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MySQL 8.4 has now been officially released, and this is a quick review of what is in the release notes. This is momentous as it is designated a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. Various 8.0 releases introduced material changes that impacted speed and stability, causing hair-pulling and swearing among those affected. Please note this is a […]Percona Database Performance Blog
‘Screams Before Silence’
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On October 7, more than 1,200 Israeli citizens were brutally murdered, and 250 were taken hostage. The carnage of the attack was apocalyptic. The videos — many taken by the Hamas terrorists themselves — are horrific and terrible to watch. There were countless rapes. Children were burned alive in ovens. Bodies were mutilated and torn apart.
And yet, fairly quickly, Hamas and an ever-growing radical contingent in the West were quick to change the narrative. Hamas jihadis positioned themselves not only as the victims but as the resistance fighters. What they did on October 7 — an ethnic cleansing — is the real outrage and the actual violation of human rights, not the so-called “war crimes” Israel is ostensibly committing against Gaza.
Sheryl Sandberg, former Facebook COO, has been fighting to bring justice and witness to the suffering and atrocities committed against the Israelis, particularly the mass rape of women. She has created and recently released a documentary called “Screams Before Silence,” in which she interviews victims, witnesses, and released hostages. The documentary includes footage of captured Hamas operatives admitting to their crimes.
In an interview with Fox News, Sandberg got right to the point, saying, “If you believe that October 7 was resistance — and I do not believe that; I don’t believe terror is resistance — but if you believe that, sexual violence doesn’t fit into that narrative because rape is never resistance.”
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It’s also not politically correct to point out that rape is a common weapon used by men against women of that culture. In an interview with Jordan Peterson, Mosab Hassan Yousef, whose father was a Hamas leader, describes his own experiences living in Gaza, where rape is a way to insult your enemies and killing the victim is a way to hide your shame.
Sandberg also declared that this should be a nonpartisan issue. We all should be able to agree that rape is a human rights violation. Sandberg laments what is occurring on college campuses: “University is a time where you go to college. You can talk about any issue, open dialogue. The truth is, the disorder on campus — having places where people don’t feel safe — that doesn’t lend itself to real dialogue about hard issues. That stops the honest conversations we need to have.”
Aside from the fact that colleges enforce diktats against certain types of speech all the time, it’s worth pointing out that a former Facebook COO saying she is a free speech advocate is interesting because of how guilty the social media platform is of censorship and stifling free speech.
What is happening on college campuses is about so much more than misguided college idiots and zealots causing chaos. Many who are instigating these “protests” are bused-in professional activists bought and paid for by interests such as George Soros who benefit from this sort of social turmoil.
By dismissing the rapes and the brutal murders and by flippantly claiming that Gaza’s damages go all the way back to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 trivializes a complex conflict that is far older than that. These atrocities should horrify and sober any sane person. Sandberg is doing her part to wake up the complacent, propagandized West in the hopes of bearing witness to the tragedy and calling attention to the severe blind spot in the discourse regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
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Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released
prisoninmate writes: Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released — powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series, and featuring the GNOME 46 and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environments, reports 9to5Linux: "Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.8 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 40 release ships with the GNOME 46 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition and the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Spin, which defaults to the Wayland session as the X11 session was completely removed." "Fedora Linux 40 also includes some interesting package management changes, such as dropping Delta RPMs and disabling support in the default configuration of DNF / DNF5. It also changes the DNF behavior to no longer download filelists by default. However, this release doesn’t ship with the long-awaited DNF5 package manager. For AMD GPUs, Fedora Linux 40 ships with AMD ROCm 6.0 as the latest release of AMD’s software optimized for AI and HPC workload performance, which enables support for the newest flagship AMD Instinct MI300A and MI300X datacenter GPUs."
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How Mirror Balls Are Made
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We’ve seen how they make disco balls in the last American mirror ball factory; now see how they do it in Japan. Nissho Co., Ltd. makes shiny spheres by bending sheet metal into domes, screwing them together, hand-cutting and gluing hundred of round mirror tiles then filling the gaps with grout. Note that the tiles are different sizes depending on their placement.
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Why MariaDB Is “Better” Than MySQL
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Apples or oranges?Tea or coffee?Books or eBooks?Each of these comparisons has very similar features and serves many of the same purposes, but in the end, they are different choices people make. Do you know what else belongs on this list?MariaDB or MySQL?It’s time we discuss the age-old debate of MariaDB versus MySQL and see if […]Percona Database Performance Blog
How to implement big data for your company
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Big data analytics empowers organizations to get valuable insights from vast and intricate data sets, offering a pathway to improved decision-making, excellent performance, and competitive advantage. As the volume of global data surges, exemplified by the expected 167 exabytes of monthly mobile traffic by 2024, the rise of analytics offers immense potential. In this article… Read More »How to implement big data for your company
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This Is My New Favorite MacBook Accessory and It’s Not Even Close
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The Dockcase Smart USB-C Hub has a premium build, transparent design and a little display showing key info. It’s wonderful.
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I’ll be honest: USB-C hubs aren’t the most exciting gadgets to write about. They do a pretty simple job — add extra ports to your laptop while allowing you to create a desktop-style workstation with external monitors — and not much else. But given how many people work remotely without a traditional desktop setup, a USB-C hub is also pretty vital.
There are a lot of USB-C hubs to choose from in 2024. Most look the same — little black or grey dongles that connect to your laptop via a USB-C cable. That’s the not case with the Dockcase USB-C Smart Hub “Explorer Edition,” my new favorite MacBook accessory. And it’s not even close.
Dockcase Smart USB-C Hub 10-in-1 Explorer Edition
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At face value, the Dockcase USB-C Smart Hub is straightforward enough. It’s a 10-in-1 hub with enough ports to connect most of your peripherals. It supports 100-watts of pass-through power for your laptop. It has microSD and UHS-II SD card slots. And it connect up to two 4K external monitors (at 60fps) or one 8K display (at 30fps) via its HDMI and DisplayPort ports. These are all pretty standard features.
But the thing that truly sets the Dockcase USB-C Smart Hub apart … I mean, just look at it. It has a premium build that’s made mostly of aluminum and glass, and it’s transparent so you can see into it. You can see the motherboard, transistors and other inner workings of the device. It’s cool! Especially for a USB-C hub.
Cooler still, the Smart USB-C Hub has a little one-inch color display that shows you real-time info about power, data transfer, monitor resolution and internet speeds (if you have an hardware ethernet connection). Basically, it does the little things to tell you more your setup and satisfy the inner nerd in you.
When you plug the Smart USB-C Hub, the display lights up and shows you a graphic of the different ports you’re using — if you’re using a port, it’ll light up. If you’re using its 100-watt USB-C PD port to power your laptop, it shows you how much power is being passed-through being consumed by your laptop and the Smart USB-C Hub. And when connected to an external monitor, it’ll show you resolution and frame rate data, too.
The Smart USB-C Hub has a little navigation button that allows you to jump through different displays and see even more detailed information.
There’s room for more nerdery, too. The Smart USB-C Hub has a little navigation button that allows you to jump through different displays and see even more detailed information on port usage and display information. It’s a little tedious, admittedly, as you have to learn a serious of controls — which is mostly a sequence of quick and long-presses — so it’s not exactly intuitive. One neat thing with this button is that you can rotate the orientation of the little 1×1-inch screen; a quick double-tap will rotate so that you can orientate in whatever direction you like.
For me, the Dockside Smart USB-C Hub is a little overkill. I have a few peripherals connected to it — including a small soundbar, an external webcam, an external hard drive and a single monitor that feels inferior given the higher-resolution displays (with high frame rates) that it can support. But it’s so different and fun, and it adds a bit of flair to my home workstation.
And at $130, it’s not actually too far out of the realm of other USB-C hubs with similar capabilities. But in terms of aesthetics and overall cool factor, it’s in a class of its own.
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