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The open source model is kind of broken because og 6 points detailed in the post. The author retails then the example of Quiet UI by Cory Laviska
The guy launched Showelace, Web Awesome and Quiet UI.
A reaction about the CEO of Vercel taking a selfie with the minister of Israel
L'IA a des résultats relatifs ou décevant et elle fait disparaître la solitude, pourtant nécessaire au développement intellectuel.
A critic against Microsoft. The Outages become frequent.
Your deployment strategy
What you need:
• A single server
• Postgres
• Maybe Redis for caching
• That's it
The costs of the cloud are big and this author relates how the HackerNews community got confrontational with him.
He switched to Hetzner, because their costs are low:
80 cores @ 3 Ghz, 128 GB of RAM and 2TB of data for 170€ a month.
In comparison, AWS costs between 2 500$ to 3 500$.
The point here is that there’s value in managing your own servers VS just accepting the cloud as a given truth.
and people trying to convince you that "the cloud" is the solution never tried alternatives.
How did we get there?
The majority of devs are clueless or have forgotten. AWS started to give credits specifically for startups only. The entry is cheap, but the costs become expensive as they grow. They are locked-in so they will struggle to migrate to another architecture.
The cloud is only an option between others. "Most businesses are and will always be small, by a simple rule of power law."
Here’s a reference point: my current two-server setup serves millions of requests a day for millions of monthly visitors.
Managing your own server is fine because there has never been a better time to get good at servers. AI are very knowledgeable on Linux.
The economy is important because we don’t care enough about one another and our environment.
If we did, we would figure out how to treat each other well, how to grow individually and collectively, and how to take care of our environment in the process. With or without “the economy.”
Instead, we’ve focused so much on property and trade and money and economics and got so accustomed to money as something we can exchange into anything we want, that we've forgotten both what we need (like healthy communities and a healthy environment) and that alternatives exist.
With property, trade, money, economics having long been ubiquitous and all everyone ever worries and talks about, we have nearly fully alienated ourselves from each other.
Add to this our crisis of trust and truth, and we end up with a vicious circle: Because we’re increasingly alienated from each other, we find even more solace in money as the means to exchange it into anything we need or think we need.
The world is literally heating up in consequence.
What’s the answer?
I totally agree.
If you complain that you have a problem with #Windows
and are unhappy that people on Fediverse always bring up #Linux
when you come here to post your complaint, I have a question: instead of here, have you tried the #Microsoft
support or forums?I mean at some point the "I just want Windows to work" is a fair and understandable point, but it will just be shouting in the wind if you don't bring your complaints to the people and company making it.
And I say that as an IT tech, I know how it works: if there's no support ticket about a problem, there's no feedback proof, and therefore the problem officially doesn't exist.
EDIT: to be very clear, I'm not writing all this with the intent of presenting MS forums and support as the best way to solve your problems with their products.
It's more that, as someone who deals with how tech support is handled on a daily basis, as I mentioned above, companies have processes for all that, and I can guarantee you that when it comes to handling feedback, they follow them strictly, especially when it comes to being held accountable for unwanted features or overall problems.
Users are being unhappy with ads or AI features and complain they can't deactivate them all? "Where are the tickets at our support to back that up?" is gonna be their answer. And we all know most of us, most of the overall user base never bother with that, leaving the gates full open for Microsoft to be like those aren't issues for the majority of users.
If windows is so problematic, then GNU/Linux can be the solution
To enforce accessibility.
Also can poor performance be framed as inaccessible?
You benchmark your node/ruby/python software on a fancy Macbook M4 and celebrate 500ms response time.
I benchmark my rust software on a $30 potato computer that may as well have 256MB of RAM and celebrate 800ms response time.
From what we can observe, most people with significant wealth seem to be peculiar in two particular ways: Appearing not wise enough to recognize and know that their wealth means another’s poverty and that that’s actually relevant because ultimately, they can only be truly well if everyone is well, and that they, too, live in a climate catastrophe from which they cannot escape, even if they built themselves the most sophisticated bunker.
Appearing not courageous enough to act to use their fortunes for the greater good and for everyone’s well-being, because they seem so afraid they would not have enough, even though they already have way more than enough (and will keep enough) to live a comfortable and fulfilling life, and to move away from their ways of “making” money, especially when these ways include exploiting and damaging people, animals, or planet, out of the same fear of not having enough, or other fears like not being able to replicate their success or being admired for it.
There’s some superb (and superbly sad) irony here that millionaires and billionaires are in the best
position to be role models, by doing amazing things for the well-being and advancement of mankind (and all species)
To help:
Do mutual aid
Post on your local Buy Nothing project group what you can offer
Join Food Not Bombs
Start a Free Pantry: reach out to local grocery stores and ask if you can take the stuff they're about to throw out.
The poisonous tumour installed in my brain by a decade of reading about Silicon Valley always thinks 'this is a business that can never scale' and it's like well yes that is the fucking point actual
In short, I am now trying really hard to spend my money in ways that I hope will affect and improve the world around me both for myself and for others. None of us can do it alone. But I think there is hope if we do it together.
I haven't been talked down to by anybody else who is also making their own gentle change. The same way that you rarely get shit on by somebody doing better than you at anything.
Pourquoi donner des milliards d'aides d'État aux entreprises privées ?
Alors qu'on pourrait simplement les applaudir à 20h tous les soirs !
Cela a tellement bien marché pour le personnel soignant.
J’ai appris une chose importante : l’arbitrage n’est pas une discipline scientifique.
En dehors du sport et du football avec des caméras et aide à la décision, un pilote de chasse.
En 2024, un pilote s’est éjecté de son F-35, car, malgré plusieurs reboot, son casque connecté indiquait des erreurs critiques. Problème : après l’éjection du pilote, l’avion a continué à voler correctement pendant de très longues minutes. Il semblerait que son casque avait un simple bug informatique. [...] La subtilité réside par la suite avec la carrière du pilote, poursuivi pour abandon d'avion fonctionnel [...] Nous n’avons plus des pilotes qui « sentent » leur avion, mais des opérateurs suivants des procédures informatisées.
Non seulement la complexité crée artificiellement des problèmes, mais elle empêche les humains d’acquérir de l’expérience et de prendre des décisions.
La seule stratégie possible pour un humain raisonnable est donc de ne plus prendre de décisions (ce qui est déjà une décision en soi).
Looking for examples of web magazines made with html/css [so the 3. option].
The spectrum:
- a website with branching levels of navigation, average content-heavy website
- a website with single level of linear paginated navigation, back and forth, text-heavy html/epub
- a responsive paginated website that mimics printed magazines in the best way possible, and looks interesting on all screens
- embedded static PDF viewer with page turn and zoom
- static PDF
C'est délirant puisque l'IA n'est pas encore capable de remplacer les jobs.
The most radical act in tech isn’t building something new. It’s keeping the old ideals alive: that people should control their tools, not the other way around.