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by knorker 8d ago
I feel like this is hindsight bias, and in a different scenario you'd be saying "not hosting your infrastructure in a DC without AWS level diesel backup contracts is even better". Which I already said, and you ignored. Anyway
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by knorker 9d ago
Which is why your job as a responsible company you should have verified your offsite backups on 28th Feb. Just like you would if wildfires started breaking new records in Oregon, if that's where your (for some reason sole) cloud region
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by knorker 9d ago
Sure. But given that the affected customers would by definition not have offsite backup, the comparison is against a smaller operator that has way more risk of fires, theft, bankruptcy, incompetence, earthquakes, power delivery, and all the
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by knorker 9d ago
> If your organization runs on AWS then you should have a contingency plan for the data center being destroyed by drones. If your organization runs on servers in your basement you should have a contingency plan for flooding, fire, copper
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by knorker 9d ago
> You don't need better missile defense than AWS. Well, obviously. > You don't need missile defense at all because you won't be a target. No, you don't need it because you have offsite backups. And this is complete
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by knorker 10d ago
What's you point? That if you had run your own DC in that region (because that was your business requirement) then you'd have better missile defense than AWS? Or maybe AWS or DIY, you are always responsible for geographic diversit
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by knorker 13d ago
As someone who did train one of the traditional martial arts for a few years, I appreciate the comparison. I don't know how much weight your "just" is meant to carry, but I remember a culture of cope and excuses about why &qu
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by knorker 14d ago
Well, for one it breaks right click and copy link location.
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by knorker 16d ago
Again, that only works for large companies, and for companies that can exists even if their service is downloadable. Which fine, you can choose to take that political stance. But that's a stance of "I want to change the world to
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by knorker 19d ago
This means you have only solved the problem for large companies, and specifically those who have money and who have a functioning procurement system that's developer-driven. Which is a very narrow use case. Also relevant comment: ht
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by knorker 19d ago
Sure, but for anything except large companies it has a bootstrapping problem. I'm absolutely not going to use AGPL software in a test one-person trying to sell a service kind of deal. So if it takes off, I'm already on a non-AGPL
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by knorker 19d ago
Yup. As I said in another comment "I treat AGPL as a rabies infected animal. I may have uses for it, but I'll keep it EXTREMELY segregated from everything else".
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by knorker 19d ago
Could you please take my question at face value? > I chose to do it for free to help other people. And picking a MIT license does the opposite. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. I want to help other people, then giving them t
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by knorker 19d ago
Not really "one disadvantage" as much as "the main use case".
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by knorker 19d ago
What's the difference to you between a rug pull and theft?
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by knorker 19d ago
Do we really need the latest kernel on them, though? As in, is it worth it? In 100 years, if we need to run kernel 6.12 to use a 3c509, is that all that bad? It's not like being "stuck" on an old IRIX without the proprietary
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by knorker 20d ago
Huh? You release code so that people will have to rewrite it? I really don't understand what your goal would be in releasing code at all, then.
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by knorker 20d ago
Which could make the business untenable. I'm not GP commenter, but I do want to be useful to these too. And as others have said the deceptive term of "plugging the SaaS loophole" ignores that it means most software cannot be
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by knorker 20d ago
Do you have data on that last bit, or just a guess? As a hobbyist and OSS developer I treat AGPL as a rabies infected animal. I may have uses for it, but I'll keep it EXTREMELY segregated from everything else.
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by knorker 20d ago
> Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along. No. YOU changed your mind, to become less free and more authoritarian. > gained little for users What?
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by knorker 1mo ago
It was one vote away from going Thomas's way, so I wouldn't say it doesn't matter what he thinks. As a non-american, I would have enjoyed the precedent that the logical conclusion had to be that I would not be subject to the
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by knorker 1mo ago
I also find it useful to see someone's progression. Newer posts on a topic from the same person will usually have clearer thinking about it.
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by knorker 1mo ago
I disagree with removing timestamps. It's extremely frustrating to read some technical post somewhere only to finally see that it was written in 2008. The very first thing I read now on that site when looking for a good example of this
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by knorker 1mo ago
If there's anything that's anachronistic, it's native apps. You want it graphical: Make a webapp. You don't: Make a TUI. What exactly is the use case for native apps? Even lots of legacy code can build to WASM now. (yes,
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by knorker 1mo ago
So wrong. They're fast, efficient, work across SSH, in a tmux, and survive the almost daily browser upgrades. And they are easy to run as separate users without VNC or sandbox hell. Like do you want to think about X/Wayland isolat
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by knorker 1mo ago
This reminds me how I've had to tell people to try to type better and nt us wird abbrvs, even if it means they can type it faster. Because if you want 100 people to read it, then every second you waste for the reader is worth you fixin
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by knorker 1mo ago
> Their employee base in Washington has almost no american born engineers. Was that a sharp turn, or was it related in some way?
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by knorker 1mo ago
I don't feel like power users are catered to either. Like if you have a Google workspace account (if you're not a company, that's a power user) then you can't do "remind me to X". That's reserved for non-p
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by knorker 2mo ago
NSA chief also says water is wet.
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by knorker 2mo ago
Having the word "secure" as part of the product name is pretty brave, especially if you're Cisco.

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