Howard Chu @ Symas

CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician

Website: https://www.symas.com/lmdb/
Location: Donegal / Los Angeles
GitHub: https://github.com/hyc

Last Notes

2025-07-09 16:05:32 UTC

Investigate #LMDB as HLR storage
https://projects.osmocom.org/issues/3649
This Open Source Mobile Comm project appears to be an open source impl of a 3G network's backend software. But they're not using the standard 3GPP protocols, they're using their own home-grown stuff instead.
Looks like a toy, using SQLite3 as its HLR storage. Real 3G/4G networks use LDAP, lots of OpenLDAP in particular because nothing else scales enough, efficiently enough.

2025-06-07 17:34:05 UTC

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I've been looking into this sort of thing as well. Running wireguard to a small VPS, which gives me ipv6 access and a static ipv4 address. Still cheaper than buying the necessary RAM and disk from a hosting provider.

2025-04-27 03:07:47 UTC

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hmm, that shouldn't work tho. At least in the US, you must demonstrate actual use of the mark in commerce to qualify. It's a *trade* mark. If you're not actively trading with it in their jurisdiction, then registration is denied. The rules for trademarks are pretty much the same in this regard, around the world.

2025-04-25 14:23:54 UTC

Hot take: web browsers shouldn't have any telemetry built in. If you want to know what users think of your UX, let them tell you in your bug tracker.

2025-04-16 18:40:03 UTC

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the stupidity of all this is compounded by the fact that solar power is already so much cheaper than coal. Some of these coal plants will shutdown regardless of drumpf, just because the cost/benefit to keep running them isn't there. https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/15/coal-fired-power-craig-tri-state-xcel-trump-orders/

2025-03-08 16:38:01 UTC

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it's about time more people started examining this and saying it out loud.

2025-02-12 23:47:53 UTC

@npub1326…gzqx
> Plus, the main *sane* alternatives are LMDB or BDB
You're not just preaching to the choir there...

2025-02-02 16:06:08 UTC

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his vote tally was still less than a third of the eligible voters. That's not a mandate.

2024-12-18 20:53:08 UTC

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what brand of home routers *aren't* made in China?

2024-12-18 17:48:40 UTC

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ironic that a US passport was the most useful in the world, but so few Americans ever use one. And then we have the ugly American tourist stereotype, because generally the only Americans who can afford int'l travel have more money than brains.

2024-11-26 09:50:49 UTC

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sure, it'll let any piece of malware run

2024-11-19 18:56:35 UTC

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sure, go ahead, allow data caps. But make advertisers pay users for all of the bandwidth consumed in delivering their ads. If you're gonna turn my network access into a scarce commodity you better pay me every time you use my quota.

2024-08-25 19:32:21 UTC

"We and our 1444 marketing partners respect your privacy..."

2024-07-31 17:50:02 UTC

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Funny that this is "Intel's response" when they spent so many years leading and defining the market.

2024-07-31 03:16:30 UTC

I guess Facebook/Meta is hiring programmers without Unix experience these days.
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10245