City: just take a walk through manhattan and in a block or two look at the giant open-pit excavation with a 200-year-old morass of undocumented infrastructure under the street. This is before you even try to run fiber up to units in buildings which were built before electricity was standard. I am hardly saying it can't be done, simply that it is not as easy as density makes it seem.

State: the exact opposite problem -- just drive two hours north of NYC and (if you're not still in manhattan) you'll be in some fantastic areas of the state, but, the exact opposite problem exists.

Of note, I do think both of these problems are solvable and we should fundamentally solve them. Just anybody who thinks it's easy or cheap to do so is being myopic. If spent wisely, could be a very useful investment of our money, however.

That's so confusing to me I had to read it five times. Are you saying you lose the metadata, or that the underlying data is actually mangled or gone, or merely that you lose the metadata?

One of the greatest features of something like this to me would be the ability to durable even beyond JuiceFS access to my data in a bad situation. Even if JuiceFS totally messes up, my data is still in S3 (and with versioning etc even if juicefs mangles or deletes my data, still). So odd to design this kind of software and lose this property.

A year or so later I upgraded to a v.92 only to realize my ISP (I think it was IDT at the time) didn't support that and only supported some other 56k "standard" (details are sketchy on this, I was like 12). I was devastated and it was too late to drive back to computer city to exchange it for the correct one.

Now I have 10G symmetric in my house.

There is important additional context around it, of course, which mitigates (should remove) any criminal legal implications, and should also result in google unsuspending his account in a reasonable timeframe but what happened is also reasonable. Google does automated scans of all data uploaded to drive and caught CP images being uploaded (presumably via hashes from something like NCMEC?) and banned the user. Totally reasonable thing. Google should have an appeal process where a reasonable human can look at it and say "oh shit the guy just uploaded 100m AI training images and 7 of them were CP, he's not a pedo, unban him, ask him not to do it again and report this to someone."

The headline frames it like the story was "A developer found CP in AI training data from google and banned him in retaliation for reporting it." Totally disingenuous framing of the situation.

> Sharing encryption key for all team members

you're enrolling a particular users public/key and encrypting a symmetric key using their public key, not generating a single encryption key which you distribute. You can roll the underlying encryption key at any time and git-crypt will work transparently for all users since they get the new symmetric key when they pull (encrypted with their asymmetric key).

> Version control is pointless

git-crypt solves this for local diff operations. for anything web-based like git{hub,lab,tea,coffee} it still sucks.

> - Unless you are really careful, just one time forgetting to encrypt the vault when committing changes means you need to rotate all your secrets.

With git-crypt, if you have gitattributes set correctly (to include a file) and git-crypt is not working correctly or can't encrypt things, it will fail to commit so no risk there.

You can, of course, put secrets in files which you don't chose to encrypt. That is, I suppose, a risk of any solution regardless of in-repo vs out-of-repo encryption.

It seems like they could simply comply with the requirement that footage is public and they can/must share that footage as part of the FOIA process, I don't see much of a downside there and it seems like something which most police departments and municipalities are already doing with footage from other scenarios like body cameras?

301 response to a selection of very large files hosted by companies you don't like.

When their AWS instances start downloading 70000 windows ISOs in parallel, they might notice.

Hard to do with cloudflare but you can also tar pit them. Accept the request and send a response, one character at a time (make sure you uncork and flush buffers/etc), with a 30 second delay between characters.

700 requests/second with say 10Kb headers/response. Sure is a shame your server is so slow.

I agree to what I think you're saying which is that "sqlite" has, to some degree, become so ubiquitous that it's evolved beyond a single implementation.

We, of course, have sqlite the C library but there is also sqlite the database file format and there is no reason we can't have an sqlite implementation in golang (we already do) and one in pure rust too.

I imagine that in the future that will happen (pure rust implementation) and that perhaps at some point much further in the future, that may even become the dominant implementation.

Because by and large they don't want that. They are creatives who would prefer to be invested in their work: Charge less now, putting more into their work in the hope and belief that it will pay off over time. Sometimes it does.

Went to reddit and was not unhappy there for many years, but, aside from some targeted subreddits (/r/beagle!) I rarely spend any time on reddit anymore. The new reddit changes just feel user-hostile and they are aggressively pushing users away from old.reddit.com, it feels like a matter of time before they announce that they are killing old reddit.

Perhaps we are getting old but I also find happiness is inversely proportional to my time spent on social media.

They don't even have a dedicated status/outage page, afaik.

The website being down is a more classic problem. The outage probably increased traffic to their website by 1000x if not more and the infrastructure for the website simply couldn't cope.

Good lesson on keeping your status infrastructure simple and on something which is highly scalable.

Having a CDN where the main page of their site was 99% cached globally would have probably mitigated this issue.

It's not like you can have a tech go out and reboot it or reinstall windows.

I'm hooking it up via starlink specifically so it works in remote areas with no cell coverage too.

Monitoring and proxying everything via an RPI as well. Victron DC-DC inverter to keep the bluetti battery pack charged with bluetooth relay boards so we can turn loads (camera/starlink/others) on/off programmatically (it only turns the starlink on when there's no good/known wifi for example).

Fun project, combines software dev (which I'm fairly good at) with hardware work (which I'm less) and my dogs (which I'm a big fan of).

There's no way, even if it was a single-digit number of people team that they would remain silent. If it was just Elon/Thiel I could perhaps believe it.

Also keep in mind that there were some very desperate years for Elon where his companies were extremely close to bankruptcy, wouldn't he have tapped into that bitcoin if he had access to it?