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by mattbee | 2025-10-22 10:53:12+00:00
They abandoned documentation (edit: for the open source codebase) a couple of weeks ago - that seems more significant.

From their Slack on Oct 10:

"The documentation sites at docs.min.io/community have been pulled of this morning and will redirect to the equivalent AIStor documentation where possible". [emphasis mine]

The minio/docs repository hasn't been updated in 2 weeks now, and the implication is that isn't going to be.

Even when I set up a minio cluster this February, it was both impressively easy and hard in a few small aspects. The most crucial installation tips - around 100Gb networking, Linux kernel tunables and fault-finding - were hung off comments on their github, talking about files that were deleted from the repository years ago.

I've built a cluster for a client that's being expanded to ≈100PB this year. The price of support comes in at at slightly less than the equivalent amount of S3 storage (not including the actual hosting costs!). The value of it just isn't that high to my client - so I guess we're just coasting on what we can get now, and will have to see what real community might form around the source.

I'm not a free software die-hard so I'm grateful for the work minio have put into the world, and the business it's enabling. But it seems super-clear they're stopping those contributions, and I'd bet the final open source release will happen in the next year.

If anyone else is hosting with minio & can't afford the support either :) please drop me a line and maybe we can get something going.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-22 10:53:26+00:00
Well, here, we're getting into "guesses and opinion," rather than "personal experience."

I suspect that when tech became a place to earn big salaries, is when the dodgy folks started showing up.

It's always been common for folks with little background in tech, or unrelated experience, to apply for jobs. In fact, as a manager, I often looked for that. I was fairly decent at finding "diamond in the rough" talent (I sort of had to, as my company didn't pay especially well).

But, apparently, these days, even fairly innocuous job postings are inundated with tons of totally unqualified (and a significant portion of the "qualified" ones are outright fabrications) CVs.

Also, you get people that are crooks, applying.

The other side (in my opinion), is that modern tech CEOs are behaving quite badly. They consider their workforce to be some kind of hostile, subhuman slurry, and they treat their workers as such.

In order to fix this, the C-Suite needs to "blink first." They need to do better at treating their workers and prospective workers, well. HR culture also needs to change. It's become outright hostile to employees. I saw that happen in my own company, which started off, quite friendly towards employees. By the time I left, it was pretty much openly hostile.

That's unlikely to materialize, in today's tech industry. Any company that does this, will be eaten alive by their competition.

If people are serious about improving things, then legislation needs to be introduced, to prevent companies that improve their employee relations, from being killed by their competitors, and to help companies to survive manifesting risks, when they take chances on employees.

I am not optimistic that this will happen. If it does happen, it’s unlikely that it will be done well. In fact, the chances are good, that it would make things worse.
by krapp | 2025-10-22 10:53:57+00:00
If you learn to compile libraries and programs, you just learn how to compile libraries and programs. That doesn't teach you anything about how to "make games." It doesn't even make game development significantly easier.

I think the real answer to educating people about making games without the complications of low level programming would be using a framework like Godot or languages like Python or Lua.
by kragen | 2025-10-22 10:54:18+00:00
I've been doing that for decades. See for example https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg000...:

> Many programming languages provide an exception facility that terminates subroutines without warning; although they usually provide a way to run cleanup code during the propagation of the exception (finally in Java and Python, unwind-protect in Common Lisp, dynamic-wind in Scheme, local variable destructors in C++), this facility tends to have problems of its own --- if cleanup code run from it raises an exception, one exception or the other, or both, will be lost, and the rest of the cleanup code at that level will fail to run.

I wasn't using Unicode em dashes at the time but TeX em dashes, but I did switch pretty early on.

You can easily find human writers employing em dashes and comma-separated lists over several centuries.
by debian3 | 2025-10-22 10:54:29+00:00
GS308EP or EPP if you need more power budget.

Netgear are hard to beat in terms of reliability/price. They also have a 5 and 16 ports fanless version.

I also got an old Juniper EX2200 24ports and replaced the fans with quiet noctua. It run quite hot, better go with Netgear.
by jraph | 2025-10-22 10:54:36+00:00
We also find the Wiktionary definition [1]:

> One who does not contribute or pay appropriately; one who gets a free ride, etc. without paying a fair share.

Which I believe is a bit more generic (giving back might not be the only way of being fair).

> You may think of that term negatively

But the term carries a negative judgement, what's the point of this term otherwise? Without the judgemental part, you'd just say "using for free" or something.

The whole question is: is it fair to use open source software for free?

And I believe it is. Actually, this is stronger than this: I believe people should feel free to use free software for free, and should not be looked down for doing so. This is key for freedom 0 to be an actual thing. (I'm not set in stone in this position and would be happy change my mind on this though).

The notion of "giving back" can be discussed. I believe it is fair to get stuff from Person A for free and then helping B for free (later or earlier), in the hope that some person P will eventually help / have helped Person A for free for instance - this has the potential to provide everyone with a strong, helpful society and it would be even more enjoyable and reliable than a society that enforces pair to pair transactions.

Indeed, if someone always takes stuff for free and never contributes to anything, I would find this unfair (unless for some reason they can't contribute back, because of a disability or something). I would call this freeloading. Society cannot work like this. But you need the bigger picture to assess this.

When you start to try thinking about all this, the concepts of giving back, fairness, etc, it gets quite complicated. You also need to take in account the way society and the economical system works as a whole. What are the incentives, the motives, etc?

Basically, qualifying someone as a "open source freeloader" without context just because they use freedom 0 without paying is quite bold and might not be fair.

What if a company uses MinIO for free but provides some nice open source software?

Just don't judge someone too fast.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freeloader
by voidUpdate | 2025-10-22 10:54:40+00:00
> This is helpful if you have to interpolate the same value multiple times and want to reduce repetition and make the interpolation easier to follow.

Is index-based string interpolation easier to follow? I would find it easier to understand a string interpolation when the variable name is right there, rather than having to count along the arguments to find the particular one it's referencing
by bayindirh | 2025-10-22 10:55:08+00:00
> Yes, and you can observe that even in your desktop...

Yup, that part of my comment was culmination of using Linux desktops for the last two decades. :)

> I wouldn't be so quick. Google ran their servers without swap for ages.

If you're designing this from get go and planning accordingly, it doesn't fit into my definition of eff it, we ball, but let's try this and see whether we can make it work.

> With swap files, instead of swap partitions,...

I'm a graybeard. I eyeball a swap partition size while installing the OS, and just let it be. Being mindful and having good amount of RAM means that SWAP acts as a eviction area for OS first, and as an escape ramp second, in very rare cases.

--

Sent from my desktop.
by mariuolo | 2025-10-22 10:55:54+00:00
I don't know if this article is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but Amodei is clearly the patronymic form of Amedeo or Amadeus (Lover of God).

If the rest of his etymological analyses are on par, they can't be taken seriously.

Unless the author wanted to demostrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.
by ninjin | 2025-10-22 10:55:55+00:00
It really is and not just that. WireGuard being natively supported makes configuring your peers as easy as dumping the last of these example lines into /etc/hostname.wg[0-9]:

https://man.openbsd.org/wg#EXAMPLES

Simple, text-file based configuration for everything in the extensive base system and no drama between upgrades is really what makes you a happy OpenBSD user.
by dev1ycan | 2025-10-22 10:56:26+00:00
Starship was the big scam, Elon sold a lot and in the end it became clear over time that really the entire point of Starship was never Mars, or even the Moon... or Space Tourism, a different type of vehicle would have probably been better for that, it's about reducing the cost of launch missions to maximize profit and take out the primary source of income of competing players so they can have a monopoly of space.

Are they ahead of everyone else? yes, sadly, but Starship is a questionable design for a lunar mission, starting with the fact that it'll require an elevator to go up and down... 50 meters down.

And for Mars it's even worse, no real way of refueling and even if there was, it's also hard enough for them to get off Earth imagine winging it from Mars with all the potential hazards such as dust.

Well at least Musk will make good money from space launches, hopefully Starlink is declared illegal for the potential future atmospheric catastrophy the massive launches of LEO satellites might cause.

https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html
by aaplok | 2025-10-22 10:56:35+00:00
OP's point is that French prisons are famously derelict. They are overcrowded, dirty, dangerous. Regular prisoners do not enjoy the luxury of a VIP cell.

Sarkozy played no small part in making this happen.

We should absolutely wish for all prisoners to be treated decently, and it is a terrible thing that the matter is only brought up when someone like Sarkozy has to ensure a portion of what regular prisoners endure.

And worst of all, his political followers are all lamenting about the conditions he is in while remaining hardliners for the rest of the prisoners. You are right that OP should not wish ill on Sarkozy, whose distress is real and painful to see. But OP's frustration is understandable to anyone who cares even a little for the welfare of regular prisoners in France.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-22 10:58:08+00:00
This is actually good news in that Greenland decided that the USA isn't the number #1 option right now. The EU really needs to become a better alternative than the USA, so allowing superrich billionaires to hold the rest of the world hostage (aka Starlink) should be an objective by the EU to put a permanent end to. Outsourcing security onto the USA under Trump also was never going to work - he works for Putin, we all know that.
by Hendrikto | 2025-10-22 10:58:44+00:00
This is a bad analogy. We are talking about building a very simple Docker image.

It is more like you went around your neighborhood and turned peoples lights on in the evening, then stopped.

Sure, it’s a lost convenience, but people can easily choose to just… push the button themselves. Or pay somebody to continue doing it for them. Or get a timer.

It’s really not a big deal, and there are plenty of alternatives.
by nextlevelwizard | 2025-10-22 10:59:07+00:00
Github should have "LLM" as language for repos that self report to be vibe coded or at least this kind of disclosure should be at the top of the readme not after thought.

Also the "If you're Anti-AI please don't use this." is pretty funny :D I guess I must be "Anti-AI" when I think this kind of code is wild to rely on.
by adamcharnock | 2025-10-22 11:01:49+00:00
We [0] use MinIO with for our clients so we've just thrown together a nightly build process. Use/fork as you wish:

https://github.com/golithus/minio-builds

Example use:

docker run -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 ghcr.io/golithus/minio:latest

[0]: https://lithus.eu
by FridgeSeal | 2025-10-22 11:01:53+00:00
I'm convinced it's some kind of SV-induced "culture of hyper-productivity", the only apparent goal is to be _more_ productive. Endlessly. There's no goal, or end-state, or reason, other than to just be productive. Downtime? Wasted productivity time! Hobbies? Wasted time unless you can monetise them! Get an AI to do it, and be _even more_ productive!
by keyle | 2025-10-22 11:02:26+00:00
I go straight to having examples/ with a ton of little test cases, and check the output stdout and stderr to see whether it went pear shaped.

It's an end to end test harness of sorts.

If you care about locking down your AST and IR output, I'd recommend having a printer of sort to stdout and check against that, like a sha-1 or expected output.txt to compare against, see example [1]

[1] https://pastebin.com/ZA6CKwPZ
by sofixa | 2025-10-22 11:03:21+00:00
Watch the video.

Piers Morgan has no integrity and is extremely biased, what is the "even" supposed to mean?

> Elon Musk as always been pro freedom.

Unless it's freedom to criticise him, or freedom to say anything on twitter, or freedom to say his dumb submarine idea is nonsense, or freedom in the form of neutral information with limited bias. Then you're a pedophile or banned :)
by 1dom | 2025-10-22 11:04:04+00:00
> I can't stand the entitlement people (everyone, not one particular person) feel when they are provided things for free.

Does it make you less frustrated to remember that humans are pattern recognition machines and our existence is essentially recognising and adapting to patterns, and so when someone does something repeatedly - regardless of if they're doing it for free - humans will recognise a pattern and adapt to it.

This is an inevitable consequence of coexisting with humans: if someone does something repeatedly, it creates an expectation. This is how learning works. If someone stops doing something, people are going to mention the consequences of their expectation not being met. Framing that as entitlement doesn't seem productive, especially in situations like this where it looks like the change wasn't properly communicated.

I don't think there can be a world where humans are able to learn/adapt/be efficient whilst not having expectations.

I believe there could be a world where people don't get pejoratively labelled as entitled for expressing the inconvenience caused by having functionality removed.
by randunel | 2025-10-22 11:04:18+00:00
I understand the concept of "riparian rights", but I fail to see how gov't entities who issue water licences (or any government service, for that matter) would need to "consider [...] the need to redress the results of past racial and gender discrimination".

I'm trying to apply that logic to any of my gov't services, and it would be outrageous to have any random thing responsible with redressing past racial discrimination, water rights, maternity rights, access to public information, literally any government service. It couldn't possibly be in their purview to take such a thing into consideration.
by animal531 | 2025-10-22 11:07:02+00:00
You're not even close to the facts.

- Googling for water outages gives a lot of results in just the last few days. In the NorthWest for example there are a lot of failing municipalities which are relying on government assistance to just make it month to month. Water trucks are a common occurrence all over. The official numbers on connection to water, electricity etc. are pretty much a joke.

- Loadshedding is indeed no more: Up to about 10-15% of households are now living off-grid, while in the industrial sector I can link you any number of metal processing plants that have closed down, the same for mines, car manufacturing etc. In the last few years our electricity bills have about doubled, rates and taxes aren't far behind either. That's not a win in the least.

- Healthcare: A few of the more well funded public hospitals are ok, but just from Tembisa approximately 2 billion Rands have been siphoned as of recently. Impressive isn't the word to use. Google for images to see the conditions of the hospitals and what the people who go there are experiencing, while on the other hand you can see videos of tenderpreneurs riding their Lamborghini's with police escorts via dirt roads in the outlying areas.

- Violent crime has nothing to do with apartheid (apart from the occasional incitement by political parties etc). We have crime because somewhere between 33-43% of the population is now unemployed, along with having only a barely functional police force. The people stuck on the bottom have no hope of changing their circumstances, which in turn is fueling crime (and violence).

- What makes you think there's less corruption now? The fact that more and more of it is coming to light? As long as the governing party allows it to happen its going to cascade down into all facets of life/business etc. They've begun to realize that they are losing the vote (and with it the power), but we're still a long way off from having any change on the horizon.

- Single anecdotes are pointless, some businesses will naturally grow while other decline, a lot of it is just random luck based on the type, area, time etc. Foreign investment is down something like 29% in just the last two years while we've taken on more than R25 billion in loans just recently.
by mlrtime | 2025-10-22 11:07:36+00:00
"Danish broadcaster DR reported that at least three U.S. citizens linked to the U.S. government were involved in activities that, reportedly, authorities fear could be used covertly to support Trump’s desire to make Greenland part of the United States."

I don't know where to start with this, there is so much space here you could drive a country through it. So citizens (not government officials) "linked", what does that mean? What activities exactly? "Fear could be" again, what does this mean, people are fearful, over what? People are afraid all the time.

Is this it?
by cies | 2025-10-22 11:07:49+00:00
Did you read the comments on Github (linked by the title)?

So many commenters are just plain rude. They got free value for along time. Someone giving the free value decides to allocate their time otherwise. And the long-time receivers of the free value now cannot behave.

And you seem to make excuses for them...

It's just rude to behave like that after having enjoyed gifts for so long. They behave like spoiled children. Nothing to defend IMHO.
by imiric | 2025-10-22 11:08:17+00:00
If you don't trust people, then OSS is not for you.

You can't claim to provide software as a public good, while also gatekeeping it only for specific groups of people. If you want to do that, then choose a restrictive license, with the exact terms of use you're comfortable with, and don't work in the open to begin with. That is a valid strategy if your main priority is getting paid.

My objection is towards people who use OSS licenses, but then take issue when others actually use the freedoms they've granted, and proceed to enshittify the project by removing features, putting them up behind a paywall, and in general being hostile and ignoring the user base they've gained in large part thanks to OSS. This is using OSS as a marketing tactic, which undermines the whole point of open source and the free software movement.
by latexr | 2025-10-22 11:09:55+00:00
> I'd prefer these features were bundled into MacOS.

I’d prefer they wouldn’t.

> It seems obvious to me the company must transform macOS's capabilities here as quality AI assistance is enmeshed in the operating system's UX as a whole.

A hundred thousand times no! Today’s Apple is highly incompetent¹ on the software and UX design fronts. They’re making macOS more broken by the release and you want them to screw it up even more with invasive features that they’ve proven they’re not good at? Might as well switch to <insert OS you don’t like> already.

¹ I believe they could do better if they had more time between releases or smaller scopes. But they don’t do that, so the result is the same.
by fragmede | 2025-10-22 11:10:15+00:00
Does that really impeach his sentiment though? The man's old, been working in tech probably his whole life. I'm guessing he's well off enough, even if he's not independently wealthy. If AI-bubble go pop, he's got enough to retire on. I mean, he could be a con man, and doesn't really believe in what he's saying, and I've been taken in as a rube. If line go up, he's not going to suddenly come into unforeseen riches, and if line go down, well, his social security's still worth something. So it doesn't make sense to me that the fact that, yeah, he's probably got some money riding on this thing going well is going to make him be dishonest with how he sees things going.

And yeah, since it seems to be relevant, I'm also in the AI industry somewhere and my salary comes from line go up, so maybe that makes this comment a paid advertisment somehow, even though I didn't give any specific names.
by daneel_w | 2025-10-22 11:10:17+00:00
Softupdates was never an approach towards journaling. It was removed because it caused more problems than it solved and because its complexity stood in the way of future work to improve FFS2.

AFAIK there's currently no news about plans on getting journaling into FFS2 or bringing one of the other modern file systems onboard. The most "modern" choices you have on OpenBSD is FFS2 and ext3 (supported through OpenBSD's ext2 driver but without journaling).

My own experience with FFS/FFS2 the past 20 or so years is that it's been wholly robust through the relatively few power outages and other incidents I've had. While I wouldn't mind it becoming snappier I do prefer that its fully synchronous. I've never used softupdates.
by criddell | 2025-10-22 11:10:26+00:00
I’m trying this on my iPad.

My first bit of feedback is that the icons in the right column should be higher contrast. For me, they are difficult to see.

Also, I see the icons are eye, mortar board, and ear. What’s the fourth icon?

I’m solidly in the beginner camp (even though I’ve been trying to learn guitar for 35 years now), so maybe this isn’t for me. I’m going to kick the tires this weekend.
by williamai_ | 2025-10-22 11:11:24+00:00
Hi,

Thank you for your feedback. I agree it is possible to generate documentation from Cursor, I've also seen the same feature in Devin and Postman. But, we're generating Documentation for the entire codebase, at scale. Let's say you have a code that's 2 GB large, how would you document that? With Cursor, you would do parts of the code or even a file, but our system inputs and processes the whole project at once.
by dd_xplore | 2025-10-22 11:11:37+00:00
I have also seen this in Androids (I tested this on multiple devices - S23U, OnePlus 6,8) , whenever I completely turned off the swap , the phone after a day or two of heavy usage would sometimes hang! It felt unintuitive since these devices had lot of RAM, and they shouldn't need swap . But turning off swap has always degraded performance for me.