>> everything is now a webapp
> When, why and how became this a good thing?
Cheap instant all-terrain deployment trumps most other considerations, especially where technical onboarding is on the critical path to customer acquisition.
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> When, why and how became this a good thing?
Cheap instant all-terrain deployment trumps most other considerations, especially where technical onboarding is on the critical path to customer acquisition.
This December 2024 article mentions several publishers telling their poor return on Twitter: https://www.emarketer.com/content/bluesky-surpasses-threads-...
The lure of USA protection lingers in Eastern Europe - some just haven't realized the new reality yet.
That is the escape hatch from all visual development environments. Having seen Talend and W4 in action, I know the end state of the process: a single block with everything in it - I'm barely caricaturing here.
Maybe the specific needs of early learners will keep the system from degenerating too fast but, the moment code goes in that is not visually represented in the environment's visual paradigm, coherence goes downhill fast and one starts longing for properly managed scripts.
I was awed by the beast... Everything about it screamed over-engineering - even the case was incomprehensibly robust and the power switch had a satisfyingly loud motion... I could even touch its legendary tangential fan... Touching the 20 years-old dream was an emotional moment - I'm glad I did it... The ultimate Windows 3.0 host !
But it had to go after a little while: my two-room apartment was too small for so much awesomeness, so it went to another fan.
When immediate survival is at stake, the future is heavily discounted. Slow and channel the attacker now, and consider the demining cost later - if you survived the war.
As a bonus, my family can call the ISP's tech support if anything dysfunction while I'm traveling: my self-hosting crap is perfectly independent from the ISP's standard service. And wait, there's more - I can add services anywhere, such as a backup server at my parent's, regardless of their configuration and with no impact.
So yes, Tailscale all the things... I'm nostalgic for the IPv6 flat end-to-end dream but, in our world of ubiquitous IPv4 NAT horrors, Tailscale functionally surpasses it.
As an avid mountain bike cyclist back in France, I hung to what seemed familiar - which worked well enough until the first sharp bend came... It came way too fast, I panicked, cycling reflexes took over, I shifted my weight back and pressed both handle levers hard - getting the (to a cyclist) very unexpected result of both disengaging the clutch and thus losing all engine braking while locking the front wheel hard (why did they put the front break where the rear, which helps me control slides, is supposed to be ?)... I was catapulted, followed by the bike... Nothing broken - just bruises, rashes and the flattened ego of a lucky idiot.
As a daily cyclist, being a motorcycle passenger on big engines always terrifies me: I'm on two wheels, with bicycle-like positions and trajectories... But everything happens monstrously too fast, my instincts for braking and acceleration are all out of calibration, so I always feel that we cannot possibly survive the next turn !
So, yes - I recommend not mixing bicycling and motorcycling.
Wide variance depending on subreddit - though, apart from the ferociously moderated exceptions, the large ones are all hopeless.
Are you unsatisfied with the myriad of Imagemagick, FFMPEG, sox or Ghostscript GUI front-ends ? What does a web deployment offer ? Even not taking privacy concerns in consideration, the local solution if better - I guess a one-off conversion might wish to eschew local installation, but such bread-and-butter operations are rarely one-off.
Or should we consider the market for a zip/7zip/rar/tar.gz file compression web front-end ?
RFC4180 is a late attempt at CSV standardization, merely codifying a bunch of sane practices. It also provides a nice specification for generating CSV. But anyone taking care to code from a specification might as well use a proper file format.
The real specification for CSV is as follows: "Valid CSV is whatever is designated as CSV by its emitter". I wish I was joking.
There is literally an infinity of ways CSV can be broken. The developer will bump his head on each as he encounters them, and add a specific fix. After a while, his code will be robust against the local strains of CSV... Until the next mutation is encountered after acquiring yet another company with a bunch of ERP way past their last extended maintainance era, a history of local adaptations and CSV as a message bus.
But seriously, I'm telco-biased, and it seems that the article has a small scale hosting... Different worlds. At small scale, sure - the bigger cable is a rounding error.
Yes, it is obviously about small-scale sysadmin cabling. Telco networks have wildly different economics.
Cables ain't free, duct capacity is finite and duct rental from the local incumbent is costly too... Please calculate the financial optimum of pay now vs. pay later - taking into account growth, various forms of attrition, cost of capital, opportunity costs and appetite for risk. Or everyone would be running 1152 strands cables everywhere.
But then I see that from a telco perspective and, now that I've read the article, it seems to be from a small-scale hosting perspective - entirely different economics.
Miele uses flashing LED as some sort of serial communication.
A bunch of reactionaries seems to believe that search is a privacy violation... On a publishing platform - hilarious !
Anyway, I've stopped trying and my current global village microblogging forum is Bluesky.
I still don't understand the Fediverse's surprisingly common hostility to indexing: a publishing platform that won't let indexers record its publications - what is that supposed to be ?
Peertube users do not need content nor incentives: they just want to publish their videos and post links to them to their audience.
My photo gallery doesn't need content nor incentives for content creators either... I supply the content and my content creator incentive is showing my vacation pictures to my friends !
Because they are not platforms: they are software, free to use. Their audience is systems administrators, not users.
Either the user is it's own systems administrator, or someone else has to do it... And in any case there is infrastructure to be paid for. Most users currently prefer someone else to do it and the price to be the watching of advertisements.
I believe a sweet halfway point is hosting cooperatives - not free of cost, but delivering user-control at a reasonable cost to users who do not wish to take on the burden of sysadmining.