chaoskitty

It'll be quite telling to see what Apple says when this claim from Apple is proven false:

"Claims that we’ve shifted this approach or policy are completely false."

Ok. Start with all new datacenters. Require them to be built with infrastructure that allows for throttling of servers to occur when the utilities want to throttle.

This isn't good. Then again, the amount of power going in to these CPUs is way too high.

Take the AlphaServer DS25. It has wires going from the power supply harness to the motherboard that are thick enough to jump a car. The traces on the motherboard are so thick that pictures of the light reflecting off of them are nothing like a modern motherboard. The two CPUs take 64 watts each.

Now we have AMD CPUs that can take 170 watts? That's high, but if that's what the motherboards are supposed to be able to deliver, then the pins, socket and pads should have no problem with that.

Where's AMD's testing? Have they learned nothing watching Intel (almost literally) melt down?

Microsoft is making it too easy to convince people to use anything else. I'm moving several people to BSD (Linux is too messy).

Examples?

Doing anything can be life threatening. We don't need to assume that people who decide to do a thing are the same as you.

Anyone who claims that pointing out the difference between new and used is the same as telling you to ignore the used market is just an idiot.

Did you read the article? The administration's excuse / explanation is that it's not illegal to remove data because it already exists elsewhere:

said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law

So you think they'd accidentally misconfigure DNS, then explain that the site has been brought down because they comply with the law some other way? That doesn't make any sense, and suggesting this might just be a mistake in light of this information just makes you seem like an apologist.

You're right that you didn't say all. What you did write implied you use them for "AI protection", although you didn't say you did do that.

So if I wrote, "You would put" instead of "You put", then what? Would you be comfortable using their "AI protection" simply because it's free?

This is orthogonal to the discussion.

Serious question: You put Cloudflare between all your domains and all your visitors without looking in to how this would affect your site's reachability? If so, that's interesting, considering that many people in this community are negatively affected by Cloudflare because they're using Linux and/or some less than mainstream browser.

You might want to read some threads on here about Cloudflare.

That's hopelessly naive. A "misconfiguration" is the excuse they use after the fact when there's enough outrage that they have to put things back the way they were.

Is it just me, or is the site not working right now? It loads, but it doesn't show the date, and the buttons don't seem to change anything...

While this has lots of generally good advice, handwavingly dismissing IPv6 because of the lack of understanding is one glaring shortcoming. After all, systemd could be described as (leading) 'to all sorts of strange behaviors in different networking contexts".

One thing the author does not mention is using other storage instead of the SD card. One can boot from or root on NFS, or a USB attached disk or SSD, and have much greater reliability. I'm running several Pis like this, with constant use, sometimes with heavy swap usage, and at the same time with half year to year long uptimes.

It is good to see the recommendations, though, and I look forward to trying the hardware watchdog, for instance.

There aren't many companies I'd trust for stuff like this. Mullvad definitely stands out. I'll be looking forward to giving this a try.

The performance is incredible... Now when will AMD put some real effort in to reducing power usage?

That's nice, but who is behind this? Why should we trust them?

I wonder if anyone has made it easy to run the Pi Hole software on regular Unix-like systems without containers and without machine specific binaries. Perhaps I'll have to give that a try some time.

You're conflating a few different issues: the newness of a domain, and the quality and cost of of your VPS.

Some email providers don't like brand new domains, yes, but if a domain is brand new, nobody is going to immediately start using it for mission critical things. That's just common sense, although now I want to buy a domain to see how much of an issue this really is.

The cost and quality of a VPS means very little because if a VPS is on a network with a poor reputation, one can easily smarthost through a mail provider that has a good reputation.

Likewise, people can run servers at home, or they can colocate, or whatever, and don't have to run a VPS at all, although I think you're just generalizing and aren't suggesting that people can't use other servers.

It's absolutely amazing to compare Adventure on the Atari 2600 with a fancy, ray traced game today. What's even more amazing is that both have the ability to capture our attention for hours. It just goes to show how significant of a role imagination plays in games.

This doesn't feel like an oversight or an accident. It'll be interesting to see how they try to explain this away.

Simple: Don't look at the logs.

Bots are a fact of life. Secure your site properly, follow good practices, set up notifications for important things, log stuff, but don't look at the logs unless you have a reason to look at the logs.

Having run web servers forever, this is simply normal. What's not normal is blindly trusting a megacorporation to make my logs quiet. What're they doing? Who are they blocking? What guidelines do they use? Nobody, except them, knows.

It's why I self-host email. Sure, you might feel safe because most people use Gmail or Outlook, and therefore if there are problems, you can point the finger at them, but what if you want to discuss spam? Or have technical discussions about Trojans and viruses? Or you need to be 100% absolutely certain that email related to specific events is delivered, with no exceptions? You can't do that with Gmail / Outlook, because they have filters that you can't see and you can't control.

There's absolutely no data to back up the suggestion that sites regularly suffer from DDoS.

It's like talking about getting murdered - it happens, and there are statistics, but if you're literally expecting everyone to change their whole lives based on the fact that some people are murdered, with zero consideration for the where, why and how, you're doing it wrong.

...which happens to the average site owner how often...?

How many times do they have to do the same thing before we modify our presumtion?

So you're saying that which browsers are supported on the Internet should be determined by a single, for-profit company? That's a very interesting and shorthsighted take.

I love how so many of these apologists talk about stuff like "maintenance costs", as though it's impossible to write code that's clean and works consistently across platforms / browsers. "Oh, no! Who'll think of the profits?!?"

If you had any technical knowledge, you'd know that "maintenance costs" are only a thing when you code shittily or intentionally target specific cases. A well written, cross-browser, cross-platform CAPTCHA shouldn't have so many browser specific edge cases that it needs constant "maintenance".

In other words, imagine you're arguing that a web page with a picture doesn't load on a browser because nobody bothered to test with that browser. Now imagine you're making the case for that browser being so obscure that nobody would expend the time and money. Instead, why aren't you pondering why any web site with a picture wouldn't be general enough to just work? What does that say about your agenda, and about the fact that you want to make excuses for this huge, striving-to-be-a-monopoly, for-profit company?

I agree - we generally do the opposite of trusting marketing, but sometimes marketing is coincidentally correct.

Cloudflare wants to "protect" the world from the evils of DNS services other than themselves even knowing what geographical region people are in, so they strip all geographical information, even general, broad location, from DNS lookups. This has the effect of increasing latency for non-Cloudflare CDNs sometimes, since data will sometimes end up being served out of the wrong region.

I've wondered since I first heard about this if this is their way to enshittify CDN deliverability in general and make their latency look better in comparison.

That comment didn't +1 what you just said. It basically said that we care about the total, usable throughput. Whether some specific components are capable of more doesn't mean anything unless / until that greather throughput is usable by us.

I agree. It's often used as a way to dismiss concerns about a party's actions, as though all bad actions are equally bad, which is ridiculous.

The TMS9900 was a very nice CPU and TI had a chance to really compete back in the early '80s, but, just like many other large companies of that era, they were too afraid of competing with themselves. It makes me wonder what we'd have now if they didn't intentionally tank themselves.