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Self hosting a Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB database is often treated like a horror story told around a campfire, a narrative carefully created by big cloud providers over the last decade. But is it actually "terrifying," or just a lost art of Sysadmining? This post talks the reality of self hosting versus managed cloud versions like AWS RDS, cutting through the marketing to look at the actual trade offs for both IT pros and developers.

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Go ahead, self-host Postgres | Pierce Freeman

Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.
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Hey, budds. Just a reminder that it's that time of year when we all try to be just a little happier and leave the negative bullshit behind for a while?

like... I've seen so so much whining just on my home tl the last few days and to be perfectly blunt, some of yall really need a reason to smile.

Please stop fighting each other. please stop being so radically opinionated that you can't have a conversation with any level of nuance. Please just walk away if people aren't serving you anymore. Please stop.

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Kyle Smith

@Bri @MariahL Mine was busted the second I'd asked to be removed from a very toxic conversation and my wish was not respected. That's when I lost all of my cool and became an ass with the whole cookie thing. For the part I played in that, for any anger or whatever I've posted over the last few weeks I'm sorry. Christmas this year holds no weight for me at all and I've found it honestly beyond hard to find any happiness or joy apart from a few good things. This is the second Christmas I am spending physically alone on this college campus and I'm just not taking it well.
@Mariah @Bri🥰

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Kwanzaa Facts

1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday.
2. So is every other holiday.
3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa.
4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert the presence of Black people in US culture.
5. Most Black Americans don't celebrate Kwanzaa.
6. It is not a holiday tied to any particular religion.

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Ich konnte in einem Gespräch mit einer Bekannten gestern mal wieder die Empfehlung für den Schattenspringer von @Fuchskind anbringen. Die Empfehlung wurde mit Freuden aufgenommen und wird vermutlich in dieser Familie zeitnah verbreitet werden. Ich hoffe, ein zurzeit siebenjähriges autistisches Kind wird es mit einigen anderen aus der Familie dadurch in Zukunft leichter haben.
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Tamas G

@TomGrant91 ha. thing is, I actually like BestSpeech somewhat more, maybe not as much as Eloquence but it's up there. This one? No way. It has trash pronouncing on a lot of words. It would require a huge dictionary to fix it up all, so to me it's more of a toy synth than a real one sadly. I guess that does make me a bit less dedicated to it overall.
@Tom Grant the tincel

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Thanks to our contributors, #GNOME is translated in multiple languages which provides access to our users. Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, English(BrE), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (CHN), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian (LAT), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian are over 90% translated.
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Borris

It's definitely been an interesting time here at LGA.
TSA was being extra slow and TSA-ish today. I had a Ubiquiti U6 Mesh access point in my suitcase, which looks suspiciously like an aerosol can, so they had pointed questions about that.

Then, the gate for my flight changed five times. First, it was gate 30, then 31, back to 30, then 18, then 29.

So I'm sitting here at gate 29 hoping for the best.
I should be boarding in a few minutes, so there is still time for a couple more gate changes just for fun.

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Mariah

I was flying out of panama City Beach Florida and didn't have my "real" ID. Instead of doing the usual hey we're going to have to do a swab of your hands, they took the extra step. I didn't even go through the damn metal detector, no no. They did a full pat down which was a bit much for multiple reasons, even my meet and assist said so. Plus I had recently been in the hospital and had dealt with sooooo many people touching me at once I was still a bit edgy when it came to being touched by unknown folks. I already have issues with that anyway, the hospital visit had just made it worse. That TSA experience did not help.

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Adventní countdown dnes doběhl, Stromečkovice jsou za rohem, takže nám nezbývá, než vám popřát pěkné Vánoce, pod jedli hodně investičních paměťových modulů a do nového roku rychlé internetové připojení.
Slibujeme, že i příští rok budeme u nás na OSCLOUD makat na lepším a svobodnějším pracovním i zábavním prostředí na internetu!

@archos @cynik_obecny
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Roll with It Typing, my self-voicing accessible browser-based app with @Marconius , is two days old. Marco has fixed the accuracy of typing stats, added controls for how the practice is spoken, and created a field where you can paste up to 36 lines of your own and type from that. Custom typing practice is new to the accessible typing coach space: you won't get this from any other guide marconius.com/fun/rollWithIt/

Roll with It Typing

A fun accessible typing tutor that you can really commit to.
marconius.com
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We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.

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Thank you all for turning this year into what it has been! :ablobcatsnowjoy:

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China cracked the US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world. Breakthrough could shake-up global tech markets with nations able to run their own grids and break away from US dominance. 🎉

In addition to achieving an average computational efficiency that surpasses leading American solvers by 14 per cent, Tianquan’s computational error is also 23 per cent lower than that of US solvers and the computational stability is 21 per cent superior.

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How China cracked the US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world

Shi Huang (South China Morning Post)
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Trump lifts more sanctions on Putin:

This time companies delivering equipment to Putin’s war machine get taken of the US sanctions list.

You read that right: In the oval office sits a president who wants to help companies delivering equipment to the Russian military.

I truly hope the American people stop the Russian collaborator at the midterm elections in 2026.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19…


US quietly removes sanctions from firms accused of supplying Russia's military - Euromaidan Press

Treasury dropped sanctions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish firms tied to Russian military supplies - without explanation.
Benjamin Murdoch (Euromaidan Press)

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OSCloud je komunitní, open-source a bez reklam.
Běží díky lidem, kteří chtějí svobodné a soukromí respektující služby.

🎄 Vánoce jsou dobrá chvíle zastavit se a podpořit projekty, které dávají smysl.
👉 Pokud vám OSCloud dává smysl, zvažte finanční podporu.
Pomůžete udržet infrastrukturu a rozvoj služeb pro všechny.
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#oscloud #opensource

Co to bude stát – OSCLOUD – opensource komunita sobě

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Amir

Actually no. The latest Windows 11 dev release only provides these two US English HD voices. But this seems to be the beginning, like the previous high-quality voices. Microsoft may well extend this so-called HD upgrade to other voices in the near future. At this time we just have access to these two offline HD voices, and even these haven't been released to the official channel. The rest are not HD though they are high-quality.
@JamminJerry
@JamminJerry
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Timothy Wynn

@BorrisInABox You can open the installer and uncheck "Enable Microsoft Edge online voices" to get rid of the online voices. The Close button applies any settings, so no need to uninstall and reinstall. You should have at least silent spots where NVDA expects Andrew and Ava, even if the voice data was extracted to the wrong location. Is this not the case for you? You can also press Alt+DownArrow to open the list of voices without actually changing them. @FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry @amir
@Andre Louis @JamminJerry @Borris @Amir
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Amir

Well, this can be extended even further if you are into experiments - LOL!
There's a newer, non-official installer of NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter with Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech updated to 1.46.0. Download from Google Drive - link at the end.
Delete old versions of NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter and install the new one. Now Ava and Andrew become more HD-like.
And now you can switch between HD and regular voice versions by editing the EnableHDVoice=yes (EnableHDVoice=no) parameter in the 1033.INI file in the voice folder.
drive.google.com/drive/folders…

AndrewHD and AvaHD – Disk Google

Google Drive
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JamminJerry

you ask, and I shall deliver. this took me several times to record though. one time I didn't have the right button pushed on the mixer. another time I had more than just the NVDA channel in the recording. one time I didn't have any channels selected, so it was just a silent file, but after several attempts, here you go. I personally think there should be a bit more of a pause at the between paragraphs, but that is just me.

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canpoli, ontpoli, complaining lol

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In the first draft of the Black Mirror episode for this scenario, a Waymo exec has a medical crisis and the ambulance can't get there on time because the streets are choked with Waymos.

In the final script, Waymo invites PG&E employees to their blowout holiday party, with free Waymo pickups. Most of the staff is in those Waymos when the power goes out; they're stuck all over the city, unable to solve the problem.

The episode is called "Vendor Lock-In"
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SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?

Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…

#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon


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SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?

Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…

#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon

#AI #sanfrancisco #Doom #waymo #waymogeddon
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