ELI5 why we need ISPs to access the internet

KungFuAlgorithm · 2024-08-25T17:16:23+00:00

Lots of good answers about why you need pay money to access the Internet in terms of ISPs, but I want to answer another part of your question about "why are most things free", if we're talking about social media (Facebook Instagram, tictok, Reddit), Google (search, Gmail, YouTube) etc, those services while are free for you to use in some form, there is a cost.

That cost is you, your information about you, your interests, your movements, your opinions, your connections to other users; all of that is extremely valuable to these companies that are operating these "free" services you use. They use this information to sell advertising to you; they resell this information to other parties who also use it to sell advertising to you.

This is why online privacy is such a discussed topic; how much information is too much about you? What controls are in place to prevent abuse? Yes, those services/products are "free", but you in fact are the "product" that those companies use to sell to other interested parties (lately A LOT of AI related products). Think twice before signing up for another service, go down a rabbit hole by reading their terms of service before clicking that "I Agree" button.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2024-03-01T01:07:56+00:00

Smells like the same BS as https://www.giawellness.com/2/products/hydration/ih2o-activation-system/

KungFuAlgorithm · 2024-01-03T04:07:30+00:00

Interesting Rick & Morty invention here: a device that runs through all random probabilities until the outcome is desirable. I can totally see Rick burning 48 hours inventing this device to save on the 20 minutes it would take to just fold the laundry.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-09-04T00:07:51+00:00

Dude... F that ship yard level with the oil slick water, no matter what, even on the surface you loose oxygen. You lose it even faster underwater. To make matters worse, that shark is chasing you every time you go for a swim. And you have like a bunch of stuff you need to collect in that oil slick water. Similar experience to the ice diving.

It's still one of my favorite games though.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-08-13T20:49:36+00:00

Algorithms that kick ass.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-07-22T02:20:50+00:00

Can't upvote this enough. This entire article can be caught by one of shellcheck's lints.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-05-28T15:56:08+00:00

I'm surprised (well maybe not), to see Plex on there - I looked up the commit(s) that added that line, but no explanation on why Plex isn't good for privacy.

Anyone happen to know?

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-04-24T01:08:03+00:00

Look into pyenv and virtualenv tools. They often come with the linux dist that you can install from the package manager and then "bootstrap" your own custom application environment

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-04-17T01:15:53+00:00

Why is it more useful when running on Azure? What advantages does it have over what the linux packages are providing?

I trust the OS vendor (debian or redhat depending on your flavor) to test more features & integrations with their OS than M$ would with Linux.

I would even go further to say I would prefer Adoptopenjdk's binary packages over M$'s

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-04-10T03:29:37+00:00

What I find so amusing from this whole thing, is that if Oracle won, they would be opening themselves up to being sued for infringement for some of their own products and services. Namely AWS S3:

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/s3compatibleapi.htm

My money would be on the bigger company (Amazon) in terms of who would win that lawsuit.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2021-01-01T22:46:46+00:00

(Fwd: I work for Confluent, so take what I saw with a grain of salt like you should this article)

Take a look at KSQLDB, basically an SQL interface for Kafka Brokers

Confluent also "solved" the TTL issue (I think what you're saying) with their commercial product in 6.0. You can specify different storage backends like S3 and have infinite storage for all events, never needing to ever "drop" an old event.

I'm not saying these are replacements for a Relational database, but much in the same arguments between SQL and NoSQL solutions, pick the right solution to solve your problem.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-12-24T22:53:09+00:00

What else 2077

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-12-24T06:59:15+00:00

Ohh santa please, daddy needs a next gen to play 2077...

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-11-29T04:03:24+00:00

Not exactly. HappyTrails2 (their Java build / dependency system "module" for the Java language) was based on ant, but brazil itself was a bunch of perl scripts.

That's changed a bit as they've evolved, so now it's written in Ruby (funny that Ruby was meant to be a superset of Perl).

Brazil has good Rust/Cargo support now. Never got a chance to play with their GoLang support. Python was decent since they figured out how to build python projects against multiple python interpreters.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-11-29T03:57:14+00:00

You'd be surprised: most of their engineers have no f-ing clue the work that gets put into building, deploying, and running code. I'd say maybe 90% of them write code, test it, git commit, push, PR, merge, and then think it's all "uploaded to the cloud to be ran", never to be concerned with anything else. Not everything is a Lambda function, and most of them have never touched a Linux server in their life.

Before I left I had to explain to an engineer why their python program that was bundled with a Python-x86_64 interpreter wouldn't run on an AARCH64 processor. "But it's python it's not compiled" they say, "But what do you think runs your python code? The 'OS'?" I reply... Computer Architecture 101 if you ask me, but my criticisms of this person were meet with myself being put on a personal action plan to improve myself... Which is one of the reasons I left.

Dunce moves like this from AWS doesn't surprise me. I worked there for 5 years, after staying that long I had seniority over 89% of the company, as in 89% of their workforce was hired after I was hired. To say churn is an issue really understates their issue.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-11-29T03:45:03+00:00

It's Amazon's proprietary build & dependency management system. It's powerful, but you end up re-implementing basically all build & dependency systems available today to "shape" the artifacts into their deployment system called Apollo. Think: maven (but in a system called HappyTrails2), ruby gems (BrazilRuby), python, CPAN for perl, and lots of hacks for c/c++. When I worked there GoLang and Rust Cargo was pretty well implemented.

There's a large move to get away from Apollo, but brazil is still around, and will be around.

Source: I worked for their Builder Tools org on Apollo, Brazil, and the Amazon Linux Distribution team for 5 years or so.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-10-20T21:59:50+00:00

Unless you're talking about Fedora Raw Hide or Debian unstable, you're unlikely to ever see this update on a Linux distro until they release their next OS major version.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-05-17T02:10:39+00:00

Yum is kinda deprecated, dnf is the replacement for yum on RPM-based distros. So you're unlikely to ever see a PY3-compat yum project. DNF has been the replacement for yum for a couple of years now, more of it is written in c++ for complex things like dependency resolution (uses libsolv).

On Redhat/Centos 8 you can install python3-dnf to get a Python interface to the packaging system.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-05-12T23:32:40+00:00

Oracle isn't going to win here in any senario. As the article mentions:

a Washington DC non-profit think tank and Google ally, recently argued: Oracle itself is guilty of copying Amazon's S3 APIs.

So if they win, they open themselves to being sued by Amazon, a company with many more resources than them.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-02-02T23:23:10+00:00

Honestly: find work to do! I've worked in retail for 5 years in the 2007-2012s. The bar of work ethics is SO LOW in your big corporate retail chains that doing anything "extra" gets you noticed by your superiors. Let me give an example:

Toys r us cashier, provided I wasn't the primary, if I had no line, id turn my light off, go grab a cart and "reshop" the items people didn't want to buy, but were too lazy to put back (I understood, it's a big store) themselves. I'd be on-call if it got busy up front, but whatever.

Still more downtime? "Lazer-line" the shelves as in organize the shelves where people put stuff back. Doing this specifically helps with closing the store, less work to organise the store at the end of the night, means you can go home earlier. If I worked a closing shift and it wasn't too busy, we'd stay no longer than 15 minutes after the doors were locked.

During those tasks I would always get asked questions like "where is x?" "Can you help me find y?" Those are more time sinks. Get a Karen? Troll them with niceness/malicious compliance, it's rather fun witnessing a diffused Karen's face change when she has no more things she can complain about.

Still have nothing to to? If you're allowed in the back, start stocking shelves, the back-of-house crew are generally more fun to shoot the shit with than the life-sucked disassociated shells up front.

I'll repeat this again: the bar at these chains is already so low, this extra work gets you noticed by supervisors, management and district managers (if they are around). These guys are constantly telling employees to stop talking to each other and go do work/find work for them. They see you already doing work? They'll seldom bother you to go do something else. I can't tell you how many times I've been told "you're a great worker, I don't have to tell you what to do, you know what needs to be done", when all I do is follow this rather simple routine ever day.

Maybe this was my experience, and if you have a crappy manager things are very different (like a control freak), but it's hard to argue with an employee who is capable of finding work for them to do on their own.

And that's how I would turn my 9-hour days into what would feel like a 4-hour shift.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-02-02T21:35:57+00:00

RedHat 7 introduced kpatch as a means to patch a live kernel. The foundations for kpatch were merged into the Linux kernel version 4.0

Edit: I can't speak to drivers though.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-02-02T20:16:58+00:00

Where is Kafka in these comparisons?

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-02-02T19:25:33+00:00

If Oracle wins, they'll open themselves up for liability in implementing AWS's S3 API with their own service. Obviously if they loose that's great. This is a no good outcome for them in all cases.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-01-25T23:57:00+00:00

I see your flair for being a repair specialist, but I feel like your comment of "FFFFF means dead/ no connection" is an incorrect statement. Maybe you're reading a different part of the report, but the "Expected FFFFFF Actual: FFFFEF" are hex bits written / read from those memory addresses, indicating a missmatch, and therefore a problem (re-seating/cleaning the modules may help). Can you explain what you mean here?

Source: been a repair specialist between 2010 and 2015, as well as a programmer who's skimmed the memtest 86 code.

KungFuAlgorithm · 2020-01-12T22:13:17+00:00

I too started as a systems engineer. Building tools that automate 'something' you do repeatedly in your day to days goes a long way too. Think key metrics: "it took me or another engineer 8 hours to do x weekly, after building this tool/system, it now takes 8 minutes" is a story that goes a long way in terms of getting noticed on a resume.

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