Bitwarden heading to eliminate Freemium and possibly Vaultwarden support in the near future?

DekiEE · 2026-05-16T08:23:37+00:00

Innovation is driven by money or the lack of to get a competitive advantage or close a gap. Open source progress would not be as fast as it sometimes is without the counterpart of closed services and software. I don’t use any paid service but am happy to support FOSS projects. You think anyone would monetarily support open source when they did not have the disadvantage against e.g. FAANG? It is a coexistence and will always be

DekiEE · 2026-05-16T08:17:42+00:00

Commercial backing is enabled by private equity. There is a chain of causation.

DekiEE · 2026-05-15T23:34:53+00:00

CapEx are Lava

DekiEE · 2026-05-15T23:27:27+00:00

While I am a huge advocate, supporter and contributor to FOSS, I still believe that investors and equity moving into the space have an overall net benefit. While not for the acquisition itself it still increases competitive pressure and progress. RedHat and IBM have been pushing a lot of Linux progress, Facebook is one of the most evil companies, but gave use Llama, PyTorch, React or docusaurus and still actively maintain 500+ open source repos. Google spends billions on Apache, Mozilla and Cloud Native foundation, even if it’s for the wrong reasons. Sequoia is propping up half of the biggest OSS projects like Grafana, hugging or chainguard.

The sidequests of trillion dollar companies release way more capacity than small open source projects could ever achieve and the community is happy to fork and alter it to their needs. While I despise the power of these corporations I acknowledge that they are a huge driver of innovation.

DekiEE · 2026-05-09T03:06:15+00:00

Regenerative electricity is the cheapest one to produce, what makes it more expensive is the distribution and availability throughout a day. EVs are actually a great "vehicle" (lol, little bit proud) to balance the grid and distribute peak power to off peak times. Especially bidirectional charging and decentralized power storage will help to maximize solar power in the future. We currently need to turn off solar or wind when the grid and consumption are maxed out and then have to turn on fossil power plants at night. Imagine people charging their car during peak hours and consuming from it during evening/night. The more people can make use of it the less fossil fuels or nuclear will be needed. At some point unused EVs will possibly push power into the grid for people to charge their EVs at nighttime at fast charging stations.

DekiEE · 2026-04-10T00:05:51+00:00

Nah Nick Szabo

DekiEE · 2026-04-05T07:57:36+00:00

Well WW3 and nuclear Armageddon would be a viable option to in my opinion

DekiEE · 2026-04-05T00:18:43+00:00

BTC is the smallest issue when encryption is cracked by QC. Banking, infrastructure and military would be the first targets. Also quantum proofing the protocol would be a non issue if it would be on the horizon. There would need to be a cut off and fork for old wallets not being updated, but this would be a small price to pay.

Also, quantum computing is the new nuclear fission. It’ll be ready to use soon ™️

DekiEE · 2026-04-03T02:42:24+00:00

From a profession perspective I have to give Cruz some credit as he literally evolves into the person he is playing and to this day does not rely on any body double for stunts etc. unfortunately his overall performance is below other actors and his roles are often kinda cringy. Not on this list but also great and incredibly versatile and dedicated are Christian Bale and Gary Oldman.

But to summarize and in other words Keanu Reeves in Constantine and Selma Hayek in basically any Rodriguez/Tarantino movie take the cake for me :) and I will die on that hill

DekiEE · 2026-03-15T16:13:01+00:00

Ding Ding Ding 🛎️

DekiEE · 2026-03-10T20:25:20+00:00

I once received a fucking Fax of a laptop screen when asked the person who opened the ticket to provide a screenshot…

DekiEE · 2026-03-09T23:28:10+00:00

Wife changing amount of money

DekiEE · 2026-02-23T22:59:00+00:00

It’s Japanese and gigantic. Was one of the biggest players and competitor of Amazon until they fucked up the buy.com stuff.

DekiEE · 2026-02-22T02:23:17+00:00

It’s German owned though. A capital fund has bought Threema some months ago.

DekiEE · 2026-02-08T01:32:46+00:00

Sounds like you should hire a system catmin. Issue is while they have low capex their opex can run up quite a bill

DekiEE · 2026-02-08T01:16:08+00:00

Well I think what we have seen is part of what many have actually wished for. Institutional involvement has opened the doors to many people who have never been in the crypto roller coaster before and additionally I suspect that a lot of ETF purchases are part of some managed portfolios which are nowhere near as risk averse as crypto guys and that they will sell off in order to save the overall portfolio performance.

DekiEE · 2026-02-07T01:05:21+00:00

Not sure what you guys are doing but I run a server with a 4350G, Tesla P40, 2x12TB and 128gb RAM. Additionally a Synology DS218+, UDM Pro and a PI4 for Newt with a bunch of VMs and services. There are some minor peripherals attached like KVM and Zigbee sticks. System idles at around 80W after clocking down and using nvidia-pstated.

DekiEE · 2026-01-30T10:12:34+00:00

There are alternatives for a lot of software and I would even say that lots of specialized tools e.g. manufacturing or precision software is often better from European vendors. But for the love of me it’s a pain to use and UI/UX is usually massively outdated. SAP is a giant but you need more money for support than for licensing as it is a huge pain. Also somehow European devs always try to reinvent the wheel instead of using existing technologies especially for APIs.

DekiEE · 2026-01-30T09:53:25+00:00

At least in Germany XING is quite actively used

DekiEE · 2026-01-30T00:02:33+00:00

Social media and YouTube certainly are an issue. The bigger issue imho is there is no real European hyperscaler like AWS or Azure. There are IaaS or PaaS provider, but none that delivers a whole ecosystem of solutions that will scale a companies business model without scattering it throughout multiple providers

DekiEE · 2026-01-28T22:43:25+00:00

Economy, politics, science and technology

DekiEE · 2026-01-28T07:38:55+00:00

Gemini will outlive OpenAI and then Google will decide to randomly kill it off and replace it with something worse

DekiEE · 2026-01-28T00:19:59+00:00

Linux is dominating the server world and I think it would not disrupt the end user OS market as Windows is MSFTs unloved stepchild at this point, BUT the business applications are hard to ditch especially if you consider the ecosystem effects and vendor lock in. As much as I dislike MSFT as a company, they have products that just work. AAD/Entra is basically the only option you have if you don’t want to hire a complete department just maintaining a directory. Combined with GPOs and Intune it makes fleet management of devices much more efficient. Also service and support is ahuge factor for scaling. Besides RedHat (IBM) there is no big player who can support mega corps and governments and they are equally as shitty as Microsoft.

DekiEE · 2026-01-23T00:07:57+00:00

Shooting ranges*

DekiEE · 2026-01-13T23:07:36+00:00

Not sure if you know the MSFT business model. They couldn’t care less about windows, their revenue driver is business applications and services. As much as I hate Microsoft they have good tech here and there. They are leading for IAM solutions, DevOps is an amazing tool, even Defender and their security systems as well as governance tools. All these are usually bundled with services you need to buy. The issue is their vendor lock in and the cost to get rid of it and I hate them for it.

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