We have had more outages in our corporate tech services in the last month than the last year before that. Between AWS, Azure, and Teams issues, it's been crazy.
This comment prompted me to look for a picture of it. Nothing I can find, except in the background behind a baby picture of my now-in-university baby when I was apparently debugging the network connection:
There was a time when I had an old desktop packed full of spinning hard drives in my living room under a CRT television! Yes that works, but a NAS in the furnace room that is accessible from "smart TVs" and everyone's mobile devices is pretty nice. No more fan noise either.
They also never hear no. No struggle in life and people just become playthings. That breaks your brain - even if they weren't already broken, which they would have had to be to become a billionaire in the first place guilt-free.
Also the eugenics stuff. Yeah, it was just a low-effort way to set up the premis, but eww (and also very incorrect). They had to make sleepwaling into that kind of thing seem plausible with some explanation. Instead, we didn't actually need that.
I see that cosmos advertises running your apps on a vpn built-in. That might be worth looking into. When I switched to self-hosting everything on my "tailnet" and closed incoming ports, a lot of the nice features of Yunohost for maintaining DNS and certs for the various apps stopped being that useful. In this day and age, I think being able to self-host and experiment within a safe VPN environment instead of on the open internet is the way to go.
Hot take: For personal use, I see no value at all in "availability," only data preservation. If a drive fails catastrophically and I lose a day waiting for a restore from backups, no one is going to fire me. No one is going to be held up in their job. It's not enterprise.
However, redundancy doesn't save you when a file is deleted, corrupted, ransom-wared or whatever. Your raid mirror will just copy the problem instantly. Snapshots and 3,2,1 backups are what are important to me because when personal data is lost, it's lost forever.
I really do think a lot of hobbyists need to focus less on highly available redundancy and more on real backups. Both time and money are better spent on that.
I agree, but for the reasons above, it's a terrible outcome for everyone on the internet. The number of people who will keep their router up to date with security patches are abysmal. Fix the ISPs and it would work, but you can't fix the situation where the majority of residential humans suck at managing routers.
lol. Tor isn't sustainable? it's been running for decades. There are plenty of other sustainable projects with big hosting bills; Wikipedia, Debian, Arch, Openstreetmap, etc. If you take VC money, though, they come knocking. It's a ticking time bomb.
This is great! TVO kids is already awesome, now there are 2 public, commercial-free options that don't exist just to make kids go crazy over the latest plastic toy.
Indeed! Ever since XMPP was argued to be superior to everything else, I've come to just say "build it and show us." No one cares about having multiple chat apps on their devices -if it's good enough, it will be added along side Signal first, then replace it only when it's clearly better.
We have had more outages in our corporate tech services in the last month than the last year before that. Between AWS, Azure, and Teams issues, it's been crazy.