Badeendje

Badeendje , 3 days ago

The systems need to be installed too.

Badeendje , 4 days ago

Those ads that are now inserted during the program on us tv shows are annoying as fuck
Banner at the bottom or side... Goddamnit.

Badeendje , 4 days ago

Yeah simple. It's not like it's rocket science.

Badeendje , 4 days ago

Verizon is probably the provider for the 911 dispatch center. So calls will be carried by the network and Verizon trips them at the door.

Badeendje , 4 days ago

No they won't, but now they where deemed at fault, let the civil litigation begin. As this is the American way.

Badeendje , 5 days ago

https://youtu.be/9VUhaXCsebM

Badeendje , 9 days ago

'Presents' is doing a lot of heavy lifting

Badeendje , 12 days ago

Except food is a physical good that needs to be transported, while the service is still provided by low wage workers from across the globe.

If a corporation gets to provide the service from where it's cheaper, they can't be mad people buy it from where it's cheaper.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

Except the hardware is purchased using a global framework contract that uses the volume as a reason for deep discounts.
It gets put in a rack by a local guy and then remotely provisioned by some person from a low cost country.
Electricity in datacenters is purchased at wholesale prices and muchuch cheaper than what consumers pay...
The list goes on and on.

The higher prices in countries has only very marginally to do with the higher costs.

Money grabbing corporations will charge what the market will bare.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

It is just some Telcos that price for data usage and put in usage caps. But this is only a way to price gauge customers. In the EU most ISPs operate without datacaps and are much cheaper month to month than in the US (my 1gb symmetric fiber connection without datacaps costs around 30 euro per month).

Sure a data connection in a datacenter is more expensive, but is either shared across datacenter customers or a customer gets their own. And again, global players have framework contracts with other global players.. so maybe Orange Business Services provides the internet connection for their DC operation globally.

The cost for the things they have to source locally is highly overestimated. Usually budgets they spend locally on stuff like advertising are much higher.

Badeendje , 11 days ago

So, where does it differ? Cost of hosting the machine and the data?

Badeendje , 11 days ago

When I did it before, our company bought the hardware in bulk. We prep it, provision it and have it good to go. Then ship it off to wherever. PM has the local DC staff (if they provide that service, else a local IT company install the box and bring it online. The moment it is online everything is managed remotely. The local install costs is usually a few 100, once, just like the shipping.

We even shipped full racks (assembly required) with a complete connection diagram. All it needed was power and 2 internet cables everything else was done already.

If companies like google expand, this will surely be similar. But then at even larger scale. I cannot imagine them going around trying to find equipment everytime. You just have a contract with dell/HP/IBM/NetApp/Oracle and ask your account manager to ship you x number of type A server.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

Some weekends? These roles are hard to fill so usually chronically understaffed, meaning most weekends.

And even if you like the work, the volume is an issue burning people out on the role.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

You are one of these people that also thinks the utility companies sit on their ass while they are not performing a break-fix aren't you?

If anything security means ploughing through logs, checking up on monitoring alerts. And most importantly constant lobbying with the devs and deployment projects to actually take security serious.. yes we know it is easier to deploy without ssl, single sign on, firewall, monitoring suite and not using our template but your own custom OS install etc.. but this means everything is fucked if something happens and noone will be able to tell why. And No you cannot just deploy the database cluster in the DMZ so that it is easier to access.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

That could work, if you had a large pool of these people to put on the on call list. Most companies do not. And only having every other weekend off is not living.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

100% but in general there are too few people that possess the skills for this work. So they are hard to find and expensive.

Badeendje , 12 days ago

True.. very true

Badeendje , 12 days ago

You are the one that said these people do 2-10 hours of work a week and I tried to tell you that there is so much more to the domain of security.

So you kinda told us a lot about yourself with your denigrating remark.

Badeendje , 13 days ago

I don't understand why discord is so popular for communities. There is 0 permanence, and google does not index it so not even organic growth.

Discord is a black hole of knowledge except for the ai training companies.

Badeendje , 13 days ago

The work environment is also toxic. I read that some large japanese companies have rooms where employees have to sit and do nothing if they want to get rid of them. Because firing them would mean admitting you where wrong to hire them and could not get them on board, so that is loss of face.

Badeendje , 13 days ago

Because a lot of applications require MS SQL. And they develop based on this because a lot of clients use MS SQL.. and the circle continues.

Badeendje , 14 days ago

And elsewhere people are in defense of Vale, which is accused of tying sales, pricing clauses and excessive tarrifs.

Good that these walled gardens are being broken open, as it not only allows for direct competition, it also required companies to think about safety and security. It is high time that apps are "containerized" and users given direct control over what is accessible to an app and what not. And if data is accessed that it is transparent what data is collected.

Badeendje , 15 days ago

That site.. even the model list is an advertorial.

• XT8 (ZenWiFi AX XT8)
• XT8_V2 (ZenWiFi AX XT8 V2)
• RT-AX88U
• RT-AX58U
• RT-AX57
• RT-AC86U
• RT-AC68U

Badeendje , 15 days ago

I got fed up with trying to find the right firmware each time. It was too much of a hassle. Then small issues with the one I had.. you need an earlier version... I love the idea, it was just a pain.

Badeendje , 18 days ago

Oh boy, I'd like to see the Data Privacy Impact Analysis for this.

Badeendje , 21 days ago

A bug that causes something (that is legally required to be in a car and function properly) not to function properly or be available is not news?

The fact that they can F- it up remotely and possibly introduced a big that could cause cars to fail inspection seems newsworthy by itself.

The fact they can un-fuck it remotely seems to be the least interesting aspect of this story.

I suggest people stop letting large corporations of the hook if their lack of QA and in this case lack of separation of essential driving systems and the infotainment causes issues.

Badeendje , 21 days ago

Extreme cost cutting indeed. Because a second screen with a little cable running to it would cost what.. maybe 50 bucks all installed per car.

It's just weird that this kind of stuff is done.

Next stage just remove all screens and stuff and have the customer use an app on their phone.

Badeendje , 20 days ago

Yeah.

Badeendje , 24 days ago

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Badeendje , 25 days ago

Or even 5 flat and 30 for a month when it kicks in or is enabled.

Edit: ofcourse not when it kicks in if TMobile is also your primary provider. Cause that just invites fuckery.

Badeendje , 25 days ago

Cheap ground cannot be a reason then, OK?

Badeendje , 24 days ago

The issue with ground prices is they fail to account for stuff humans really need like clean air, clean water, biodiversity. So if you stripp all these factors in valuation and then start building while at the same time chopping down trees in need of protection. You are kinda rigging the game, or not?

Badeendje , 24 days ago

I knew I should not have taken the bait.

Badeendje , 27 days ago

GPS is irreplaceable in stuff like modern day aviation and shipping though.

Badeendje , 27 days ago

Isn't that part of officers training in many navies. Why they train on the sail ships and keep one of those old ships around?

Badeendje , 28 days ago

Nonsense design vanity project made for toddler CEO underperforms in comparison to actual pickup designed and built by manufacturer of the top selling pickup.. who would have guessed.

Badeendje , 29 days ago

I love my buds pro but they came with me phone. Id probable go for the monies if I have to replace them

Badeendje , 1 month ago

I'm just imagining a monkey knife fight in an elevator now... They are cartoon monkeys btw.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

I used to use the liquid to repair rear window heating and a triple 0 brush on the althlon processors. I u locked the CPUs of all my buddies.. worked perfect.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

But this is not misinformation, it is uncontrolled nonsense. It directly devalues their offering of being able to provide you with an accurate answer to something you look for. And if their overall offering becomes less valuable, so does their ability to steer you using their results.

So while the incorrect nature is not a problem in itself for them, (as you see from his answer)… the degradation of their ability to influence results is.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

Oh don't get me wrong I know exactly what you mean and I agree.. it's just that the LLMs are spewing actual nonsense and that breaks the whole principle of what a search engine should do.. provide me accurate results.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

I don't believe they will retain user interactions if the reason for the user interactions dissapears. The value of Google is they provide accurate search results.

I can understand some users just want to be spoonfed an answer. But that's not what most people expect from a search engine.

I want google to use actual AI to filter out all the nonsense sites that turn a Reddit post into an article of 500 words using an LLM without any actual value. That should be googles proposition.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

That is actually a really good observation.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

Yeah they should just give him some stupid nickname.. like meatball Ron, space Karen.. etc.. etc.... making fun of these jokers should become the norm.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

It is about using your monopoly to influence the market and playing favorites for your own gain without disclosing your bias. If you highlight certain apps not because they are good but because they make you the most money, you are well on your way to abusing your monopoly.

And having your appstore installed means 90% of people never venture outside the walled garden. So even if there are theoretical alternatives, in practice there aren't.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

Running a virtual server allows you to run a server application on its own virtual machine, this eliminates the chance that (when running multiple applications from a server) the underlaying requirement for each apllication conflict.

In comparison to docker the full server can offer more native capabilities for some applications, while other applications simply only run on a full OS.

So by virtualizing the servers one large piece of Hardware can be used to run multiple servers and you can (sometimes dynamically) allocate resources as needed.

The backups can consume all computing power put of office hours while the other applications share during Office hours as needed.. sometimes a bit more for VM A and sometimes a bit more for VM B.

Off course monitoring overallocation is a thing as you might end up with bottlenecks caused by peak loads that occur at the same time.. the issue would be bigger when running on dedicated hardware.

And off course having multiple hardware platforms interconnected allows for a VM to be moved from hardware platform to hardware platform without interruption (license required) meaning you can perform hardware maintenance without an outage.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

But this way we can get all that precious biometric data.

Badeendje , 1 month ago

The Enshittification will continue while our profits soar.