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Thank you for the video. It was super helpful. the 20g version was clearly struggling but the 10g version was flying by. I think it was probably virtualized memory pages that were actually on disk causing the issue. Perhaps that and the memory compression.

When I was in college, I'd come up with a similar concept for creating addresses for the developing world. For those that don't know, most of the world actually doesn't have any address and the governments have no plans in place to solve this.

Basically have a third party DNS like company and all it would do would be digital addressing. Since we would also deliver the mail, there was the added benefit of not sharing your actual address, temporarily sharing it, having alternatives based on day, kind etc and potentially just sharing your phone number as your address etc etc

Looking back, this would've been a great company but one that almost no investor would fund

When I was younger around the 2000s, there was a movement that was called "because I can" or something like that. This reminds me of that

Cyber Scarecrow 2 years ago

this +100 I can't just let some random exe run on my machine with nothing but claims from the author.

In my head, I'm also wondering why a botnet wouldn't just want to take over such a machine because they know for sure that it's a scarecrow. But security by obscurity is no way to instill trust here

Surprisingly enough, I actually _want_ mine turned on. I normally look through when I found a particular site and just can't remember what it was but vaguely remember the dates or some other information about them. I'm happy Google is even sharing these controls but I would assume anything that's deleted here is a soft delete on their system

This is materially impacting us. We were just about to launch a feature and have a call with customers in a few minutes :cry: The release is blocked on deploy (managed by GH Actions) so I'm literally doing a build and eventually k8s deploy from my machine

I'm actually glad DHH is sharing all this in public. Hard to argue with real evidence. Just shows how powerful marketing and peer pressure are: that the whole tech world was convinced to migrate to public clouds is kinda crazy

I'd tried something like this with the Kenyan election but our setup was to use OCR (google cloud) -> text -> parse -> sqlite

We started late so the results were out when we finished but I think it'll be a good idea to develop software that can parse the PDF results and display them faster than the electoral bodies can. In Kenya, and Nigeria, the delays cause a lot of anxiety

I like where passwordless.dev is going. However, I don't think I'd like to build a business on top of that. Is there a similar implementation that's open-source that doesn't depend on a third party?