The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways for consumers to resist, accompanied by this satirical video.
youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
otava.apache.org
Great to see leading performance engineering tools coming to the ASF
love it ! and the settings around performance/resource usage are first class 💪
Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org
If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!
Giving @vivaldi.com a go, switching from Firefox.
I like it! Being norwegian is a bonus!
The inbuilt proton vpn was a very pleasant surprise, having a proton account already.
indeed.
"when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her."
stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...
Bad Bunny's superbowl performance was pure brilliance. Last time I saw anything that good was Childish Gambino's This is America. But it was the opposite of dark and cynical, and live!
New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery.
I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.
Aftersun (2022) is another movie rated 7+ in Scandinavia and R in USA.
One of the best movies I've watched. watched with the family.
So many things in america are now the opposite of common sense. Pilgrims might have gone there for religious freedoms, but the tables have certainly turned now.
Cassandra 5.0 performance improvements.
Sharing my 2025 Apache Cassandra Year in Review and Gratitudes –
lists.apache.org/thread/ztzzr...
This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix.
Incredible.
Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link.
I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.
"The Holdovers" is the perfect (quality) family xmas movie.
it's also hilarious americans have rated it R while Sweden rates it 7 and Italy 6. (ps you can trust sweden and italy)
The Bear episode "Fishes" (s02e06) is our new pre-xmas tradition.
bring on some family time 😁
ja, det var skisporets smøretips "wizard"
hva skjedde med griptip.skisporet.no ?
😂 all i can say is yes…
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when would you write the two columns separately (as opposed to always in same insert/update statement) ?
you have any numbers about extra storage space the hash column uses ? reduce the hash length ?
i don't know your specifics but both are trivial for most folk
to skip setup: astra.datastax.com
for just equality matches yeah, hash it into a separate column and index that. i don't know of any plans to directly index blobs. Given the workaround is simple, i hope it's not otherwise lacking in any way ?
Learned about Wanaku #MCP Router project, a brand new OSS by IBM/RedHat presented by lead developer @orpiske.net at #DevoxxMA
Uses Apache Camel for routing 👀
github.com/wanaku-ai/wana…
Friendly reminder
NoSQL ≠ anti-SQL
NoSQL (2009, Johan Oskarsson & Eric Evans) is about architecture & needs, not the query syntax
It's about scale-out design, multiple writers, no single primary, & predictable growth as you add nodes
New APIs don’t define NoSQL; the distributed system design does
We call it denormalisation
It's catering to technical limitation (but what choice do you have?)
I hope future data platforms automatically do this for you, based on consumer usage+patterns. Ultimately it's the responsibility & best encapsulated in the storage engine (network locality issues aside)
The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me:
Speed isn’t health. Community is.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
84% say open source is vital to finance’s future.
93% report better software quality.
The data is clear, open collaboration is driving the next wave of innovation in financial services.
📘 Watch the highlights + read the full report: www.linuxfoundation.org/research/the...
#OpenSource
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
lenke ?
