faust201 (u/faust201)

faust201 commented on YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push bbc.com/news/articles/crk... · Posted by u/1659447091

drnick1 · 3 days ago

> He said YouTube Premium - its service letting users pay to remove ads between videos, or songs on its music service - had helped boost paid subscriptions across Google consumer services to more than 325 million in 2025 overall.

325 million people that don't know about Firefox and uBlock Origin?

faust201 · 3 days ago

Ironically iPhone helps them earn more. Most apple device owners have no choice or awareness.

faust201 commented on Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop alfioemanuele.io/talks/20... · Posted by u/alfie42

digiown · 5 days ago

If you have a password manager, 2FA is pointless anyway. Password manager already serves as two factors: possession of the database and the secret to decrypt it. 2FA is a mitigation against people getting pwned by reusing passwords or using bad passwords. Neither of which applies if you use a password manager. You can use the TOTP feature in KeepassXC for when it is useful.

faust201 · 4 days ago

> 2FA is a mitigation against people getting pwned by reusing passwords or using

Stolen/lost password hashes or some AI based programmer that dumped passwords in plaintext somewhere in a database.

If 2FA is proper even trivial passwords are fine.

faust201 commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001

michelsedgh · 6 days ago

But they still chose an American company, github, lol ironic

faust201 · 6 days ago

With that argument we are discussing this on...errr US - the organization that perhaps grew those companies.

The word is not ironic it is pragmatic.

faust201 commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

clickety_clack · 8 days ago

It’s all downside. If nothing goes wrong, then the company feels like they’re wasting money on a salary. If things go wrong they’re all your fault.

faust201 · 8 days ago

Correct

faust201 commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

olavgg · 8 days ago

> I would rather pay a competent cloud provider than being responsible for reliability issues.

Why do so many developers and sysadmins think they're not competent for hosting services. It is a lot easier than you think, and its also fun to solve technical issues you may have.

faust201 · 8 days ago

> Why do so many developers and sysadmins think they're not competent for hosting services. It is a lot easier than you think, and its also fun to solve technical issues you may have.

It is a different skillset. SRE is also an under-valued/paid (unless one is in FAANGO).

faust201 commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

faust201 · 8 days ago

Look the bottom of that page:

An error occurred: API rate limit already exceeded for installation ID 73591946.

Error from https://giscus.app/

Fellow says one thing and uses another.

faust201 commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob

seanhunter · 12 days ago

No, but I can promise to my current employer that me leaving my job won’t be a critical problem.

It’s less of an issue in the case of a normal job than in an open source project where often the commitment of particular founding individuals to the long-term future of the project is a big part of people’s decision to use or not use that tech in their solutions. Here, given that “Trusted computing” can potentially lock you out of devices you have bought, it’s important for people to be able to judge the risk of getting “legal ransomware”d if the trusted computing base ends up depending on a proprietary component that they can’t back out of.

That said, there is absolutely zero chance that I use this (systemd is already enough Poettering software for me in this lifetime) so I’m not personally affected either way.

faust201 · 11 days ago

Again lots of doomsayers like you said it when systemd was introduced. Nothing happened. Same with RedHat IBM takeover.

faust201 commented on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/mysterydip

tjjuckson · 12 days ago

> to such an extreme in other countries I know like Germany

could you remind me what country is the afd based out of thnx

faust201 · 11 days ago

You do prove the extreme polarized politics. For you it is AfD vs others.

In reality it is not. It is a spectrum of parties. People vote often for smaller parties in the state and larger ones in the national.

faust201 commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob

seanhunter · 16 days ago

That's a perfectly valid objection to this proposal. You only have to look at what happened to Hashicorp to see the risk.

faust201 · 12 days ago

How can anyone promise that? Will you promise to your current employer that you will never leave the job?

faust201 commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob

teiferer · 16 days ago

Insinuation? As a sw dev they don't have any agency over whether or by whom they get acquired. Their decision will be whether to leave if it's changing to the worse, and that's very much understandable (and arguably the ethical thing to do).

faust201 · 12 days ago

Do you mean like IBM takeover of RedHat?