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This is paywalled. Without reading the article, I don't think Americans are fighting data centers because of AI. I think they're fighting data centers because many cities have alre…

The AI craze, layoffs, and current job market should be a wake-up call for all of us. Companies HATE how much they pay us and how much leverage we’ve had all these years. I believe…

I've run an Openstack cloud. Local to the host NVME's directly attached to VMs is unbeatable. All clouds offer this. But that storage is ephemeral and it was when I implemented it …

GoPros are IP68 rated without a housing and have removable batteries. This is not an impossible task. Phone makers do not want you to be able to replace batteries easily because it…

Well this kinda screws me over running docker on macos. Not all images I use have an arm version.

Yes it's hypocritical to push customers to pay you more money with best practices for uptime when you yourself don't follow them and your choices to not follow them actually make t…

There's multiple single points of failure for their entire cloud in us-east-1. I think it's hypocritical for them to push customers to double or triple their spend in AWS when they…

Yeah because Amazon engineers are hypocrites. They want you to spend extra money for region failover and multi-az deploys but they don't do it themselves.

While I agree, we saw this play out with Dropbox too.

Google already has the ad network. They already have Gemini. IMO this will end up being OpenAI proving that the revenue model works and then Google will swoop in and take their mar…

PlanetScale created a business and profited off of an open source product called vitess from Google which is why they originally only supported mysql. Would love for them to open s…

Which… while we’re at it. Gaming would be much better if consoles didn’t exist anymore. Games would be more optimized for PC and manufacturers would just be building prebuilt gamin…

The biggest issue I have had with Hetzner was with a dedicated server. I was constantly (3 times or more a week) getting abuse messages about my MAC address not being correct: """"…

You are correct. The Mayor of the city said the data stolen was either encrypted or corrupted and unusable. The mayor also refused to confirm something had taken place for weeks. I…

Different levels of encryption at rest play different roles in your particular scenario. If you use a cloud service and they have an encryption at rest feature that you enable, the…

Then people will use Apple Music which is exactly the leverage Apple has. Apple let Spotify test the market of music streaming. Entered the market at basically the same price. Then…

Been using Joplin as my main note app for over 2 years. IOS, Web Clipper, and Windows clients. Synced to Nextcloud. I do wish there was a webapp for me to see my notes in a browser…

Reddit wants to make money on the backs of their unpaid mods. I really don’t like them, but: Reddit has a ton of infrastructure costs they need to cover due to the centralization o…

But background tasks are a thing. You could add a webhook endpoint to your monolith that writes a background job. Then your background worker (running on the same ec2 because it’s …

https://github.com/netdata/netdata

How far does this go? If you have a riding lawnmower you have to change the oil in that too. Are we forcing people to spend money to haul their mower to a shop to get the oil chang…

I'm losing track on when we should trust cops to ignore or doubt things and when we shouldn't.

Normal car power steering operates with a rubber belt that can break at any time. It's being fixed just like you may have to fix a serpentine belt one day.

I had a terrible experience too. The UI is incredibly slow and personally, I had issues where the "local db" had to be constantly repaired. The tool is just buggy and doesn't work …

Yes sorry TOTP.