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How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
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Re: How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a time when a person could walk through a few department stores every week (or even every day) just to take note of some prices along the way, and ultimately tabulate them to try to identify and snatch up the best deal once it happens. And if everyone did this, it'd be a real problem. The stores would be clogged up by geeks writing notes in little books with Parker Jotters and just basically wasting space a…
> There was a time when a person could walk through a few department stores every week (or even every day) just to take note of some prices along the way, and ultimately tabulate them to try to identify and snatch up the best deal once it happens. This is how it started! I noticed certain things during my weekly shop that I did a double-take on and thought "wasn't that $cheaper last week!?". Took me ~ 45 min to figur…
That's awesome!
Please accept all possible encouragement. This is exactly the kind of personal project that a world wide web of network-connected computers is supposed to enable.
(I have no idea how it is that so many of us here have come to lose the plot.)
Re: How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you ask them for an RSS feed? Lots of people are pretty reasonable for such requests if you write a nice email.
> Did you ask them for an RSS feed? Lots of people are pretty reasonable for such requests if you write a nice email. Yep! They're busy people or just don't feel the need to do anything beyond hit the "publish" button on their CMS and call it good and that's fine / why I have a robot to make an RSS for me :).
Too bad, lots of CMSs have that built-in, probably a checkbox away.
Re: How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
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I can't use soundcloud because I am on FreeBSD. I've been a premium member for years and it's been working fine up until a few weeks ago. Mobile App works, Windows Works. Changing user-agent doesn't work neither. When I try to load a track I get an CF XHR 403. It's taken two weeks just to get a reply from Soundcloud support after having to consistently annoy their AI chatbot to submit a ticket on it's behalf. If anyo…
Agriculture looks more and more appealing.
It's not. Fertile land is as valuable as ever and all bought up. Every season you are at the mercy of weather, new government regulations and subsidy rules, corporate overlords with repairs of your agricultural machinery and in the end price of your produce being dictated by same speculative market assholes ruining everything. It sucks, software people have it easy in comparison.
Re: How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
#245How many tabs do you use per server?
Really depends on the server specs. Tab amount relies entirely in memory & CPU availability, not in the infra that runs behind the scenes But yeah, in one server we can fit hundreds of browsers, or even thousands if we use bigger servers. And each one of them with dozens of tabs, no issue
Something doesn't add up between the pricing and the core pinning for me (or maybe I misunderstood):
Say you're using a m8i.large (2 vCPUs, $0.043/hr on spot pricing). Is the article saying you dedicate a whole physical core to one browser or am I totally misunderstanding here? If so, are you taking a loss on every browser hour?
Re: How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
why are you making the internet worse for everyone with this "stealth" initiative? you are effectively lying to website operators.
I get why it can look like we're “lying” to website operators, that’s a fair concern. But stealth, as we see it, isn’t about deception for abuse. It’s about making automated access behave closer to how real users interact with the web, in an ecosystem where most anti-bot systems default to blocking everything that isn’t explicitly whitelisted. Right now, the model is broken. Unless you have a direct partnership, you'…
> So the question isn’t “bots vs no bots” - it’s what kinds of automated access should exist, and under what norms.
I think it's pretty simple: if a website clearly isn't welcoming automated access, like when they set up UA filters and such, it should not be automatically. Stealth browsers that bypasses those filters are abusing the site.
Re: How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unbelievable how somebody could defend scalping. There is no ethical or moral value in that practice outside of "I can earn money with that".
I'm not defending the overall arrangement, simply pointing out that the blame is misplaced. If you want to sell below market value in a capitalist system then you must take appropriate measures to prevent a market from forming. More or less by design if one can form then it will. Similarly I do not attempt to blame the rank and file employees of the ad tech industry for the actions of their employers, nor of the defe…
> More or less by design if one can form then it will.
By this logic we should accept that the stronger beats and kills the weaker because it's literally natural.
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Dude, as someone who runs web servers, my pockets are not that deep. I’m struggling to keep the websites of hundreds of hobbyists and small businesses alive right now because of people like this.
How many requests per second are you getting?
Not a single commenter who complained about the high traffic said how high it was. Curious.