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Decentralization greatly decreases vendor lock-in, lessens the damage of a single actor and adds competition. These are serious long-term benefits for a service and its users.

There's a reason why something like email is still around and being innovated on 40 years later, while its proprietary competitors are long since dead. And it's not that the technology is very good.

Bluesky is just another ICQ/AIM/Slashdot/Digg, a little walled garden that will eventually be ran into the ground. Which is fine. The issue is that it's trying to embrace and extinguish the fediverse by pretending to be decentralized.

The point is that bluesky has no interest in being actually decentralized, it's just a gimmick

I guess if people expected it to be like Pitch Black they were disappointed. I didn't see Pitch Black until later (and didn't find it very memorable), but they are very different movies.

I think the thing I like so much about Chronicles is that it's unabashedly fantastical and epic. It reminds me of Warhammer 40k and Conan the Barbarian, really fine cheese.

I loved The Chronicles of Riddick! It's bombastic space opera, of which we have much too little that isn't Star Wars tripe, and Vin Diesel is perfect in this role.

Yes, but since the pro doesn't have a disc reader it's more comparable to the Digital.

It also doesn't matter, when compared to the standard model the Pro is still a shit deal as it released for 500$. (And came with a disc reader and a vertical stand, which are over 100$ extra for the Pro.)

No, its biggest problem is that it's outrageously expensive. At its core it's a four year old console selling for significantly more than release price.

Here are Playstation release prices adjusted for inflation and rounded:

• PS4 $540
• PS4 Pro $520
• PS5 Digital $490
• PS5 Pro $700

A similar relative price point to the PS4 Pro would have seen the PS5 Pro release for $470; and at that price it would likely have been popular, even without any really meaningful upgrades.

You can run systemd (or cron) inside a pod for scheduling and call the kubernetes API from there to run jobs and stuff. Not sure if this helps you, but it can be easy to overlook.

I had a similar task to

"Set up a web service, load balancer and infrastructure to scale it to handle a large amount of requests. Harden the security of it to the best of your ability. Document how it works, how to scale it, why you built it the way you did, what measures you took to harden it and why, and any future improvements you would suggest. All code and documentation should be production quality. This should take about four hours."

Maybe you can write this code in four hours, but all this documentation and motivation as well? Fuck off.

They also asked for a made up report from a security audit (this was for a security engineer position) containing a dozen realistic vulnerabilities with descriptions, impact assessments, and remediation suggestions. Once again of production quality. This is at least six pages of highly technical, well researched, and carefully worded text. Four hours is tight for this task alone.

May I suggest you spend more effort understanding the situation, and less coming up with wild speculations?

I'm sorry but that is absolutely not "the whole point of open source".

The point of open source is the ability to read, modify, keep and share the source code of the software you use.

It's a good thing that no one is beholden to anyone then. Which is the entire point of free software.

2024 is the year of Red Star Linux on the desktop