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It's somewhat old, but NASA has its SRTM height-map dataset. I wrote a project for reading this in Python many moons ago, in case it is of help to anyone: https://github.com/adamch…

I've been a long-time fan of Mikrotik. I even ran an ISP on it a fair while ago. I have a couple of archived GitHub projects if they are useful to anyone: - Router OS Diff - Can di…

Yeah, fair enough. And yes, adding a Redis cluster is fine, it is just another moving part to manage. But given that the alternative is made out of unobtainium, I guess that is jus…

> One, it would be cool to be able to embed it, similar to sqlite, directly into applications. I've found myself wanting this on several occasions too. I.e. wanting all my rust bac…

> which you can only obtain by having a strong CS base and coding manually for years. I hope this isn’t the case. It is the route I took, but it also doesn’t seem to be a likely ro…

I’m not sure. We’ve always had to pick the level of abstraction we start teaching at. Voltages, transistors, registers, assembly, C, etc. This feels like it could just be a progres…

I've been wondering if there would be a benefit to inverting how we teach subjects now. Previously we would teach from the bottom, and build up. Semi-colon goes here, curly brace g…

I see a lot of conversation here about provider feature parity, but my hope is that sovereignty doesn't have to be strictly about the region or company you choose. For me, the stro…

FWIW - I also really like Wispr Flow, but I moved to running the 'Whisper Large' model locally using Handy ( https://github.com/cjpais/Handy ), which has been essentially as good, …

Honestly, I still had to practically stand on the clutch with mine! I'd teach someone to drive it and say, "now push down on the clutch". They they would heave and struggle, then e…

Yeah, I was introspecting as I wrote that!

I do, but a friend is taking care of the farm now. I moved back to the big city lights (Munich, as fate would have it).

Mine and a pedal and steering column lever, so I guess I got one of the fancy ones!

Up until a year ago I was regularly using a Massy Fergusson 135 [0] (Perkins Diesel version), made sometime in the 1970s. It was wonderful! So amazing to drive and use. Clunky and …

This is something we've[0] done a number of times for customers coming from various cloud providers. In our case we move customers onto a multi-server (sometimes multi-AZ) deployme…

FYI, PR created: https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner/pulls/1382

We have two entities. An EU one and a UK one. I'm based in Munich, servers are in Germany.

Ping me an email, adam@ domain. If you're interested I'll see about getting the PR created sooner rather than later.

We can run a Forgejo instance for you with Firecracker VM runners on bare metal. We can also support it and provide an SLA. We're running it internally and it is very solid. We're …

We've migrated to Forgejo over the last couple of weeks. We position ourselves[0] as an alternative to the big cloud providers, so it seemed very silly that a critical piece of our…

Hello! I think this is a fair question, and improving the communication on the website is something that is steadily climbing up our priority list. We're not really that kind of pr…

This is essentially how it is. Additionally, the reality is that our customers don't often even need to think about using root access, but they have it if they want it. They are pu…

FYI, AWS offers free Egress when leaving them (because they were forced to be EU regulation, but they chose to offer it globally): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transf…

To put it plainly: We deploy a Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner dedicated servers and become your DevOps team (or a part thereof). It works because bare metal is about 10% the cost of…

An interesting question, so time for some 100% speculation. It sounds like they probably have revenue in the €500mm range today. And given that the bare metal cost of AWS-equivalen…