

I’ve never used Arch yet still use their wiki quite a lot.
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I’ve never used Arch yet still use their wiki quite a lot.


It was a feature built in to the web browser, providing a website, file sharing, a music player, a photo sharing tool, chat, a whiteboard, a guestbook, and some other features.
All you needed to do was open the browser and forward a port, or let UPnP do it (since everyone still had UPnP enabled back then), and you’d get a .operaunite.com subdomain that anyone could access, which would hit the web server built into the browser.
This was back in 2008ish, when Opera was still good (before it was converted to be Chromium-powered). A lot of people still used independent blogs back then, rather than everything being on social media, so maybe it was ahead of its time a bit.


I’m sad that Opera Unite failed. It was the closest thing to self-hosting for regular non-technical people.
A lot of Linux distros do this by default. Alternatively you can use /dev/shm when you need a RAM disk, since it’s guaranteed to always be a RAM disk (whereas /tmp may or may not be).
The actual purpose of /dev/shm is shared memory (storing stuff in memory that’s shared across multiple processes) but I see it used as a generic RAM disk all the time.


Here’s a funk theme by the two brothers from Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge
Wow I love this. I hadn’t heard this one.


I like this one too! I had never heard it before. I grew up with a Sega Master System and Mega Drive so there’s a of NES/SNES games I’ve never played.


Nothing beats Tim Follin’s 8-bit music though.


Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?


That was just an example. There’s all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn’t count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn’t count as a view either.


Page loads don’t count as a view though, because otherwise things like search engine indexing would count as a view. It’s only considered a view if the video is watched for at least 30 seconds.


YouTube only counts a view if it’s longer than 30 seconds, but clients like Newpipe don’t send the tracking data to Google for them to track this.


I’d say 9/10 aren’t doing proper backups given most people don’t actually do DR runs and verify whether they can fully recover from their backups. If you don’t test your backups, you don’t have backups!


Which containers do automatic DB backups? Normally the database is a separate container, unless the app is using SQLite. Is there a MySQL or PostgreSQL container that does automated backups?


Where’s the MySQL option? Some of my servers are running MySQL instead of MariaDB because it allowed binding to multiple IP addresses (although I think Maria has implemented this now), and some query plan optimizations were implemented in MySQL but not MariaDB.


You still need to know what database system is being used in order to make backups of the database. You can’t just snapshot or backup the data directory while a database is running, because you might end up with an inconsistent state that won’t restore properly. You need to either stop the DB before doing the backup, or use the relevant DB-specific tools to perform a backup.


I’m a C# developer and run .NET apps on Linux all the time. I usually work on CLI and server apps, but recently released my first Linux desktop app written in C#: https://flathub.org/apps/com.daniel15.wcc
Even before .NET Core, I was using Mono to run C# apps on Linux. There used to be quite a few GNOME apps written in C#.
There’s .NET and then there’s .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.
Nope. The old .NET Framework has been deprecated for a long time. The latest version, 4.8.1, is not very different to 4.6 which was released 10 years ago.
The modern versions are just called .NET, which is what .NET Core used to be, but with much more of the framework implemented in a cross-platform way. Something like 95% of the Windows-only .NET Framework has been reimplemented in a cross-platform way.
The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.
All modern .NET code is built on the cross-platform framework. Only legacy apps used the old Windows-only .NET Framework.
If you get the free community version of Visual Studio and create a new C# project, it’ll be using the latest cross-platform framework. You can even cross-compile for Linux on a Windows system.


Thanks, this is a good insight.
My guess would be that you’ve logged into all of the accounts in the same browser, and thus they all shared a common cookie or something similar (like LocalStorage) at some point. It’s a common tactic sites use to mark multiple accounts as being operated by the same person.