http://litestep.net/ - worth to go and check this website. This is internet we used to have. Simple page, no crap, JS, etc., loads immediately and then stays in the cache.
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"I'm always surprised how they supposedly also manage to be some of the most cunning and evil actors when it comes to hacking"
This sentiment is probably overblown. The fact that they are effectively robbing people to earn some money for their pathetic regime means only that they are on the level of nowadays internet scammers. They are good at that too.
Spending enough money (and they spend a lot - 26 million people work only for this) one can train people to do this or hire people to do this for them.
This is good for the company, chances are you will eat more tokens. I liked Aider approach, it wasn't trying to be too clever, it used files added to chat and asks if it figure out that something more is needed (like, say, settings in case of Django application).
This article wasn’t written by ChatGPT — I wrote it myself. It’s meant to be just a brief explanation. I’m currently preparing a detailed piece about Workers & Pages, but it’s not that easy. The documentation isn’t very clear, so you end up figuring out many things empirically.
Oddly enough nowadays CERN is very much like a big corpo, yes they do science, but there is a huge overhead of corpo-like people who running CERN as an enterprise that should bring "income".
All this impractical knowledge people accumulated over centuries gave you cars, planes, computers, air condition, antibiotics, iphones, and, in fact, everything you have when human kind left the trees. So I would rather burn this 1,3 terawatt on this than on, say, running Facebook or bitcoins mining.
The funny part is that Google puts watermark on the generated graphics, because they are oh so not evil and socially responsible.
Unless you pay Google more, what is mentioned at the very bottom of this infomercial.
"Recognizing the need for a clean visual canvas for professional work, we will remove the visible watermark from images generated by Google AI Ultra subscribers and within the Google AI Studio developer tool."
BTW: anyone with the skills found in 1 min on the Internet can remove all of those ids, etc. (yes, as you might guess, the website is called remove synth id dot com...)
You can but that doesn't neccesarily mean you should.
I tried it for a while, after seeing my Eve Online friend skipping through tasks at a rate of knots without any mouse movement. My god the amount of tab pressing I had to do to get anything done was crippling. I might have to jump through 15 times to get to something that would take me less than a second to click.
Right, but not all, which is what makes unplugging your mouse from Windows painful. On Linux, I often forget to plug my mouse in and only notice when I want to play a game or something.
This is all true. But... But if you manage your own server, as the author advice, you need to figure out a lot of stuff and remember about a lot of stuff.
Are ulimits set correctly?
Shall I turn on syn cookies or turn them off because of performance?
What are the things I should know but I don't and Chat GPT has not told me them, as this is more than some intro tutorial on how to run VPS on DO, so it was never indexed by Chat GPT and alikes.
Is all of my software on the server up to date? Is there any library I use exploited, zero day attacks are on me too, blocking bots, etc. What if I do some update but it will turn out that my Postgres version is not working correctly anymore? This is all my problem.
What if I need to send emails? These days doing this ourselves is a dark art by itself (IP/domain address warming up, checking if my domain has not ended on some spam list, etc.).
What if I need to follow some regulations, like European Union GDPR compliance? Have I done everything what is needed to store personal data as GDPR requires? Is my DB password stored in a compliant way or I will face a fine up to 10% of my incomes.
This is not black/white situation as the author tries to present and those who use cloud services are not dumbards who are buying some IT version of snake oil.
Setting up the email server is the only thing I couldn't do with my own home hosted setup because you're at the mercy of your internet provider to give you the PTR record in their network, and lately many providers outright refuse to do it for "your own and their own safety" reasons. This thing alone could be the difference between deciding to host yourself or use a cloud service.
Just use the Postmark web service API, cheap, reliable, and far more if one really wants to lean into email with their online service. https://postmarkapp.com/email-api
I am aware of the tons of subscription based email services but that is not the point here. What good is self hosting when you still need to rely on some external paid service for a trivial thing like an email server? The costs add up.
>What if I need to send emails? These days doing this ourselves is a dark art by itself (IP/domain address warming up, checking if my domain has not ended on some spam list, etc.).
AFAIK, everyone sending automated emails just uses one of the paid services, like sendmail.
>What if I need to follow some regulations, like European Union GDPR compliance? Have I done everything what is needed to store personal data as GDPR requires? Is my DB password stored in a compliant way or I will face a fine up to 10% of my incomes.
What does this have to do with cloud vs non-cloud? You'll need to manage your data correctly either way.
All of this is true both for dedicated servers and cloud-hosted VMs.
This list looks like FUD, to be honest, trying to scare people. Yes, you should be scared of these things, but none of them are magically solved by hosting your stuff in AWS/Azure/Google or any other could provider du jour.
Some of them are solved by using managed-services that abstract away the messy config / security ops stuff.
The blog entry was wordy and repetitive for what it expressed (AI?), but the cloud argument should boil down to a few simple questions:
- Does it get you regulatory certifications you need?
- Do you need to rapidly scale-up / scale-down?
- Can you afford to hire the (minimal) necessary skills to self-administer servers?
- Can you stay on top of security updates?
Add all that together and you get a few customers who should be using the cloud:
- Regulated companies who want to punt on certs/attestations
- Small/medium growth-oriented startups (unknown needs, low headcount, focus on building product)
- Companies with hardware demand volatility that exceeds their ability to provision it
That's not "all companies" or "no companies" either way, but it is a very large number of companies who are paying cloud premiums without actually needing or benefiting from the cloud value add...
Yes, you will need to employ someone with basic system administration competence. That's a given.
Cloud infra is touted as obviating the need to hire system administrators, but that's a marketing fabrication. Trying to manage infrastructure without the necessary in-house skills is a recipe for disaster, whether it's in the cloud or on-prem.
He was sentenced to pay $10,050, today he would not get away that easily I guess...
Another thing I didn't know (citing Wikipedia):
"In 1995, Morris cofounded Viaweb with Paul Graham, a start-up company that made software for building online stores. It would go on to be sold to Yahoo for $49 million[14], which renamed the software Yahoo! Store. "
and (same source):
"He is a longtime friend and collaborator of Paul Graham. Along with cofounding two companies with him, Graham dedicated his book ANSI Common Lisp to Morris and named the programming language that generates the online stores' web pages RTML (Robert T. Morris Language) in his honor."
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