today's leftovers
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install and Secure MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04
In this guide, we'll show you how to install MongoDB on an Ubuntu 24.04 server. You'll be preparing your Ubuntu server, adding the MongoDB repository, installing the MongoDB server, creating an administrator for MongoDB, and then enabling MongoDB authentication. Lastly, you'll learn how to make a user and database in MongoDB using the 'mongosh' shell.
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Robert Haas ☛ Robert Haas: Is pg_dump a Backup Tool?
Recently, I've been hearing a lot of experienced PostgreSQL users reiterate this line: "pg_dump is not a backup tool." In fact, the documentation has recently been updated to avoid saying that it is a backup tool, to widespread relief. Experienced PostgreSQL users and developers have been publicly called out for having the temerity to assert that pg_dump is, in fact, a backup tool. I find this narrative deeply frustrating, for two reasons.
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FSF
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Bryan Lunduke ☛ The Stallman Report - A Hit Piece on the Free Software Founder
An anonymous author. Strong political bias. Dubious motivation. Canceling an old man with cancer because he makes controversial statements.
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Graphics Stack
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Mike Blumenkrantz: Recovery
Struggling
Last week was XDC. I did too much Wayland, and now I’ve been stricken with a plague for my hubris.
I have some updates, but I lack the ability to fully capture the exploits of Mesa’s most sane developer in the ten minutes I’m awake every day. In the meanwhile, let’s take a look another potential example of great hubris.
Hm.
Have you ever made a decision that seemed great at the time but then you realized later it was actually maybe not that great? Like, maybe it was actually really, uh, well, not dumb since nobody reading this blog would do something like that, but not…smart. And everyone else was kinda going along with your decision and trusting that you knew what you were talking about because let’s face it, you’re smart. Everyone knows how smart you are. That’s why they trust you to make these decisions.
Long-time SGC readers know I’m not one to make decisions of any kind, but we all remember that time Abusive Monopolist Microsoft famously introduced Work Graphs to D3D and also (quietly) deprecated ExecuteIndirect. The argument was compelling: why not just move all the work to the GPU?
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