Tag: Repository
SOW: Postpartum Care for 100,000 Packages
Today, let’s talk about Postpartum Care for Sows—a Chinese meme for the sort of absurdly specialized practical topic nobody expects to discuss. This time, the sow in question is my new open-source project, SOW. When you maintain a PostgreSQL …
Today, let’s talk about Postpartum Care for Sows—a Chinese meme for the sort of absurdly specialized practical topic nobody expects to discuss. This time, the sow in question is my new open-source project, SOW. When you maintain a PostgreSQL …
A Packaging Patch Has Been Corrupting Valkey's Memory Accounting Since 2017
I was updating the Redis module in Pigsty recently, adding Valkey as an alternative engine, and hit an upstream bug while packaging it. If your Valkey runs on Debian or Ubuntu, and one day the disk fills up or the data directory permissions go wrong …
I was updating the Redis module in Pigsty recently, adding Valkey as an alternative engine, and hit an upstream bug while packaging it. If your Valkey runs on Debian or Ubuntu, and one day the disk fills up or the data directory permissions go wrong …
The Cognitive Price Revolution: AI's Impact on the Economy and the Future
Introduction: Reframe the Question “Will AI cause unemployment?” is a question guaranteed to produce garbage answers, because it comes with only two canned scripts. Optimists recite history: from the power loom to the ATM, every technological panic …
Introduction: Reframe the Question “Will AI cause unemployment?” is a question guaranteed to produce garbage answers, because it comes with only two canned scripts. Optimists recite history: from the power loom to the ATM, every technological panic …
On Trusting Open-Source Supply Chains
Yesterday’s post “PG ‘Export Controls’ and Supply-Chain Trust” drew a comment from someone claiming to be an admin at a university mirror site (Tsinghua TUNA): “As a university mirror admin, calling us ‘lying flat’ or ‘irresponsible’ is unfair and …
Yesterday’s post “PG ‘Export Controls’ and Supply-Chain Trust” drew a comment from someone claiming to be an admin at a university mirror site (Tsinghua TUNA): “As a university mirror admin, calling us ‘lying flat’ or ‘irresponsible’ is unfair and …