NorwegianDude

People 100 % overestimate the complexity and cost of running infrastructure on their own.

Then there are options that are probably better for you. I've been doing colocation for many years, but I've never seen the inside of the datacenter.

Remote hands set up the hardware for me and replace failed hardware. The service is so rarely needed that it's basically free.

In recent years I've started to rent the hardware I want as I want more frequent changes. I tell my host what hardware I want and they'll acquire it and install it.

If you're running very old hardware that you can't even buy replacement drives for then you are doing something very wrong.

Need to scale fast? Then I don't have to wait for servers to arrive, I use their cloud offering that's in the same network.

I agree that it's a solved problem, but the solution to anything somewhat permanent is not the cloud. It's not really any harder to run your own hardware.

It's estimated to be around 15 % of Meta's daily income in 2021 from Norway.

Well, that's not at all true... Speeding tickets are high, but they are the same for everyone.

Title bar removal on Linux? Finally! :)

Davinci resolve is in my opinion better than premiere, so that's a very good option.

LXD is awesome. Let package managers handle updates, automatic security updates, high performance compared to docker/kubernetes and the opportunity to run the same thing outside a container if that's needed.

I have an idea. We should create a scaping system that scrapes all tweets and makes them availabe so that people are able to see what other people think they are linking to when they link to a broken Twitter page. /s

Either that or people should stop linking to broken pages.

I have tried to use sveltekit once and turned around in 20 minutes as routing is severely limited. All I wanted to do was to route based on domain, with a different set of routes for one of the domains. Not exactly complicated or uncommon, but not something you can do with the sveltekit router.

What is this? Article makes no sense, and the numbers must be 1000x the actual value. Classic The Verge.

Are datacaps normal on fibre in the US? I was first thinking it was mobile data. 1 Gbps 5G with 100 GB usage before the speed is reduced to 3 Mbps for the rest of the month is ~37 USD in Norway. As for fiber, ~100 USD is a normal price for 1 Gbps no matter how much data you use.

Weird using a E3-1230 v3 in 2023, it's over 10 years old. A similar modern low end CPU would be many times faster.

> PHP was never multi-tenant safe

You're running on the same host, so there might be exploits that allow you to break free, but that goes for most other "serverless" solutions too.

Apples hands*

Stopping tracking by the way of more invasive tracking like extracting content from emails is not a good thing.

Well, about 2/3 of the mobile market in Norway, and nearly the same goes for the US.

Thats the same security level that Microsoft had. You could get access to any Skype account by contacting business chat support and providing the username and a few contacts of the account you wanted to take over...

What do you mean? Backwards compatibility in PHP is amazing. I have several large projects that I've been working on for 15+ years, and upgrading to newer PHP versions has been a dream.

What kind of things are you having problems with in regards to backwards compatibility?

The repetition of "this is different from code" strikes me as odd.

The way I see it, it's identical to code, it just involves more moving parts.

> If two experts designed the same system, you would see two different designs, beautiful and aesthetic in their own way and both as “correct” as the other (and with the accompanying justifications to support them).

That is nonsense. Systems can be optimally designed too, just like code. Even if you have two systems that both meet the requirements for features, performance, reliability, and cost, one is usually objectively better by surpassing the requirements more than the other.

Would you like solution A that is identical to solution B in every way, but can be run with half the hardware, or do you want solution B? Of course you would want solution A.

Microsoft is well known to not take security serious at all. Some years ago people was able to contact Skype business support and change the password of accounts as long as they could tell them some of the contacts and the email of the account. Absolutely insanely irresponsible.

More people should try to self host things again. Seems that people are forgetting how things work and instead use services that does it for them at some cost.

Self hosting is rarely complicated. It's also easy to achieve better performance and lower cost in many situations.

What is even the point of posting nonsense spam from ChatGPT as replies? At least clearly indicate that it's generated. I thought it was from OpenAI as you said "from the horse's mouth", until I started reading that nonsense. Was under the impression that you were just trying to troll first.

OpenAI could return it instantly if they wanted.

Tell him what? It is annoying that they don't return the output instantly. This does throttle usage, so I can see why they do it, but it is annoying.

Could just as well be at no additional cost. If your monolith separates services somewhat cleanly then you can run them on every node and not even touch the part of the codebase that's not related to the current task.

Nothing wrong within using compose in production. As for restarts, I've never had any issues with it.

I usually use Docker compose locally, and then I deploy to system containers.

Nearly all my time is spent on developing my own software, so it's not like I make infrastructure changes every month. I set up a deployment pipeline that deploys it the way I want, and then I don't touch it until my infrastructure needs to change.

So I'm usually not even using application containers in production, Docker is just a simple way to simulate production services so that anyone can run a single command and have a complete dev environment.

Docker swarm works well with compose.

Doesn't really matter that much if a language is using all cores from one process or if there is multiple processes.

How is this news? The last air-air heat pump I looked at was guaranteed working down to -35°C/-31°F.(Mitsubishi Electric UWANO 8700)

Is this just the US being far behind when it comes to heat pumps or something?

Less cold related deaths? More habitable? More outdoors?

Norway have a lower amount of excess deaths related to the winter than most others countries, even much warmer countries like e.g. Spain.

Being outdoors isn't an issue. It's not that cold in Norway. It's Norway, not Antarctica...

That temperature drop sounds very unlikely. If you live in a well insulated home then you must have ventilation too, and that alone should replace the air inside multiple times each day.

That really sucks and is the risk of using cloud solutions with no spending limit and a lack of monitoring.

You should still have someone to keep an eye on it when using cloud solutions. And when you already have someone to keep an eye on it there's a good chance you might be better off managing the infrastructure yourself.