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Yes actually. After zirp ended, cloud costs got materially more expensive for enough enterprises that there was a good year or so of celebrated "we're moving back on-prem" stories on hn, where companies were announcing savings in the several to tens of millions per year.

Are you kidding right now? Have you seen what's happening with ICE in the US? EU countries are just one effective social media campaign cycle away from the same policies. "It can't happen here" is foolish thinking.

See also: CCP

Europe needs a private European identity provider. Until this happens, Europe will remain a technological vassal state of the US.

These are expensive products, you need depth of expertise and experience to create a system that could compete with the likes of gmail and Microsoft and ... so it's not a wonder that this hasn't happened yet. But pretending like this can be a public service is foolish (too high stakes ~~if~~ when it gets hacked), and pretending like existing providers that offer identity and email are sufficient is equally foolish. Google and ms and apple etc all offer the basics for free, and this is necessary for mass adoption. It will be an expensive project. But necessary, if the eu wants strategic autonomy.

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Oh and requiring a us based account is not even the most egregious part of this proposal, ffs

if you have a server that's overloaded, then a request comes in that requires fractionally more memory use than the average request, do you blame the single request for crashing your servers or do you acknowledge that the load on the server is probably contributing to the issue?

Why Metaflow? 11 months ago

What do people do to curate/version /transform their raw datasets these days? I am vaguely aware of the "chuck it all into s3" strategy for hanging onto raw data, and related strategies where instead of s3 it's a db of some flavor. What are folks doing for record-keeping for what today's raw data contains vs tomorrow's?

And the next step - a curated dataset has a time-bound provenance - what are folks doing to keep track of the transformations/cleaning steps that makes the raw data useful for the data at the time it's being processed? Does this bit fall under the purview of metaflow, or is this different tooling?

Or maybe my assumptions are off base! Curious about what other teams are doing with their datasets.

Do you have to upgrade across all your syncthing instances at once, or will 1.x be able to talk to 2.x for a while without breaking? It seems like a pretty big update and I'm not sure what I need to think about if I'm upgrading

It baffles me that I can't give it feedback by commenting on the pr. If it's bothering to offer a create PR workflow, I should be able to course correct targeted bits of code using GitHub's UI, no?

If a key gets compromised, the encrypted secrets are compromised forever, since you can't be sure all the git clones everywhere can be updated with a new encryption key. Not to mention how fiddly it is to edit git history.