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Comment · 26 days ago
Am I unusual in not having looked at my parents or grandparents photo collections?

I occasionally look at my own, but that's about it.

Comment · 26 days ago
I agree. And let it be legislated.

I was replying to "Why aren’t the data centres just honest about their water usage if it’s seemingly so low?".

Comment · 27 days ago
Where doesn't Iroh work well?
Comment · 27 days ago
Yes, and TLS/QUIC/Wireguard all offer encryption.

What toomim is excited about is this combination of technologies, and that's more than just NAT punching or encryption.

Comment · 27 days ago
> We use them because we want the best model available. We want GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Opus 5.5. They're really good models and open-source models are not even close.

I want the best model, but I can't afford the best model.

Cheaper models happen to be good enough, and I can afford them.

Even after reading the post, I'm confused what the author is missing. There are graphs competing cost, but is the author just rich enough that they can afford the top models all the time?

Comment · 27 days ago
Transparency is not the same thing as honesty.

Companies might want to avoid this being used as a side channel to infer the amount of their compute.

Companies might want to avoid setting a precedent where activists can demand such information.

Companies might want to avoid the effort of publishing this data, or the risk of publishing incorrect data.

Comment · 27 days ago
Sorry, yes, I meant how could I donate to Timur if he's not being funded my Valve for this.

+1 to buying Valve's products.

Comment · 27 days ago
D1 does look great. I usually don't bother setting up services with state, but maybe CF D1 is hands-free enough.
Comment · 28 days ago
I think we agree, though I can see why it might not have seemed that way, since I didn't draw attention that users might rightly conclude the overall tradeoff is worth it, even if another tech is sounder in some minor aspect.

React can adapt, and though Web Components might still have some claim on X, Y, Z, React still is heavily preferred because all the other things are so much more important to developers.

For what genuine gaps remain, there's lots of React users that can help others through it.

Comment · 28 days ago
Yeah, they seem well placed with their cheap-but-grear offerings.

I'm a cheapskate so am sometimes motivated by this cheapness, but each time I realise it's easier to just stick with what I know (Linux daemons) than cloud offerings.

Do you have any suggestions for something in the homelab/self-hosted space where CloudFlare has great offerings? (Other than the boring stuff like cache/DNS).

Comment · 28 days ago
What do you think about CloudFlare Artefacts?
Comment · 28 days ago
Awesome.

Is Valve funding this work in particular? How can people donate?

Comment · 28 days ago
When a technology becomes popular enough, it develops a community that solidifies that choice: conferences, books, extensions, a generation of engineers that see things in terms of React.

A technology needs to be a lot better to overcome that aspect.

Sometimes I visit a subreddit for a tech and see them all discussing strategies/techniques that are ultimately workarounds for what an alternative technology has fundamentally solved, but... the original tech has an army of volunteers able to help newbies workaround it, which is often an easier onboard experience than the alternative tech that just works, but doesn't have any advocating solutions/blog posts because there are no blog posts to be written.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, I'd guess Oracle DB isn't attractive to startups, and that's probably a long term risk for them.

There is plenty of $$$ at the top, at the moment.

Oracle Cloud offers them some long term strategy.

Comment · 1 month ago
The Dutch government provides baseline standards: https://www.bio-overheid.nl/bio2/bio-producten/baseline-info...

I'm sure NixOS can provide those, but rather than each department figure out how to do that, organisations try to centralize figuring this out: which packages and configuration satisfies the requirements.

One of the items discusses MFA. Organisations will want to standardise on exactly which MFA devices they provide and support.

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