If you liked that blurp and want more, Exurb1a wrote several (vaguely connected) books on the matter. I cannot tell you anything more without spoiling it.

The Fifth Science, The Prince of Milk, Geometry for Ocelots, Logic Beach: Part I

I wrote a whole message for you and it was there and then it wasn’t. I don’t know what to tell you besides that.

well if you’re gonna delete my responses to the guy who replied to me I’ll delete the contents of this message too fuck you I’ll ruin the whole conversation

People are downvoting this because they don’t want to acknowledge that they live in a selfish shit culture that values and rewards hoarding wealth above all else, the precursor condition to enshittification of services. You might not personally, downvoting person, but don’t be blind to the world around you. It will only get worse until you acknowledge it.

I understand the physics of the situation, but I don’t get why none of the reviewers have pointed out that strange pixel artifacting, which is really the thing I’m most bothered by. I can deal with a noisy, low quality image, but it just seems like there’s some broken post-processing going on.

Thanks for Nothing!

It does, but only if you leave

I ask with genuine curiosity, what do you need a CDN for?

We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS’d to any extend that needs external protection.

I’m talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren’t very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!

Why was this smeared drone-shot even considered? I’ve taken better pictures with my phone.

You’re not missing much; it’s got that classic Google Camera upscale smearing

Because Windows fucking sucks and Linux is a can of worms not everyone wants to deal with?

Apple isn’t free of sin, but it’s the simplest way to get a system that doesn’t actively work against you.

The future is now, old man

This is basic life philosophy. Nothing is perfect, but you can choose which problems you want to deal with. Linux presents the least amount of struggle to fixing the problems it gives me, so I use Linux everywhere.

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The point isn’t to get supplies to Gaza, it’s to put eyeballs on the fact that Israel is preventing supplies from getting into Gaza.

And it relies on the US, so it’s flaky

I don’t give a shit