Not to mention the local cafe owner probably paid some money (not much, but some) to a random designer to get a menu, which is often 10x worst than the AI generated version.
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To be precise, the tool and the artist are two different things. You can make crap with brushes or PS, and you can make art too.
AI is a tool too. What I build with it is orders of magnitude less important/interesting compared to what a talented artist can build with it.
Tangentially related: https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/07/07/where-is-qrdo/ It's a "where is the QR" game, where a mobile is more capable in finding the pattern than a human.
Who said we're building them because we have to? I like TUIs, and often prefer them over GUIs, depending on the case.
The hard part is the casing/keyboard/screen that replicates the original, but offers modern connectors, power consumption, etc.
Stash lets you stash away piped data or files, manage them and retrieve them. It's built to fit nicely in command line workflows.
* Against whom must it be secured? Everyone, including national agencies and organised crime.
* What are your potential losses if it's broken? A lot of money.
* How can you be sure you've used a secure implementation? No idea
* What do you think the "strongest available crypto" currently is? No idea, but I would guess someone has this answer
* Can you be sure that the key will never be compromised? No, but this is a separate problem, I assume here that the key is not compromised.
* Where will you store the key? Off-line
* Do you need to send the key to someone else? No.
* Where will the encryption happen? Locally.
We have been working with AWS Glacier for two years now, and we are very well aware of its complicated pricing scheme.
Part of our offering is the abstraction layer over Glacier's pricing. Yes, you may download all your files today. But this will probably be just 0.001% of the total Glacier storage we manage, and as such, it will not cost BigStash as much.
Something you didn't mention, is that there are also bandwidth costs involved. But the way our service is designed is more suitable for the kind of data you will rarely download. (And BTW, this will probably be a long-term relationship, if we live up to our promise and offer a good and reasonably priced service.)
Plus, most users will not use 100% of the storage they purchase. We expect this to be more often in larger plans, that's why we are offering a lower price per GB.
The idea is simple: this is an archiving service in the cloud. If you want to test an archiving service in the cloud, you will probably want to upload multiple GB. We wanted our users to feel free to use the service in order to decide if it fits their needs.
Yes, if you store 5TB it will cost you $500 next year. But that's relatively cheap compared to most other cloud storage services.