Shaving with Occam's Razor: the razor with the fewest amount of blades is usually the best one

Webscale: a chalky residue deposited on architecture when ordinary software is repeatedly exposed to trace amounts of Google engineering blog posts.

Commonly found on:

Kubernetes clusters serving 11 requests/minute
Kafka installations whose entire event stream could fit in a flatfile or SQLite
14 microservices performing the duties of one medium-sized daemon
Globally distributed databases where all users live in the same state
Service meshes connecting 3 services
Organisations with 4 engineers and a Platform Engineering Team

Removal usually requires a strong solution of “what problem are we actually solving?” and a wire brush.

Severe cases may require application of a harsh cleaner known as Monolith™. Apply liberally until the architecture becomes understandable again.

For deeply embedded Webscale deposits, use PostgreSQL at full strength. Do not dilute with Cassandra.

Hi everyone,

My needs for hosting have grown beyond "Hetzner low-end box" (which it's great for, but I would like to run more services and I would not like to operate a fleet of low-end pet servers). Hetzner's higher-end offerings though are either sold out or cost a fucking fortune.

What's a good provider for mid-end cloud hosting? I need like 150+ GB of disk space, like 4 vCPUs, 1 TB of bandwidth is fine for my needs, and at least 8-16 GB of RAM.

Open to dedicated server options too as long as they won't bankrupt me and don't run on antique hardware.

I hate that the people behaving like assholes over AI bringing out the latent strain of asshole that has existed inside FOSS but we thought was dead for certain (hah no) is making me actively hope for more of a FOSS schism because I think the only way to fix FOSS as a hobby is to fragment it so badly, the assholes just fuck off into their own bullshit corner

Honestly if this is how people in FOSS are going to act, that the correct response to problems is bullying and harassment, I hope the movement fails in the long-term, because people deserve better than this shit. If you acted the way people do in FOSS In any other hobby, you'd be kicked the fuck out. Amateur radio, act like this? Everyone will know you're a lid. No one will engage with you. You won't be welcome into clubs. Keep it up and you'll lose your license. Keep going further and you'll get your equipment seized. No one complains about censorship in ham radio except chuds either; you have to REALLY fuck up for things to get this bad. This is just the social expectation: you don't act like a dick, and if you do, you suffer the consequences.

"We're in an AI race with China" okay why aren't we in a solar race or high-speed rail race or healthcare race or quality of life race or some shit.

If you've heard anything bad about me:

Yes I was a drunk piece of work years ago who said regrettable ill-thought things; excuses nothing, but it's an explanation. I went to therapy, got talked to by friends, sorted myself out, and I'm not who I once was. My friends have all told me I've worked very hard on myself and I'm very different.

I also found out a lot of things about my ancestry and family too which was a big seed for change. Finding out I was Roma and Indigenous was a big thing. I have already apologised and won't do it the rest of my life. I think the true measure is: I'm different now.

Most of the current badmouthing (which gets bad whenever I join a new instance) is coming from anglos who don't know me, or knew me then, and also people with some serious mental illness who stalk me. I've been accused of some truly bizarre shit by some of them too, like deleting messages on XMPP (a thing I physically cannot do).

Also some of my REALLY shitty exes badmouth me, some of whom I've had to threaten legal action against. The kind of people who never seem to have anything nice to say about their exes. I'm friends with most of my exes, the ones worth being friends with at least, which I think speaks for itself anyway.

As I said: I won't apologise for the rest of my life, especially for strangers online, and I'm really not interested in rehashing things with my exes. I'd like to think who I am now speaks for itself. If you don't believe people can change? Well we aren't compatible anyway, shoo.

I know plenty of people IRL who are on this thing who will vouch for my character and how much I've worked to be different.

This fucking anti-AI discourse has gone into absolute stupidity and is driving people away from anti-AI positions.

Being a total dickhead, assuming bad faith, not listening, jumping to conclusions, and assuming people want to make projects actively worse? This is how you make people think, "wow, why would I join them, they're a bunch of fucking crazy zealots."

And at this point, they'd be right.

It's pissing me off to no end, and I am Anthropic and OpenAI's biggest haters.

The tech industry has three main branches:

The relentless pursuit of automation
The maintenance of automated systems
An elaborate system to buy, sell, and cause people to view ads
Some unholy combination of all three (Google, Meta, etc.)

WAIT

WHAT THE FUCK

THE NETHERLANDS HAS PRO BASEBALL EXCEPT THEY CALL IT

"Honkbal Hoofdklasse"

I'M DYING

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honkbal_Hoofdklasse

People named Genai having a rough go at it right now

Gonna mentally remap YouTube titles to modern clickbait titles for my own amusement:

"2004 US Food Packet Cold Weather Review Beef Stew Meal Ready to Eat MRE Taste Test" ⇒ "2004 US MRE Situation Is Insane"

"What Does Ketamine Actually Do?" ⇒ "Unbelievable Ketamine Body Situation"

"Making 2,000 Years Of Mustard" ⇒ "You Wouldn't Believe What This 2,000 Year Old Mustard Is"

"Why Concorde Was Retired" ⇒ "The Concorde Situation Is Worse Than You Think"

"The 1986 Challenger Disaster" ⇒ "Space Shuttle Situation Is Out Of Control"