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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this plugin just removes stuff that the site puts over the content to restrict it. It doesn't fool the site into sending the content to the user's computer; it's already done that. Am I wrong in this?

IMO, there needs to be shift in understanding. They sent their information to my computer. Whatever I do with what they sent is my business, not theirs. It's on my computer. And yet they want it to stop.

IMO, if you want it to stop, don't be lazy; don't send it in the first place.

Then a bypass might have CFAA behind it.

These are the same people who want to use my bandwidth and CPU capacity to track me everywhere I go on the web. If they can make legal claims about what I do with the information they send to my computer, I should be able to make legal claims for them using my own computer against me without my consent.

Of course, I'm also more than a little drunk at the moment, so what do I know?

Don't know whether the Air Force ever tosses money at long shots, but this would appear to be one.

To be clear, I'm not anywhere near the aerospace industry, and have no actual knowledge other than what the media gives me -- but the pictures on their web site look like someone's garage rather than a professional aerospace lab.

BTW, it looks like that contract was (a) very short lived, and (b) not aimed at the orbital stuff. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP_Aerospace#Airships

This does not look like a serious project at all. Go look at their blog and check out their mission control van[1]...

And then there's the submarine.

With the memory of the Titan implosion wandering in my head, I would never go near what appears to be a "home brew" submarine. Event at shallow depths.

And the mention of AI on the page about that sub is... odd...

Yeah, just no.

JMHO.

[1] http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=8042

I would think that a network that even has a physical path capable of bypassing a firewall would be considered broken by design... Or at least insecure.

There's a lot of things here that make me wonder what is being measured -- and what isn't being measured.

Examples:

Age is a factor. How many "self employed" people are young up-and-comers who do not yet have the resume to actually make good money as contractors? What percentage of the "self employed" workforce is that? That's just one example.

Type of business is another. A one-person house cleaning business is likely to make a lot less money than a one-person niche SaaS company.

After thinking about it a bit, this stinks of "we have a conclusion, here's how we manipulated the data to support it."

I feel like "slab" would work.

Reading most code is more akin to reading Hamlet fan fiction.

The (small) gray text on white background is very hard to read.

More probably due to constant exposure to so many people who don't know how to do our jobs, determinedly telling us how they want us to do our jobs...

I'm surprised that a few quick and obvious searches doesn't turn up an obvious LavinMQ vs. RabbitMQ direct comparison (other than the featured result, a terrible Medium post that looks like an LLM wrote it). I see lots of "LavinMQ is/does this!", but not "and this is how it's different from RabbitMQ..."

Can anyone point out a resource?

Wasn't that Handspring rather than palm?

[edit: referring to Treo specifically, not the rest...]

I largely agree with this. I didn't take "one server" literally; more as hyperbole.

Concern about availability is overblown, not irrelevant!

There are shades of gray, though. Most sites don't need to engineer their system to hide catastrophic database failures from the user. Not being able to tolerate a single web server failure, though... that's just careless, and will end up giving you a bad reputation.

You probably don't actually need five nines -- but three probably won't go amiss...

Then I have to ask if you're a customer I want to have. Customers with unreasonable demands (especially demands for absolute perfection) are a cost, not a revenue stream IMO.

That does not in any way negate my point. Where you start depends on cost/benefit. Personally, I'm liable to start in AWS, actually. That doesn't mean I'll use every high-dollar service they offer, though.

Availability is overblown these days IMO.

Ten or twenty years ago I would have agreed with you: the internet was new, and when the site went down, people blamed the site, and things got nasty fast. Nowadays, though?

People are much more likely to blame their internet provider first, or just plain try again later. They're used to the unreliable nature of the internet now.

Unless you're Google, but how many businesses are Google?

As someone else on this thread said, simpler systems are less likely to fail anyway. Keep backups, replicate your DB to a cold DR site if you're truly worried. That will handle the majority of non-FAANG businesses in the majority of non-FAANG cases.

And if that failure occurs? So long as you don't lose data, it will be a short-lived blip for most businesses. Even being down for a few days can be weathered if you have good PR, provided that it's a once in a blue moon sort of event. For that matter, data losses can be weathered in many cases.

What was that saying? Each nine of reliability doubles the cost or some such?

That needs to be accounted for when determining the ROI. How reliable does your business actually need to be?

That depends on your target market. The default answer from IT, however, is an automatic "100%!". This is wrong, IMO.

I feel like this is the wrong way to look at it.

A better way IMO is: don't scale prematurely.

Build things as you need them. In the vast majority of cases, even CDNs are an unnecessary cost (presuming you're not paying the exorbitant cloud provider bandwidth tax). If you start to see performance issues, then deal with it as needed.

And if your workhorse suddenly grows that coveted single horn?

That's a problem you want to have!

See my above comment; Redis Labs did not create redis.

"Chastise the creators?"

Redid Labs did not create Redis. They were the original leeches in this, in a way, from my understanding. They just bought the trademark from the dude who actually did create it.

Someone else made more money on the property they were trying to appropriate from the community, so they decided to add an artificial barrier to competition and found out what happens when the other players are bigger than them.

I'm assuming this is from micronics3d[1]?

I'm not in a position to watch the video at the moment, but I don't see where the price was announced other than in the description of said video...

[1] https://www.micronics3d.com

There's also the fact that they were recently acquired [1], unfortunately (IMO).

I've said it before: I would totally buy one of those just to hang on my wall. It's a truly awesome project, and I love blinkenlights!

[1] https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2024/bantam-tools/

This problem seems very overblown to me. The simple answer is "don't skimp."

- Use a power supply that can deliver enough current

- Use good USB cables that can actually carry said current (a lot of people miss this one)

- Do not use cheap SD cards

- Oversize your card so that the card can properly perform wear-levelling.

I have a pair of Raspberry Pi's (2's and/or 3's IIRC) running constantly since 2015. They're running an ancient version of Redsleeve (and are on my list to rebuild but never mind that). DNS, DHCP, and a few other services run on them. They've also survived multiple abrupt powerfail events.

They log to the SD card, and yet I've never had a problem. I personally believe that the fact that I'm using oversized cards with gigabytes of free space is the key. Well, perhaps that and the fact that my personal home directory is on NFS.

Or maybe I'm just lucky? Who knows...

> Sub-8-hour LA to NYC by train is beyond any currently known technology.

But oh so close!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26589001

;)

I think you'll need to provide a better example, since the equivalent in most unix shells is...

  mv *.00? oldlogs

Just sayin'. =)

It may be that they can't release it open source. How much of other peoples' proprietary code is in that kernel?

To be clear, I'm not talking illegal theft or anything of the sort -- but it's quite possible that they've licensed things over the years (code, patents, ...) and thus cannot open source it.

Not saying this is or isn't true, just something to consider when trying to figure out the why of things.

I said it sounds like one, not that it is one. I don't know enough about the implementation of it to comment intelligently, but logically it seems to me that if you can compute on it, then it's likely to leak the data, or at least some metadata about the data.

The truth of the matter may be something other. Life is not always logical.

Strangely enough, I know the answer to that, if memory is serving.

Homomorphic encryption is where you can compute on the encrypted data without ever decrypting it.

Logically, it sounds like a pipe dream to me, but apparently it's a thing.

I have every expectation that they're doing what they believe to be the right thing for themselves. I have no objection to that, and it isn't meant to be negative toward them in any way. I don't actually know them, for one. :)

It doesn't make it any less sad, however. It's just... the end of an era, it feels like.

I also have issues with M&A practices to begin with. While I can't speak for this particular case, I do worry that in general the frequency of M&A is trending toward harmful to our society. That may be coloring my view.

I just hope they release the MOnSter 6502 someday. That thing is cool, and if I happened to have the money, I'd probably pay a grand to be able to hang one on my wall...

On the other hand, the buttons on my microwave don't move around six times a year. It doesn't interrupt my cooking to show me ads, either...

The buried detail that Evil Mad Scientist was acquired by Bantam Tools deserves an article on its own IMO. I find it sad that such a nifty small (and seemingly very personal) business would get gobbled up (though I would be happy if they proved me wrong about the typical fate of acquired companies!).

Disclaimer: I have not delved into AI to any great degree.

Where this kind of statement ("Holy crap! It wrote me a program and it worked!") tends to make me skeptical is this: the program always seems to be something that's already been done a million times before.

IOW, something that was probably somewhere in the model's input dataset.

I would want to see it produce something truly unique that I'm trying to do for my business -- something that's never been done before. Then we can talk about AI's ending coding.

Until then, they're going to be a tool used by actual coders IMO.