Nah, just kidding.
Howard Chu @ Symas
hyc@mastodon-social.mostr.pub
npub1tt4j...x9ud
CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician
Got a set of stainless steel chopsticks from AliExpress. They're great, nothing sticks to them, just a quick rinse and they're clean.
"But wait" you say, "nothing sticks to them? Doesn't that make them harder to use?"
Well actually, they have textured tips, so they're not too slippery.
But... yeah, as soon as they're coated with gravy or any liquids, all bets are off.
VarveDB
A high-performance, embedded, append-only event store for #Rust.
VarveDB provides a persistent, ACID-compliant event log optimized for high-throughput event sourcing. It leverages #LMDB for reliable storage and rkyv for zero-copy deserialization, ensuring minimal overhead.
Lib.rs
varvedb
A high-performance, embedded, append-only event store for Rust
Hm, this comment from 88 days ago is showing in my google alert as 2 days old. Google is srsly messed up.
But as to the question: #LMDB doesn't store counts of child nodes in each parent page. Doing so would certainly allow for setting a cursor directly to an Nth record, and redhat even submitted a ticket requesting this feature but it didn't seem important enough at the time, and seemed like too much storage cost for a rarely used function.
Afaik Postgres doesn't. In my exposure it'd be quite uncommon for a b-tree to st... | Hacker News
Bought yesterday. Ate last cookie today. <burp>
Symas contributes to development of @npub1ervw...j0h0 . I personally don't endorse Signal; their idiotic MobileCoin venture made it clear their priority is profit, not user safety.
You actually *can* get secure private messaging without relying on centralized metadata storage or AWS.
Fosstodon
Cwtch (@cwtch@fosstodon.org)
Today we are releasing Cwtch 1.16!
Cwtch is a privacy-only p2p messenger based on @torproject v3 onion services.
The focus of this release was m...
If you think you've hit a bug in #LMDB, open a bug report on bugs.openldap.org. Don't make me come looking for you.
Otherwise, don't be surprised if it goes unfixed for years; you're probably the only person in the world to encounter it. And it could be resolved in a matter of minutes, if you report it.
Thanks for that. It doesn't look like there is an open bug report for this yet. ... | Hacker News
On the Symas blog https://www.symas.com/post/taming-memory-pressure-with-lmdb Taming Memory Pressure with #LMDB
A new engineer discovers how Cloudflare used #LMDB for their distributed config https://xcancel.com/UltraSive/status/1948967694004326605#m
"99th %ile of reads dropped by two orders of magnitude!"
"LMDB stability has been exceptional. It has been running in production for over three years. We have experienced only a single bug and zero data corruption. Considering we serve over 2.5 trillion read requests and 30 million write requests a day on over 90,000 database instances across thousands of servers, this is very impressive."
New for OpenLDAP 3.0 - forget about bothersome index configuration. Just feed your entire DB into chatGPT. Search queries will be answered immediately by #AI, without maintaining any indices.
It's not a "smart" appliance if it only works while connected to a 3rd party's remote server, and can be knocked out of commission by a WAN outage. Smart appliances should only communicate with your LAN. 
Mastodon
Augie Ray (@augieray@mastodon.social)
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My Internet has been out for three hours. One forgets how reliant we can be on that digital lifeline.
I have a smart home, so m...
Hm, good question... how much has voter suppression impacted this election?
The impact is certainly non-zero 
WIRED
Flaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data
A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an i...
Most sci-fi stories involving time travel involve a mechanism that's incredibly rare and/or difficult to operate.
What if complete plans for a working time machine, including its power source, were published anonymously on the web, in a decentralized fashion? (Impossible to identify who published it, or from where, and thus making it impossible to go back and prevent the publication.) What if anybody could build their own, using commonly available parts and tools?
It's only April and my PV panels have already hit a peak output over 10% over their rated capacity (yesterday). The power graph from today clearly shows the jump around 9am when the sun is finally in front of the house. The house faces SSW so the panels aren't getting direct illumination from sunrise, though they're still producing a tiny bit of power then.
Other cryptocurrency projects talk a big game about being the future of money, but they're all just scams to separate speculators from their cash. #Monero has demonstrated time and time again that it's actually focused on being a useful currency, not a vehicle for speculators. 
Bitfinex blog
The Fortunes of Monero - Bitfinex blog
While the crypto community’s gaze was fixed on Bitcoin reaching a new all time high in price this week, a significant yet underreported devel...
First spec for storage of digital data in DNA
in case you'd forgotten that you're already living in a sci-fi world... https://www.snia.org/news_events/newsroom/dna-data-storage-alliance-releases-its-first-specifications
Bitcoin sucks, literally. Sucks electricity, among other things... 
Mastodon
Frédéric Jacobs (@fj@mastodon.social)
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Bitcoin, less efficient than ever per block.
Consuming a broader percentage of USA electricity every year.
> “we estimate e...