N. California as a region can’t grow and it’s priced accordingly. Instead, compare US East (Ohio) or US West (Oregon) for a region that’s price competitive. A lot of Amazon internal stuff was starting to move to US East (Ohio) because it was geographically close, but a lot less problematic.
Was that anything more than just rumors? Letting a currently monopolistic company keep the browser because another bad billionaire might buy it and do something bad with it just prevents anything from changing.
How about some Yubikeys or smart cards instead of something that requires me to scan my retina and share it with Sam Altman
Maybe that’s intentional to keep you from wanting to stay there a long time and negotiate.
Here’s a good reason why you should run an ad blocker. Block the Google Analytics script from loading entirely.
Google Analytics gives you insights on what pages people visit, how long they spend, what kind of browsers and devices they use. That can give them data on what pages are important to customers and what screen sizes to support
I’d rather they self host this data vs use Google Analytics, but there are benefits.
Back in early 2024, I got a survey asking me why I chose to cancel my prime membership and I gave them multiple reasons.
I tried self hosting Pixelfed but gave up because it wouldn’t work. I’m used to Docker containers that are able to just start up by themselves, but the guide didn’t work for me. Maybe it’s time to try again.
I could connect a smart plug and disconnect it if below -15, if that would help
If you didn’t know already, many smart plugs are not rated for the amount of power that fridges and other compressor based appliances. They can overlosd the plugs and cause failures or fires. Also shutting off a compressor mid cycle increases the wear.
These pictures remind me of YouTube thumbnails with fhe style of over emphasized visuals and it makes me wonder if people got accustomed to that style and that makes it easier to pass the BS test.
Great if only my family would even believe this as opposed to just saying something about FEMA using DEW and HAARP and space lasers to actually create hurricanes to be able to extract lithium or something.
Computer algorithms solve problems all over the world for companies already. I bet airlines already have teams of people using computer algorithms to figure crew management, flight routing, cost optimization, etc.
The fact that they’re exploring quantum computers and non-classical algorithms just suggests that gate allocation is NP-Hard. Sure things go wrong when computers fail already, Look at Southwest or Delta’s recent meltdown, but to act like this a bad thing is just nonsense. This should be looked at as a good thing that airlines are working on.
Why do you think this is going to replace air traffic control work? It’s picking which gate to park the plane at. This was done by airline and airport operations teams, not ATC. Imagine if you could automatically pick gates to reduce the time a plane spends taxiing and/or minimize time passengers spend walking. That’s 100% a useful application for computer optimization algorithms. Humans aren’t going to do that better and it’s not a function of safety that tower or ground control needs to do.
Attestation depends on a few things:
If you’re on iOS or Android, there’s already strong OS level protections that a browser attestation can plugin to (like SafetyNet.)
Some people are asking why other regions seem to be affected when us-east-1 goes down. Why aren’t they separated out? I used to work in AWS, but will speak generally.
First, it’s important to understand the concept of a control plane vs a data plane. Amazon and other big scale companies often talk in terms of control plane/data plane separation because those two concepts have wildly different scale and requirements.
A control plane is the side of your service that handles the administrative functions of a service. For example, AWS S3 service would separate out bucket creation and deletion work from the file create/edit. In Route 53, this would be creating and editing zones. In IAM, it’s the creation of AWS access keys for IAM users. IAM Roles, IIRC, work differently and can function more in the data plane.
A data plane is the side of the service that handles the main meat and potatoes of a service. For example, AWS S3 any object key creates, edits, deletes would all be part of the data plane. In Route 53, these would be any DNS record query. I don’t know if updating a record was considered a data plane call or not.
These are separated out because data plane generally massively dwarf the number of calls for administrative APIs. It’s also done because control plane calls often times have some extra complexities. Like in Route 53, to create a zone means you need to go find n different name servers that can handle a given domain name without overlapping with another customer, you need to tell them that they should now handle calls, you need to get the records to those servers running all over the world.
The fact is Route 53 is globally replicated and they need to have a source of truth and engineering culture pushes Amazon towards a pull based approach. If a user creates a zone in eu-west-1, they still expect it to be on servers all over the world, so how do you get it there? Well, AWS takes the approach that certain services can have a single region dependency for their control plane in the case that it’s infeasible technically or to the business to avoid one, however the data plane of the service can’t have that dependency.