Howard Chu @ Symas

CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician

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2026-08-29 23:43:28

I first wrote sl_malloc.c in April 2003. https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/blob/master/servers/slapd/sl_malloc.c?ref_type=heads
The intention was to grab a slab of memory on every incoming operation, allocate from it as needed like a stack to process the request and generate the response, never do frees, and just reset the slab when the processing completed.
It was complicated by the fact that a Search request usually yields multiple response messages.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/181/446/403/441/824/original/bc8470f12307ce5a.jpg

2026-08-25 21:38:04

Your Executable is an SQLite Database
https://www.reddit.com/r/sqlite/comments/1vwsyja/your_executable_is_a_sqlite_database/
Defines an SQL schema for mapping an ELF file to a database and provides a binfmt_misc loader for running an executable SQLite file.
Reminds me of my scheme to store executable slapd modules as #LMDB records. His approach would be more efficient using LMDB instead of SQLite's B+tree code.

2026-08-23 18:45:40

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@nprofile…ynd9 I moved from Los Angeles to rural west Donegal. But since I play trad fiddle and had visited here for years, I already had a social network in the area.
If you don't already have group-oriented hobbies like choirs or similar, you should adopt some.

2026-08-22 22:14:31

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@nprofile…kkfs is it just for quietly reading to yourself, or could you read aloud to others? Aloud allowed?

2026-08-21 19:09:35

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@nprofile…2esm the two facts may be related, the earlier battle may have worn out resistance to the latter

2026-08-20 07:36:45

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@nprofile…3n63 @nprofile…2vzh well, we already know you guys don't do Windows so it's probably not VS Code, at least.

2026-08-20 06:44:18

The C Programming Language has only 32 keywords. C programmers don't need syntax highlighters.

2026-08-11 21:33:45

Fwiw my degree was in Computer Engineering. If I ever needed to I could take the Professional Engineer exam. I've never needed to so far.
I worked for NASA, at JPL writing software for the Space Shuttle. So yeah, I'm an actual software engineer. When the need arises I do hardware too.
#nevent1q…dkcr

2026-08-11 16:13:42

Soliciting feedback on a formal security policy for #OpenLDAP development
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/thread/T5IP4DHRT6MMUMMPKWLM7NUJ56NKQMXI/

2026-08-09 18:36:17

Decades of "I heard you can make a lot of money in programming"
#nevent1q…me2g

2026-08-09 13:36:03

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@nprofile…xkhf why would it produce anything besides steam?

2026-08-07 07:49:02

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@nprofile…3n63 not strncasecmp?

2026-08-02 20:59:21

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@nprofile…va7h I've never understood how they survived this long. Why would anyone stop to gamble in Primm, when they all want the Las Vegas experience?

2026-08-02 16:33:04

The #Monero Project uses Pieter Hintjens' Collective Code Construction Contract https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/22/ as the basis of its project/contribution rules. With all respect to my friend Pieter who is sorely missed, I think this C4 contract was written for a different era, and is problematic today.
This clause in particular: "Everyone, without distinction or discrimination, SHALL have an equal right to become a Contributor under the terms of this contract." is harmful, IMO.

2026-08-02 04:46:30

I briefly gave some thought to eating healthy today, then promptly devoured three 130g bags of salt & vinegar flavored potato chips.
There's always tomorrow I guess.

2026-07-29 01:47:13

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@nprofile…0hde I realized this a few minutes into my first session with chatGPT. Never touched it again.

2026-07-28 19:49:33

#OpenLDAP 2.6.14 call for testing...
Includes #LMDB 0.9.36 release candidate
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/thread/4RKZCKXCG3UQKMRXAKX6CJYZYF2NYLDV/

2026-07-28 19:47:33

#OpenLDAP 2.7.0alpha call for testing...
Includes #LMDB 1.0.1 release candidate
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/message/AGFBPSFVBY7ANRB5OYFDS36W6J6G5Y2D/

2026-07-28 18:31:01

Getting ready to release #LMDB 1.0.1, a quick patch update for LMDB 1.0. Testing welcome. https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/blob/mdb.RE/1.0/libraries/liblmdb/CHANGES?ref_type=heads

2026-07-26 14:22:46

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@nprofile…hqk5 @nprofile…rm92 with 24bit color, 3 bytes per pixel, 7680 x 2160 x 3 = 49,766,400 almost 50MB.
Could run the entire defrag in a fraction of the frame buffer...

2026-07-26 13:59:54

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@nprofile…hqk5 @nprofile…rm92 the frame buffer for that display is several times larger than 10MB

2026-07-21 17:26:00

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@nprofile…prl4 you're a black cat!

2026-07-21 15:29:32

random thought: thermoelectric generators are fairly inefficient, requiring a very large temperature delta to produce any power. Heat pumps are very efficient, using a relatively small power input to generate a large temperature delta. If you combined the two, could the combination generate more power than the TEG on its own?

2026-07-21 01:13:36

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@nprofile…npc0 did they just decide to issue CVEs for every single patch today? How is a spurious warning a vulnerability?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/955/305/902/440/979/original/66ee8905db46d46a.jpg

2026-07-18 18:11:29

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@nprofile…0hde why not an actual phone? Just run it in airplane mode and stay offline. My Huawei P60 still has a memory card slot (unfortunately it's Huawei nanomemory, not microSD). AMOLED display is backlit, can run a variety of reader apps. Also my Sony Xperia V, still has microSD slot.

2026-07-12 17:03:15

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@nprofile…uj37 I've never read that about BYD anywhere else. They simply design their cells to not flame out, even when punctured.
Ejecting doesn't make much sense, where can the battery go? Just a few inches from the car frame to the ground? If anything actually was on fire what difference would a few inches make?
https://carnewschina.com/2024/04/08/byds-2nd-generation-blade-battery-to-launch-this-year/

2026-07-11 16:04:38

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@nprofile…tkx6 C programs I wrote 30-40 years ago still compile and run today. C code I wrote 15 years ago is still in worldwide use today. Hell with everything else, that's all just useless noise.

2026-07-01 18:59:51

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@nprofile…nhxp distros will probably need to ship both 0.9 and 1.0 for a while, to allow migrating DBs between versions.

2026-06-30 18:55:59

#LMDB 1.0.0 released
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-announce@openldap.org/thread/P347LVJF4UAA3XL7D7ITJGJI54UAARXC/

2026-06-12 20:12:30

Red Hat pushing to poison GNU code with Anthropic AI
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2026-June/052208.html
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2026-06-12 09:54:31

We didn't call it "Ztrash" for nothing.
#nevent1q…cl3m

2026-06-11 19:23:00

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@nprofile…prl4 even the fluffiest kittens still have razor sharp claws

2026-06-08 17:27:25

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@nprofile…ds0l bookmarking this post for 2028?

2026-06-08 15:03:20

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@nprofile…jwnl Elon should be required to pay for all damages from DOGE's actions, on top of restoring all the destroyed programs.

2026-05-31 11:05:48

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@nprofile…4rtj mdb_txn_flags is there http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/group__mdb.html#gab2d4d4c607292f982e7c8b5bc9499ab4

2026-05-23 20:12:15

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@nprofile…nhxp you're probably being caught up in our anti-spam trap, we had to get pretty draconian after being swamped last month. You can still use the mirror on github.com/LMDB/lmdb.

2026-05-22 04:32:29

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The #OpenLDAP 2.7 release branch is now available for testing. It now uses #LMDB 1.0. Both of these are still just release candidates, and not tagged as official release versions yet.
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/thread/GIW5ZD5WJHYJF6FAS623EPQMWZUTQK6A/

2026-05-19 06:42:18

I wouldn't trust this book "Machine Learning Systems at Scale" https://mlsysbook.ai/vol2/assets/downloads/Machine-Learning-Systems-Vol2.pdf
They make the ludicrous claim that storing thousands of images in a single #LMDB file has the downside that modifying a single sample requires rewriting the entire file. Which is pure nonsense. When they get such basic facts about data storage utterly wrong, can't imagine what other BS they've written.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/599/865/426/970/095/original/22c6924d602a91b3.jpg

2026-05-14 14:18:00

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The most notable new features in 1.0:
- support for incremental backup
- support for page-level checksums and encryption
- support for DB on raw block devices
- support for 2-phase commit
- support for page sizes up to 64KB
plus a variety of other additions to the API

2026-05-14 14:14:19

The #LMDB 1.0 release branch has been created and is currently the release candidate. Testing welcome. https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/tree/mdb.RE/1.0?ref_type=heads
LMDB 0.9.36 will probably be the last 0.9 release. That release candidate is also available for testing https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/tree/mdb.RE/0.9?ref_type=heads
Note that the LMDB 1.0 file format differs from 0.9 and the two are mutually incompatible. You'll have to use mdb_dump/mdb_load to migrate existing DBs between versions.

2026-05-08 10:33:39

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@nprofile…t527 @nprofile…yp26
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/538/501/744/203/465/original/55983e5ecbe596f4.jpg

2026-05-04 16:55:02

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@nprofile…e5jr See this all the time - people storm in trying to change things before trying to understand how the current things work. People who don't learn from what's been done before. Society doesn't progress from efforts like theirs. You only make progress by learning from and building on top of what came before.

2026-04-20 17:13:37

ReDB, an embedded DB written in rust, inspired by #LMDB, is now written using AI. Good luck to them... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redb-4.1-Released

2026-04-07 04:36:19

I find it weird how people only trust projects with lots of commit activity and merge requests. In mature projects a high commit activity would be embarrassing to me, because it shows that a lot of mistakes were still being made. Eventually a project should be "done". And stay done.

2026-03-30 13:18:50

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@nprofile…2d25 bonus points - have each student randomly swap their code with another student. Nobody gets to run their own, everyone must debug someone else's.

2026-03-28 11:21:22

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@nprofile…0hde @nprofile…aj8w @nprofile…2r9r how do you expect to accept credit cards *and* preserve privacy?

2026-03-27 05:40:00

Wow, could run a sizeable OpenLDAP instance entirely in on-chip cache
#nevent1q…wgg9

2026-03-24 05:35:19

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@nprofile…prl4 purple tongue

2026-03-22 09:36:44

"lmdb/lmdb-win32-arm64
6 days ago — Platform specific binary for lmdb on win32 OS with arm64 architecture. Latest version: 3.5.2, last published: 4 days ago."
Yeah, no. #LMDB is an embedded DB library, intentionally kept under 64KB, so that it can be built statically and *embedded* into each app that uses it. It makes a difference whether you build it for 32bit or 64bit apps, and 32bit or 64bit DBs. You can't just build it once and call it "the platform/system LMDB". Stop doing this.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/272/130/212/479/146/original/4d33ae585eed3d3f.jpg

2026-03-22 02:41:48

This is why we don't have nice things. People all across the internet ask for help and take and take without even a single thought of giving back.
When you post a question online, always post the actual answer too if you find it.
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2026-03-04 17:27:55

Hey interwebz, anyone know what kind of bug this is? It's the spec above the CR2032 battery package (shown for scale). It was crawling across my table before I smushed it.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/172/061/376/553/819/original/191e8db717a574fd.jpg
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2026-03-03 03:16:17

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@nprofile…u76z the FTL / flash translation layer that takes care of logical to physical address mapping and wear leveling can be complicated. That's part of the magic in the controller chip. But no, the flash chips are pretty straightforward.
And yes, I've been working with flash devices at the chip level since ~1998, I know how this goes.

2026-03-02 23:18:13

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@nprofile…2wsh @nprofile…hh4j he probably doesn't dictate exact methods but I'm sure he encouraged US actions which would trigger counterattacks that would leave the US weakened

2026-03-02 21:04:01

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@nprofile…hh4j russia planned all of this

2026-03-02 19:52:25

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@nprofile…u76z there's not much mystery there. Most flash chips have 8bit data ports and 512byte sectors, most SSDs gang them up in parallel 8 chips wide for 64bit transfer width and 4Kbyte blocks. Everything else follows from that.

2026-02-26 05:43:28

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@nprofile…a6hr execution will never be free. Even if the data centers are powered by 100% renewable electricity, the freshwater needed to cool them is still a limited (and dwindling) resource. That will always have a nonzero cost.

2026-02-19 16:33:03

#LMDB is used to build LLMs. LLMs will never be used to build LMDB.

2026-02-11 15:07:33

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@nprofile…4ru4 @nprofile…2vzh The LLM submissions are rolling in to the #OpenLDAP bug tracker...
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/052/619/924/475/179/original/aedb319ce1f8e1d7.png

2026-02-07 19:08:34

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@nprofile…p7re @nprofile…ugpy yes and no. Adobe's proprietary RTMP streaming protocol also includes commands for pause/rewind/seek so you can skip around in a stream, much like controlling a VCR. It also controls its transmit rate to match the bitrate of the media. (So even if you have a very fast connection, you receive the data of e.g. a 2 hour video in ~2 hours.)
But "streaming services" that just use HTTP - yeah, they're exactly that, a download without a Save option.

2026-02-07 08:26:46

Apparently Pinterest fired two engineers for using ldapsearch https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/pinterest-ceo-puts-staffers-on-blast-who-created-tool-to-track-layoffs.html
"Pinterest fired the engineers after they posted instructions showing how to prompt the company’s staff directory to show who was laid off, the employees said. The employees said Pinterest’s claim that the engineers created custom software was inaccurate, and said the directory tool is accessible to anyone in the company." #LDAP

2026-02-03 13:52:01

#LMDB backed content-addressed blob storage for hashtree
https://lib.rs/crates/hashtree-lmdb
Even more interesting because it apparently works with hashtree-fuse, allowing a content-addressed storage system to be mounted as a filesystem.

2026-02-01 07:23:52

Uh huh. I've never had any children. What would be a fun response?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/994/173/651/184/374/original/040323e0a160aeb4.jpg

2026-01-29 07:51:30

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It's crazy how much performance people are blithely leaving behind. Computers are supposed to be *fast*. Billions of times faster than humans. Why should I *ever* be sitting around waiting for a screen update, or a response to a button click, or any other interaction? We're being served crap by the software industry and most of y'all are just swallowing it.
Not for me, tyvm.

2026-01-29 07:47:18

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Back in college with my Atari ST, I sometimes envied the PC world with its plethora of apps. Delving deeper into Free Software ameliorated some of that; it's why I became a gcc & binutils maintainer, so I could build other people's code and run it on my ST. For proprietary stuff I wrote my own 8086 to 68000 binary translator, turning MS-DOS apps into GEMDOS apps. At no point along the way did I ever settle for the sluggish performance of an interpreter or emulator.

2026-01-29 07:42:22

It's strange how we've gone from a world of native apps for a select few platforms, excluding all others, to a world of web apps that supposedly run on everything (as long as they have a supported browser). Going from the choice of native performance or not available, to sluggish performance everywhere - except oh yes, there's only a select few platforms supported by the necessary browser.
I don't think it was a good trade.

2026-01-28 12:53:48

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@nprofile…vf35 @nprofile…366x @nprofile…9e2h @nprofile…u76z it doesn't count if you just give away 1kg of swag every time

2026-01-27 13:56:06

Haven't looked too far into this, but if your email server also requires an SQL server (like MariaDB or whatever) I'm pretty sure You're Doing It Wrong. I've been an SMTP postmaster since 1986. Still running my own domain continuously since 1996. Wrote my own blacklist/greylist milters for sendmail & postfix. Have never needed SQL in there anywhere.

2026-01-27 10:18:23

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@nprofile…kjcu cargo cult...
I just use su. Or sometimes `sudo bash`.

2026-01-27 09:28:23

Linux running inside a PDF (when opened inside a Chromium-based browser).
https://linux.doompdf.dev/
Built on top of Fabrice Bellard's TinyEMU RISC-V emulator, translated from C to javascript by Emscripten.
Because of course, when Adobe turned PostScript into PDF they intentionally removed the programmable flexibility from it, so google put it back, using javascript.

2026-01-26 16:04:01

Dear bug hunters / fuzz testers: a one-shot command line tool is not a service. As such, feeding an invalid input to such a tool does not trigger a "denial of service". It simply causes a program to exit, that was already going to exit anyway. Categorizing such error-triggered exits as DoS is incorrect and any bug reports you submit to the #OpenLDAP Project categorized as such will be immediately closed as Invalid.
Stop wasting our time, thanks.

2026-01-23 21:08:09

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@nprofile…lanw what did you get? I'm thinking of finding something to replace my Lichee Pi 4a, that implements RVV1.0 instead of the RVV0.7 this thing has.

2026-01-03 21:55:52

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@nprofile…re2d don't forget the profit motive... the reason RedHat Directory Server exists is because we wouldn't sell OpenLDAP to them, so they bought Netscape instead, and advertise it as the only enterprise grade LDAP software, even though their code was so decrepit they finally had to adopt OpenLDAP's networking and database libraries.
Our project *is* better. But we refused to be owned by them.

2025-12-28 02:12:50

Nah, just kidding.

2025-12-26 17:07:31

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@nprofile…aax0 the actual bug report was made public a week ago. https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-115508
The bug was reported a week before that. So is this really a 0day?

2025-12-25 01:40:33

Sometimes it's embarrassing to see the kind of inane things people build on top of #LMDB https://xcancel.com/NathanAMeeks/status/2001643709025460531
But it's just a tool, it's neutral. Good or evil comes from who is using it...

2025-12-13 19:25:17

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@nprofile…cjx4 most sans-serif fonts are even worse for confusion of 1, l, and I though.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/713/894/333/185/113/original/f56982382ff3a8b2.jpg

2025-12-09 05:56:37

From trees to graphs: speeding up vector search 10x with Hannoy - on #LMDB
https://blog.kerollmops.com/from-trees-to-graphs-speeding-up-vector-search-10x-with-hannoy

2025-12-08 16:14:18

This was a trivial enhancement that should have been committed a while ago: adding support for 2-phase commit to #LMDB https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/merge_requests/811
It's another feature that BerkeleyDB has had for a long time, used to implement distributed transactions. Of course BerkeleyDB has full blown distributed access support, and its own Tuxedo-compatible distributed transaction manager. LMDB remains single-node only; the calling app will have to deal with actual distributed processing.

2025-12-06 15:43:42

Got a set of stainless steel chopsticks from AliExpress. They're great, nothing sticks to them, just a quick rinse and they're clean.
"But wait" you say, "nothing sticks to them? Doesn't that make them harder to use?"
Well actually, they have textured tips, so they're not too slippery.
But... yeah, as soon as they're coated with gravy or any liquids, all bets are off.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/673/377/481/598/115/original/16f248c90e23a41d.jpg
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2025-12-04 02:48:07

VarveDB
A high-performance, embedded, append-only event store for #Rust.
VarveDB provides a persistent, ACID-compliant event log optimized for high-throughput event sourcing. It leverages #LMDB for reliable storage and rkyv for zero-copy deserialization, ensuring minimal overhead.
https://lib.rs/crates/varvedb

2025-11-30 08:51:47

Hm, this comment from 88 days ago is showing in my google alert as 2 days old. Google is srsly messed up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101592
But as to the question: #LMDB doesn't store counts of child nodes in each parent page. Doing so would certainly allow for setting a cursor directly to an Nth record, and redhat even submitted a ticket requesting this feature but it didn't seem important enough at the time, and seemed like too much storage cost for a rarely used function.

2025-11-30 07:46:25

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@nprofile…lane yeah, I think it's been at least 20 years now since I had to deal with it, porting OpenSSL, Cyrus SASL, and OpenLDAP to z/OS.

2025-11-29 20:13:20

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@nprofile…5lrj might go out with a bang! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion

2025-11-29 19:59:52

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@nprofile…lane not only... ASCII mode also meant ASCII/EBCDIC conversion when ftp'ing with mainframes.
- speaking as someone who implemented ftp on mainframes at UMich ~40 years ago ...

2025-11-28 05:36:43

Unity Game Engine adopts #LMDB https://digitalproduction.com/2025/11/26/unitys-2026-roadmap-coreclr-verified-packages-fewer-surprises/
(Actually just the editor?)
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2025-11-24 20:57:20

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@nprofile…5lrj slowly, that's the way. No reason to rush there

2025-11-23 19:41:06

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@nprofile…jljv of course the Supreme Ct did that. Scum....

2025-11-21 20:24:34

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@nprofile…m29f I use K-9 https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
But I mostly use mutt on my linode via Connectbot. I only forward things to my phone if I need to view an image.

2025-11-20 09:03:16

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@nprofile…2pyj I've always been disgusted with the proliferation of docker and containerization. Just insane.
At this point, application vendors should be shipping monolithic apps with statically linked libraries. No need for any further isolation from system dependencies.

2025-11-18 12:56:36

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Funny, nothing like this ever happened before Cloudflare switched from #LMDB to #RocksDB. Just sayin...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configuration-distribution-at-internet-scale/
https://www.archynewsy.com/cloudflare-quicksilver-multi-level-caching-billions-of-requests/
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2025-11-16 16:02:29

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@nprofile…jljv @nprofile…08py @nprofile…mf73 was pretty amazed to see there've been 300k child marriages in the US since 2000. 21st century America, nuts. https://www.threads.com/@qasimrashid/post/DRDBUZAkr4V

2025-11-16 15:57:32

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@nprofile…5j4d @nprofile…jljv if they voted him in, then it's their responsibility to help get rid of him.

2025-11-14 06:21:20

#DiskANN and #HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs) appear to be trending again. First popped onto my radar 2 years ago, using #LMDB. https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23DiskANN&cursor=DAADDAABCgABGnlm6BXbcfcKAAIY9_luAhchywAIAAIAAAACCAADAAAAAAgABAAAAAAKAAUbmx1GGMAnEAoABhubHUYYv9jwAAA
A lot of the more recent noise seems to be on M$ infrastructure. For those with more money than brains...
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2025-11-13 20:31:55

Bought yesterday. Ate last cookie today. <burp>
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2025-11-12 19:42:53

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@nprofile…vgqe California still doesn't let me vote in primaries. No party affiliation for years...

2025-11-06 02:34:48

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@nprofile…jljv sounds like dehydration

2025-11-01 19:49:21

Symas contributes to development of @nprofile…dg3c . I personally don't endorse Signal; their idiotic MobileCoin venture made it clear their priority is profit, not user safety.
You actually *can* get secure private messaging without relying on centralized metadata storage or AWS.
https://fosstodon.org/@cwtch/115464360100095502

2025-10-27 19:27:26

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@nprofile…f3zv @nprofile…hcpk @nprofile…0ux3 Am I the only one tripping over the cognitive dissonance of voice & video support in a private messenger? E.g. a key feature of OTR is Deniability, something that goes out the window when you slap your voice or face onto a conversation. https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

2025-10-27 19:21:49

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@nprofile…z64c @nprofile…f3zv they have a centralized worldview because that's what they know. Multicast is really exactly what you need for group comms but all they use are virtual circuits, just like a telco.

2025-10-23 19:53:22

Looks like you can earn far more from using #LMDB than I ever got for writing it...
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