Posts by _wojtek 71 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2026
not to mention that majority if open source is severely underfunded, especially compared to behemoths like microslop.
Just imagine if they were getting same money flow... (but a lot of people use open source because it's "free" without pondering consequences of not funding it... what I mean to say - if you can -- donate!)
so web "apps" pushed the notion that you don't install application once and be done with it (till next sensible update packed with new features) but rather "every day is a deploy day" an each time you open the page you have to download the web crap all over again (yes, there is a cache but surprisingly you still have to download a lot of bloat).
And now even regular applications have to follow this absurd release cycle because google can't do security updates only?
are the devs ao trigger happy to push "release and deploy"?
while welcomed this ultimately changes nothing... there must be a regulation that forces any "essential app" (thinking banking) not to be locked behind play store and device integrity verification... without that everything is futile and pushing more and more power to google & usania...
just block hyper scalers - they use ephemeral VMs which always start with "clean state" and dint bother with any proxy...
alternatively force using accounts (for maven central) with quota so majority of users don't be affected but this 1% hogging UO 80% of resources will either optimise their pipeline or pay for the abuse...
it's less about git but more about what PR incline - each time there is a new comming the build fires up with new, ephemeral machine, which then pulls whole tree of dependencies and this is what ccausing the problem... solution would be GitHub hosting a local proxy on their server's forcing all builds to go through that and JT would easily slash the traffic to maven central był something like 50% probably....
Hmm… in general I agree with you @JLV but this one rubs me the wrong way:
"- don’t go hog wild on multiplying alternatives. Too many dilutes the knowledge pool and drives back to the better known: AWS, Azure."
if we were to apply it then we just promote monopolies/oligopolies and say that any sort of competition on challengers are a bad thing…
Also: I quite often end up on DO documentation pages (not using their services, mind you) and they are brilliant!
This is all true. I meant title on the reg which somewhat sounds like it's more difficult that it was.
Yes, there are certain obstacles but it's a vicious circle of "everyone uses X so everyone asks about X and answer about X" making X having the most resources.
However, even if we talk about RDS Aurora the setup is not _that_ different, you select which engine you want (postgres, myslq, etc) and then the machines and that's it… The problem is if someone existed _only_ in certain infrastructure/UI…
On the other hand, even if cloud operators want lock-in, certain features like block storag (S3) became virtually an industry standard, along with it's API, and there are independent implementations like rustfs (or mionio, which recently went ai-fication…)
What's good about it is that if more and more people decide to use those solutions they will gain popularity and with that shared knowledge will improve and the operators will grow. IMHO a win-win overall (not only from european perspective but also from the plurality of the market)
It's not about "plug and play". most of the services just worked. Issues were mostly about habits (living in GitHub ecosystem and shell).
Two interesting caveats - relying if free/cheap offering from usanian companies (on the one hand - feels like dumping, on the other - possibly abusing the sources hosted there?)
The other one - how we ended up being convinced that "sign in with your beloved usanian provider" ia the best thing ever... of course no other alternatives, Bo OpenID... and if the worst happens (google/apple randomly deciding into block your account) - tough much, you are locked out everything...
While it could be argued that "you can vote with your wallet" IMHO there should be regulation that forces all companies to provide "non-cloud" setting, that would use our local server to access/stream footage (and provide necessary API documentation). And this shouldn't be limited to ring or other IoT devices but also likes or Android where you could provide on a system level which push provider server so you want to use (or map/location API that bolster the GNSS)
Let's be honest, current day "social"-media has absolutely nothing to do with being social and should be eradicated from the face I'd the planet...
use we want something really social the create a medium that: only has real people without any sort if bots (even for "helpful automation; yes probably some sort of verification during sign-up but with zero-knowledge-proof), no likes or automatic content positioning, just list of (recent) posts... just friends and buddies
for "media" created a platform where you can publish anything "engaging" with likes and whatnot but with strict rules (like in regular press): dull disclosure who owns the accoubt and make them responsible for the publication (and running any sort of clarification if spreading misinformation)
It may sound sensible but then reality is that each app naggs user for all required permissions, USRR accept everything without reading and then ia bombarded by (usually) notifications...
It's enough to take any phone of your (less technical) friends and are their notifications area... "why font you disable those, you just ignore them!?" ia usually followed by "I don't know why / I Don't care"
I'm so fed up with pushing stupid changes on the guise of "security". this particular one will only result in more mindless clicks because users will confirm it either way...
but hey, we can say that we are "more secure", some stupid c-suite will get a bonus and the world will be a worst place in the end...
on the other hand microslop is first to force-fed it's shitty copilot, which is basically abomination if any security and privacy, because people send / upload there virtually anything... and there is no prompt...
have your read whole comment?
as for Vivaldi:
- it's closed source
- because it's based on chrome it's subjected to the whims of Google. they do have adblocking in place based on Manifest2 but it maintaining it woild become a bigger burden then they will find themselves is quite difficult spot... and this ia the main issue of relying on the software created bh the biggest ads publisher in the world...
despite all the bad press Firefox gets, IMHO it's still the only viable option, especially if you care about web not ruled by single CrapCorp...
And at least they listen to users (backlash)... google only doubles down...(jpegxl being nice case)
that's not to say you shouldn't donate to servo and other alternatives (which I highly recommend!)
while I wholeheartedly agree with almost all the points, I have to put down the foot at containers. Argument that "you can run it as easily without them" quickly breaks apart if yoy try to run a bunch of services (for own needs, not some corporate bullshit that theys so much loath, where yoi can have "one service per machine deployment") that may have conflicting requirements.... "oh, your distribution updated / failed to uodated the database to version X that we supoort and require? tough luck".
With containers I don't have to give a flying Duck about those and not fear that one would break the other.
But I aldo like things nice and tidy and organised...
... propping up his businesses and financing one with another (debt) or getting korę debt based on promises... and everything sprinkled with "trust me bro" and "in the next X years".
it would be kinda funny to see musky empire collapse on it's own taking the owner with it...
having to write (and indent) Python... yeah - everything is better :P
but in a more serious note - yes, code is better and what not but its so much better that quite often it's recommended to draw system design and flows using... boxes, from which then code is created al there's that ;)
I'll probably be downvoted to oblivion but having to prepare startup scripts for all distros because there were ever AI tiny differences of that is required or supported and actual handling of service live lines was abysmal I do like simplicity of systems and that "it just works" and works everywhere the same way...
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