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magguzu

@ magguzu @midwest.social

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  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • Public transportation does this too and isn't controlled by some company trying to make graphs go up

  • YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

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  • Nebula is the only thing remotely comparable.

    I'm loving it. But its not a "search what you want and you'll find it" like YouTube is. You can't search for a video to DIY your bathroom tile.

    That alternative simply doesn't exist.

    If you treat it like podcasts i.e. follow creators you like (just about all of them are also YouTubers) theres some excellent content there. And the creators are all stakeholders so no daddy capitalist screwing with algorithms.

    PeerTube is the open source federated one. But discovery is next to impossible on it.

  • The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP

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  • Thank you. This drives me crazy. Apple for comparison is less then 0.5%

  • Jellyfin: why is the line two different colors?

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  • The video is either being transcoded or direct streaming (audio only being transcoded). The red line is how far ahead that process is.

  • Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats

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  • FUCK.

    I've been wanting to sell mine for ages and get the Honeywell Z-Wave one. Now I can't really do that. Fuck off Google.

  • Illinois Democrats push through massive $1.5 billion plan that overhauls Chicago-area public transit

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  • Like many parts of the US, we were in serious g danger of massive budget cuts for next year after COVID transit relief dries up.

    In Chicago's case we had three scenarios.

    1. Funding does not pass, 40% service cuts everywhere. Devastating

    2. 700 million. Status quo, the current schedules remain with the gaps many have been experiencing since ether pandemic.

    3. This 1.5 billion. Not without compromises, but very promising to improve reliability and frequency

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    magguzu @midwest.social

    Illinois Democrats push through massive $1.5 billion plan that overhauls Chicago-area public transit

    www.chicagotribune.com /2025/10/30/illinois-general-assembly-transit-plan-2025/
  • Chicago @midwest.social
    magguzu @midwest.social

    Illinois Democrats push through massive $1.5 billion plan that overhauls Chicago-area public transit

    www.chicagotribune.com /2025/10/30/illinois-general-assembly-transit-plan-2025/

  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’

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  • How long until AI models start training off Grokipedia, and we have the biggest game of hallucination telephone?

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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    1. Where do people keep getting this SLA pink promise information? Your SLA has to be presented to potential clients and whether you've been successful in maintaining it can make or break them being on board. It's also audited for things like SOC2 compliance.

    2. That's a microscopic fraction of what a product the size of Signal is dealing with, and unimaginably small compared to AWS

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • Great. Can you reference an SLA to prove that, and what's the size of that server?

    Apples and oranges.

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • It's not just words on paper. It's a level of service you commit to and owe repercussions when broken.

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • This is the actual realistic change a lot of people are missing. Multi cloud is hard and imperfect and brings its own new potential issues. But AWS does give you tools to adopt multi region. It's just very expensive.

    Unfortunately DNS transcends regions though so that can't really be escaped.

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • So much talking out of ass in these comments.

    Federation/decentralization is great. It's why we're here on Lemmy.

    It also means you expect everyone involved, people you've never met or vetted, to be competent and be able to shell out the cash and time to commit to a certain level of uptime. That's unacceptable for a high SLA product like Signal. Hell midwest.social, the Lemmy instance I'm on, is very often quite slow. I and others put up with it because we know it's run by one person on one server that he's presumably paying for himself. But that doesn't reflect Lemmy as a whole.

    AWS isn't just a bunch of servers. They have dedicated services for database clusters, cache store, data warehouse, load balancing, container clusters, kubernetes clusters, CDN, web access firewall, to name just a few. Every region has multiple datacenters, the largest by far of which is North Virginia's. By default most people use one DC but multi region while being a huge expensive lift is something they already have tools to assist with. Also, and maybe most importantly, AWS, Azure and GCP run their own backbones between the datacenters rather than rely on the shared one that you, me, and most other smaller DCs are using.

    I'm a DevOps Engineer but I'm no big tech fan. I run my own hobby server too. Amazon is an evil company. But the claim that "multi cloud is easy, smaller CSPs are just as good" is naive at best.

    Ideally some legislation comes in and forces these companies to simplify the process for adopting multi cloud, because right now you have to build it all yourself and it becomes still very imperfect when you start to factor things like databases and DNS, and this is what they rely on hard for vendor lock-in.

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • you, on a single ISP who relies on the world's shared backbone rather than your own between multiple DCs within a region and multiple regions around the world, have better uptime than AWS?

    Stop.

    I'm all for decentralizing for the case of no single entity controlling everything, but not for the case of uptime. That is one thing you give up with services like Matrix or Lemmy.

    AWS actually has an SLA it's contractually committed to when you pay them with thousands of engineers working to maintain it.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • Diminishing returns.

    480 to 720 was massive, and 720 to 1080 was big too. 1080 to 4K is definitely not always noticeable and 8K is well beyond worth the file size.

  • Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December

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  • I feel like they would at least do it by the interface MAC address.

  • Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

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  • Instead of real attempts at combating this we just took the capitalistic approach and turned "green" into a bullshit marketing tactic to give people the guise of doing their part when they buy an electric Hummer.

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • Had to scroll too far for Stratum! The watch app is also why I use it so that I can keep my phone far away from me while I work. Game changer. Surprised more don't use it.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!

    Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly ("sideload" - I use Obtanium) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.

  • The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

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  • There's more, he criticized protests against ICE in LA turning into riots, and had some nice things to say about Kirk after he was killed.

    That said I think it's really unproductive for people to turn on him after he was a big spark in a movement and is still outspoken. He has irritated me a few times lately but he's still one of the most influential leaders.

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    magguzu @midwest.social

    Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc