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by shafyy 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote (based in Germany) I'm an exprienced full-stack web developer and entrepreneur. I'm currently bootstrapping my start-up and looking for freelance work to pay the bills. My home turf is Ruby on Rails (> 10
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by shafyy 2y ago
True, was also considering this. Just thought having a CDN would be useful at some points (e.g. to compress/resize images, generate source sets of images automatically)
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by shafyy 2y ago
Yes, that's one possibility I was also considering, thanks!
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by shafyy 2y ago
Yeah, I've also experimented with BunnyCDN and KeyCDN. I'd like to stay with an EU provider if possible.
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AltStore ( https://altstore.io/ ) is available, but only has two apps last time I checked.
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by shafyy 2y ago
What's the best way to simplify self-hosting static sites? Is there some sort of Netlify for self-hosting that also integrates with selected CDNs or similar?
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by shafyy 3y ago
It's true that the US moves more freight by rail compared to for example EU. But that doesn't mean the reason for this is the mostly excellent passenger rail system in the EU. I'm not an expert here at all, but for example th
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by shafyy 3y ago
There are many instances of excellent freight and passenger rails systems all over the world. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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Sorry, but how does this make it better? If something, it makes it worse. And you describing his statement as "accurate and mild" is also not great.
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And then people wonder why the EU is deeming US legal entities in violation of GDPR, even if the actual data never leaves the EU. Exactly because of shit like this.
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Notably also the CDU, Angela Merkel's party. Of course, CDU is now reversing course and saying that they were never against nuclear, but this is factually wrong.
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Are Fortune, The Weather Channel, Fast Company, and National Geographic really your customers?
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A great book I can recommend on this very topic: Bullshit Jobs ( https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp... )
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> Right, that's why I'm also working with the assumption they are legit. Just too high-profile not to be. People like Madoff etc. were super high-profile and ran scams worth billions for decades. Being high-profile was part o
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by shafyy 3y ago
Also, Microsoft investing billions of dollars into OpenAI, many of that in form of Azure credits, with OpenAI then spending those credits and more and bringing in revenue for Microsoft.
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There are already tons of national parks in Europe, it's not like this is the first one.
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Isn't one of the "advantages" of cryptocurrencies that all transactiosn can be verified decentrally and indpendently? How would you do that if people can hide the transaction details?
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Because companies like OpenAI market the shit out of them to get people to believe that ChatGPT can do anything.
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by shafyy 3y ago
I'm not familiar with how exactly Monero works. But as long as it uses a public blockchain, there must be traces of money coming into Monero and money going out - you can probably do it very smartly, but if you move big amounts of mone
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by shafyy 3y ago
I mean, crypto payments are not anonymous anyways. They are pseudonymous. And no, this is not just pedantry on my side. If a government really wants, they figure out the pseudonym(s) - you basically just need to find one instance where you
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by shafyy 3y ago
No. The problem is that we live in a society where everything anybody does needs to have a financial motive, otherwise you get fucked. And you drank the big corp kool-aid in gallons if you truly think defending a dude that just earned $193M
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No billionaire made the world a better place.
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Most people are rich because they were born rich. Very few millionaires and billionaires were middle-class or poor and then started a company to get rich. And even those had an unfair advantage (e.g., born at the right time, at the right pl
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by shafyy 3y ago
Late-stage capitalism nightmare examples: * Inequality in societies is as large as ever, and inequality is one of the main predcitors how happy a society is * Influence of people and corporations with money on politics and society is unprec
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by shafyy 3y ago
> It's more exciting to work on your own project than someone else's. And you can also get a lot richer. In fact, this is the standard way to get really rich. If you look at the lists of the richest people that occasionally ge
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> I am really super surprised that basic survival needs are NOT on the table when we are all arguing about religion, abortion, guns, etc. Like really? Most people in the world struggle to feed themselves and their families. This is the
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"A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything" My fucking god, I'm really disgusted by "journalists" who hype up everything so that they can get a few clicks. Journalism ought to be crit
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> They didn't do this before the regulation Yes, because they just tracked you and you didn't have a choice and didn't even know that they were tracking you probably. You don't seem to understand what GDPR does. Ver
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We usually use anti-tick spray on our skin and clothes when hiking in tick-infested areas, and then check for ticks in the evening. Also important to long pants and shirts if possible.
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> If the cookie law was written properly then it would have just been a browser setting that had to be respected and this whole thing would have been completely transparent to the end user and they would have benefitted by default. The

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