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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Low orbit satellites will never replace fiber because physics of latency, bandwidth and error correction.

    As far as things go today well never need less fiber. Even if we cover the sky with satellites eventually we’d need to upgrade to fiber because its literally impossible to beat. Except for scifi tech like quantum entanglement networks which might not even be possible or practical and wouldn’t need the satelites anyway.

    As an infrastructure bet it makes absolutely zero sense except for covering rare niches like war zones or oceans.



  • lmao imagine shilling for corporate Cloudflare like this. Also false positive vs false negative are fundamentally not equal.

    Cloudflare is probably aware that there are still some false positive, and probably is working on it as we write.

    The main issue with Cloudflare is that it’s mostly bullshit. It does not report any stats to the admins on how many users were rejected or any false positive rates and happily put’s everyone under “evil bot” umbrella. So people from low trust score environments like Linux or IPs from poorer countries are under significant disadvantage and left without a voice.

    I’m literally a security dev working with Cloudflare anti-bot myself (not by choice). It’s a useful tool for corporate but a really fucking bad one for the health of the web, much worse than any LLM agent or crawler, period.















  • Getting into philosophy and ethics. Contemporary Stoicism in particular is very freeing and empowering. Theres this concept in Stoicism (and Buddhism) of “dichotomy of control” where some things can’t be controled like thoughts emerging or you dying but you can control your reaction to all of that.

    Another concept from Stoicism that relates to community is the idea of “festival” which is basically being intentionally mindful of how awesome crowds are - the fact that a diverse group of people gather together for some shared activity or just to hang out is enough for you to enjoy it!