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subtextminer commented on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)   windscribe.com/blog/the-v... · Posted by u/walterbell
mystraline · 2 months ago
Yep.

And I was on Proton for 3y, until the CEO were backing Trump and Vance on Reddit and other places. Their port forwarding was also painful as well, but it worked.

Cancelled. PIA does the port forwarding nicely and stabily. No jank scripts to run every 60 seconds.

Now evidently PIA is a bunch of scum capitalists. But in reality, who isn't?

Mullvad? But they killed port forwarding for "abuse".

subtextminer · 2 months ago
The Proton CEO is not "backing Trump and Vance." He wrote something positive about a narrow policy Trump supported that's favorable to little tech over big tech. That's it. It's certainly possible that someone you detest can still occasionally support a particular policy you think is good.
subtextminer commented on Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)   wisdomandwonder.com/link/... · Posted by u/borski
subtextminer · 5 months ago
Related: when UT Austin computer science dropped Haskell for Java for it's first course in 2001.

Dijkstra on Haskell and Java https://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java/ "A fundamental reason for the preference is that functional programs are much more readily appreciated as mathematical objects than imperative ones, so that you can teach what rigorous reasoning about programs amounts to."

subtextminer commented on Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?   bbc.com/news/articles/cd1... · Posted by u/makaimc
lasereyes136 · a year ago
Linux was a corporate-level operating system as far back as the mid-90s. It was the late 90s when it started getting enterprise software for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database released Oracle 8 was released for Linux in 1997.
subtextminer · a year ago
Enterprise Linux was getting going for real in the late 1990s but in my view it was more 2005-ish that it became "mainstream" in these sphere. Sun Computer for example started to support Linux in 2006 and was a Hail Mary to try to save itself as SunOS was being eaten away by Linux.

Redhat Inc became part of the Nasdaq-100 in 2005.

I make this comparison as the question is whether OpenStack still has the potential to become a full go-to alternative in the way that clients consider closed cloud systems from AWS/GCP/Azure as substantial equivalents.

subtextminer commented on Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?   bbc.com/news/articles/cd1... · Posted by u/makaimc
subtextminer · a year ago
Any views or experiences evaluating OpenStack instead of one of the big ones AWS/Azure/GCP? OpenStack has a bad rep due to added complexity and limited developer tools that may lead to ultimately higher TCO but I wonder if this similar to what Linux was like roughly pre-2005 before becoming commercially robust and refined enough to replace many corporate-level server operating systems.
subtextminer commented on Dutch Students Delay Graduation Due to Housing Shortages   nltimes.nl/2024/05/02/gra... · Posted by u/belter
goosedragons · 2 years ago
And that's why the housing situation is so different in other developed countries without rent control, right? Like look at the U.S, most states don't allow any sort of rent control and (check notes) they're uh, hmm, only short 7.2 million homes? Yup, no rent control sure is the fix. Definitely don't need governments stepping and mandating housing. Where has that worked? Singapore? Is that even a real place?

We need more private landlords with the freedom to randomly raise rents by any percentage they want. Surely that's the only way to get enough housing at affordable levels.

subtextminer · 2 years ago
The biggest problem with housing the USA is largely local zoning that artificially limits what can be built. Cities that have minimal zoning such as Houston, Texas have rents that have closely followed inflation only. In Houston there is literally no zoning. While this has some bad side effects in terms of ugliness it is highly affordable. Some progressive US cities, such as Minneapolis and Austin, are now liberalizing zoning to allow much more dense housing to be built in central areas long mass transit.
subtextminer commented on SUSE to go private   suse.com/news/EQT-announc... · Posted by u/mroche
subtextminer · 2 years ago
Yet another reason to move to Debian.

While in many ways not comparable to what's happened with Redhat, with Suse turning to the dark side one wonders how much longer Canonical will last before doing something similar.

Make no doubt about it, private equity is all about short term shareholder returns. That's not a bad things in principle but if you don't want to wake up yet again with your distro having the rug pulled out from under it, switch to Debian.

subtextminer commented on Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation   theregister.com/2023/06/1... · Posted by u/rntn
subtextminer · 3 years ago
Yo, Larry needs a new yacht.
subtextminer commented on Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models   quantamagazine.org/the-un... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
macrolime · 3 years ago
Here's some things must be true if consciousness is an illusion:

Qualia does not exist

Subjective experience does not exist

Consciousness does not exist

There's nothing wrong with acting unethically or immoral because nobody actually experiences any harm because nobody experiences anything

Does anyone really think that's true?

subtextminer · 3 years ago
They (1-3) do not exist but they are psychically real- they are genuine illusions, as instantiated in the dynamic, split-second successive whiffs emerging from the processing of neurons. To think that they (1-3) "exist" in a classical sense is a reification error.

The first three self-constrain impulses to the contrary on morality behaviors.

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