Hacker News: brinox

New comment by brinox in "Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet"

brinox — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:00:01 +0000

I was just wondering if pg_parquet could be combined with pg_azure_storage to write Parquet files to Azure Storage.

I had problems with pg_azure_storage in the past, because the roles pg_read_server_files and pg_write_server_files are unassignable on Azure PostgreSQL databases which makes the use of `COPY {FROM,TO}` impossible.

New comment by brinox in "Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections"

brinox — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:58:46 +0000

Running signed binaries neither is as long as the corresponding keys leak all the time [1].

Anyone can just get their malware signed by just throwing some dollars at it.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=100

New comment by brinox in "Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year"

brinox — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:29:51 +0000

`docker-compose` is the old style of doing it.

Newer versions of Docker have Compose available as a CLI plugin, so the command `docker compose` with space is correct.

New comment by brinox in "Watching Facebook Burn"

brinox — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:45:15 +0000

Mastodon.

New comment by brinox in "JiraCLI"

brinox — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:46:37 +0000

Do you also audit / control web browsers the clients are using?

New comment by brinox in "Show HN: Simple method to create complex Excel formulas"

brinox — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:12:30 +0000

Congrats, you've just discovered referential transparency :-)

Such a nice feature of functional programming languages, like excel formulae.

New comment by brinox in "Worst Things About Windows 11"

brinox — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:31:46 +0000

> You Still Need Third-Party Antivirus With Windows 11

At that point I stopped reading.

> PCMag security expert Neil Rubenking states that you still need third-party antivirus software.

Please stop suggesting snake oil software to the folks out there calling yourself an "expert".

New comment by brinox in "BitDefender Free has been discontinued"

brinox — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:56:09 +0000

Good, one fewer snake oil product on the market.

New comment by brinox in "Google wants every account to use 2FA, starts auto-enrolling users"

brinox — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:25:48 +0000

It's very convenient, yes.

If your Bitwarden vault is compromised however, you only have a single factor, because both the password and the TOTP secret are stored in the same place.

New comment by brinox in "Researchers Identify Weakness in Microsoft WPBT"

brinox — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:30:13 +0000

It would be really nice to always spell out the abbreviation once, put in in brackets and then use it afterwards. That would save so many people precious time.

New comment by brinox in "gRPC for Microservices Communication"

brinox — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:14:56 +0000

You can configure the message size limit on your gRPC server, doesn't that fix your issue?

New comment by brinox in "The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1"

brinox — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:43:06 +0000

I don't want to know what other security holes exist in applications that don't even support TLS 1.2.

New comment by brinox in "Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator"

brinox — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:53:18 +0000

ZetaSQL[1] seems like it could be a fit for your use case. I've worked with Apache Calcite in the past and found it to be very complex to work with. I found ZetaSQL to be a little easier to use.

[1] https://github.com/google/zetasql

New comment by brinox in "addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired"

brinox — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:21:34 +0000

Even if your certificate expires after 3 years, the certificate renewal process should be automated. The long validity of 3 years leads many people to not consider this necessary.

If the certificate is only valid for three months however, many people will automate the renewal right away, because nobody wants to do this manually every couple weeks.

From a security POV, shorter lifetimes require more periodic checks for the server's identity. E. g. a Letsencrypt-issued certificate using the ACME protocol will validate the server really belongs to the given domain more often, which is a nice property I think.

New comment by brinox in "Finally a plug and play VPN router for grandmas"

brinox — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:49:47 +0000

Why should my grandma use a VPN anyway? I could not think of any reason.

New comment by brinox in "Sockets in Your Shell"

brinox — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:15:08 +0000

I think this would be nice to wait for a socket to be available instead of doing `sleep n`.

New comment by brinox in "New Features in the Fish Shell"

brinox — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:56:20 +0000

You can just type in anything you'd like as when using Ctrl+R and then just press the up arrow key to perform a fuzzy match in your history.

New comment by brinox in "Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling Like Jwt.io and Online JSON Validators"

brinox — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:01:10 +0000

I'd recommend to at least give the option to have the text rendered in a font suitable for long texts, which is a font with serifs.

I like monospace font for programming tasks but it is just not the right choice for long reads.

New comment by brinox in "38 People are looking at this post right now"

brinox — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:34:30 +0000

I can only speak for Germany, where it's definitely not.