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I'll keep it short but exposure to global news is making me more anxious and angry than ever and I'm finding it harder to escape. I realise this anxiety is irrational given there's nothing I can do about it, but telling…

I need to run a database (preferably Postgres-based, currently using TimescaleDB) to store about 20M rows of price data per day, with the option to discard or offload data after 7d to cold storage. It's just a hobby…

I like to read and watch about engineering and aviation. I'm often left in awe at the level of precision and thought that appears commonplace in these fields. Things aren't left to guesswork, everything is carefully…

Why would I pay a $20 per month subscription for ChatGPT or Claude when I can pay as I go just by plugging an API key into an app? I know I'm very unlikely to rack up $20 worth of tokens so I'll save money. It seems…

A group of people have managed to completely own the Valheim Discord server of over 50k members. They've created a fake new server for Valheim and are linking to a 'brand new video game' download on WeTransfer. Needless…

As most gamers will know, Steam cloud services routinely go down every Tuesday for maintenance, meaning any games that use Steam matchmaking stop working. My question is: why? In this day and age we have ways of…

I'm not talking about something like the Spotify "DJ" that just plays tracks back to back based on your listening history. I mean something that can beatmatch, intelligently layer tracks together and do engaging…

Supposedly there was a chat between Elon Musk, Alex Jones, and Andrew Tate on Twitter Spaces. The only "recording" I can find of this is from a random YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEW2aYQlXo4 It…

Every time you go to Wikipedia there's a huge banner asking for money implying it could shut down at any moment due to lack of funding. In reality, the Wikipedia Foundation is doing just fine. In fact, they make so much…