restore that just happens via shell script.

We encourage staff to play with both, and they can play with impunity since it's a copy that will get replaced soon-ish.

This makes it important that both work reliably, which means we know when our backups stop working.

We haven't had a disaster recovery situation yet(hopefully never), but I feel fairly confident that getting the DB back shouldn't be a big deal.

zie commented on Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots xata.io/blog/behind-the-s... · Posted by u/tudorg

forinti · 2 months ago

If you can have a secondary database (at another site or on the cloud) being updated with streaming replication, you can switch over very quickly and with little fuss.

zie · 2 months ago

Sure, but there are lots of failure modes where the failure goes with the streaming replication and all instances are trashed.

zie commented on Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients news.ki.se/gene-therapy-r... · Posted by u/justacrow

qbit42 · 2 months ago

I'm all for high quality captions, and turn them on occasionally when dialog is hard to hear (or in another language, usually prefer to dubbing). I also don't doubt that they improve comprehension. But on average I find them distracting from the visuals and prefer to have them off by default.

zie · 2 months ago

Obviously it should be a preference one can toggle, regardless of the default setting. I think they would get a lot better if the default was on instead of off.

TikTok generally has captions, usually burned into the video clip, you can't turn them on/off.