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August 2025
A leading company like Anthropic feeding the delusions of people who ramble about model consciousness is just bad all around. It's both performative and irresponsible.
I wonder if they're stretching themselves too thin? Their CDN product is rock solid IME and so is their video streaming, but they've been adding a lot more "developer-platform" type products, seemingly trying to catch up to CF, and I'm not sure I'll ever trust it enough in terms of staying-power to ever commit to the vendor lock-in there. (I wouldn't with Cloudflare either, to be fair)
Depends on what kind of security. They might care about connection integrity. If a faulty (or malicious) router in-between client and server starts malforming packets, `nc` will display those malformed packets. SSH will only show you what the server intended, or nothing.
That's a very naive take. The issue is Docker Desktop, a buggy mess. I have plenty of well-functioning, complex Windows applications with detailed troubleshooting utilities.
If only every LLM-shop out there would put disclaimers on their page that they hope absolve them of the responsibility of correctness, so that your boss could make up his own mind... Oh wait.
Since Vimeo owns the customer billing relationship in a lot of their whitelabel B2B business, migration would be a pain, especially when compounded by a massive amount of data needing to be re-ingested. I think those customers will tolerate a reasonable amount of rot before starting to move and that the timescales would be long.
A notable difference to their (somewhat) contemporary, Nebula. Nebula made the choice to develop their own services, to also own the customer billing relation. Dropout relies on Vimeo for all that.
It wasn't about permission, it was about high-speed access. They needed Anna's Archive to facilitate that for them, scraping was too slow. It's incredible that they were allowed to continue even after Anna's Archive themselves explicitly pointed out that the material was acquired illegally.
Tailscale definitely had issues for me, unless I used user-mode networking and even then it was iffy. I should add that it also auto-signed me up for a trial of Fly.io itself, which is useless to me now but might've come in handy later.
I'm not familiar with how this process went in this case, the blog post seems to suggest that feedback from other vendors was incorporated. Can you elaborate on the outstanding issues?
IS there a better solution for self-healing S3 storage that you could recommend? I'm also curious what will make a rook cluster croak after some time and what kind of maintenance is required in your experience.
Can't wait for this to be wrapped up in a neat detection algorithm, with about the same efficacy rate as the college plagiarism detectors and the LLM writing detectors.