brodock's comments

On: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - wha...

[brodock]

I wonder if they would have a much smaller bill if they were running on physical hardware instead of renting infrastructure from AWS.

This is really not much different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133510 case.

On: NordVPN library and client code open-sourced

[brodock]

Don't forget all the youtubers a VPN has to pay and all the 75% off deals with the promocode ILOVEMYYOUTUBER.

On: Singapore software vendor says own hardware in col...

[brodock]

don't forget the "cloud cost engineer", just to figure out how much it will cost to run the 20 services that should have been part of your app with random ways of billing the usage of it

On: GitHub Is Down

[brodock]

There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server.

Things like the database or random microservices that implement the death star architecture.

[pdimitar → brodock]

Sure, and my comment doesn't exclude it. I wonder what's truly the weakest link.

On: Tell Cloudflare: You're Breaking Tor/VPN/Shared IP...

[brodock]

if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable.

just imagine for a moment people may want to send gifts for their loved ones.

[scrose → brodock]

I’m sure everyone on this site can come up with reasons why some online businesses should support a worldwide audience. That does not mean every online business needs to set out to support the entire world when it makes no sense for them or 99.999%+ of their legitimate users.

On: Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Masto...

[brodock]

Every instance with some amount of user is either sponsored by someone or some organization, or is asking for donations.

The monetary transaction is there

[tarboreus → brodock]

So is my local church a product because they pass around a hat? You seem a little muddled, or maybe you just see everything in the world through a product lens, never taking off your marketer (or whatever) hat.

A highway is not a product, it's infrastructure. In the same way, Mastodon is infrastructure. If someone sells a Mastodon app, that's a product, just like someone selling traffic cones or a car is selling a product.

Not everything in the world is a product. We don't live in a world of products and the void.

On: Docker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it

[brodock]

You should try running your dependencies on docker but ruby on the host machine.

[pmontra → brodock]

I'd be fine to run Ruby with asdf or rvm on my Linux laptop. I'm also fine to run it in a docker container. Performance is basically the same for me. The choice was made by my customer and it's them using Macs. They deploy in Linux containers though so that's probably why they accept not using all the performance of their hardware: same environment for production and development, no surprises.

On: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features...

[brodock]

With the current economic downcycle it is also the most budget oriented option. We will see a reborn of the "Full-Stack" for a while.

On: The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off ...

[brodock]

Coal

On: VPN by Google One security assessment

[brodock]

Apple have their ads business already, it's a matter of time until profits from that business become big enough that shareholders demand changes.

You can't have and Ads business and defend privacy at the same time