If your element has an id, you can just reference it from the window scope

This is brittle, as defining a global variable with the same name (or the browser adding a API with the same name) will override it. This functionality was only kept for backwards compatibility with sites designed for Internet Explorer. The spec says to use getElementById instead.

Ohh… I forgot about this. If they’re still doing that then I wouldn’t recommend them.

For less tech-savvy users, I usually recommend some off-the-shelf hardware, so they have multiple people they can go to in case of issues with either the hardware or the standard built-in software (like the manufacturer, or other people that are also familiar with products from that manufacturer).

Synology used to be the best for that, but maybe not any more. A lot of brands have gotten into NAS hardware over the last year or two so I’m not sure what’s the best now!

I’d probably just get a Synology and install Immich on it.

Maybe Canada will get all the affordable cars that the US misses out on. In Australia, there’s some good Chinese EVs from MG and BYD that are around the equivalent of US$20k including taxes.

Linus Torvalds is probably clever enough to create something like that. The Linux kernel sure could take advantage of it.

I know this comment is a bit old, but do you have any recommendations on how to learn about building custom Odoo modules? I’m an experienced developer (with over 20 years experience) but am new to Odoo. I’ve learnt some things by looking at the code for OCA modules (I had to debug an issue with the Plaid bank statement integration) but am interested in any resources you found useful.

Definitely… I use Borgbackup for my backups, which encrypts the backups before sending them to the remote server. Not all use cases can do that though, so sometimes it’s useful to have filesystem-level encryption.

Oops, I didn’t know about the SX line, and didn’t know they had auction servers with large amounts of disk space. Thanks!! I’m not familiar with all of Hetzner’a products.

For pure file storage (ie you’re only using SFTP, Borgbackup, restic, NFS, Samba, etc) I still think the storage boxes are a good deal, as you don’t have to worry about server maintenance (since it’s a shared environment). I’m not sure if supports encryption though, which is probably where a dedicated server would be useful.

One of SQLite’s recommended use cases is as an alternate to proprietary binary formats: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html. Programs often store data in binary files for performance, but you get a lot of the same functionality included with SQLite (fast random access, concurrent usage, atomicity, updates that don’t need to rewrite the whole file, etc) without having to implement a file format yourself.

I’m not sure if this is still the case, but Facebook’a HHVM used to store the compiled bytecode for the whole site in a single SQLite database: https://docs.hhvm.com/docs/hhvm/advanced-usage/repo-authoritative/. Every pageload loaded the bytecode for all required files from the DB.

SQLite is underrated. I’ve used it for high traffic systems with no issues. If your system has a large number of readers and a small number of writers, it performs very well. It’s not as good for high-concurrency write-heavy use cases, but that’s not common (most apps read far more than they write).

My use case was a DB that was created during the build process, then read on every page load.

MariaDB is not always a drop-in replacement. There’s several features that MySQL has that MariaDB doesn’t, especially related to the optimizer (for some types of queries, MySQL will give you a more optimized execution plan compared to MariaDB). It’s also missing some newer data types, like JSON (which indexes the individual fields in JSON objects to make filtering on them more efficient).

MariaDB and MySQL are both fine. Even though MySQL doesn’t receive as much development any more, it doesn’t really need it. It works fine. If you want a better database system, switch to PostgreSQL, not MariaDB.

AWS Glacier would be about $200/mo, PLUS bandwidth transfer charges, which would be something like $500. R2 would be about $750/mo

50TB on a Hetzner storage box would be $116/month, with unlimited traffic. It’d have to be split across three storage boxes though, since 20TB is the max per box. 10TB is $24/month and 20TB is $46/month.

They’re only available in Germany and Finland, but data transfer from elsewhere in the world would still be faster than AWS Glacier.

Another option with Herzner is a dedicated server. Unfortunately the max storage they let you add is 2 x 22TB SATA HDDs, which would only let you store 22TB of stuff (assuming RAID1), for over double the cost of a 20TB storage box.

Do you mean 12600K, or do you really mean 2600K? These days, I wouldn’t use anything older than 9th gen, especially if you plan on doing any video transcoding with Jellyfin (transcoding means converting the video to a different format while streaming, usually to reduce bandwidth usage when watching videos away from home).

See if there’s any e-waste recyclers in your area. A lot of companies are throwing out systems that don’t officially run Windows 11, so you can sometimes find systems with 8th and 9th gen Intel Core processors for very cheap.

Huh, interesting. TIL videos can have non-square pixels.

Both of those documents agree with me? RedHat are just using the terms “client” and “server” to make it easier for people to understand, but they explicitly say that all hosts are “peers”.

Note that all hosts that participate in a WireGuard VPN are peers. This documentation uses the terms client to describe hosts that establish a connection and server to describe the host with the fixed hostname or IP address that the clients connect to and, optionally, route all traffic through this server.

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Everything else is a client of that server because they can’t independently do much else in this configuration.

All you need to do is add an extra peer to the WireGuard config on any one of the “clients”, and it’s no longer just a client, and can connect directly to that peer without using the “server”.

There’s no such thing as a client or server with Wireguard. All systems with Wireguard installed are “nodes”. Wireguard is peer-to-peer, not client-server.

You can configure nftables rules to route through a particular node, but that doesn’t really make it a server. You could configure all nodes to allow routing traffic through them if you wanted to.

If you run Wireguard on every device, you can configure a mesh VPN, where every device can directly reach any other device, without needing to route through an intermediary node. This is essentially what Tailscale does.

Setting up typescript takes an hour or two if you have no clue what you’re doing

Modern versions of Node.js have native TypeScript support. For scripts, you can just write the script then run it. That’s it. No build process needed. A beginner could just rely on type checking in their editor (I think VS Code has the TypeScript tooling installed by default?)

For web apps, just use something like Bun or Deno. Bun gives you practically all the tooling you’d need (JS runtime, TypeScript, package manager, test runner, bundler, and framework for building web apps) out-of-the-box. It doesn’t have a formatter, but you can just use your editor’s formatter.

Energy per distance is a more useful unit than distance per energy though.

You’ll need to use a VPN that supports port forwarding. You could use a cheap VPS instead.

Where I live in California, electricity can be over US$0.60/kWh during peak summer time. Thankfully I have solar panels that offset most of the cost. I’m from Australia which also has high electricity prices.