1. Where do people keep getting this SLA pink promise information? Your SLA has to be presented to potential clients and whether you’ve been successful in maintaining it can make or break them being on board. It’s also audited for things like SOC2 compliance.

2. That’s a microscopic fraction of what a product the size of Signal is dealing with, and unimaginably small compared to AWS

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

Apples and oranges.

It’s not just words on paper. It’s a level of service you commit to and owe repercussions when broken.

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.

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.

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.

Ugh don’t start with the conspiracies man. That’s for the right wing nut jobs. Democrats lost because they keep putting out trash establishment AIPAC candidates against the fascist regime.

Diminishing returns.

480 to 720 was massive, and 720 to 1080 was big too. 1080 to 4K is definitely not always noticeable and 8K is well beyond worth the file size.

I feel like they would at least do it by the interface MAC address.

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.

Instead of real attempts at combating this we just took the capitalistic approach and turned “green” into a bullshit marketing tactic to give people the guise of doing their part when they buy an electric Hummer.

Had to scroll too far for Stratum! The watch app is also why I use it so that I can keep my phone far away from me while I work. Game changer. Surprised more don’t use it.

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.

There’s more, he criticized protests against ICE in LA turning into riots, and had some nice things to say about Kirk after he was killed.

That said I think it’s really unproductive for people to turn on him after he was a big spark in a movement and is still outspoken. He has irritated me a few times lately but he’s still one of the most influential leaders.

Ah shit, I’m in the Chicagoland area. I wonder if this affects me. That’s good to know.

Surprised no mention here yet of a Pixel 3a? Both Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS seem to run best on it, so I’ve had it on my eBay search notifications for a while hoping to be able to toy with one. I really don’t expect it to be daily driver material though.

If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it’s not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click “allow anyway?”

This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn’t matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.

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.

Heh…these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I’m a software engineer.

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