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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> We know that Anthropic and OpenAI and Meta are panicking Right after Altman turned OpenAI to private to boot...
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
The $500B wasnt given to the founders, investors and execs to do it better. It was given to them to enrich the tech exec and investor class. That's why it was that expensive - because of the middlemen who take enormous gobs of cash for
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> This does not sound healthy. Its not - the entire Silicon Valley / VC thing was enabled by the free cash created by the zero-interest economy. Now that went away, and everything is coming crashing down back to reality.
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WordPress as an All-Inclusive Cloud Service(pressbard.com)
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> There was a time when you could just set up a WordPress site at any web host and that was good enough. You could just run your site and that was it. The Internet was fairly new, the users were enthusiastic, interested and they had time
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Colleges started out as vocational schools for priests Not really. Higher education started with Ancient Egypt's "School of Life" (surveying, mathematics, architecture, medicine etc - physical sciences) and "School
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Tech is disrupting democracy? So before tech, there was democracy? Is that why the media sold the nonexistent Iraqi WMDs back in 2003?
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
American traffic is expensive and they scarcely do peering agreements. And the backbone providers are probably jacking up the prices to boost revenue in these inflationary times. Eu users are not affected because the Eu invested heavily in
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Hetzner values its old customers a LOT for some reason...
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
If that ticked you off, Hetzner support would tick you off even more. Within ~45 minutes of opening a ticket, you get an actual engineer to look into your case, and they are constantly blunt and semi-irate both because of the German work cu
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Rather, the backbone providers dont do peering agreements and the traffic is very expensive, especially in the post-zirp inflation period. Europe is different - everybody peers with everybody so traffic is dirt cheap.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
What? Afaik they are unmetered. And real unmetered - there are people who are saturating their connections 24/7 while using them.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Hetzner has all of that. And cloud. Its just that their dedicated server offerings are SO attractive that people keep mentioning that. Otherwise its not like their cloud offering is also very attractive.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Server / CPU / RAM / SSD quality I had no issues with Hetzner's component and especially network quality for a decade now. Before that, yeah, there could be some hiccups and issues. But they stopped being issues a l
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Yeah. Lets ask... https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-...
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
The UN rapporteurs who were tasked with overseeing the sanctions that the US effected against Iraq for the first one. And that was before the war. For the rest, use your imagination. ... Its 20 years after the war. There are still people wh
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Is this a moral decision, or a legal decision? If it's a legal decision, one can understand that, but it also brings up questions about the project's independence and neutrality. Any country and organization can now deem the proje
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> JS onto your site without understanding what it does. That's negligence Everybody understood what it did. It was legal at the time. Then it was made illegal. The lawsuit literally retroactively includes the period in which it was
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Funding bias always existed in science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias#:~:text=Funding%2... . But at the start of the pandemic, Pfizer lobbyists out-lobbying everyone else while rushing to corner the market
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Nobody seems to have noticed that Matt Mullenweg stopped responding to everyone everywhere (including HN) after they hired the external law firm. They likely told him to shut up.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> No, the spaghetti code has always been bad for customers Never ever seen one single non-technical website owner or user complain about 'spaghetti code'. As for 'code quality affecting other things', that's our
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> That's why the WordPress code is still spaghetti more than 15 years after it was originally launched. For the good of the customers. Thats actually true. Backward compatibility was and still is the #1 thing in WP, and its why it w