The whole point of it is that in a truly random system all known patterns should eventually emerge somewhere within it.

So pi (probably) has this property. There are some joke compression programs around this (they don’t really work because it takes up more space to store where something in pi is, than storing the thing itself). But it is funny, to think that pi could theoretically hold every past, present, and future piece of information within those digits after the decimal.

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

https://ntietz.com/blog/why-we-cant-compress-messages-with-pi/

There’s also the needy users that create tickets for every prompt, dialog, message, delay… Pretty much anything that could happen at all ever, whether it affects their ability to do their work or not.‘’

This could be weaponized incompetence. “Oh I keep having issues with my computer that interfere with my work, so I can’t work and IT is incompetent and can’t help me, look at all these tickets and how long IT takes. I just can’t get any work done!”

After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

Admittedly, I didn’t read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media — like that recent one with amazon aws.

Old version docs tend to offer you a redirect to more recent docs

Sadly, the docs, I’ve worked with (openstack and ansible) frequently, don’t do this. They have a button to go to the latest version of the docs, but not to the equivalent page on the latest version. This means I have to find the equivalent page again, from the integrated search usually.

And yes, a lot can change between versions. New features can get added that solve your problems or older stuff can get removed.

I’m using eternity, which hasn’t received any updates, on my phone, and the default lemmy web interface on my computer.

Maybe I need to try some other options.

This is just straight wrong. iMessage on android has worked by connecting to a remote Mac, which then connects to imessage. The protocol is locked to their hardware.

And, even if there was a true open source reimplimplementation of iMessage, that would say nothing about the security of Apple’s proprietary implementation of the iMessage end to end encryption.

Because some of us have fat fingers and accidentally downvote when we scroll on mobile.

One of the things I liked about reddit was that, since it saved downvoted posts, I could go through the list every once in a while and undownvote the accidents.

Can’t do that here though, and I sometimes notice posts or comments I’ve accidentally downvoted.

Anyway, people shouldn’t care so much, we don’t have a karma system or the like here anyways, so why does it matter?

I can’t find the source code for this extension

No, it is lock in. If apple allowed for multiple app stores other than their own, then users could pay for an app on one app store, and then not have to pay again on another, potentially even on non-apple devices.

I encountered this when I first purchased minecraft bedrock edition on the amazon kindle. Rather than repurchasing it on the google play store when on a non-amazon, I simply tracked down the Amazon app store for non-amazon devices, and redownloaded it from there. No lock in to Amazon or other android devices, both ways.

Now, the Apple app store would still probably not work on androids… but now they would actually have to compete for users on the app store, by offering something potentially better than transferable purchases across ecosystems.

I suspect the upcoming Epic store for iOS and android may be like that… pay for a game/app on one OS, get it available for all platforms where you have the Epic store. But the only reason the Epic store is even coming to iOS is because Apple has been forced to open up their ecosystem.

Provision Management Software

Openstack skyline/horizon

Compute

Openstack nova

And so on. Openstack is also many, many components, that can be pieced together for your own cloud computing platform.

Although it won’t have the sheer number of services AWS has, many of them are redundant.

The core services I expect to see done first: compute, networking, storage (+ image storage), and a web UI/API

Next: S3 storage, Kubernetes as a service, and then either Databases as a service or containers as a service.

But you are right, many of the services that AWS offers are highly specialized (robotics, space communication), and people get locked in, and I don’t really expect to see those.

AWS is software. Just not something you can self host.

There already exist alternatives to AWS, like localstack, a local AWS for testing purposes, or the more mature openstack, which is designed for essentially running your own AWS at scale.

https://llamafile.ai (though it’s down for the moment)

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Lot’s of technical details, but essentially the llamafile is a engine + model + web ui, in a single executable file. You just download it and run it and stuff happens.

Around 98-99 here (100 is max for non nitro users),and I’m noticing a significant delay when loading.

I use the browser version of discord in firefox.

There exists stuff like this.

Virtualxposed. Sandvxposed.

The most popular one I heard about vmos, https://www.vmos.com/

But that one was android 8 (I think?) closed source, and probably spyware inside and outside the thing.

Also, new changes by google may break these emulator type apps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/16r1tg8/phantom_process_killer_solution_in_android_14/

Gpu passthrough, if you can do that will always be most performant.

If you want the qemu/kvm equivalent of what vmware workstation does, than look into virtualgl, which is very good (a wine port on android uses this to get good performace without direct access to host hardware), but it still may not be everything you want.

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where does diagonal fall?