The conspiracy theories are still just that

The real issue has been the same since the 80s

The ultra rich are getting richer and that makes everyone else poorer.

Once they have accumulated enough wealth to price normal people out of being able to buy anything, society will be forced to reconfigure to serve only the ultra wealthy.

Then we’re all in slums with relatively few options to ever fix the situation.

We need to tax the billionaires out of existence before their simple existence breaks everything.

Everything else is a distraction.

I know what I did

“good morning, I’m about to destroy the backend” is exactly the energy I’d welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

It’s probably an intentional or unintentional reference to this

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DagwoodSandwich

That’s not the same unless something has recently changed. The scheduling just stops it from scheduling them during the day, it doesn’t make sure everything downloads in a single night.

And even then, that’s not a “do all it right now” button

Now it would be nice if they could add a download all updates button (if only for Steamdeck)

Going into that download screen and telling 20 games to download now before I’m going on a flight or something is a pain in the arse

Nix and Snap are kind of oddly similar

Now that’s a spicy quote

A fiver says OOP has never left their suburb

I saw an article about a cleaning robot that can climb stairs that’s just come out, it’s a quadruped thing.

Aren’t these all chiffchaffs?

Maybe bottom middle and top right are something else

The software isn’t really the hard thing about these companies, the customer and provider UIs are nothing special and they achieve their scale using fairly industry standard event driven tools and cloud compute. They all talk a lot at industry conferences, so it’s no secret really.

Ensuring a restaurant will make the food for an order, ensuring a delivery person shows up to collect it, ensuring that food makes it to its destination in the same condition it left the restaurant, ensuring everyone gets paid at the end.

Preventing any of that from going wrong and handling it when it does is where the value of these companies lies.

Who is going to step in if a restaurant starts ignoring orders, or a driver starts eating the food, or a customer does a fraudulent chargeback?

Then there’s the money issue: where does the money go when people pay? Who owns the merchant bank account? Does every driver need a merchant bank account? How is tax accounting handled?

You can’t use cash for this system as both the driver and restaurant need to be paid (and TBF, whoever is paying for hosting the back end servers), and the driver won’t necessarily go back to that restaurant

Or a cabal of IKEA enthusiasts

I guess I was more wondering why do the name change at all

But I’ve gone and looked it up now and apparently Wally is a less common name over there, so they changed it up to something more familiar.

Which now begs the question: is Waldo a common name over there? I don’t think I’ve ever met or heard of anyone other than this character go by that name

Why do you guys call him Waldo?

but I figured, why not? And left my likeness open to everyone, just like Sam Altman.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Honestly about as bright as posting your credit card details on social media.

Privacy is something you can’t really get back once you give it away. Your likeness is just another part of that

This might be the most stereotypically American thing I’ve ever seen

Beautiful ❤️

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

This is kinda cope

Practically everyone’s job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.

At that point things end up pretty concrete.

These opinion pieces that pop up saying “ha-HA! Behold the petard they’re hoisting themselves with!” Kinda miss the importance of preparation.

They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.

The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we’ve got something left at the end of it all

I was doing some awful manual patching trying to get some Linux TV kernel patches into a raspberry pi kernel I was cross compiling on my main desktop.

IIRC I had both repos cloned for quick reference/source of truth and then a third I was using to do the actual work on. I remember running a du summary on my working directory with it all in at the end, and it was somewhere between 40-50GB.

There was probably a more space efficient way to achieve what I was doing, but there was no need to worry about that