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by nixgeek 1mo ago
Selection bias then as the majority of European companies are for sure not hosting their own Forgejo or GitForge.
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by nixgeek 2mo ago
I think I’m on the upper end of what’s normal in U.S. but also not super abnormal either — 1. Four lines on Google Fi is about $220 per month for “Unlimited”. 2. Comcast is $95 per month for 1Gbps. 3. A regular cinema ticket is $22.83 to th
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by nixgeek 2mo ago
Wow. As a side effect, this outage is handing Corey Quinn material for the next 4 years of AWS shitposting. No longer is NAT Gateway the prime target.
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Dave Treadwell to Lead AWS Compute and ML Services as Dave Brown Departs(aboutamazon.com)
2 points by nixgeek 2mo ago|1 comments
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AWS senior cloud executive departs after 18 years(cnbc.com)
3 points by nixgeek 2mo ago|0 comments
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by nixgeek 2mo ago
And yet TrueNAS is moving away from BSD towards … Debian!
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by nixgeek 3mo ago
A sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink for £5 is an actual deal. Sandwich alone in U.S. would be $10 and the “$15 Meal Deal” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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by nixgeek 3mo ago
That’s because all of that hardware probably dates back to when Steve Jobs roamed the planet.
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
I work from Starlink regularly and it’s just fine for meetings and everything else I do. Meetings are usually under 10Mbps of downstream and 2Mbps upstream. It’s simply false you need 1Gbps of “low latency” internet to work from home effect
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
Amazon is probably deploying in the range of 250,000 racks per year into AWS. That’s millions of square feet before you get into all the infrastructure around them so they’re powered, cooled and operated the way they need. Figure on ~10 mil
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
Building on grade is much cheaper. There is in general plenty of surface area on Planet Earth. Datacenters aren’t built next to Nordstrom. Theres just no reason to spend on engineering and construction that increases density like undergroun
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
It’s true it costs money to then hopefully make it. :) Architecture, civil engineering, and other design and permitting fees can easily be 7–10% of the overall cost of smaller projects. Even in large projects they’re often 4-5% or more, and
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
That’s not true, most hyperscalers and their datacenter building partners use Option 2.
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
Datacenters rarely get mothballed after 10 years, they’re usually 15-year depreciation schedules in terms of the building and the plant. Equipment within them like servers typically depreciates over 72 months but is rarely removed by hypers
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
I mean, you’re right, but when the alternative is all that investment and those construction jobs AND the post-commissioning operational jobs go to a different community and a different economy, … What would you prefer? To me, local communi
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
It’s unusual to buy the land and take a gamble on its utility, at least whenever datacenter construction is involved. Purchasing parties are risk averse to this exact scenario and work hard to craft contracts that reduce risk. Often the cho
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
Building a datacenter typically employs thousands of people in the trades, often for hundreds or a thousand plus hours, per person, from the start of a big build to the campus being complete. It’s quite literally millions of billable hours
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
AWS publicly stated I think in 2021 that the larger availability zones in US East 1 consisted of 17-18 datacenters each. It’s likely grown a lot since, and they recently announced AZ7 will be online in Maryland soon, so they must be running
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
Utah’s 40,000 acre datacenter proves it’s not absolutely at the upper end. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933687/u... Most hyperscalers now prefer to build larger sites as “campuses” which may
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by nixgeek 4mo ago
It’s not like the author is a noob. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz In fact, he’s done several things that are truly hard, and has a well-deserved engineering reputation.
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by nixgeek 6mo ago
Paywall: https://archive.is/XXjph
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by nixgeek 6mo ago
Genoa was a big leap from Milan. Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment. Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.
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AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)
11 points by nixgeek 7mo ago|2 comments
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by nixgeek 8mo ago
Just as a heads up to the author, some of the commits against Luxury Yacht aren’t attributed to a GitHub account because Git wasn’t configured to use an email that’s associated — https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app&#x2F
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by nixgeek 9mo ago
A million subscribers on Twitch?
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by nixgeek 9mo ago
Discord. It’s not self-hosted but it currently works fine for my needs. I guess if they start charging $15/mo per user we’ll all migrate again.
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by nixgeek 9mo ago
You can connect a UTR to the hotel network, and also connect your devices via WiFi to it; works just like GL.iNet's Slate 7 in this regard.
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by nixgeek 9mo ago
Everything journalism is trending towards paywalls.
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by nixgeek 10mo ago
A team of us moved it off Rackspace in 2013, it’s been mostly in a set of GitHub operated colo since then. Used to be there was some workloads on AWS and a bit of DirectConnect. Now it’s some workloads on Azure. To the best of my knowledge
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by nixgeek 10mo ago
Is anyone aware of or working on an equivalent to zigbee2mqtt but for both Matter-over-WiFi and Matter-over-Thread devices? It’s so darn convenient to have MQTT in the picture for home automation and my #1 challenge in imagining a future wo

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