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schodion The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced

Recently I tried hosting a static website on AWS with a catch: it should only be reachable from certain countries but remain reachable for the Google crawler. The original solution was working and simple and consisted of a python script that built a list ip adresses and a deny all statement in an .htaccess file.

Same setup on AWS: Identity center, AWS Organizations, SCPs, cloudtrail, cloudwatch, cloudfront and s3 with half a dozen Policies. The only tool available with fine grained IP Access restrictions is WAF which costs alone almost 10x what one would pay with the hoster.

schodion Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain

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schodion Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain

I have that inner emotion, when thinking about death. It makes me very uneasy. When We die, if there is nothing coming, how is it to not exist? I mean, what is it like? Pure black and emptyness? I then comfort myself into thinking, in the end it comes down to energy. Like being part of that endless stream of energy that became matter and probably will return to energy somewhere in infinty. Or do we maybe just restart. All this is completely mind boggling.

Then again how did it all start? Causality is completely broken, when it comes to these things.