I’m looking at the future and what might be good replacement that offers a blend of power-efficiency, flexibility, and storage cost.

Any modern CPU will improve energy efficiency. AMD AM4 platform and Intel N100 are very cheap. AMD SP3 platform is also very cheap and has a ton of PCIe lanes and memory expandability for gpus, NVMe, and running lots of VMs.

For storage cost, used hdds are currently $8/TB, generic NVMe is currently $45, and used enterprise SSDs are $50/TB, decide which you want to invest in depending on your needs. Used enterprise drives will be the fastest and most durable for databases and RAID.

https://diskprices.com/

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=pm983+m.2&_trksid=p4432023.m4084.l1313

SSD prices are expected to decrease faster than HDD prices, and will probably overtake HDDs for value in ~5 years.

About dGPUs, Intel A310 is the best transcoding Gpu out there. Used Nvidia datacenter gpus probably have the best vram/$ and pytorch compatibility for AI

When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I’m not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won’t let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.

Don’t get me started on Skype for Business. It’s still around.

IT folk got so annoyed about being asked about what happens if you got run over by a bus, they decided to go out and show everyone.

Taiwan making their position clear to Trump

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

32TB SSDs will be cheaper than hard drives by 2028

Humans know to drive more carefully in low visibility, and/or to take actions to improve visibility. Muskboxes don’t.

Should work well for that!

If you use cloudflare for dns only and turn cloudflare proxying off, none of your data or traffic goes to cloudflare’s servers. They just act as your dns server, telling your devices what IP to go to.

it might be better to skip the cloud server and use cloudflare for dynamic dns. The standardized way to restrict access to websites is with client certificates or a basic authentication (user/pass) proxy. That would help avoid issues with internet traffic passing through the VPN accidentally.

By this logic, we should still be using copper phone lines, analog TV, and 3G should never get switched off. Obviously there are always budget constraints but technological progress does not wait for shitty vendors.

I work mainly in cloud and Kubernetes environments where this stuff is already automated. New vendors are often just deploying new containers into a cluster.

Yeah Twitter is still designated as a large online platform under the DSA.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/google-runs-5-of-the-19-platforms-that-must-follow-eus-new-internet-rules/

Dodging the DMA only has implications for Twitter advertising and federation, I think.

Basically, Twitter is not seen as a monopoly on the microblogging market, but it is still a very large communication platform that must pay special attention to moderation practices.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act

I imagine the brunt of Twitter’s argument here is that they have strong competition from Bluesky and Threads, so are not seen as a gatekeeper in the market for microblogging advertising.

True.

cert-manager is an amazing tool for deploying certificates for containerized applications. There’s no standardized way to deploy those certs outside of containers without scripting it yourself though, unfortunately.

They should be automated too.

The fact that I can’t use terraform to automatically deploy certs to network appliances is a problem.

Fediseer chooses instances INTENTIONALLY

which is why im saying use fediseer so they dont have to hand pick 5 instances

Then why don’t they accept any instance? Fediseer has an api where they can see the most reputable instances and limit to only allowing those reputable instances.

They should use fediseer to accept the top 100 most reputable mastodons

https://gui.fediseer.com/

GPL != free as in beer

I can’t wait for another billion dollar company invading our cities with dumbass murder boxes.

“thanks for the honkshack” - Dirty melon husk and the boys

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/11/24218134/waymo-parking-lot-livestream-honking-4am-san-francisco