t_sawyer

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by t_sawyer 4mo ago
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 already allowed new data center builds (even before AI
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Developer/IT Unions
3 points by t_sawyer 4mo ago|1 comments
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by t_sawyer 5mo ago
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 in Openstack too. There's not enough redundan
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by t_sawyer 5mo ago
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 will extend the life of a phone. End of story.
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by t_sawyer 11mo ago
Well this kinda screws me over running docker on macos. Not all images I use have an arm version.
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by t_sawyer 11mo ago
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 the best practices you pushed your customers to pay
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by t_sawyer 11mo ago
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 themselves have single points of failure on a sin
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by t_sawyer 11mo ago
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.
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by t_sawyer 1y ago
While I agree, we saw this play out with Dropbox too.
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by t_sawyer 1y ago
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 market share away.
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by t_sawyer 1y ago
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 source their solution for postgres.
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by t_sawyer 1y ago
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 gaming PCs. We also would have more Switch competition in the ARM
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by t_sawyer 2y ago
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: """" We have detected that your server is us
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by t_sawyer 2y ago
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’ve been following this since early August because I grew up
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by t_sawyer 2y ago
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 default is for them to control the key. Or, for Azure, put
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by t_sawyer 3y ago
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 charges Spotify 27% to compete with them directly.
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by t_sawyer 3y ago
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 but I understand the way it works how that would be difficu
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by t_sawyer 3y ago
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 of these communities. I do not like telegram or discord commu
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by t_sawyer 3y ago
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 hardware requirements look pretty low at $2 a month in lambd
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
https://github.com/netdata/netdata
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
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 changed? ATVs? I'm completely against this. You're expe
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
I'm losing track on when we should trust cops to ignore or doubt things and when we shouldn't.
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
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.
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
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 well IMO. FWIW: I ran it on 3 separate Window
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
Yes sorry TOTP.
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
Are you advocating for OTP 2FA? If so, your concern about losing your phone and losing access to your accounts is still an issue. At the end of the day, OTP is more secure for the obvious issue with mobile carriers being phished into SIM ja
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
They recently increased prices to account for an increase for them on electric costs. Their business model is sound especially for the server auction dedicated servers. All that to say I hear your worry but I’m not worried. Hell I was payin
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
I’m personally very happy with switching to a Hetzner dedicated server, I’m saving a ton of money, and the server can handle my busiest months of load with plenty of room to spare. I use docker containers for a rails app and send backups of
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
It’s not the charging that made me leave. It was the security breach where all of my environment variables were stolen. And the amount of time it took and their level of transparency through it all.
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by t_sawyer 4y ago
No real reason other than the fact that I already had an AWS account and I was saving quite a bit of money already. I may look into B2 later. But again, I’m well below my original costs so I may not look for a while.

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