It's generally not great form as a 2 day old account on HN to be copying and pasting the same stuff all over. Some of your language also looks a bit unusual: you're replying to threads where people want software engineers saying technologies are irrelevant and you're using "latent space acupuncture". o.O
This isn't really surprising from the UK. If you go back 15-20 years, taxing a vehicle to drive on public roads used to involve displaying a "Tax Disc" in your windscreen, on the off-side of the vehicle.
They abolished this system in 2014 [1] because they'd long since reached saturation of permanent Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) readers [2] from >11000 cameras on UK roads, and scanning over 50 million vehicles per day.
It's also common to have 'Average Speed' systems on major roads and even country roads where the accident rate exceeds a threshold defined by the local councils. Those will issue you a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) and points on your licence for a moving violation if you exceed the speed limit. Beyond the 'Average Speed' infrastructure is a giant number of fixed cameras which measure speed and capture imagery of your vehicle, number plate, and the driver and automatically issue the PCN for speeding, and mobile vans operated by the authorities and deployed anywhere they consider a "hotspot".
All of this costs you money immediately to pay the PCN, costs you money over time because insurers hike their rates, and after 2-4 violations in 36 months, can result in you losing your ability to drive and trigger an extended "retake driving test" (after your disqualification period).
This is much more draconian than the United States where in many states a moving violation (like a speeding infraction) will only be processed by a policeman pulling you over for a chat.
A fair number of sites hosted and operated outside the European Union reacted to GDPR by instituting blocks of EU users, many returning HTTP 451. Regardless of whether you believe GDPR is a good idea or not (that's beyond the scope of this comment), the disparity in statutory and regulatory approaches plus widely varying (often poor) levels of 'plain language' clarity in obligations, and inconsistent enforcement, it all leads to entirely understandable decisions like this and more of a divided internet.
Thank you to those who have tirelessly run these online communities for decades, I'm sorry we can't collectively elect lawmakers who are more educated about the real challenges online, and thoughtful on real ways to solve them.
For me, Firefox and without iCloud Private Relay engaged, Maxmind is within about 2km and doesn't get the city correct (but we're right on a border), and IPinfo is about 15km as the crow flies (and gets the city entirely wrong).
For cloud-like provisioning experiences and paying by the hour you can use DigitalOcean, Vultr, or alternatives.
Deploying GPUs? Something like CoreWeave may be optimal.
Want inexpensive costs for dedicated hosts? Hetzner, OVH.
There are many, many advantages to using AWS but equally many alternatives that are viable and which aren’t “doing it yourself” in a hardware and network sense.
None of this is to say DIY is a terrible choice either and everyone’s got an opportunity to consider time (initial setup; ongoing maint), costs, and also expertise and ability to do a good job.
I’m hoping that they finally execute an M4 Extreme, oriented towards Mac Pro. There was rumor they’d do this in M2 era but it didn’t come to pass unfortunately.
Be aware that discussing anything in the CM5 Forward Guidance document is tricky, the document still says -
"This whitepaper is restricted and covered by the Raspberry Pi Ltd non-disclosure agreement (NDA). It should not be copied, shared, or duplicated without permission."
Eben Upton was refusing to be drawn on specifics when Jeff Geerling and others chatted to him [1] about roadmaps recently. Nevertheless, the rumor is that CM5 will be drop-in compatible with the CM4, the details of that have been available via their NDA portal [2] for a few months now, but I think even this leak on Twitter (just a box with a label) is a breach of an NDA / embargo, so we might not know officially for a little bit yet?
Best for what, and for whom? Just saying “Best Distro” feels like an extraordinary claim.
To give two examples of where it might not be best — running Fedora on a server, or running Fedora on a workstation where you need long-term stability and support for running CAD/CAM or CFD software which doesn’t play nicely with major OS changes every few months.
Brilliant was a Smart Home company who made light switches you could install, replacing your existing ones.
They only offered cloud control and APIs were private — they actively rebuffed any attempt by the community around Home Assistant to better support their product.
No Matter, nor ZigBee or Zwave, so with the shut down they are another IOT device you essentially need to rip out and throw away, this is painful since they were approximately $350 USD each.
Do you think that should extend to recording some or all meetings at a company?
A group of executives meets. Should that meeting be recorded, even if it’s not a “hybrid” meeting and entirely happened in person?
A group of engineers meets. How about that one?
This seems like a hard issue. If the court creates a precedent here, I expect any sensitive discussions that might have any sort of future liability will just go back to verbal conversations (if allowed), and then aren’t we back to where we are today, with no record?
Would definitely recommend reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html