My worst feeling is "I tried that two years ago but couldn't get enough people interested, so I dropped it..."
My favorite exchange on ChatGPT (back in March):
**You**
Tell me a dad joke.
**ChatGPT**
Why did the tomato turn red?
Because it saw the salad dressing!
**You**
Can you explain to me why that joke is funny?
**ChatGPT**
Sure, I'd be happy to explain why that joke is considered funny!
The humor in this joke comes from a play on words and a bit of misdirection. The first part of the joke sets up an expectation that there will be a serious or logical explanation for why the tomato turned red. However, the punchline delivers a silly and unexpected answer that has nothing to do with the actual reason for the tomato's color change.
The play on words is in the phrase "saw the salad dressing." The word "saw" can be interpreted in two ways: as the past tense of "see" (as in, the tomato observed the dressing) or as a cutting tool (as in, the tomato was physically sliced by the dressing). This creates a bit of confusion and a humorous mental image, which is why the joke is often considered amusing. Additionally, the idea of a tomato being aware of salad dressing is absurd and adds to the silliness of the joke.
We went on a bit further with me pointing out that their murder take was distasteful, and it responded that humor is subjective.
We had fiber at our previous house for about six years, and it was great. The prices were lower, the speeds were greater, there were no limits... It's kind of funny, because it was a college town of about 200K people in the middle of nothing else.
Now I'm up in the suburbs of Chicago where a single town can have a 200K population, but fiber is nowhere on the horizon. Instead we get terrible service that's constantly showing packet loss with slow transfer rates. We do still have unlimited, but with these transfer rates it doesn't really matter. :)
As far as monitoring traffic goes, I guess it depends on how you're doing things. If your DNS requests are still hitting your ISP or aren't encrypted, then yeah, they might know. I don't know if they'll care, but of course not all illegal content is treated the same.
So basically a non-answer to your question, along with me saying I liked having fiber.
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I thought this was an article about the X Windows system based on the preview for the article. Boy are those two similar-looking.
Dvorak keyboard mode enabled.
Maybe they 'won', but I don't count a pyrrhic victory as winning. It will take years to recover.
Thank you. I hadn't considered the payment part. The cloud system that I manage is in education, so everyone pays in advance.
This makes sense, and I'll start with a lower number and ask it to go up later. It will take a couple of months to migrate everything from Linode anyhow, so I don't need them all at once.
My identity infrastructure alone uses a whole bunch of servers.
There are the three Kerberos servers, the two clusters of multiple LDAP servers behind HAProxy, the rabbitmq servers to pass requests around, the web servers also balanced/HA behind HAProxy... For me, service reliability and security are two of the biggest factors, so I isolate services and use HA when available.
I told them everything that I wrote here in my original request -- I need 25 now, but would like a quota of 50 to maintain elasticity, testing, etc.
They followed up with the request for actual resources needed.
I haven't answered since then.
I loved Reddit until I realized they were just going to do whatever they wanted and the community, apart from creating free content and work, didn't matter. But the lying about discussions with the app creator was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Suddenly they weren't just a bully, but they were a proven lying, dishonest bully. Everything that they say going forward will be suspect, so I decided to walk away. Who knows what they're doing with my data/content. I know what they're telling me. I don't know what's true.
I deleted most of my posts from my nearly 14-year history except for a handful that I think need to stay up and a couple of others that I'm testing something on. I log in every once in a while to leave any groups that might have unlocked since I was last there and delete those posts too.
I don't hate them. But they've lost my trust, and I don't see any way to regain it.
There could have been other, better solutions. The biggest problem right now is that the only tool in Steve Huffman's toolbox is a hammer.
I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!
I do have some feature requests -- is GitHub the best place to submit those?