CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 days ago:
I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.
As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.
Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).
The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 days ago:
NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 days ago:
Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 days ago:
That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 days ago:
Can you name a more reliable alternative?
Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 6 days ago:
How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though?
WAAAAAY more than you’re giving credit for
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 month ago:
They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.
No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.
What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”
Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive
They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.
Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.
Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.
Which company seems reliable to you?
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 month ago:
My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 month ago:
Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 month ago:
Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.
AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.
Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.
It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 month ago:
without their explicit consent.
By signing up to this service you agree to allow us to alter or modify your content as we require for efficient operation or to increase content engagement
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 month ago:
They don’t require AI neural networks.
Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.
Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
You’re putting words in my mouth. I was speaking in generalities about physical connections, not specifically about fibre.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Where? In the US? It’s already been paid for multiple times over, through government grants and subsidies.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
It’s still worthwhile.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Fibre deployment is getting cheaper and easier. Both in terms of cost of materials and in the equipment and labour skills.
It’s also much more secure from interference and disruption.
For populated areas, there’s zero justification to rollout wireless over fibre lines. And most major cities already have fibre in most, or many, areas. And the thing with fibre is that the physical lines can be used to deploy faster speeds with upgraded endpoints.
Tech bros would have you think physical connections aren’t a good choice anymore, because laying down fibre isn’t sexy enough for that VC money.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
With cable here I’m “supposed” to get “up to” 1000mbs down but my upload speed is at best 40.
Man, you get 40 up? I’m stuck on 30 up. And the funny thing is that just on the other side of the creek on the other side of my street is where they stopped the fibre rollout.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
somewhere, between you and the server you are connected to, the bandwidth is shared.
But the difference here is that on a fibre connection the shared portion goes over higher speed trunks which gives you most of that 1Gbps bandwidth. A wireless connection has a limited number of slices in the same band that it can share.
It’s the same issue with too many people on a single WiFi connection.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Musk wants control over the entire internet.
This is the number one reason my friend and I refused to even consider StarLink. We don’t live in the US and do not want all our traffic going through there.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Technically, S0aceX should be nationalized by the US based on the volume of money they’ve received in contacts.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
it’s cell internet.
Physical lines first.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 months ago:
Those were tech nerds. “Tech bros” are jabronis who see the tech sector as a way to increase the value of the money their daddies gave them.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Director Talks Challenges Of Shooting Kirk’s First Time In The Big Chair 2 months ago:
about laying the backstory for TOS.
I wouldn’t really look at it like that. There was even a nurse Chapel and doctor M’benga in TOS. This story is about Pike, but we already know what happens to him, just not the exact “why” or “how”.
And obviously when Pike’s accident happens Starfleet wouldn’t just replace the whole crew. So there has to be a sense of continuity from one captain to the next. Technically, we’re still on our 2nd chief engineer and Scotty is just a technician. We haven’t met or even heard of a McKoy, Chekov, or Suli.
This story is about Pike, and all the main crew of the Enterprise when Kirk took command would have known Pike and even worked with him.
I think this show is being done brilliantly and is the first real Trek since Voyager (I haven’t watched lower decks yet, and Picard was very odd feeling).
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 months ago:
I didn’t even catch that the first time. But what should we expect from garbage software?
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 months ago:
Not a fan of Snaps, though.
I’m the same and decided to give Tuxedo Linux a try. So far I really like it.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 months ago:
If you’re a noob, what made you go with Debian in the first place?
I want to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with that, just not the usual path for a new Linux user.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 months ago:
Games were once created by gamers
This is the biggest issue. I tend to focus on Indie games lately. There’s the odd bigger game that I’ll pay for, but they are few and far between.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 months ago:
No, snake oil is extremely bad. It’s a highly exploitative practice that preys on the desperation of sick people.
That’s what “snake oil” refers to. Exploiting someone by playing their emotions.
The placebo effect actually works.
The placebo effect sometimes works. But only in very specific circumstances. A placebo will not cure cancer or heart disease.
It can help with things related to pain, as mental and emotional state can directly affect the severity of pain. And a placebo can sometimes marginally improve symptoms by reducing stress levels. But that’s why placebos are used during drug trials. If a drug produces the same results as a placebo, then it doesn’t work. And that says a lot about what the placebo effect actually is. It’s just a mental state change that gets expressed as reduced physiological stress.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 months ago:
They are clueless, yet they think they know what we need.
AI make money line go up. It’s not clueless, he’s trying to sell a kind of snake oil (ok, not “snake oil”, I don’t think AI is entirely bad).