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miniman1337on Mac at Any Scale

I dont think thats an correct interpretation of the EULA, they are just choosing to ignore it - https://wiki.licenseware.io/catalog/rules/apple-macos-lease-...

miniman1337on Mac at any scale

Ah okay - and the 24 hour minimum rental time doesn't apply to VMs? Im just curious how they are getting around the limits that Mac Stadium and AWS have.

miniman1337on Mac at any scale

Isnt it against the Apple EULA to sell VMs of Macos? Love the creative problem solving with the HW.

miniman1337on Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

https://x.com/geekwire/status/2110875270337163757

miniman1337on Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

really great stuff on here, exploring any of the layers makes me want to learn more about it, maybe finding a way to link to relevant wiki articles for some of the data layers would be neat.

miniman1337on DaVinci Resolve 21

Its all local if that helps?

miniman1337on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)

from the blog linked via Wayback Machine. "From Day 1, we had this notion at the forefront.

The other notion that we have intuited is that you can’t build a cloud on another cloud. We have devoted years of practice running our own metal (and playing well with other clouds) to make sure that Railway’s business, which invariably becomes your customer’s business, is as rock solid as possible."

miniman1337on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

FWIW DCV is free on EC2, and anywhere else it has a very minimal nag without a license.

miniman1337on Fuck the cloud (2009)

the irony

miniman1337on Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

Used Disks, No DR, not exactly a real shoot out.

miniman1337on S3 is showing its age

S3 Object Lambda solves a lot of these "problems" with this design

miniman1337on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts

stumbleupon 2.0

miniman1337on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

this is not correct in the slightest

miniman1337on AWS P5 instances with H100 generally available

3200 Gbps Networking...

miniman1337on Virgin Orbit pauses all operations

Except the engines they built are finally launching in about 2 months.

miniman1337on Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer

CM4 supports it, although its just 1x and PCIe 2.0

miniman1337on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow

not sure if its going to "fix" the housing market, but its a step in the right direction, away from nimbyism.

miniman1337on How Netflix keeps its data infrastructure cost-effective

jpeg-xs?

miniman1337on Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves

Lots of Video and Audio Devices come in 1/3rd and 1/2 rack sizing, this would be good for Blackmagic Ultrastudio type devices. (8.27" wide and need airflow side to side)

miniman1337on Ask HN: Good private email host with IMAP?

infomaniak is very cheap and based in Switzerland, has a modern UI and supports IMAP

miniman1337on Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

just watch RPilocator.com to see when they are back in stock

miniman1337on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

AWS RDS is significantly cheaper

miniman1337on Axzez Interceptor carrier board for RPi CM4 gets 8-port PoE+ board

you could take a look at some other SBCs like the upcoming rockpi5 with rockchip rk3588, apparently it's very fast and has lots of pcie to spare

miniman1337on Tesla Vision transition results in confusion over Autopilot safety features

Just ask the Tesla PR team... oh wait.

miniman1337on Florida governor signs bill to ban Big Tech 'deplatforming'

Sure for FedEx / UPS if you break the ToS. USPS might be a different story.