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jdonon We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed

Given their recentish argument with the CNCF[0] not sure how much I would trust it.

[0] https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/05/01/protecting-nats-and-the-...

jdonon My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

Soon you'll also be able to do speech to text locally, as Apple is adding a SpeechAnalyzer API [0] which is apparently faster than whisper [1].

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/277/

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/18/apple-transcription-api...

jdonon Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers

Cloudflare's blog post from last year [1] contains more details.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-bots/

jdonon Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

Looks like it's a response to the recent cloud services market investigation by the CMA [1].

Which highlighted "Egress fees harm competition by creating barriers to switching and multi-cloud leading to cloud service providers entrenching their position" [2].

It's also interesting that they are calling out problems with software licensing, as that is another thing the CMA is investigating in their cloud market review.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/cloud-services-market-investiga...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/652e958b69726...