Recently came across this, I wonder what the HN crowd thinks about it!
Readit Newswhen you have some draft or first versions, please share. I would be super glad to read it. I have been in TK since I came to Germany, but would be glad to entertain other options.
TK is great if you're on public health insurance. If you qualify for switching to private health insurance, you might find cheaper and better contracts for the cost of more bureaucracy and that having kids costs extra.
I signed up for this awesome site recently, and now I get an email reminder when there's a good chance of a beautiful sunset!
luplex commented on Why we use our own hardware fastmail.com/blog/why-we-... · Posted by u/nmjenkins
The whole push to the cloud has always fascinated me. I get it - most people aren't interested in babysitting their own hardware. On the other hand, a business of just about any size that has any reasonable amount of hosting is better off with their own systems when it comes purely to cost.
All the pro-cloud talking points are just that - talking points that don't persuade anyone with any real technical understanding, but serve to introduce doubt to non-technical people and to trick people who don't examine what they're told.
What's particularly fascinating to me, though, is how some people are so pro-cloud that they'd argue with a writeup like this with silly cloud talking points. They don't seem to care much about data or facts, just that they love cloud and want everyone else to be in cloud, too. This happens much more often on sites like Reddit (r/sysadmin, even), but I wouldn't be surprised to see a little of it here.
It makes me wonder: how do people get so sold on a thing that they'll go online and fight about it, even when they lack facts or often even basic understanding?
I can clearly state why I advocate for avoiding cloud: cost, privacy, security, a desire to not centralize the Internet. The reason people advocate for cloud for others? It puzzles me. "You'll save money," "you can't secure your own machines," "it's simpler" all have worlds of assumptions that those people can't possibly know are correct.
So when I read something like this from Fastmail which was written without taking an emotional stance, I respect it. If I didn't already self-host email, I'd consider using Fastmail.
There used to be so much push for cloud everything that an article like this would get fanatical responses. I hope that it's a sign of progress that that fanaticism is waning and people aren't afraid to openly discuss how cloud isn't right for many things.
In the public sector, cloud solves the procurement problem. You just need to go through the yearlong process once to use a cloud service, instead of for each purchase > 1000€.
wouldn't things like creator-lurker ratio be captured within DAU? as in, poor ratio leads to poor DAU?
Not necessarily. There could be different types of content that requires different types of creators, like imagine professional video producers vs your friends posting about their day.
There could also be a different algorithm/network that allows for a few creators to feed a large number of consumers.
luplex commented on XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging adele.pages.casa/md/blog/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Haha yeah. Within Pidgin I used ICQ, XMPP (over my own VPS), Skype, Facebook messenger, ...
Now I have to use different apps for Signal, Element, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, ...
I can recommend beeper! I don't use it for encrypted messengers because I don't want to accidentally leak incoming messages that were sent with the expectation of e2ee.
But it's great for catching a few of the odd ones.
I usually play it on here:
https://gridgames.app/battleships/
In this version, the field can be prefilled with some ship parts
I think the effective altruism forum (1) is one of the main reasons why the community is able to have produce so much output.
(1) https://forum.effectivealtruism.org