Sparkyte (u/Sparkyte)

Sparkyte commented on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu

Sparkyte · 9 days ago

AI can't work if the OS isn't secure... lol... I'm doomed.

Sparkyte commented on Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots nytimes.com/2025/10/29/te... · Posted by u/geox

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

I think ChatBots are not very helpful if you don't treat them with scrutiny. There should be a mandatory requirement of a disclaimer before interacting with all AI.

Sparkyte commented on OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-p... · Posted by u/badprobe

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

Staying in California doesn't mean it will keep employees in California. Prepare for the great offshoring.

Sparkyte commented on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres topicpartition.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/enether

joaohaas · 2 months ago

Even if the data is important, you can enable WAL and make sure the worker/consumer gets items by RPOPLPUSHing to a working queue. This way you can easily requeue the data if the worker ever goes offline mid-process.

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

Very true.

Sparkyte commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

oasisbob · 2 months ago

In us-east-1? That doesn't sound that impactful, have always heard that us-east-1's network is a ring.

Back before AWS provided transparency into AZ assignments, it was pretty common to use latency measurements to try and infer relative locality and mappings of AZs available to an account.

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

It was a long time ago. It was very impactful at the time. You could still reach the other AZes but that one. I think this was US-East1c.

Sparkyte commented on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres topicpartition.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/enether

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

You can also use Redis as a queue if the data isn't in danger of being too important.

Sparkyte commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

yuvadam · 2 months ago

During the last us-east-1 apocalypse 14 years ago, I started awsdowntime.com - don't make me regsiter it again and revive the page.

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

I remember the one where some contractor accidentally cut the trunk between AZes.

Sparkyte commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

atymic · 2 months ago

Looks like maybe a DNS issue? https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.c...

Resolves to nothing.

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

Maybe they forgot to pay the bills.

Sparkyte commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

nikolay · 2 months ago

Choosing us-east-1 as your primary region is good, because when you're down, everybody's down, too. You don't get this luxury with other US regions!

Sparkyte · 2 months ago

I am down with that lets all build in US-East-1.

Sparkyte commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

Sparkyte · 4 months ago

It is too late it is already happening. The evolution of tech field is people being more experienced and not AI. But AI will be there for questions and easy one liners. Properly formalized documentation, even TLDRs.