Hacker News: skibbityboop

New comment by skibbityboop in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

skibbityboop — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:47:10 +0000

Not for PostgreSQL, but for MariaDB we run replicas in FreeBSD jails on a server with lots of ZFS space. The jailed Maria instances just stop every hour (so the DB flushes everything to disk), the host snapshots all of their data volumes, and then starts the jails back up. Within a minute or so they're fully caught up to the primaries again. Gives us months and months of recovery checkpoints.

It's great because it's a completely clean save from a shutdown state, so when we need a scratch copy of a database it only takes as long as cloning whatever snapshot we want (depending on how far back we need to to), then starting a scratch jail that runs from those clone filesystems. When finished, just shutdown scratch and delete the clones, it's like it never happened.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Have Taken Up Farming"

skibbityboop — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:41:01 +0000

Yes, this really is an example of someone who "made it" and made a large amount of money that has allowed them to turn around and choose a simpler life. "Oh, I just moved myself and my family off to a little Greek island estate I bought and farming it (along with my existing money) is what provides for us..."

Money may not buy happiness buy money buys you all the freedom you could possibly need to do anything that fits your whimsy.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available"

skibbityboop — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:13:15 +0000

It's not like VMFS (not a cluster filesystem), for Proxmox+iSCSI you get a large LVM PV that gets sliced up into volumes for your VMs. All of your Proxmox nodes are connected to that same LVM PV and you can live migrate your VMs around all you wish, have HA policies so if a node dies its VMs start up right away on a surviving node, etc.

You lose snapshots (but can have your SAN doing snaps, of course) and a few other small things I can't recall right now, but overall it works great. Have had zero troubles.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland"

skibbityboop — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:47:21 +0000

Yes, when dementia has you terrified of, or raging at, your closest loved ones (who you don't remember at all so you think they're demons or strangers) all day every day to the point where they all can't stand you and feel terrible for wishing death would come to end your massive suffering. Beautiful moments, just beautiful.

Hanging in there with cancer? Sure, fight it and deal with the pain. Dementia? No, please end it. The two aren't even close in comparison, cancer feels easy and merciful.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

skibbityboop — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:32:41 +0000

Yeah, kinda have to agree. I like traefik fine but getting mTLS working with it was a serious pain and the docs for doing so were _terrible_, had to keep searching around and piecing together bits from various third party blogs. Coming from haproxy where the documentation is _so_ _much_ better and things like e.g. mTLS are vastly easier, it was not a fun experience but we did finally get traefik to work as we needed.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained""

skibbityboop — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:33:40 +0000

Anecdotal but btrfs is the only filesystem I've lost data with (and it wasn't in a RAID configuration). That combined with the btrfs tools being the most aggressively bad management utilities out there* ensure that I'm staying with ext4/xfs/zfs for now.

*Coming from the extremely well thought out and documented zfs utilities to btrfs will have you wondering wtf fairly frequently while you learn your way around.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here's why they should"

skibbityboop — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:44:27 +0000

Yeah, if your device is lost or destroyed and you rely on passkeys, you are well and truly f**ed. Your only hope is if you have recovery passwords stored in a password safe or manager. If you already have that safe or manager, than you can already very easily have 25+ character passphrases for every site you use, so what have passkeys gained you except having to be double-vigilant about having a recovery method for every login you create?

New comment by skibbityboop in "Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream"

skibbityboop — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:54:08 +0000

Same boat, the attempt at bot detection prevents the page from working at all for me.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line"

skibbityboop — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:32:20 +0000

Hit the same issue, but it goes fine if you just clone the repo, cd down into the cmd directory and 'go build -o doggo'.

New comment by skibbityboop in "pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL"

skibbityboop — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:36:04 +0000

I'm with you, I need to read up more on where timeseries could benefit, at work we have a PostgreSQL instance with around 27 billion rows in a single partitioned table, partitioned by week. Goes back to January of 2017 and just contains tons of data coming in from sensors. It's not "fast", but also not ridiculously slow to say e.g. "Give me everything for sensor 29380 in March of 2019".

I guess depends on your needs but I do think I need to investigate timeseries more to see if it'd help us.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

skibbityboop — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:24:09 +0000

I got a Latitude 9430 on eBay for $520. This thing is an amazing laptop and I'd put it right there with the Macs I have to work with at dayjob, as far as build quality/feel.

New comment by skibbityboop in "The Matrix Trashfire"

skibbityboop — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:51:58 +0000

Anyone who has owned a Mini would probably question whether their QA even gets that far.

New comment by skibbityboop in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

skibbityboop — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:16:42 +0000

Maybe it depends on the McDonald's franchisee in your area, I never see free fries in the app but it's always "any size fries for $1.29" (which is still massively cheaper than their normal price).

New comment by skibbityboop in "Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people"

skibbityboop — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:12:02 +0000

> If you have a whole database of them, the trick is to try one code with a thousand cards

That still sounds like a crapshoot... Of those 1,000 cards, there might be 14 that have 982 as CSV, 9 that have 307, and none with 118. In other words, there's no guarantee whatsoever that any given CSV will be used in a batch of 1,000 or even 10,000 cards.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Beeper Mini is back"

skibbityboop — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:09:37 +0000

Same, in years and years of use, never a single spam message.

New comment by skibbityboop in "DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables"

skibbityboop — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:08:41 +0000

> yes, it adds a forwarding rule. Which skips over the rest of my firewall rules.

... which you explicitly asked it to do by using the -p option.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Archive your Reddit data before it's too late"

skibbityboop — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:55:33 +0000

Works well to just spin up a python:3.11 container via Docker or Podman and do the pipx + reddit-user-to-sqlite installations, then run the utility in there. You can mount some folder as part of starting the container or copy the reddit.db file out of the container before throwing it away. Avoids any changes to your real system at all.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Show HN: Docker rollout – Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker-compose"

skibbityboop — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:45:43 +0000

1. Install regular old Docker

2. Type 'docker swarm init'

3. There is no 3, you're literally finished and now have a full-on Swarm node w/ all features.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car"

skibbityboop — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:34:16 +0000

Great question, and yes, some of the better devices implement a small buffer so may be able to keep a day or even two in memory while they're out of cell coverage. If you activate the SIM you might get a small data dump.

GPS doesn't need a SIM, and indeed the devices will have a fix all the time whether activated or not. They do require cell service to send their updates anywhere. They're all simple GPS receivers, not transmitters, thus require an active SIM.

New comment by skibbityboop in "Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car"

skibbityboop — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 01:40:20 +0000

> Is the sky-link GPS device still sending location data back to a Sky Link server?

As someone who used to work in that industry, no, it's not sending location data. You don't activate the SIM until you have someone who is going to pay for the service, otherwise you're losing money for no reason.

We'd get that question often though, someone activating a device hoping they'd be able to see everywhere it was for the last month.