Readit NewsRegarding Laddad's point, building tools native to distributed systems programming might be intrinsically difficult. It's not for lack of trying. We've invented numerous algebras, calculi, programming models, and experimental programming languages over the past decades, yet somehow none has really taken off. If anything, I'd venture to assert that object storage, perhaps including Amazon DynamoDB, has changed the landscape of programming distributed systems. These two systems, which optimize for throughput and reliability, make programming distributed systems much easier. Want a queue system? Build on top of S3. Want a database? Focus on query engines and outsource storage to S3. Want a task queue? Just poll DDB tables. Want to exchange states en masse? Use S3. The list goes on.
Internally to S3, I think the biggest achievement is that S3 can use scalability to its advantage. Adding a new machine makes S3 cheaper, faster, and more reliable. Unfortunately, this involves multiple moving parts and is therefore difficult to abstract into a tool. Perhaps an arbitrarily scalable metadata service is what everyone could benefit from? Case in point, Meta's warm storage can scale to multiple exabytes with a flat namespace. Reading the paper, I realized that many designs in the warm storage are standard, and the real magic lies in its metadata management, which happens to be outsourced to Meta's ZippyDB. Meanwhile, open-source solutions often boast about their scalability, but in reality, all known ones have certain limits, usually no more than 100PBs or a few thousand nodes.
25 years ago: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf (Time flies.)
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My SaaS version of https://datasette.io is the open source version plus 76 plugins. Almost all of those plugins are themselves open source, with just a few that aren't for features that are unique to the SaaS product - things like showing how much disk space the user has used up already.
Here's what that custom plugin looks like, it's pretty thin: https://gist.github.com/simonw/114131fd9c1826f3629cc3b3dcb84...
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Results: https://twitter.com/jbarham74/status/1760587123844124894
I used to walk over it almost every day when I worked at a coworking space in the old Lonely Planet HQ building. I think a lot of locals drive over it without ever realizing it's there.
How can that be?
Direct consumption emissions are eliminated.
Those with solar (a growing percentage) reduce their indirect emissions from grid non-renewable generators.
And there is a growing percentage of green generation on the grid.
Because a reduction of domestic gas usage will just be diverted to less efficient LNG exports.
Given that by far the largest source of Victoria's electricity generation capacity is from dirty brown coal [1] if anything banning domestic gas usage might even make emissions worse since it will force people to use only electricity for cooking and heating.
> Direct consumption emissions are eliminated.
Ah, so burning Aussie natural gas in Asia (after it's been liquified and then turned back into gas) is somehow better for the environment than just burning it in Australia?
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Victoria#Electricity...
As of 2023, Australia is the world's second largest LNG exporter (source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1262074/global-lng-expor...) after the US (take that Russia!) and ahead of Qatar. Great for the gas exporting cartel but not so great for ordinary Australians in eastern states who now pay the same for gas as people in Tokyo. (And Aussies wonder why manufacturers keep leaving...)
Banning domestic gas usage for new homes (which the fools running Victoria, the state I live in, have done) will do nothing for emissions but will mean that the gas cartel can make even more money exporting LNG to Asia. Bravo!
The exception is Western Australia which is also a massive LNG exporter but has stricter domestic reservation requirements than the eastern states.
All of the above has been extensively documented at https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/ (source: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww....).
Our government intends to spruik this at the UN and get other countries on board.
Our government has said there will always be a non id method
Youtube will still be accessible it is just the account making/usership which will be banned
Posting my threaded comment higher up:
I'm an australian who completed the esafety survey which helped guide this policy. I pushed for anonymous temporary age verification tokens generated through a government app.
Social media is undermining the fabric of our societies and destroying a whole generations emotional development and institutionalising a culture of infectious insecurity. I support this- in part because I know those who want to get around enough or be private will always find a way, but it has a positive, reality affirming effect on the public.
Watch the press conference from our PM and comms minister from yesterday to make up your mind on if this is coming from a place of compassion or control. They have said repeatedly they will always ensure a non id method is ensured. I know there are flaws in that though. https://youtu.be/SCSMQUmrh38?feature=shared
It's interesting to see that the press conference felt so uniquely grounded in reality and authentically emotional- maybe that's because they are directly challenging the delegitimising impermanent reality of social media-
Yes they did bring families with children who had passed from social media abuse on stage but it felt genuine. Doesn't mean your privacy concerns aren't real but they don't always trump protecting a childs emotional development.
Cute. Let's see the reviews for an existing Australian government auth app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.mygov.m...
And the kicker is that the above app doesn't even need to exist since myGov could just use industry standard TOTP two-factor auth like the dozens of other services I use.
Aussie politicians once again conforming to their lucky country stereotype:
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."