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11:25 AM

morning

deostroll

11:43 AM

Morning.

Can we do a user login via a ssl certificate in postgres? The key is to avoid having to have the username/password begin part of the application?

Q: How to use SSL/TLS between server and client with Postgres?

12:29 PM

I don't know much with it comes to security. I'm deploying a virtual machine with my database in a cloud service. I would like to encrypt all the communication between this server and any clients. How can I do that ? More information: I have read a lot of material from postgres documentation [1,...

If that doesn't answer question, ask it on Database Administrators.

1:04 PM

good morning

YET ANOTHER MEETING TODAY OVER THE SAME DAMN THING

mustaccio

I'm sure the outcome will be different though

Like, I'm not sure how more clear I can be at this point?

ypercubeᵀᴹ

1:36 PM

> - How does Cassandra work?
> - It is a global cluster.
> - A bit more detail?
> - It is a global cluster fuck.

1:48 PM

🤣

lol

"It's called Cassandra, because even if it gives you the right answer you won't believe it."

Vérace

2:07 PM

CFDB - anyone?

I don't have room for Postgres on this laptop

2:37 PM

that meeting was absolute crap

"Why not Athena!" "Use Mongo!" "Snowflake!"

I miss the tweet oneboxes

2:54 PM

It's frustrating, because I'm not arguing against moving into the cloud on principle, I'm arguing against moving to cloud technologies that are large steps backwards in terms of functionality - especially WRT to data.

It can be a lot of effort to achieve less than nothing. Naturally, there are plenty of cases where it makes sense to put that effort in.

There's this persistent myth that the limiting factor in data is processing power and not I/O.

Sometimes I think people just want something new and cool to focus on

The old problems are too hard

We'd rather chase shiny things instead of fix the tech debt

Precisely

3:00 PM

so anyhoo going to polish off the old resume and stop working myself up trying to fight stupid people

3:14 PM

I slid the ol' silently looking button on LinkedIn a week or so back. It's been productive. Just need to figure out whether I want to continue working for someone else or try being an independent consultant fulltime

Oh I thought you were already fully independent

Market was getting dicey 2 years ago so I went FT and have been doing stuff on the side for people.

But my independent consulting career thus far is just sub-contracting under others as I'm a shit salesperson

and marketing and back office and pretty much everything that isn't the core work. So maybe the life of a sub is for me

But I like the freedom of having "unlimited" vacation, business deductions, self-direction on what problems I do/don't want to tackle

3:32 PM

yeah

Current gig has been interesting though. We offer insurance in the US and trades in the rest of the world based on weather probabilities. So I got to learn a bunch about geography and gis stuff like projection of a set of lat/long into different mappings spaces.

Home office will "randomly" reach out and say We're thinking about taking a position on the hours of sunlight for a farm in Hawke Bay. The quants then ping us saying "what data do we have/can we get to support this?"

That does sound cool

The dilemma you present is real

3:49 PM

I just need to become independently wealthy without doing anything to justify becoming so.

3 hours later…

6:56 PM

Plenty of examples of that in the world