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tempest_on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

How much has Google spent on Chrome.

Big numbers without context are not useful outside of taking advantage of people who don't think critically.

tempest_on Why Ruby on Rails still matters

Presumably CF is doing most of the work if the page doesnt actually change all that much?

tempest_on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

ZFS is like magic.

Every time I think I might need a feature in a file system it seems to have it.

tempest_on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

I personally like to get 1 of every animal if I can.

I just get 1/3 Toshiba, 1/3 WD, 1/3 Seagate.

tempest_on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

If you log in to the CF dashboard every 3 months or so you will see pretty clearly they are slowly trying to be a cloud provider like Azure or AWS. Every time I log in there is a who new slew of services that have equivalent on the other cloud providers. They are using the CDN portion of the business as a loss leader.

tempest_on Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design

GRPC is a nice idea weighed down by the fact that it is full of solutions to google type problems I dont have. It seems like a lot of things have chosen it because a "binary" like rpc protocol with a contract is a nice thing to have but the further away from GoLang you get the worse it is.

tempest_on Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation

Part of it I think is the confidence with which LLMs return answers

tempest_on Please don't force dark mode

It didn't have to though.

Lotus 1-2-3 mimicked a spreadsheet and it is not searing white.

tempest_on Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

https://web.archive.org/web/20051029095046/http://www.planet...

https://intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html

https://github.com/kgaughan/mercury

tempest_on Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

It isnt so much that they "were so good".

It isnt like the people using the net before facebook etc just stopped what and how they were doing things and moved to facebook.

The large tech firm offering were easier, it allowed people access to the internet in an easy to use way who would not otherwise have done so.

The internet in 2000 was a much much smaller place with far different demographics.

tempest_on Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

Can you see profiles without logging in again?

Something that really pissed me off is how much of a "support channel" it became for things like my internet provider. If the internet went down their twitter was often the only place you could get info.

tempest_on Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)

The average life of a consumer good anymore is sometimes measured in months. By the time you know the compressor on a particular fridge model is junk that model is no longer sold.

I have found with the exception of very expensive brands, 20k dollar fridges etc. they are all junk and paying more just gets you useless features like wifi connectivity or a tablet in the door that will be part of a botnet in 3 months.

tempest_on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch

What format does that take? Is it the "Click Ok to agree to everything so you can use the app" type crap?

I am reticent to give Tesla the benefit of the doubt.

tempest_on Rust: Tools (early access edition)

The saying itself is from a time before many books had such descriptive covers.

tempest_on The deterioration of Google

The internet is shrinking. The value of indexing the wider internet has less and less value to the average person. So much sits in walled gardens now and for many people that is perfectly fine. If it isnt in tiktok or instagram it doesnt exist.

tempest_on The deterioration of Google

They totally let you. How many people do you think go in and change the default? Otherwise paying to make Google the default would not have any value.

tempest_on The deterioration of Google

Another thing to consider is that those sites would rather you did you click those links. They don't benefit when you leave the platform and they down rank things they think will cause users to leave the walled garden regardless of the content.

tempest_on The deterioration of Google

There is nothing stopping people from going to Bing sure but I think you are forgetting that most people now a days interact with the internet through a mobile device.

Typing w w w . b i n g . c o m on a mobile device is are a huge barrier to entry vs just using the google search box Google pays the phone manufactures to bake into the the OS.

tempest_on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch

> sentry and dashcam data is only stored locally.

That must be new https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...

tempest_on Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch

I found it only took me ~20 minutes to get Open-WebUI and Ollama going on my machine locally. I don't really know what is happening under the hood but from 0 to chat interface was definitely not too hard.

tempest_on The tech utopia fantasy is over

So we just need a nice all encompassing global conflict again that largely leaves the American industrial base alone and then when it is the only one standing there can be another growth in the American middle class.

tempest_on Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all

They mean a single family home which might be described as a "detached house"

In the GTHA (including Waterloo) there is no such thing as a starter home any more, which in the past meant "small detached house, probably needs some work". The only thing they build now is very small 500 sqft condos and very large 3000+ sqft houses.

tempest_on Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

We run on our own stuff at our shop.

Some things that are hidden in the cloud providers cost are redundant networking, redundant internet connection, redundant disks.

Likely still cheaper than the cloud obviously but you will need to stomach down time for that stuff if something breaks.

tempest_on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

When Netflix started it was the first in the space and breaking ground which is how they became a "tech" company that happens to stream media however it has been 15 years and since than the cloud providers have basically build "netflix as a service". I suspect most of the big streamers are using that instead of building their own in house thing and going through all the growing pains netflix is.

tempest_on Rust for tokenising and parsing

Go is definitely used a lot more outside of google as of late.

Anecdotally I would say where a lot of companies would have used Java in the past they are now turning to go for their server-side/backend service implementations.

tempest_on WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

They are in theory owed nothing more than their salary but it can be very good for moral to reward that type of thing (assuming they are not introducing a perverse incentive)

tempest_on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

> "It is important for Canadians to adopt good cyber security practices and assess the possible risks of using social media platforms and applications, including how their information is likely to be protected, managed, used and shared by foreign actors, as well as to be aware of which country's laws apply."

I am sure that Canadians will totally do this.

tempest_on pg_flo – Stream, transform, and re-route PostgreSQL data in real-time

If you click on getdozer.io you get redirected to https://langdb.ai/

Looks like they are pivoting to LLM integration.

tempest_on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

Outside of Ampere(who are really more server focused) who else is designing desktop/laptop ARM cpus?

tempest_on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

Their margins tend to allow them to always use the latest TSMC process so they will often be pretty good just based on that. They are also ARM chips which obviously have been more focused on efficiency historically.