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RIP Washington Post.

> “Partnering with OpenAI helps us give thousands of State Farm agents and employees better tools to serve our customers. By pairing OpenAI’s Frontier platform and deployment expertise with our people, we’re accelerating our AI capabilities and finding new ways to help millions plan ahead, protect what matters most, and recover faster when the unexpected happens.” — Joe Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer at State Farm

Ok how about you tell us one thing this shit is actually doing instead of vague nonsense.


I'm sorry do you have some problem with protecting things that matter most?

> The only thing that is lacking so far is the demand and the talent available will skyrocket, when the market starts demanding it.

But will the market demand it? AWS just continues to grow.


Only time will tell. It depends on when someone with a MBA starts asking questions about cloud spending and runs the real numbers. People promoting self hosting often are not counting all the cost of self hosting (AWS has people working 24x7 so that if something fails someone is there to take action)

> AWS has people working 24x7 so that if something fails someone is there to take action..

The number of things that these 24x7 people from AWS will cover for you is small. If your application craps out for any number of reasons that doesn't have anything to do with AWS, that is on you. If your app needs to run 24x7 and it is critical, then you need your own 24x7 person anyway.


All the hardware and network issues are on them. I agree that you still need your own people to support you applications, but that is only part of the problem.

I've got thousands of devices over hundreds of sites in dozens of countries. The number of hardware failures are a tiny number, and certainly don't need 24/7 response

Meanwhile AWS breaks once or twice a year.


From what I've seen, if you're depending on AWS, if something fails you too need someone 24x7 so that you can take action as well. Sometimes magic happens and systems recover after aws restarts their DNS, but usually the combination of event causes the application to get into an unrecoverable state that you need manual action. It doesn't always happen but you need someone to be there if it ever happens. Or bare minimum you need to evaluate if the underlying issue is really caused by AWS or something else has to be done on top of waiting for them to fix.

How many problems is AWS able to handle for you that you are never aware of though?

How many problems do you think there are?

I've only had one outage I could attribute to running on-prem, meanwhile it's a bit of a joke with the non-IT staff in the office that when "The Internet" (i.e. Cloudflare, Amazon) goes down with news reports etc our own services are all running fine.


Distributed systems can partly fail in many subtly different ways, and you almost never notice it because there are people on-call taking care of them.

Corporation taxes feel pitiful compared to personal income taxes. Why can’t it be flipped?

> in theory, clawdbot could drain my bank account. this makes a lot of people uncomfortable (me included, even now).

Yeah this sounds totally sane!


Wish I could read this.

> I was very optimistic about Synology Photos but it was unfortunately underwhelming.

Anyone have info on this vs Immich? I just got my Syn so been trying their native app which seems fine so far but not sure what I’m missing.


Personally I've avoided using any Synology-specific functionality. It's not as transparent and seems kind of brittle. I feel like that's going to pay off because after a couple of years I'm pretty sure I'm going to switch to an open source solution instead, and I won't have to look for alternatives to systems I'm already using.

I found Immich to be significantly higher quality. Nothing prevents you from running Immich in a newer synology which support containers.

Mine is so old that it doesn’t and it’s also under powered - else I’d be running Immich on it.


Wow almost no tool recs :/

I’m planning to demo superhuman for email but I really don’t want another sub so hopefully it’s not worth it.

I’ve got nothing for texts.

Phone makes unknowns say why they’re calling so I can pickup non spam.

Only core apps stay downloaded and very few get notification ability.

There’s some extension for your PS on cookies, think I saw it here the other day and forgot about it. Maybe this? I haven’t tried it though: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/consent-o-matic/mdj...


How hard / possible is it to use the rules in another mail provider?

Depends on which one. I think you can use the Fast mail ones in proton mail.

Uber Eats is a plague. If you leave notifications on they constantly trigger one to make you open the app and clear it.

There’s a way somewhere deep in settings to disable those. I still have UberEats notifications for food arrival, but was able to disable all other ones while digging through all the settings

If you remember how please let me know because I could not figure it out last time I tried.

yes, it's a tragedy but I need to know my food is arriving lol

Look at the webapp.

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