Nextgrid

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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. I disagree; most people need only a subset of Cloudflare's features. Operating just that subset avoids the risk of the o
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Not a safety-critical system but I know passenger information screens in at least some airports are just full-screen browsers displaying a SaaS-hosted webpage.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Upwork is trash and saturated by spammers from third-world countries. You will earn more money applying to your local burger joint.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> I want a provider that leaves me alone and lets me just throw money at them to do so. That’s been my experience with Hetzner. A lot of people get butthurt that a business dares to verify who they’re dealing with as to filter out the wo
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
It's ultimately spammers and scammers fighting against each other, so you could say the trash is taking itself out. Every dollar they spend fighting is one less dollar spent spamming actual users, so it's a win.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
It seems they did like what Twitter was doing, because it's the same thing with the same problems. No wonder nobody uses it, why use a knockoff when the real thing is free?
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> if you were in a management position when WFH started, you would've seen velocity go through the floor and stay there Comp has also gone through the floor thanks to inflation and stayed there. You get what you pay for I guess?
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Yeah I don't get people who quit when RTO or unreasonable changes are made. Quitting makes it easy for them and means they stop paying you now. Letting them fire you means at worst you end up with the same outcome, at best you call the
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
This is bullshit the search engines want you to believe. It's trivial to detect sites that "defeat" the algorithm; you simply detect their incentives (ads/affiliate links) instead. Problem is that no mainstream search en
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> Get a user to stop logging in as root. It really depends if the machine is hosting anything that you don't want some users to access. If the machine is single-purpose and any user is already able to access everything valuable from
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Because the monetization wouldn't work; anyone can just recompile the FOSS code and legally distribute a free build and users & PC manufacturers would flock to that.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> AI products not working Are Microsoft's AI products built into the OS any better? It may very well be that the reason Apple got such bad press for their AI efforts is that people genuinely wanted to try them and hoped they'd
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> I bet Apple doesn't conveniently change settings in favor of data collection on a regular basis Not to the level of Microsoft, but initially Apple Intelligence would default to on and you'd have to disable it (thankfully it n
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Microservices is an excellent generator for developer busywork and increased headcount. Busywork benefits the developers, increased headcount benefits their manager, and so on.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> through some kind of well defined interfaces Every compiled language has the concept of "interfaces", and can load even compiled modules/assemblies if you insist on them being built separately. The compiler will enforce
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
You can still horizontally scale a monolith and distribute requests equally or route certain requests to certain instances; the only downside is that those instances would technically waste a few hundred MBs of RAM holding code for endpoint
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Many developers started their career during the ZIRP era where none of the typical constraints of "engineering" (cost control, etc) actually applied and complexity & high cloud bills were seen as a good thing, so no wonder.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> I don't want to have to take a graduate-level course on the CAP theorem It would be a blessing if people actually did that, because then they'd avoid useless distributed systems. > using gRPC to poorly and unnecessarily co
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
It's less about how old microservices are and more that ZIRP being over, there is now finally pressure to improve software development efficiency, and to a certain extent, optimize infrastructure costs. Developers are now riding the ne
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> The BEAM ecosystem (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, etc) can do distributed microservices within a monolith. This ain't new. Any language supporting loading modules can give you the organization benefit of microservices (if you consider it
621.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
You hear about the people who complain but not the hundreds of thousands who search for something, get a StackOverflow result, read it and leave happily.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
They have since been bought by private equity and brought on architecture astronauts who moved it to a cloud provider.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Click farms effectively function as janitors, mopping up spam someone else paid to throw so that no real user stumbles upon it, so they are beneficial.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
My understanding is that it's trivially defeatable by configuring the hypervisor to hide itself (passthrough the real CPUID strings from the processor, ACPI/SMBIOS data/etc), and graphics drivers didn't really put any mo
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
I remember booting Crysis with that. I wouldn't say it was playable , but the fact it managed to actually launch was impressive. Maybe with modern hardware & bandwidths it would actually be.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Massive bandwidth usage and video compression artifacts. It's fine for games and media consumption, but may be problematic for office work. Remote desktop protocols prefer lossless compression to achieve pixel-perfect rendering, at the
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Doesn't necessarily make it legal either, but proving that in court would require pitting your own wallet against Microsoft's.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Microsoft doesn't care if a home or hobbyist user uses this, because enforcing the license against such a user is not worth it as the payout wouldn't even cover their own effort/lawyers. Microsoft may absolutely care if you u
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
It's just extreme levels of ass-covering. If you have 3 security solutions installed and get pwned, oh well, it's not your fault. If you had none and get pwned, you get the blame, even if the attack vector wouldn't have been
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
But the worse off people are the more likely some of them are to say "fuck it" and move to the criminal side.

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