The performance is actually not bad. You’re far better off using conventional columns but in the one off cases where you have to store queryable JSON data, it actually performs quite well.

What’s that? Did you say you needed an RDBMS that can also handle JSON data? Well have I got good news for you!

My wife. She often has no idea what I’m talking about but she listens patiently and at least looks like she’s interested. I appreciate her for that.

Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious,

I’ve been trying to figure out roughly how many lines of code that would equal out to but I’ve run out of fingers.

That’ll show those pesky pirates.

My advice is avoid tape backups. The cost, risk of media degredation, and management overhead make them not worth it, especially for a homelab.

Also, restoring an entire VM is almost easier than recovering a single file, just because of the sequential nature of reading data from a tape. Data recoveries are pretty slow in general.

I backup to an external hard drive with regular copies to iDrive S3. Been doing it that way for a number of years with no problems.

Why try to reach an agreement with someone who is just going to rip it up and throw it in your face in a few years? Backstabbing and broken promises are a byproduct of empires and the US has a long trail of those behind it.

Boss decided to block anything related to gaming, for example. You visit a small game developer page and it initially works but after a few minutes, you get a “blocked” page (but customers can’t see that because nowadays everything uses HTTPS and they don’t have the self signed CA on their system - they just see HTTPS certificate error). I tried multiple times but always the same result, after a few minutes is blocked.

That’s not “AI”. That’s just a “man in the middle (mitm)” attack. AKA, https proxy. Fortinet firewalls have been capable of that for many years. It’s not uncommon for businesses (e.g. banking and finance) to proxy all internal web traffic in order to make sure personally identifiable information isn’t being shared with shady websites.

Proxying traffic on the guest WiFi is pretty sketchy though.

And you thought J. Edgar Hoover was paranoid.

Somehow I think my baby years were probably less embarrassing than my teenage years.

“Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.”

I remember reading that. It was pretty funny. Jihad is easy. Running a country is not. Who would have thought.

I was today years old when I learned that many people don’t have an inner monologue. The human body is so fascinating.

Oddly enough, if I don’t take my ADHD meds, I tend to talk to myself out loud a lot because my inner monologue gets kind of “muffled” in the “noise” and I rely on it very heavily to think through.

I imagine being a high school teacher sometimes feels like being Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie.

I have a rule that “Nothing will be automated that cannot be manually overridden.”

Well, actually it’s my wife’s rule but it’s a good rule nonetheless. As a result, there’s a big panel full of relays in the basement that is the “last mile” for anything climate control or security related.

There have been a few times when it’s been handy. Like when the exhaust fan isn’t working and I don’t want to debug the ESP32 controller today so I just flip it over to “Manual”.

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Reporters should all just say it was Don Jr.

And Hamas.

being exposed to too much AC

“AC” as in Air Conditioning??