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.

Bit weird to pin it on an age generation

I went to the last Chicago one... And while there is some solace in the feeling of being there and seeing a massive crowd of others opposing this fascist movement, I really couldn't shake the feeling that it feels like a glorified parade.

The route is planned out, the police cooperate to close the roads, everyone marches together and chants and then goes home.

Peaceful is one thing but a planned out disruption that's barely a disruption is just... Are we honestly doing much?

Hate to say it but it honestly doesn't sound crazy hard to just block any instance that pops up. Yes it's whack a mole but if it's an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.

You know what seriously sucks, is you're absolutely right. But in the moment some people are so completely caught off guard that logic like this just disappears. I was uncomfortable just watching this because I know I would be also continuing to talk more than I should in response to their fake politeness.

Yesterday a man asked me to sign a paper to get some candidate on some ballot and, caught off guard, I was complying before noticing it was for a Republican candidate and logic just came back to me leading me to refuse before going too far.

Obviously photoshopped shit like this is a bad look on real issues man come on.

There's plenty of actual real trash urbanism you can share.

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

surely there will have to be "no smart glasses" rules

They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we'll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It's hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don't trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.

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.

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

Like you, I value my relationships and by extension my mental health more than which messaging app I use.

I hate Meta with a passion and them acquiring Whatsapp is probably the most disappointing acquisition of all time to me, but I'm going to continue using it because my wife, family in Latin America, and world friends all use it. And being lonely and out of touch isn't worth the satisfaction of knowing my data isn't being scraped to me. Others in these threads always seems to disagree here, and they're free to do that but it's not a lifestyle I'm interested in.

I'm making changes where I can; I self host a server for my media, photos, files. I'm going to install Graphene on my phone soon. I'm interested in picking up a cheaper older phone to try a Linux mobile OS on. I have my phone auto connect to my pihole to block trackers when I'm out of the house, etc. But I know as soon as it's something I have to inconvenience others with, it's not going to work.

Pick your battles.

I'm on Mint.

T-Mobile acquired them, per the usual bullshit, but I get 15GB a month with unlimited talk and text for "$20" a month. The catch is that you pay yearly in bulk for that price. Had it a year and change. Been solid.

By your logic the *arr suite isn't self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.

In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!

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

Apples and oranges.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not sure this is possible without crowd sourced data

Buy refurb then, it's what I did and it's super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.