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> your data will never be safer than it is in the cloud

Unless you use Google Timelines. Then you’re out of luck.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/24/google-maps-timeline-data...

> > One example is Factorio, that is cheaper on factorio.com

> Just checked, $35 on both.

This might be a regional thing then. When using a UK IP, it’s £30.00 on Steam, GOG and Humble. It’s £27.03 on factorio.com. I checked before posting.

> Valve takes 30%. You can’t, in practice, sell your game on Steam and on another store at a lower price.

Note the use of ‘store’ here. You can sell your game on your own website for a lower price.

One example is Factorio, that is cheaper on factorio.com than it is on Steam, Gog, or Humble. Steam, Gog, and Humble all sell at the same price, however.

> > Learning how to ignore all of the noise is probably a more valuable skill for a future where control is slowly wrestled away from the user. A certain Black Mirror episode (Fifteen Million Merits) comes to mind.

> I have a really hard time ignoring noise. I think that is because of my autism. Ignoring noise would be a nice skill, I guess, but I feel significantly better when the noise is simply not there in the first place. I'd imagine most would, but for some reason I seem to break a lot more easily when uncomfortable.

I share this discomfort, but only in physical space. I struggle with visual and audible noise in the real world, but my screen I’ve become very adept at ignoring. Giving up on inbox-zero in my personal life and ending up with 2000+ unread emails in my personal mailbox is where that started.

> Instead of doing that they just learned to ignore everything

Leading to notifications being ignored, and not mattering at all.

A well curated set of notifications that only gives you the things you actually need is superb, but incredibly difficult to get right.

Learning how to ignore all of the noise is probably a more valuable skill for a future where control is slowly wrestled away from the user. A certain Black Mirror episode (Fifteen Million Merits) comes to mind.

It’s totally possible to distribute a webapp that works offline and stores all your data offline too.

Platform owners introduce a bunch of restrictions that create reliability and usability concerns, but the standards already exist to enable a website operator to create a webapp that, after the initial ‘install’, runs entirely offline on the user’s device, and has no need to communicate with the website.

Most personal banking apps I’ve used still do this. The bank is liable for your lost funds if your corporate IT department doesn’t secure the MITM solution properly otherwise.

(The end customer isn’t liable for the bank’s inability to properly secure their app from MITM attacks…)

GPT usually writes code that eventually (often immediately) breaks. When given the failure mode, it usually fixes the issue (and often creates a new one, GOTO 10)

How many concurrent users can you run off a single NVMe SSD?

How many students leave their coursework to the last minute?

How do you explain that the server went down during the last hour before submission deadline again, and that everyone gets an extension again, because you cheaped out on putting the cheapest possible storage into a system that has to cope with large demand at peak times?

How many students now start to do worse because of the anxiety caused by these repeated outages?

How much more needs to be invested in the university counselling services to account for this uptick in students struggling?

> I honestly doubt they would all be assigned to the same server for practical reasons anyways.

The computer science department at my university had multiple servers. All CS students got an account on the one same server by default. Access was granted to other servers on a case by case basis, based on very course-specific needs.

So yes, in my case, all CS undergrads used the same one server.

> Operation System

OS is generally expanded to Operating System, not Operation System, in English

It sounds like they’re operating at larger scales, with a large number of users sharing a resource. Each user spawns 50 processes and consumes 100MB of space if they’re using VSCode. Assuming a low count of 1000 users, that’s 50K running processes and 100GB of space consumed. To enable a text editor.

> I don't think they have a CAPTCHA … Cloudflare has something called Turnstyle

I believe CF Turnstyle was only released in 2024. I believe they used reCAPTCHA up to 2020, and then switched to hCaptcha. I believe hCaptcha continues to be offered.

Unless you’re using Debian backports, and they backport a new kernel a week before the zfs backport package update happens.

Happened to me more than once. I ended up manually changing the kernel version limitations the second time just to get me back online, but I don’t recall if that ended up hurting me in the long run or not.

> Openrouter will charge you 16 cents for that

And log everything too?

The credit card (or rather, money) was required to purchase the computer, much like it’s required to purchase other power tools or industrial machinery

Has there ever been any production software ever written that didn’t suffer from some kind of bug or exploit?

I don’t think imperfection is a choice we’ve made. I think imperfection is part of our nature.

That said, the current state of software development is absolutely a choice, and a shockingly poor one in my opinion.

Deepseek appears to be running profitably, by being more efficient in how they train their models, being more efficient in how they run their models, and charging a modest profit margin on each API call.

(Source: linked article / interview with the CEO of Deepseek from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557586)

> I personally spot g6e.48xlarge (384 GB) which goes for under $1.

How? I see this around $30?!

> Emails are fine, as they can be anonymous as long as you don't use one of the larger providers

I’ve always struggled with this.

If you use a large provider for your email, the provider can likely de-anonymize you, but the person you give your email address to will struggle.

If you use your own domain, you’ve de-anonymized yourself already.

So I guess you have to use a smaller provider like protonmail? Which gets messy once you start wanting to have lots of email addresses, or to use subaddressing of some sort?

Definitely not a typo.

Also:

> # vl2-tiny, 3.37B-MoE in total, activated 1B, can be run on a single GPU < 40GB

Re3 is online again, however, in some form at least:

https://github.com/halpz/re3/

Hahaha wow I just checked Apple UK and the base 16GB/256GB is £600. 32GB upgrade is +£400, 512GB upgrade is +£200.

It should not cost that much! 2x Mac mini M4 16GB/256GB should not cost the same as 1x Mac mini M4 32GB/512GB!

Can someone help explain this in a way that isn’t just absolute price gauging of the higher end customer base? Are the components genuinely that much more expensive?

So because of policy choices made by app developers, you have to manage multiple cloud solutions.

Or as the GP suggested, forego the cloud entirely. iCloud and Apple’s built in iOS backup is not a magic bullet unfortunately.

Not all apps support Apple’s backup solution. Threema and Signal come to mind.

> I mean sure they are trying to discourage spammers but just outright blocked by default seemed a bit overboard to me

How would you go about discouraging spammers, if not using a block that is removed if you ask?

(They removed my block in the first 2 months of my service, all I did was ask)

I think a standard set optimises for usability over aesthetics.

I think this artwork optimises for aesthetics over usability.

Both sets are aesthetically pleasing and usable, just to different degrees.

I think that’s ok? I’ve seen many chess sets whose primary function was aesthetic rather than to be played.

The thing with aesthetics is that it’s highly subjective.

I can’t see any evidence of encryption on their front page. I can see evidence of storing your data in multiple third party clouds (this is advertised as a feature, data redundancy).

> The "service" of writing down things people have said out loud is

Unclear why "service" is in quotes. Not many people get to be in the room where it happens. The people that do get to be in the room, absolutely do provide a real service to the rest of us who don't.

> something other than query or quertz. Even Japan and China use an extended querty

qwerty