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931.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Fortunately, companies like Hetzner/OVH/etc will handle all this bullshit for you for a flat monthly fee.
932.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> I don't deal with depreciation, I don't deal with data center maintenance. You don't deal with that either if you rent a dedicated server from a hosting provider. They handle the datacenter and maintenance for you for a
933.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
It really depends on your power costs. In certain parts of Europe, power is so expensive that Hetzner actually works out cheaper (despite them providing you the entire machine and datacenter-grade internet connection).
934.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Very good point - I don't have an answer for that. But I'd say if there was a choice between killing a person who is very much alive and conscious by our current standards, and one who is "brain dead" by the same standar
935.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Presumably people who are on the verge of death and beyond any kind of proven treatments. They're technically alive but have a very short predicted lifespan. You can try a novel treatment on those but at the same time are limited by
936.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Don't forget the final dimension of the scam where they also scam the affiliates by doing a rug-pull. Scam-ception.
937.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Mandatory reminder that YC itself has funded and is promoting ( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yotta ) a company that not only lost people's "savings" (despite misleading promises of FDIC insurance
938.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Growth and engagement. I’m sure that during its heyday plenty of product managers, marketers and engineers boasted about lines going up. Unfortunately it turns out there is no magic bank where you can drop all that engagement and get real
939.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
The main problem is that the megaphone dynamically adjusts its volume based on how much “engagement” is being generated by what it’s broadcasting, encouraging inflammatory content. This can be weaponized by commercial or state-sponsored act
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Maybe analyze the target audience before shipping? The problem is that there’s a risk the analysis finds out that “the product adequately fits our target market’s needs, there’s no easy way to adapt to another market, so most pragmatic
941.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
The media has an incentive to frame things as "protesting against Musk" but I wonder how much this is simply due to BYD's better price/quality ratio? Tesla has had quality issues long before Musk's descent into madn
942.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Furthermore, you can always run another VPN on top of that if you don’t trust the outer one with the actual plaintext traffic.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Having an API would mean people actually build useful things and potentially stop “engaging”. Having an MCP server allows them to jump on the AI bandwagon while being pretty useless and not a threat to any “engagement” some of their employe
944.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Just because a company’ business model isn’t advertising doesn’t mean they don’t have oxygen wasters in marketing/product whose performance reviews are based on “engagement” aka amount of human time wasted.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
You’d need to get rid of a huge chunk of the tech industry that relies on “engagement” to justify their job. I don’t expect them to just go away without a fight.
946.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
APIs were popular when technology was a tool to empower the user. But since then technology has mostly shifted to an ad delivery vehicle. APIs get in the way of that (by allowing its user to actually accomplish something besides “engaging”)
947.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
This has all to do with JS devs and everyone converging on this terrible language and ecosystem and nothing with analytics/social media.
948.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
It’s afflicted by the same disease: overuse of JavaScript and the need to give JS developers something to do. If you actually load up a ~2015 version of Jira on today’s hardware it’s basically instant.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
It’s likely incompetence than malice. Chances are they’ve had a lot of customer complaints because some popular free VPN interferes with their app, and adding a blanket warning about VPNs is easier than trying to figure out why it’s not wor
950.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Is the "BitcoinKey" (Kzfyg6...4bUvKpD)? And if so, are you sure this is correct? Pasting this into Electrim's "sweep" feature does not appear to work and says no inputs were found.
951.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
A GNU/Linux phone is dead on arrival unless it provides features that the masses consider a benefit. It's been attempted countless times, and every time it fails to gain adoption because the benefits rarely outweigh the downsides
952.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
If you don’t mind to DIY, consider assembling a mini-ITX PC.
953.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
This is a defense against AI, not a training step. Though a multimodal model should be able to pass it.
954.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> All these technologies can be nice and snappy Maybe in theory, but in practice I see it very rarely. Maybe it starts out great and fast and then devolves into a shitfest. Given how frequent this is, maybe it’s time to actually blame th
955.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Isn't political correctness just politeness ? Maybe in theory, but in practice the cause has been subverted by both the professionally-offended who use offense to advance their own agenda or just seek attention, as well as those w
956.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
A lot of these features are merely software. The insane increase in car prices over the last decade is a combination of profiteering + inflation, not safety features.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
It’s the diversity and inclusion slippery slope again. The initial idea was good and very much needed to eliminate (or at least heavily reduce) long-established racism/bigotry. But the problem is that a lot of people started to abuse i
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Sony professional displays. Any A/V supplier will have them and they’re barely more expensive than retail equivalents.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Alternatively, go-away is also an option: https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away , especially if you don't want cringy branding.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
But what's the difference between one user making 900k hits and 900k different users making one hit? In both cases you have made a resource available and people are requesting it, some more than others. If serving traffic for free is a

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