Hi community,

I’m one of the maintainers of Portabase, I shared it here for the first time two weeks ago and I have now some updates!

After an initial request from a community user in mid-January, and a few more along the way, we’ve finally added support for Firebird SQL. It seems to have a solid community behind it even though I hadn’t heard of it before.

Quick recap : Portabase is an open-source platform for database backup and restore.

Repository: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase

So it now we support 8 databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, Valkey and Firebird SQL

What’s new in version 1.10:

• Support for Firebird SQL (obviously)
• Healthchecks for both the database and the agent (with optional notifications)
• End-to-end tests to prevent regressions (coverage is still light, but we’re working on it)

What’s coming next:

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server

If you’re using Firebird SQL (or any other supported database), we’d really appreciate your feedback. Feel free to open issues if you find any bugs.

I'm only 95% sure this is an April Fools joke. I honestly believe he wants to do something like this.

The implications for privacy are staggering, so I figured posting it here would be okay even though I think it's not real.

I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that.

What I’m trying to say is real ID verification on Linux would be awfully hard to implement, and I guarantee you, nobody would put up with it. They’d fork to a version that doesn’t have it immediately as a protest. Right now, we’re considering implementing something akin to the date pickers that were ubiquitous when signing up for internet services in the early 2000s where it’s just an honor system.

Enabling the subtitles helps.

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I watched Blue Moon (2025) last night and frickin loved it! Looking for movies in this style that could be based off a play or made into a play. Some others that I have enjoyed:

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Glenngary Glen Ross

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45039428

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Israeli soldiers like those in this video staff the military courts that have subjected hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to sham trials.

According to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, the conviction rate in these courts is approximately 96% and is based on coerced confessions obtained under torture.

These military courts are now set to apply the Israeli death penalty law, which is directed against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories.

I thought everyone loved ICE

The Swiss government will ​continue to withhold payments to the ‌United States for a Patriot missile system order until Washington provides binding delivery dates, adding that terminating the purchase ​is an option, it said on Wednesday.

Not sure how long it had been there! It had no smell 🤔