This isn't just down, this discussion seems like it's been barely holding on and there's a non-zero chance it goes away or changes in some significant way moving forward.
I get that for a boot / root drive but not for building a self hosted storage system. I'm not taking about cost of SATA SSD vs NVME; I haven't seen a lot of board+enclosure options that take enough M.2 disks.
I think it's possible to write a solid fuse filesystem. Not as performant as in-kernel but it could easily not be the bottleneck depending on the backend.
I commented though because GCP highlights it in a few places as component for AI workloads. I'm curious if anyone is using it in an important application and happy with it.
I've found QEMUs microvm to be faster at boot while having nicer tooling and a cleaner upgrade path if needing more features. Aside from hype I'm actually not sure why anyone would still use firecracker.
I like passkeys. I'm not able to be all in on them yet but I feel like they simplify my life. I have hardware keys and register all of them with sites that support them. Bitwarden for everything else.
I don't feel like that makes me dependant on any of the big tech cos, but I do recognize everyone won't be able to pull off such a setup.
Some business and industries do more social good than others. We're all still adjusting to the internet. I'm on the side of leaning towards giving NYT a pass for this. It was a single chat interaction, not so bad.
The interaction didn't seem that bad to me. The business is hurting and valuable. I can kind of see how you'd get there and want "customer retention specialists", who are people that have a job they don't like where they are probably measured on some metric related to how many cancels they let through. Sucks all around, but again I was expecting so much worse.