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by roca 5y ago
All our pernos.co infrastructure uses AWS spot VMs. Batch processing runs on spot and fails over to regular VMs as necessary. CI jobs run on spot. Our front-end server running the Web site and our application also runs on spot and automatic
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Structured Identifiers(pernos.co)
43 points by roca 5y ago|4 comments
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by roca 5y ago
Almost everything I search for goes to Google or some other search company, with a lot more metadata attached to it, so yes, I am OK with that apparently.
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by roca 5y ago
> What happens with those queries afterwards? https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su... > Mozilla approaches handling this data conservatively. We take care to remove data fro
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by roca 5y ago
(Actually FirefoxOS is not quite dead; KaiOS lives on. But Mozilla's not funding that.)
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by roca 5y ago
> You don't see a slightest problem with that, no? If adMarketplace is just receiving from Mozilla a stream of (search text, city, clicked yes/no) then no, I don't see a problem with it. If Mozilla sends a unique user ID a
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by roca 5y ago
I'm using Firefox Nightly and it lets me manually control when updates are installed. Alternatively, on Linux you can use the distro Firefox package and control its updates that way.
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by roca 5y ago
It is extremely dangerous to use a browser that is not fully up-to-date.
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by roca 5y ago
FirefoxOS has been dead for at least seven years. That horse is quite dead. The VPN product probably pays for itself. I'm not an insider anymore but aside from FirefoxOS the vast majority of the money has always gone into browser devel
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by roca 5y ago
There's still a Preferences option to opt out of "Play DRM-controlled content", even though I'm sure <5% of people opt out of that. Some options stick around for the sake of principle.
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by roca 5y ago
They don't do any of those things, according to the article. Perhaps you didn't read it.
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by roca 5y ago
According to the page that you apparently didn't read, it's based on the search text you typed and your city location.
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by roca 5y ago
"No new data is collected, stored, or shared to make these new recommendations." "When contextual suggestions are enabled, Mozilla receives your search queries. When you see or click on a Firefox Suggest result, Mozilla colle
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by roca 5y ago
Building a shell around Chromium or Webkit isn't very expensive. Maintaining an independent, high-quality browser engine so that the design and implementation of the Web isn't up to a Google/Apple duopoly is incredibly expens
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by roca 5y ago
The Peace War is okay but oddly enough in this case the sequel Marooned in Realtime is much better IMHO. Much more thought-provoking and genuinely moving.
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by roca 5y ago
Children of the Sky was incredibly disappointing. Fire and Deepness are packed full of great ideas. Children has none.
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by roca 5y ago
Not a nightmare at all. For example, if you're doing JSON processing in Rust, serde_json gives you great tools for this. The serde_json::Value type can represent any JSON value. You parse JSON to specific typed structures when you want
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by roca 5y ago
One key point that this article makes indirectly: this is why the open Web still matters a very great deal.
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by roca 5y ago
I would love to see a Web-based RPG environment with similar play and creation capabilities (and community) to NWN.
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by roca 5y ago
I guess you don't use Google Maps then?
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by roca 5y ago
I swear I can smell that distinctive BYTE smell right now.
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by roca 5y ago
But how much of the "value" of the chain "as a platform for speculation" is simply the hype around crypto? (Which is, in large part, driven by speculation-driven rising prices of cryptocurrencies.) For example, anyone co
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by roca 5y ago
I don't have a breakdown of what people are using Ethereum for, but certainly a lot of those uses are stuff like NFTs, i.e. implementing other purely speculative assets. And there are lots of crypto startups using Ethereum, whose money
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by roca 5y ago
It's inevitable that transactions made in error cause problems for the sender or receiver or both, but it is still better to have a human judge scrutinize the case with the ability to impose a more reasonable outcome than the status qu
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by roca 5y ago
"There must be something of value in these tulip bulbs because everyone is investing in them."
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by roca 5y ago
Kind of annoying how Google commandeered generic-looking domains like web.dev and html5rocks.com.
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by roca 5y ago
Yes, I have an open mind about natural vs lab origin, but either way, Daszak seems to have been engaging in a cover-up.
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by roca 5y ago
The government is not a monolith. The US Congress could do this and individual Congresspeople don't have an obvious interest in covering this up. Edit: the problem looks like partisan politics to me. Republicans have been agitating to
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by roca 5y ago
Daszak should be compelled to reveal everything he knows and all relevant evidence --- all proposals, all emails, all files, any other documentation. I'm mystified why this hasn't already happened. I mean, his career depends on go
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by roca 5y ago
Wages for local NZ companies are mostly bad. In spite of that, we are breeding more and more successful companies for reasons I can only guess at. You have a much better chance of finding interesting work than used to be the case. But the u

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