ivanmontillam
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Comment · 6 days ago
In your heart you know that's not a real contribution.
Comment · 8 days ago
I recently realised that since giving up TV back in 2003, YouTube kind of became my TV.
I still watch YT Shorts about series and news. That is pretty much TV.
Comment · 8 days ago
Disney is primed up for some regulatory action and customer punishment.
Enough cancellations will trigger price raises to protect their quarter reports until the whole revenue model collapses, and they price themselves out of the streaming subscription business.
I am not an MBA, but it made sense to me.
Comment · 9 days ago
It's being a great season, techsecurity-wise.
Comment · 14 days ago
It's regular air. It doesn't need any special propellant.
Comment · 15 days ago
Next level avoiding the Twin Towers on 9/11 day.
Comment · 1 month ago
I share the same sentiment. I de-Googled myself except for YouTube, but still wouldn't want my Gmail banned.
That's why I've gone to using open models, they are getting there slowly. A bit much of hand-holding but that's fine by me. If a customer of mine decides to use Google's models, I will have them sign a disclaimer that I'm not responsible of them getting insta-banned or similar. I just can't recommend it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Also because they are Google. Google being Google: unreliable (they could kill a product anytime), too much of a platform risk (all products in a single place, get banned and lose the company), lack of support unless you really pay a big bill (into the 7 figures), among other… things.
Comment · 1 month ago
With CDNs of today, they are not so much relevant for the clearnet.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, I'd rather revamp a Steam machine, for which we know exact specs even pre-launch.
Comment · 1 month ago
What I really love about Onion sites is that if they are big enough, performance engineering really becomes Tor-specific. A few examples:
- Making assets embedded as base64 (img src the header logo as base64, all CSS should be inline, etc.).
- Leveraging CSS as much as possible (if you use animations and transitions, use CSS as much as possible for these, avoid JS for them).
- Make sure your website is mostly rendered on the backend. If you're to have JS, your website should work without it.
- Security becomes REALLY fun, as in, avoid XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection attacks and any other injections as much as possible.
As someone summarizes in another comment[0], keep the chattiness as minimal as possible. By chattiness I understand they mean, pack as much data as you can in the same Keep-Alive connection. Avoid making new HTTP requests as much as possible, as each one might get assigned to a new Onion route making things slow.
If you can ship your website to the browser in a single connection, you've won.
I've always been impressed by performance of these big Onion sites, they really push the limits of software engineering creativity, given these constraints and nature of Tor.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872320
EDIT: Formatting of bullet points.
Comment · 1 month ago
> - Gmail - same
Gmail is not particularly difficult in terms of software engineering. The moat with email servers is IP address reputation.
I could, today, install Postfix SMTP and some IMAP as well, and watch my email all go to spam directly, if delivered at all (ISP might block them).
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not being sarcastic. To me, it's a classic signal for the start of the enshittification. These design decision will come top-down from Microsoft.
I am losing karma because of my opinion, but that doesn't make it any less true. After all, you can just observe how the feedback goes against border radius. Hardly it will change back now to edgy corners like it's supposed to be.
Comment · 1 month ago
This feels like the effective death of VSCode.