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DevOps here too, I’ve been starting to slide my smaller redundant services into k8s. I had to really defend my position not to use ECS.
No, we’re using kubeadm because I don’t want to give a damn if it’s running in the office, or google or amazon or my house. It’s WAY harder and more expensive than setting up an eks and a EC/Aurora cluster, but I can bypass vendor lock in. Setting up my own clusters and replicas is a never ending source of work.
The last time I looked at bus internet for my location, they wanted 3x the price for 2/3 the speed. At my actual job 20m away, I have the same provider and a business acct. Same downtime, same equipment, only unlock port 80 and 443.
I certainly don’t miss dealing with air conditioning, dry fire protection, and redundant internet connections.
I also don’t miss trying to deal with aging servers out and bringing new hardware in.
It’s all fun and games until some asshole slips something into your trusted package manager.
Exploits are the deal pain
Gamers are easy to market to.
I don’t care if they map my house, just give me raw access to the data. Them having access to the speaker and mic, i’m more concerned about.
Torvolds doesn’t make distros. The work that he’s doing isn’t highly creative. It’s boring pain and no one else really wants to take on. He doesn’t have a lot of competition, and hopefully, when he moves on, that vacuum gets another dedicated masochist and doesn’t just usher in a bunch of people bickering and at each other’s throats.
There’s still danger here. While anyone can fork, it’s painful and work-intensive. A well-funded actor could fork something useful, add a bunch of features the community wants, and do a shitty job of committing back. Once most of the community stops using the old stuff and the devs go back to their lives, we can lose control of useful stuff.
Stuff like when Signal enshittifies. It has enough inertia and spin up cost that the forks barely see any traffic.
They toyed around with moving things in and out of public. I’m not sure i’ve seen the what else get chained off, but for a while you coudn’t get much information about anyone. That’s when I started using Wiki
There have been 209 versions of that site
https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/
it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.
If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.
I just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment!
well done.
Dev: My app’s getting a 400 hitting the server. Your firewall changes broke it.
Me: You’re getting to the server, it’s giving you back a malformed request error. Most likely it’s a problem in your client.
Dev: it worked fine until you made that change in QA.
Me: Your server is in production.
After that, I just get too busy to look at it for a while… They figure it out eventually.
Gatekeeping education.
Keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
The rich got theirs and it’s a ladder they can pull up to stay wealthy.
TBF, if they’re going to lock you in a burning car unable to exit, killing you with the dashboard or sterring column would be a mercy killing compared to burning to death inside.
replace the airbag with a letal injection perhaps?
/s
sounds like quite a pain to google/apple, I think they should just ban them until they change their minds
Honey, break out the arc net adapters. It’s going to be a long night.
Getting the machine running was cake, getting online through dialup after that was the real pain :)
Mobile device flashing is a fucking alien world. Samsung products are not good for it, especially in the US.
The alt OS’s are mainly built against ancient hardware, and the SKUs that work are so limited that they’re not particularly cheap on the used market.
The best thing you can do is go fairphone or pixel and specifically get one of the models that is directly claimed as supported.
If you can’t get it to work, find the OS forums and hop in, someone will bend over backward to help you out if you’re nice about it.
A complicated system design with multiple loosely related systems dynamically handing off work to each other with a race condition, REALLY doesn’t fit the single point of failure concept.