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- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 8 hours ago:
- Comment on Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't) 1 day ago:
On the contrary, lots of us write our own scripts and software. And when considering how to self host that software, serverless is a perfectly valid choice.
Just because many self hosters are hobbyists who only use things off the shelf doesn’t make self hosting infrastructure outside the scope of… selfhosting lol
- Comment on Beach Day (Black Desert) 1 day ago:
Yeah OP did a great job in composition but that lighting looks like the surface of the moon.
- Comment on Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't) 2 days ago:
Why wouldn’t serverless technologies be relevant to the self hosted community?
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 days ago:
The problem is that the companies that actually produce revenues and profits are also in turn being propped up by AI.
- Comment on Microsoft's role in world’s first AI-driven genocide, in Gaza, exposed 2 days ago:
Brother what are you talking about. The last president of both major political parties were equally complicit.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 days ago:
It was a DNS issue with DynamoDB, the load balancer issue was a knock-on effect after the DNS issue was resolved. But the problem is it was a ~15 hour outage, and a big reason behind that was the fact that the load in that region is massive. Signal could very well have had their infrastructure in more than one availability zone but since the outage affected the entire region they are screwed.
You’re right that this can be mitigated by having infrastructure in multiple regions, but if they don’t, the reason is cost. You can accomplish that same redundancy via Colo DCs for a fraction of the cost.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 4 days ago:
Who seriously believes that?
If an artist consents to the use of their song in a specific way, it’s not a matter of belief at all. It just is tacit approval. So when the government does this without consent, until the moment the artist responds, the implication is that the artist has approved it. Which isn’t as big a deal if a private entity does it, but it’s a much bigger deal when the federal government does it.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 days ago:
It’s plenty reliable. AWS is just somebody else’s datacenter.
Colo is more feasible, but who is going to travel to the various parts of the world to swap drives or whatever?
Most Colo DCs offer ad hoc remote hands, but that’s beside the point. What do you mean here by “Various parts of the world”? In Signal’s case even Amazon didn’t need anyone in “various parts of the world” because the Signal infra was evidently in exactly one part of the world.
If there’s an outage, you’re talking hours to days to get another server up, vs minutes for rented hosting.
You mean like the hours it took for Signal to recover on AWS, meanwhile it would have been minutes if it was their own infrastructure?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 days ago:
Also you know… building your own data centers / collocating. Even with the added man hours required it ends up being far cheaper.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 4 days ago:
The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 5 days ago:
It’s not the responsibility of the cloud providers to democratize the internet, I don’t know why you thought anyone was making that argument.
Cloud providers however are responsible for their negligence given their role in the current internet.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 5 days ago:
Democratizing the internet would mean half the known internet hosting their infrastructure in us-east-2
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 5 days ago:
Isn’t part of their mission that the reputation shouldn’t matter?
Not at all, at least when it comes to their organization and its investments. Their donations to OSS are one thing, but FUTO controls the name and brand of their direct investments like GrayJay and Immich. This makes FUTO a brand and separating a brand from its reputation isn’t something that can be done.
They themselves have put a huge emphasis on their reputation in terms of their OSS donations as well, often at the expense of transparency and the sovereignty of the projects they’re “supporting”, which is actually what the original post we’re commenting on is about. They were caught slipping donations to individual maintainers of projects and not the projects themselves in order to avoid project rules about institutional donors, and then they plastered the name and logo of these projects on their website without permission.
FUTO is an investment company like any other, only with a mission statement of “Don’t worry, we’re one of the good ones, primarily due to INSERT BELIEFS”. Then they act in a way in flagrant contradiction of those beliefs.
Anybody who feels uneasy over this behavior is 100% justified. Anyone’s who’s lived through Apple’s “Monopoly busting underdog” or Google’s “free and open internet for all, don’t be evil” eras doubly so.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 5 days ago:
The problem isn’t that FUTO platforms an out and proud self proclaimed fascist in a vacuum.
The problem is the close association FUTO has with an out and proud self-proclaimed fascist while selling itself with a libertarian mission statement. Fascism and libertarianism are fundamentally incompatible ideologies on the far opposite ends of the spectrum. The idea that this contradiction doesn’t hurt the reputability of the organization is absurd.
If you think I’m worried about the ethical purity of the founders of an investment firm, you are mistaken.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 6 days ago:
Can’t say I’m surprised but it’s such a shame. I’m guessing this ties inter their newly launched timeline feature. Maps was at least up to this point a better alternative to Google Maps.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 1 week ago:
He didn’t say “supporting fascist projects” he said “supporting fascists”
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 1 week ago:
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 1 week ago:
Mini PC. Beelinks with the N100 chip are absolute beasts at doing video encoding at low power.
- Comment on Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency 1 week ago:
I mean also shouldn’t somebody be reviewing these MRs? I’m an infra guy not a programmer but doesn’t it like, not really matter how the code in the MR was made as long as it’s reviewed and validated?
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham 1 week ago:
Hard to tell what the actual value is here since “Online contractors” is a bit vague. AI coding is error prone and pretty limited. It’s basically a requirement to have someone to babysit it and studies done on this exact arrangement have shows that practically speaking far more time is wasted implementing AI in this arrangement than just having people do it.
The customer responses thing is fairly simple but is one of those cases where it works until it doesn’t. Small hallucinations by AI can mean serious liability for companies.
When I say “AI can’t replace anyone’s job” I don’t mean that you physically can’t fire somebody and then turn on an AI, but that it is not and likely won’t ever be a worthwhile replacement. In your case you’ve “replaced people with AI” in the same sense as you can “replace” someone by firing them and not hiring a replacement at all.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
It’s just MITM but with extra steps
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 1 week ago:
UnRAID is very popular in the general self hosting community.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 1 week ago:
You’ve mistakenly conflated the Self Hosted community with the FOSS community. There is a lot of overlap in interests between the two, but the venn diagram of those communities are not at all a circle.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They are inherently a sweat fest by their very nature and they appeal to a crowd that enjoys high risk high reward gameplay. Theres nothing wrong with you for not being into it. Not everybody’s dream job is being a fireman and running into burning buildings before lunch.
But it’s one of those niche genres that scratch an itch that more casual games don’t.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I hear the game is supposed to be fun so I suppose I should give it a shot. But styling they give the characters and weapons, essentially junk weapons and raiders from Fallout wearing whatever goofy scrap they can find puts me so far off. Like not everything has to be perfectly tacticool but like, something closer to the Metro series would be dope
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 weeks ago:
You replied to OP while somehow missing the entire point of what he said lol
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham 2 weeks ago:
We haven’t yet made an AI that can replace anyone’s job, so it might be better to hold off on resigning ourselves to that fate.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
I saw a post saying it’s untrue but their only evidence seemed to be that their Target had not removed anything g last time they checked. Meanwhile I have seen a half dozen posts from employees and customers showing the Xbox stuff being removed.
