I designed mockups in Figma, and then realized them into code. At first, there weren't any fancy animations, so I enlisted the help of my friend Rens (info linked in the footer) to help bring it to life!
I tried a variety of configurations. The E-series was one of them, as it's advertised as "Great for relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics." Premium and Premium V2, tried those at larger capacities I didn't need just to get higher IOPS.
None came within an order of magnitude of a Ryzen 7600/nVME mobo sitting in my son's old gaming case.
An option I did not try was Ultra disk, which I recall being significantly more expensive and was not part of the standard corporate offering. I wasn't itching to get dragged in front of the architecture review board again, anyway.
Feedback: you need to state very clearly, high up on the page WHY someone would want to use a non-managed solution vs SecretsManager or SSM Parameter Store.
The website has way too much information that is basic credentials store 101. I know why I’d want a secrets manager already.
and if you are targeting users/builders on AWS (which you are implicitly if you can’t run off AWS) you need to be clear as to why anyone would waste time with an unmanaged solution
> a one-time payment for an external hard drive may be a more economical alternative over time.
If you care about your data, you are playing with fire.
Drives do not store data forever. Data must be read and rewritten occasionally to maintain it, from old media past its lifespan to new media.
Good storage software, with the ability to write your data with either mirroring or striping of some sort is able to routinely scan your entire data set and detect bit rot - and rewrite sectors that contain bitrotted data to new media.
You simply do not get that level of protection buying a single external hardrive alone.
Most enterprise storage systems do this. Most cloud storage does this. It’s worth paying for if you have data that is valuable.
I don't have the impression that anybody here is discussing a single external hard drive.
Also, there's nothing particularly "enterprise" or technically exceptional in backup software that can read old versions of files (for testing) while writing new ones (for current backups) and can copy old backups to new storage locations.
I use the 'bitrot' app to store checksums of files and to check for bitrot. It works by checking for data changes that aren't accompanied with a file modification time change. With this you don't need something like RAID or ZFS or detect bitrot.
But of course you still need backups. The way to use 'bitrot' in combination with backups is that you don't backup the bitrot DB file. Instead, you run 'bitrot' separately on the main disk and the backup disk.
As for fire-proofing my data: I store a disk at an off-site location (parents' home), and I regularly swap my main disk with the backup disk.
I have used local drives for my data for decades. I have data since 1995. Nowadays I also have a remote offline backup somewhere. It seems to work for me so far.
It started with floppy disks in a large box. They actually went bad quite often. From the moment we had a 20MB hard disk[1] for about €400 all went on that hard disk, I think we made copies on the floppy disks just in case (not sure though). It was not important: private stuff, school stuff, programming for fun.
After I got a windows computer, I started hoarding stuff on the harddrive. I don't think I bothered to make copies. When I started doing paid stuff, I bought an external drive for backups. Have been doing that since, in various configurations. My configuration is now: all computers in the house backup to a central server in the house. I rsync to an external HD from that server every now and then. The external HD is stored on a different location.
I have realized that the data is the most vulnerable when I am doing the backup. If the house goes up in flames at that moment, I loose everything. I should get a second HD to prevent that.
Ie they lost money in 2022 when all was said and done.
Also no company that has taken outside money from investors can just give their profits to employees and not share the profits back to the investors.
No investor would ever give money to a company where their share of the profits - which they were duly owed because they took a risk and put money into an enterprise - is not returned to them - and instead shared to employees because it’s the righteous thing to do.
No CEO or CFO would keep their jobs for long if they did this.
This is just such a ridiculously limited view of how investment can work and what capitalism is.
Tons of investors give money to companies without any realistic expectation of ever receiving any profits - they believe that the value of the stock they own will increase in the judgement other future stock owners. That's the only reason Amazon was able to receive capital investment for more than a decade.
Workers also take a risk in choosing to go work for a company, and frequently it is a bigger risk than the one taken by capital owners. The latter will rarely invest in a way that puts their lifestyle on the line, whereas that's all the former can do.
There are pros and cons of the capitalist system, but it does neither capitalism nor us humans any service to present this sort of childish 10th grade view of what it is and how it works (or doesn't).
I think you’re pointing out a problem which mobile has begun trying to solve - passwords are probably not the right long term solution to authentication for the majority of the population or usecases - the right solution is something more like an automatic biometric scan that doesn’t require remembering anything - just presenting yourself ie. Fingerprint scan, retina scan, faceID etc.
Devices which support these authentication method need to become ubiquitous and their APIs need to be open and widely integrated with, including by web applications and laptop/desktop applications.
There are some hard problems to solve in the way.
You either need to make a central authority that manages the scan data or you need to figure out a way to cryptographically hash the output of a biometric scan such that it can be reliably checked against a stored value in a database. Or perhaps our AI experts on HN could comment on if there is a not too computationally expensive verification method…
But it would be nice. Overtime users could remember less.
Not secure at all. You can be coerced physically to unlock something private/secure. Security should always be a combination of something you know and something you have (2FA).
Additionally, requiring a central authority to manage security is just _asking_ for trouble. Passwords work because of how de-centralized it is. Biometrics and physical-only tokens will fail the minute people realize they can just steal that data and use it to unlock everything centrally.
What we need are better tools to manage passwords in a more transparent way.
There is a solution coming that I believe will be 100% fool proof except for the strange nature of foolishness vs wisdom. Wisdom says becoming rich and successful, having fame and reward from your peers, respect from friends as well as enemies. But there is a different wisdom that does not care about money, crowd following, fame, status, or even social gratification. Most people would say, pure foolishness man wtf? Of course we all want to be Bezos or Jobs. Look how happy they are. Or were..
What the heck then? Here come rando guy again talking foolishness.
It's like this, what would you trade for safety? And ultimately if doing so made people that didn't make that trade incredibly vulnderable and by nature your foe? Is love at all important? One thing to note is that anyone who has studied love knows it has little to nothing to do with a carnal relation. My parents loved me when I was totally unlovable as a baby maybe but also as a full grown adult.
You can see it right here in fact. I'm not writing this to make myself popular. I'm writing this because I love people. Even people that hate me. Besides perhaps someone might have reason to hate me. Some people hate everyone, they are known as misantropes. Others can't deal with women and they become misogynists. Others are always outraged and it spills out to someone and rifts appear.
Okay, hopefully I can get to the so called solution to the so called problem of internet security which is a problem as much as the entire internet has become now.
The solution you will be presented with is the distinct pattern that is found on your right hand or on one of your eyes. Both of these patterns are so unique that I can't really find anything else more unique than them besides a DNA sequence.
I don't want you to be afraid. I want you to consider that once this is done, your uniqueness no longer belongs to you. It really never belonged to you in the first place. You could basically give something to a power bent on crushing us all that God made only for you. If a man gives up his soul for gaining the whole world, he has no soul to enjoy. You can't bring money and cool shit to heaven. But there is something you can bring. You can bring not only yourself but people you love. And you will see all kinds of people there you may not expect. I hope you can appreciate the fact that love and gratification are not the same. Don't forget someone did love you when you didn't deserve it.
This is the (in)famous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 though, as I wrote, I don't think it's particularly special, it's just the one that gained notoriety. I actually responded to one just this week, they're rife.
The optimism bias is a problem even for programmers.
