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by axelthegerman 3y ago
The other thing I try to understand but just can't is how Telco providers can be so incompetent in effectively stopping scam texts. First of, texts are not encrypted and they can see ALL communication. On the other hand the US forces m
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
I agree that moving data between arbitrary systems is an admirable goal, but this whole article doesn't make any sense nor solves anything. Data migration is more than just "a function" that we can "just apply". May
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
I assume you are referring to an Intel N100 and not the OnePlus N100 smartphone... Still a whole system is not just the CPU so suggesting a CPU as a RPi replacement seems a little odd
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> But I guess they don’t really care, which is sad. Hit the nail on the head there. Currently they care about protecting their iOS monopoly. I'm not sure there is much they care about more. PWA, alternative browsers, alternative app
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Lol this must be a bigger joke than the app being removed in the first place. I never heard of anyone who was able to talk to anyone at Google. HN is full of folks getting apps suspended, locked out of their Google account and so on... Not
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
That's the problem, we can't have nice things on the internet anymore. Either you could try adding limitations that would make it less appealing to shady folks, e.g. amount of storage in the value. Or most likely adding user accou
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> if I want an awesome photo to look at of some noteworthy place or event, I can find thousands on line, many taken by people much more talented than me. 100% would be neat if there was a service surfacing those. On the other hand there
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Not sure how well protected this property is in general but if it is then this small personally owned land patches might be one part in protecting these lands. No company in there right mind would be chasing thousands of international land
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Really appreciate some of the advice for sound proofing as well as mention of air quality... All good points. But it seems that the author's situation is one where an office workspace might be the right choice at least for one of them.
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Interesting so another unfair advantage for Apple themselves. AWS and other vendors can't offer per second or minute billing but I assume they're doing it for the 25h of credits.
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Great project! Unfortunately pikapods itself doesn't seem to be open source? I'd love to be able to throw it on my own VPS but appreciate the hosted option as well - very smooth experience when I tried it
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
It has almost 1000 open issues and dozens of dependcy update PRs. It's true that some small software projects can easily live on without much maintenance for a long time, a text editor is no small feat. "Not going to just break&qu
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Yes that's fair, however that's how our complex world works. E.g. we rely on journalism (the real kind) to uncover all kind of scummy behavior. Similar in the OSS world. There is no way to easily verify that unless some trusted bo
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Same as everything you use on your computer... If it's not open source it's already game over. If it is, congratulations feel free to inspect all the code yourself and build from source OR trust the project maintainers and use pre
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Ehm you need to create an account, accept their TOS, enter billing information and then some. They can easily disable your account should you break the TOS (or for any reason really) Not quite the same as hosting an email server somewhere
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> You have to explicitly enter into a contract with a service provider to use their infrastructure. Exactly. And proper providers make legitimate users jump through so many hoops. E.g. with Twilio I can't even send text messages to
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Yea I was wondering about this myself actually... I'm building a SaaS and wanted to add notifications - without building my own app. But now my customers would still have to install the Ntfy app, which then could be used for notificati
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> a hosted solution anywhere I host my VPS Wait what? Hosted or you host on your VPS there is a major difference. Or do you mean you host yourself now and want to be able to move to a hosted solution (or the other way around)
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Wondering how much fossil fuel we want to burn to do that
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Guess we'll have to throw it back on the ice sheet. But ya the fact that it already broke off means we have bigger things to worry about than one specific iceberg
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Actually most of these companies don't offer any 3P API access - or even better only to a few selected partners. Not one you mentioned but Airbnb is a prime example where folks want to automate things but nothing is accessible to hosts
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> but i just wonder what are the HW companies going to do to keep people upgrading their machines Easy, just drop software support for it and force you to buy a new one... Or switch to Linux
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Totally agree this is the real problem. Where do creators go if not YouTube!? Ideally they could self host videos which could be expensive AND not bring any revenue, neither do they are they discoverable - this is where the internet is brok
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Sure but some businesses care about how much they spend and then about capex vs opex. I'd rather have $1 in capex than $10 in opex
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> The computer that runs the cloud should be able to be purchased and not merely rented. This 100%! Not everything needs to be a subscription. Sure there are running costs for operating that cloud computer as well as ongoing software dev
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
This seems to be around selling the whole piece of hardware not just "time on that". That being said I'd still expect a monthly service fee for networking, electricity and service in general.
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
There is still a massive difference between PaaS and IaaS. I don't think anyone wants to rely on a human to unload a rack from the car, walk into a data center and install it. Doesn't mean that Lambda and hosted kubernetes should
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
> payment process have absolutely no way of knowing anything except those few last numbers of the card This is just plain wrong. 1. Payment processors know everything because they process the payment 2. Application developers don't
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
Fully agreed. While I applaud the effort of making YouTube less hostile and invasive, the only real solution is to stop using it. But then I know people want to have their cake and eat it too - let Google pay for all the hosting and bandwid
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by axelthegerman 3y ago
This!!

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