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For what it’s worth, the linked article is not the official AWS documentation, and the official AWS documentation has never been paywalled as far as I know.

The linked article is from “AWS re:Post” which is the equivalent of a support forum where you can ask questions and get crowdsourced answers from AWS employees, support, or other AWS users. IME it’s not uncommon for such support forums for enterprise software to be behind some sort of paywall (or at least login-wall).

The real problem IMO is that some of these support forum answers have become so popular and important that they really should be part of the official documentation rather than existing solely on the crowdsourced platform.

> The only reason I can think of where documentation should be behind a pay/auth-wall is if it was generated specifically for your circumstances as part of some kind of solutions architecture or technical support process.

That’s exactly what this is, actually. These aren’t the AWS docs. The linked site is the AWS support forums in which AWS employees, AWS support and/or other known contributors from the AWS community will give you personalized responses to questions you have.

Some of these questions are more generic, and so aren’t personalized, but they’re still the result of a question-and-answer on the forum.

This isn’t really the official AWS “documentation”. AWS docs are located at a completely different website and are free to access.

The linked article is from “AWS re:Post” which is the equivalent of a “support forum” where you can ask questions and get crowdsourced answers from either other AWS users, or from AWS employees/AWS support themselves. Some of these questions are so popular that they show up in search results and so might be treated as documentation.

It’s dumb, but not uncommon in my experience for such “support forums” to be behind a paywall.

My guess is that it probably has more to do with the fact that Dimon probably has an entire floor all to himself with all kinds of customized artwork, couches, lounge chairs etc, with personal assistants, likely a private elevator, maybe even a private chef or personal catering everyday etc. He doesn’t have to deal with fighting for conference rooms, loud office mates, a shitty cubicle, etc.

Dimon’s office is likely bigger and nicer than most of his employees homes, so of course he doesn’t mind working from there.

AWS isn’t and has never been economical for side projects or hobby tinkering, unless you specifically want to tinker with AWS.

I’m a big AWS fan. I’d recommend any company of decent size to use AWS. But seriously, if your project is just a personal blog or some rails app you tinker with on the weekend, just get a $5/mo instance on Digital Ocean or a raspberry pi.

None of those things are going to result in a monetary return of investment though, which is the problem. These big companies are betting a huge amount of their capital on the prospect of being able to make significant profit off of these investments, and meteorology etc isn’t going to do it.

Thinking of the $500B as only an aspirational number is wrong. It’s true that the specific Stargate investment isn’t fully invested yet, but that’s hardly the only money being spent on AI development.

The existing hyperscalers have already sunk ungodly amounts of money into literally hundreds of new data centers, millions of GPUs to fill them, chip manufacturing facilities, and even power plants with the impression that, due to the amount of compute required to train and run these models, there would be demand for these things that would pay for that investment. Literally hundreds of billions of dollars spent already on hardware that’s already half (or fully) built, and isn’t easily repurposed.

If all of the expected demand on that stuff completely falls through because it turns out the same model training can be done on a fraction of the compute power, we could be looking at a massive bubble pop.

Yes, it not being a version number is the entire point of this thread.

Rockets aren’t birds either, and yet: Falcon 9 (the Falcon 9 also is the second iteration of the Falcon rockets, not the ninth, so…)

Rockets also aren’t planets, and yet: Saturn V

Rockets also aren’t mythological horse/man creatures, and yet: Vulcan Centaur

You’re overthinking it.

If a security mechanism doesn’t account for failure cases, it’s a failure of the security mechanism.

It’s a hard problem to solve and I don’t have a solution, but it’s a core goal of every security tool to account for edge cases and failure cases like this. If you tell me that OAuth is completely insecure due to a security issue, it’s not going to make me feel any better if you say “but it’s totally not OAuths fault” - I don’t care who’s fault or scope it is, the end result of a security issue is the same, and to avoid it I’m just not going to use OAuth.

> Suppose DankStartup folds … Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts?

Expecting an entity that has already failed* to not fail again isn’t an effective security control, unfortunately.

* - not every startup that folds has “failed”, but the point still stands

This is the narrow perspective I was referring to. There are border crossings in the world where there is no reliable electricity, and laptops/smartphones are a rare luxury. Starlink is not a solution to these problems.

> Is it fair to say that the chip contains the content of the travel document at the time it was issued

Yes to expiration date and number (although afaik it does vary because each country may include or exclude certain information), but in general no, because even if you have a visa issued to you at the time of a passport being issued (like at the time of a passport renewal), the chip will not have that information. The chip information is basically just proving who you are, but doesn’t have any info on where you are permitted to go (other than permissions implied by your characteristics like nationality). That information is stored elsewhere, like in the passport pages or a country’s internal immigration records.

Yea, lots of comments in here advocating for full digital or “just use passport cards” are coming from a narrow perspective of only having to use passports in established travel routes like major international airports or developed countries. Most of these suggestions just simply wouldn’t work in the majority of the land border crossings I’ve experienced in places like Laos, Cambodia, rural China, Thailand, Peru, Bolivia, etc.

Chips have been present in passports, even the all-paper ones, since the 1990s, with all the same information. They’re called “Biometric Passports”. The plastic card in newer passports is for durability and making them more difficult to forge.

But the chip doesn’t contain “everything that matters”. The chips have biometric info (hence the name) like legal name, sex, nationality, photos, and sometimes fingerprints. But the bulk of a passport book is made up of tens of pages where stamps, stickers, and even entire visa documents can be stapled/attached. None of these are present in the chip.

Just because the end result is the same doesn’t make it an accurate comparison or an insightful comment, especially given your comment was about motivations, not results.

That’s not an apt comparison. X wanted to keep operating in Brazil without following the law, so Brazil suspended them.

The parent commenter is talking about Cloudflare stopping operations in Italy of their own accord.

The most common way for an AWS account to be hacked, by far, is mishandling of AWS IAM user credentials. AWS has even gone so far as to provide multiple warnings in the AWS console that you should never create long-lived IAM user credentials unless you really need to do so and really know what you are doing (aka not a “casual observer who wants to try things out”).

This blog post encourages you to do this known dangerous thing, instructs you to bypass these warnings, and then paste these credentials into an untrusted app that is made up of 1000+ lines of code. Yes, the 1000+ lines of code are available for a security audit, but let’s be real: the “casual observer who wants to try things out” is not going to actually review all (if any) of the code, and likely not even realize they should review it.

I give kudos to you for wanting to be helpful, but the instructions in this blog (“do this dangerous thing, but trust me it’s okay, and then do this other dangerous thing, but trust me it’s okay”) is exactly what nefarious actors would ask of unsuspecting victims, too, and following such blog posts is a practice that should not be generally encouraged.

I think the reality is that a lot of people don’t use or care for the main Pi features like the GPIO pins or camera connectors, and aren’t using them in places where space or power is constrained. They’re purely looking for a cheap amount of compute.

For those use cases, it makes sense that performance per dollar is the top metric that many people look for. Pi used to be king there too, but as Pi prices have gone up and the price of other cheap compute has come down, it’s harder to justify the Pi. The Pi is still a great board, but a Pi5 with case, power supply, SD card will run you $100+ (throw in an SSD and you’re at $200+ easy), meanwhile an N100 PC can be had for the same price.

Google didn’t “give back” any of those things to humanity. Those are all products that Google is selling to you in exchange for your privacy so that they can make a profit. Don’t mistake Google for some benevolent entity that deserves special treatment for being “good”.

If you want to go that path, then Apple also “gave” iPhones to humanity, as well as AirPods, iCloud, iTunes, and is a primary reason that mouse-based graphical interfaces exist. Microsoft “gave” humanity the largest home operating system, the dot net programming languages, Microsoft Office, Xbox, and more. Should we give them all a “get out of jail free” card for their good deeds?

The regulators in question are pushing for divestiture of Chrome because they don’t believe that the current structure prevents using Chrome data, so it seems that Google did “make a mistake like that”.

Selling devices with a browser installed or available for installation is completely tangential to creating and/or controlling the development of said browser.

The parent commenter never used or even implied “stealing” nor “innovation” anywhere in their comment. I dunno where you got your strawman from.

Proxmox doesn’t preclude you from having k8s. You can create VM(s) in Proxmox and then install k8s on them, then run your app workloads in k8s.

You do have to treat Proxmox VMs like “pets, not cattle” since they are more difficult to automate, but that’s the same story as if you were managing your k8s host on bare metal too. The benefit with Proxmox-hosted VMs though is that you can use Proxmox for whole-VM backups and migrations, so you can have the best of both proxmox and k8s!

Tata is one of the largest telecoms in India and is a Tier 1 network that forms the backbone of the modern internet.