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by ottoke 6mo ago
MariaDB’s new AppArmor profile is now enforcing in Debian unstable and heading to Ubuntu 26.04. If you are a dba/sysadmin, check your logs and share feedback via the Debian bug tracker.
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by ottoke 7mo ago
It's an open source venture backed by $35M from FirstMark Capital, Spark Capital, and GV (Google Ventures). It's a drop-in replacement for MySQL with an extension architecture. See their native UUID extension with efficient 16-byt
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Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?(optimizedbyotto.com)
15 points by ottoke 8mo ago|23 comments
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by ottoke 8mo ago
Lemmy discussion at https://programming.dev/post/43869104 is wild :)
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by ottoke 8mo ago
Pecona also writes in https://www.percona.com/blog/analyzing-the-heartbeat-of-the-... : "The overall trend since 2011 shows a sustained decline in the number of commits and a shrinking pool of unique contributors.
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MySQL users be warned: Git commits in MySQL-server significantly declined 2025(optimizedbyotto.com)
9 points by ottoke 8mo ago|3 comments
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by ottoke 8mo ago
Depends entirely on the app and use case. For apps that expect PostgreSQL probably Yugabyte, and for apps that expect MySQL probalby TiDB.
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by ottoke 10mo ago
Thanks!
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DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian(optimizedbyotto.com)
3 points by ottoke 10mo ago|3 comments
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by ottoke 10mo ago
Git is the industry standard for software development, but I thasn’t been fully adopted in Debian packaging yet. Debian development is still based on uploading tarballs via FTP. I believe that git-based workflows could enhance collaboration
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by ottoke 11mo ago
This is the upstream source control. The article talks about the Debian packaging source not being in git (on e.g. salsa.debian.org).
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Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?(optimizedbyotto.com)
120 points by ottoke 11mo ago|110 comments
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by ottoke 11mo ago
How did the changes in the binary test files tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz and tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma, and the makefile change in m4/build-to-host.m4) manifest to the Debian maintainer? Was ther
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by ottoke 11mo ago
TiDB has come a long way in 10 years! Most large (open source) MySQL systems today running either TiDB or Vitess, and many cloud providers seem to be copying TiDB's architecture in their new products.
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MariaDB 11.8's zero-configuration TLS requires no manual setup(optimizedbyotto.com)
1 points by ottoke 1y ago|1 comments
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by ottoke 1y ago
This is nice for those tired of wrestling with TLS certs and CAs for your database
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MariaDB Cloud launched with "Serverless tier is free forever for small projects"(mariadb.com)
2 points by ottoke 1y ago|1 comments
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by ottoke 1y ago
Just launched: https://mariadb.com/products/cloud/ "Serverless tier is free forever for experimenting and small development projects" Has anyone already tried this out? Initial thoughts?
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I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list(openalternative.co)
4 points by ottoke 1y ago|3 comments
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by ottoke 1y ago
This is an absolute gem in finding what are the trending state-of-the-art open source programs. I have found so many cool open source projects I feel addicted to browsing more..
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by ottoke 1y ago
If you currently run `apt install debcraft` in Ubuntu, you will get the tool built by me. It has largely the same goals as Canonical has expressed in this and similar docs, but no Launchpad integration. If you want to collaborate on making
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by ottoke 1y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by ottoke 1y ago
“Unicode as default character set” - finally, nice!
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by ottoke 1y ago
Also, if you like MariaDB, show your support and help it get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server
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MariaDB 11.8 LTS released with vector, Parsec auth, TLS-autoconfiguration etc.(mariadb.com)
9 points by ottoke 1y ago|2 comments
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by ottoke 1y ago
This is the first long-term supported MariaDB release with vector support for RAG applications, zero-configuration TLS, new Parsec authentication plugin and more
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by ottoke 1y ago
Both sbuild and Debcraft essentially still run a minimal hermetic Debian environment without network access inside them. The fact that sbuild exists is not a reason to not try out Debcraft. However the selling point in Debcraft is not that
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by ottoke 1y ago
I know cases where an Atlassian customer was forced to self-host their Jira as their data/instance size was too large for Atlassian to be able to offer as a hosted service. Using TiDB is a clear path for Atlassian to reliably scale up
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by ottoke 2y ago
The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the s
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by ottoke 2y ago
Hey fellow hackers, I just published a new blog post with some practical writing advice to help software professionals level up their communication skills. As engineers and developers, we often focus heavily on technical skills while neglec

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