maxclark

Thought it was just me, strange time to flip that switch without notice

The average non fiction book is 200 pages, can be summarized in under 10, and is repackaging someone else’s ideas

Literary slop being replaced with AI

Sun Rays were so awesome. Smart cards for authentication and sessions. Options for fiber directly to them. Great tech that died with Sun.

"The timing of this is coincidental with the large outage on April 27, 2026."

This PS is as impactful as the body of the post.

And almost by happenstance Apple. Turns out they have a great platform for inference and torched almost nothing comparatively on Siri. The Apple/Gemini deal is interesting, Google continues to demonstrate their willingness to degrade their experience on Apple to try and force people to switch.

Did they submit 500 patches?

Did anyone make a copy they can share?

No API and Bots is a feature for me

He also has a 25 Gbps Internet connection - not really a huge problem here

Shopify did this - it’s frightening when you see the numbers across your entire org

My immediate reaction reading the post was “don’t use PayPal”

Online marketplaces, multiparty sellers, credit card transactions, etc… are hard enough as it is

Don’t become dependent on a vendor who’s absolutely terrible to work with

I know some large AWS environments that run a variation of this

Autoscaling fleet - image starts, downloads container from registry and starts on instance

1:1 relationship between instance and container - and they’re running 4XLs

When you get past the initial horror it’s actually beautiful

$33m/year burn accelerating to $50m+/year

Profitability and exit math just got harder

I love the service and am rooting for them - I just don’t get this cash outlay

I can’t wait to learn what I’m missing here

99% of consumer tech would die

First I don't believe this is an effective remedy to break up a Google monopoly, but I have no influence on the DOJ.

I'm curious though, if Google can no longer pay browsers for search engine traffic what is the business model that will sustain development and advancement in the space?

How does a non Google owned Chrome support itself and continue development?

What happens to all the applications that rely on Chrome extensions?

As much as I dislike Google behavior, I don't see this as being a good thing.

The FTC action is because GoDaddy claimed to have security when they didn’t - not because they didn’t have security in the first place.

Subtle but important difference.

Also the remedies include having a complete security program within 90 days IIRC, on what world would anyone think that’s remotely possible?

They wouldn’t even have an RFP drafted in 90 days.

You might want to move, but do all ~49,999 other people share the same view?

There's places where it makes sense to be on the cloud, and places where it doesn't. The two best examples I can give are for high bandwidth, or heavy disk intensive applications.

Take Netflix. While almost everything is in the cloud the actual delivery of video is via their own hardware. Even at their size I doubt this business would be economically feasible if they were paying someone else for this.

Something I've seen often (some numbers changed because...)

20 PB Egress at $0.02/GB = $400,000/month

20 PB is roughly 67 Gbps 95th Percentile

It's not hard to find 100 Gbps flat rate for $5,000/month

Yes this is overly simplistic, and yes there's a ton more that goes into it than this. But the delta is significant.

For some companies $4,680,000/year doesn't move the needle, for others this could mean survival.

If you didn't lower your bandwidth costs way more than 50% we should chat.

We’ll surely see a note is their next earnings release about the uptick in Gemini usage

Check out Fastmail

Is this really a $4B investment, or credits on AWS?

AWS margins are close to 40%, so the real cost of this "investment" would be way less than the press release.

Life expectancy is statistical probability

The mission targets a length of time, then the engineering matches for the design and build

Reality is usually much longer

Reminds me a a city in the PNW using outdoor APs to track people. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the free WiFi they still get your movement.

Good

And in 2 years they'll move back

I'm not versed in this at all. What is the DOJ's US Parole Commission?

https://www.justice.gov/uspc

"The mission of the U.S. Parole Commission is to promote public safety and strive for justice and fairness in the exercise of its authority to release and revoke offenders under its jurisdiction."

SBF is 32 years old - 25 years isn't a death sentence for him Parole is available after 1/3 of term, realistically he won't serve 100% There's still a chance for him to get something out of his life post jail

How do you burn generated emails?

I wonder - assuming an alternate App Store or payment mechanisms what is the appropriate billing from Apple?

Things like:

- Developer onboarding and review (Legal and KYC) - App submission and review (standard, priority, exposure, etc) - App distribution (origin storage and download) - Push notifications

I believe that Apple should be forced to change, I just don’t know what we all should expect