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yannoninator

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yannoninator··on Fly’s Prometheus Metrics
I'm not quite sure if fly is production ready for our usecase yet, but it does look awesome though.
yannoninator··on Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments
> Are you selling a notification service?

Except when there are none, you have to build it yourself.

yannoninator··on Facebook Wi-Fi
this is parody right, this has to be parody? I can't tell if it's an april fools or not.

no way facebook can be this tone deaf enough for this, just when you thought they couldn't go towards the nadir of desperation to continue to keep ruining their reputation.

do they even care?

yannoninator··on How image search works at Dropbox
> And I'm stating facts about Dropbox. Users are not told that their data will be looked at by others. Having the keys to do it and actually doing it are two very different things.

OK, but so what?

Again the tech boffins would care about this enough to take action on this 'issue'.

You can always move your files away from Dropbox if you don't like it, I'm sure companies who are collecting information on you (name, email, browser, file_id) are doing this to improve the service that you've signed their TOS with.

> I love tech, but everyday I understand the libre hermit POV more.

Then don't use Dropbox or similar services then, it's that simple. There is always an SFTP/Rsync server waiting for you to upload your files on, or better yet for your usecase, an encrypted USB drive.

yannoninator··on How image search works at Dropbox
> Why strawman for user hostile policies?

I'm stating a fact of this tech forum.

> Users don't even know that they are giving up privacy.

lol, Do you think the users care about privacy on Dropbox. The tech boffins might, but not the average user.

How have you been spied on as a Dropbox user? Can you do a better service than them? What alternative do you suggest that is in the same league as Dropbox?

yannoninator··on Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan
Who still uses IE11 anyway?
yannoninator··on How image search works at Dropbox
HN is negative about all tech except Rust and Haskell.
yannoninator··on Cloudflare on the edge
Do you have an alternative to Cloudflare if they are that bad?
yannoninator··on The Evolution of Jamstack
Hmm, so basically you're saying it's a scam right?
yannoninator··on The Evolution of Jamstack
so many questions about this:

how does the database fit into this?

how does the 'Jamstack' compare to Wordpress or it doesn't?

how does content get edited in the 'Jamstack' like Wordpress?

how is the 'Jamstack' 'mainstream'? compared to what?

why do I have to use Git to use the 'Jamstack'?

yannoninator··on Max Hodak: I am no longer at Neuralink
who?
yannoninator··on The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and Twilio
what is this vc sophistry?
yannoninator··on Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation
what does a platinum seat get you then?

it doesn't make sense to spend a ton of money on a seat and not do anything. I am sure facebook has other motives than paying engineers to work on rust.

a regular sponsorship would have a been more enough in this case.

yannoninator··on Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation
I'm sad to announce that I fucking called it on the day of the Rust foundation's formation [0].

Say what you want, but the problem here is that you don't need to give board seats to those who have tons of cash, rather instead have them sponsor it, like how the R foundation has done.

Facebook essentially bought a board seat to drive and prioritise which features they want in the development of Rust.

The wolf eats the same grass as the sheep and gets praise for it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124316

yannoninator··on Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
Really? Seems like a problem for the site & server itself rather than WooCommerce. Is there any evidence for this?
yannoninator··on DigitalOcean S-1
I think AWS LightSail is what you would want, also Cloud Run is also another option.
yannoninator··on DigitalOcean S-1
AWS LightSail is basically DigitalOcean with a huge jetpack with the ability to extend into AWS's ecosystem.
yannoninator··on DigitalOcean S-1
They currently have an incident with their droplets right now at the time of writing, hardly reliable.
yannoninator··on DigitalOcean S-1
What is the point of DigitalOcean, Linode etc, when one can use the more reliable big cloud providers GCP/AWS/Azure.

I don't think DO's offerings are strong enough to compete with the big players long term, especially in production.

Seems like an exit for a later acquisition by a bigger company, like Slack with Salesforce.

yannoninator··on Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
WooCommerce?
yannoninator··on Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
Shopify's subscription apps with their newly released subscription API is also woeful, not surprised of this outcome.

The subscription apps on the App Store are suited for physical goods (coffee beans, etc) rather than digital (membership, gift subscription, saas, etc.) which is what is driving the subscription economy.

So building a digital membership platform on Shopify makes no sense, unless you consider sending shoes as a subscription to someone on a regular basis a 'digital membership'.

yannoninator··on Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
I think the desktop seriously needs a production, RAM and developer friendly breakthrough that isn't Electron.

Tauri may be it, but the desktop SO needs this moment, I don't want to see 50 years on and Electron is still being used.

yannoninator··on Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
Not sure why this is downvoted, this is a good point.

Before people are getting hyped around this, this is alpha software and not production ready.

yannoninator··on Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
Do PWA's support notifications?

If not, then no.

yannoninator··on Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
Didn't downvote, but I agree, nobody wants to work on the low level stacks anymore, not as sexy as CRUD apps.

I would have expected this issue to be a solved problem too, and now we get extremely insecure Python 3 codebases as a result of this vuln.

So much for moving from Python 2 to 3, will now wait for Python 4.

yannoninator··on How They SRE
Is it just me or do I keep seeing this 'SRE' stuff being hyped up as the next big thing everywhere on Twitter/HN/Reddit etc, just because Google invented it and now everyone wants to behave as if they have Google's problems.

I am genuinely curious why this is the case, am I missing something here?

Even my local grocer's website somehow needs Kubernetes skills all of a sudden, not kidding at all.

yannoninator··on Autopilot on Cars for $999
> A sentence can be technically correct while also being actively misleading.

So we can say no deaths by comma, until proven otherwise.

Definitely not misleading.

yannoninator··on Autopilot on Cars for $999
Everything else that person said was irrelevant to this thread.

I'm looking for straight answers, not going around points, but getting straight to them.

> ...it seems like the more reasonable thing to do is acknowledge that fact, rather than just ignore their point entirely.

The fact that Tesla and Uber has more deaths than Comma? That I can agree with.

yannoninator··on Autopilot on Cars for $999
Great, by definition a drunk or sleepy person can have their hands on the wheel to prove they are focused.

This system is very powerful indeed.

yannoninator··on Autopilot on Cars for $999
> Anyone know if this has killed someone yet?

> ...Tesla and Uber have killed people but Comma hasn't...

So no then.

This is the correct answer, thank you.

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