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- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Just remember that actual profit isn’t important to investors. They’re only here make money on the growth of the investment.
Goddamn parasites.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
5B run rate explains the wild 183B valuation better. The calculus is usually a solid return after 3 years and double or better by 5, so they’re being on something like a 500B valuation by 2030.
And they very likely won’t be profitable in the real sense even then.
- Comment on The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer 2 weeks ago:
We should all pitch in and send this person some company born out of a cult flatware.
- Comment on Well, shit. 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Ran a config as code migration on prod instead of dev. We introduced new safeguards for running against prod after that. And changed the expectations for primary on call to do dev work with down time. Shifted to improving ops tooling or making pretty charts from all the metrics. Actually ended up reducing toil substantially over the next couple quarters.
10/10 will absolutely still do something dumb again.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I see. That definitely makes 13B way more sane.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Name this minivan 2 weeks ago:
99 Honda Odyssey: Walmart Wasteland edition.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
$500 million in run-rate revenue
Absolutely astounding that they can raise $13B on a sixth round of funding on that.
For the less finance jargon savvy, “run-rate revenue” just means projected annual revenue.
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 3 weeks ago:
I might recommend starting with a project.
Something like getting pi-hole running. This would help you learn some of the networking basics. But I’d recommend reading at least enough to have a conceptual foundation about the things you don’t understand along the way (DNS, DHCP, etc).
You’ll want one of their supported OS choices to keep things simple. That means one of: fedora, debian, ubuntu, or centos. I might steer you away from centos just because its user base is a bit more linux-pro so finding specific help might be more daunting, but I don’t have much experience with it either. Maybe use a “server” variant to keep your system demand to a minimum (boot to terminal only).
- Comment on Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB 3 weeks ago:
Mongo DB popularized the “document DB” model which is just storing JSON in a database and offering a way to interact with it roughly like you would data in a traditional relational DB.
7ish years ago, they got fed up with the major cloud providers offering their free software as a service and changed their license to one that is more restrictive.
Of course this is sort of the inevitable outcome: a cloud provider builds a competing product and then “open sources” it in a way that will allow them to grab mind share and eventually erode the company that dared to demand compensation for a “free” product.
Microsoft added a middle finger by announcing it just before mongo released quarterly financials too.
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 3 weeks ago:
Do you shave with a different kind of gas?!
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the old gas shaver kit my grandpa gave me on my 13th birthday.
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 3 weeks ago:
That’s so much extra wear and tear on the astroturf.
Wild.
- Comment on Inspiring 4 weeks ago:
Sure is!
- Comment on Placebo meme 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Inspiring 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 5 weeks ago:
I like and understand where you’re going, but I can offer some actual experience. I learned my legal first name at 8.
It didn’t go down well (I cried because the teacher didn’t call my name and sent me to the school office to get it sorted) and I had a weird complex about the real name into high school. There’s no rhyme or reason to the two names, so it is actually sort of surprising to pair the two. To this day I still go by the nickname I thought was my real name. My nieces and nephews still enjoy discovering my real name and calling me by it thinking it’s a big secret they’ve discovered. I still have to explain it a hundred times a year to new coworkers and acquaintances.
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 month ago:
As always, we catalog the creativity at !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de.
- Comment on Help making a table more movable 1 month ago:
Something like this could do it on a more temporary basis: vevor.com/…/vevor-furniture-dolly-heavy-duty-furn…
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 month ago:
Beard beer! Yeah, rogue was definitely playing with things at the time (remember voodoo donut?). Gotta keep in mind this brewer had been brewing in a yeast laden environment for many years.
I feel like I remember reading white labs sampled it and found it was a combo of several of their strains.
- Comment on Help making a table more movable 1 month ago:
Something like the rockler removable casters might be an option if you’re moving it with some frequency. Definitely depends on your aesthetics though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Totally.
Port knocking is one of those “of course someone did that” things to me too. A replay attack is enough to make it security theater.
An IP allowlist is a more useful addon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We can go harder: port knock to open the port to a cert-only VPN:
- Comment on South Dakota election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants: Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet 1 month ago:
So, less than the Bronx (1.4M), but more than Staten Island (450k).
About the same as Indianapolis, IN, USA or Donetsk, Ukraine.
So, 1 medium city’s worth.
- Comment on Defective, do not use 1 month ago:
- Comment on wheel mugs 1 month ago:
Motorsports use colors for easy identification of different types of tires.
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 1 month ago:
- Military-industrial complex
- War machine
- Merchants of death
There are many names.
- Comment on Podman Quadlets are so cool 1 month ago:
Agreed! That would be a huge QoL improvement (and work just like the podman command does). Now I’m thinking about other commands that force this silliness, like
pip. - Comment on Podman Quadlets are so cool 1 month ago:
The spec for quadlets has a few dedicated homes for the .pod, .container, etc. files. You can absolutely mount directories or files wherever (
%his$HOMEfor systemd unit files). See the Volume description for Container unit files: docs.podman.io/en/…/podman-systemd.unit.5.html#vo…
