HackerNews Summary (2023-05-26 08AM)

Source: 2208553 – xfs metadata corruption after upgrade to 6.3.3 kernel

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Source: How the Lemon was Invented

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Lemons are a human invention, cross bred from the bitter orange and citron. They are a versatile citrus fruit with a flavor used in various cuisines, attributed for its high vitamin C content which helps prevent scurvy.

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🍋 Lemons are a human invention that are only a few thousand years old.

🌍 Lemons are a widely cultivated fruit with their origins in East Asia, which eventually spread and were brought to other continents by Christopher Columbus.

🍊 The lemon is a cross breed of several fruits, including the bitter orange and the citron.

💊 Lemons are attributed for their high vitamin C content and were discovered to prevent scurvy in the 18th century by Scottish physician James Lind.

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Source: DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk’s SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on space flight liabilities that could potentially shield Elon Musk, SpaceX and other spaceflight companies from being sued for crew members’ accidents just one day after the Governor announced his presidential candidacy in a glitch-filled Twitter Spaces interview with Musk.

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👨‍🚀 The new law, signed by Gov. DeSantis, exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting from spaceflight activities under certain circumstances” and requires a space flight entity to have a crew sign a specified warning statement.

🚀 The law specifies a “spaceflight entity,” as a “public or private entity holding a United States Federal Aviation Administration launch, reentry, operator, or launch site license for spaceflight activities or which is otherwise authorized by the United States Government to conduct spaceflight activities”

💰 Gov. DeSantis reportedly accepted donations from Disney, totaling $100,000 between 2019 and 2021 and the company was also one of the sponsors of his gubernatorial inauguration earlier this year.

🌍Environmental groups and cultural-heritage nonprofits are suing the Federal Aviation Administration in federal court over a SpaceX explosion last month at its privately owned spaceport in South Texas launched that hurled chunks of concrete and metal thousands of feet away into sensitive habitat, sparking a 3.5-acre fire on state park lands near the launch site.

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Source: Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy

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Deno Deploy now supports Node.js built-in modules, such as http and fs, enabling existing Node.js apps to run on its edge cloud platform.

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🚀 Deno Deploy now supports importing 47 Node.js built-in modules at the edge

📦 This enables running existing Node.js apps without hassle

📈 Deno Deploy scales automatically, from zero to thousands of requests per second

🧰 Full list of supported modules and limitations is listed in the documentation

👥 Deno Deploy is working to bring npm specifiers support natively to enable importing npm modules

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Source: Jails on FreeBSD

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The article explains how to set up Jails on FreeBSD 12 without any helpers. A step by step guide is provided covering everything from creating a directory for each jail, setting up a host-only network, activating IP forwarding and NAT, enabling firewall rules, installing ports, and configuring sendmail.

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⚙️ Jails have been available on FreeBSD since March 2000 and can be set up without helpers.

👨‍💻 The guide covers how to set up each jail with its own directory reflecting its short hostname.

🔒 A host-only network needs to be set up for jails that don’t have their own IP address.

🌐 NAT needs to be implemented for jails to have internet access.

📧 Sendmail can be configured on the host and inside each jail to send emails via the host system.

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