Given Cloudflare's reputation for shakedowns once you pass their undisclosed thresholds I wouldn't trust them with my domains.
I'm not expecting something for nothing, we all need to eat. I'm happy to stay within any limits or even have no free tier at all.
I just don't want the fear of waking up to a sales email one morning demanding I suddenly fork out more then I earn in a year off the project for an enterprise plan because I've exceeded their undisclosed thresholds.
Can you expand more on cloudflare's shakedowns? I have some domains on Cloudflare and thought they were a trustworthy service. Is there there anything particular you can point to?
I think they're referring to the Enterprise sales where people have felt pressured to sign six- or seven- figure contracts after usage goes above a certain point. However, all the articles I've read on it are from companies using Cloudflare to do suspicious things with rotating domains through IP addresses, or doing things to try and get around service costs. It also seems like they give you months of warning and will try to convince you to sign up for Enterprise, they don't just shut things off. But their sales team seems to portray themselves as legal, support, or compliance teams sometimes so not exactly forthcoming in their approach either.
I'm a happy user of Cloudflare, but if you're using it for domain registration and hosting infrastructure, you need to see it as a single point of failure. Any account issues and you won't be able to point your domain to an alternate host while you work things out. Any service outage in CF systems will similarly lock you out of routing around the failure. It's better to have DNS off of cloudflare if they're handling your hosting services also. Or host elsewhere and only handle domains on cloudflare. Their domain pricing doesn't add any costs over the base registrar cost, so the latter is a reasonable option.
You could argue in that case it was a gambling site and it will never happen to you because you're not in a high risk category.
The scary thing for me is nowhere in their initial communications did they explain the issue they just demanded $120k upfront (refusing monthly billing).
The CEO who is usually active on HN didn't show up to give their side either, there's no way they couldn't have been aware of a 1044 upvoted post which also went viral elsewhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481979
It's just traffic based: sales try to get you on a paid plan, or a higher tier. For some accounts they've given ultimatums ("pay for the higher tier by x date or we have to stop providing service"). But I believe those cases were e.g. online casinos doing specific things with the platform (say, evading national blocks on gambling websites) IIRC.
It would be worth recommending a non-US-based registrar, since the Texas government just demonstrated that they can unilaterally suspend any domain managed by any US registrar.
Are you referring to what happened with motherless? If so, using a non-US-based registrar probably wouldn't have made a difference in that case. The court order that took the domain offline targeted the .com registry operated by Verisign, not any individual registrar.
I know this is what the leaderboards say, but empirically, I'm also seeing it make silly mistakes that opus and fable never do. So it really feels more like sonnet to me as well.
This incident will, hopefully, encourage people to use cctv that store footage exclusively locally (on a microSD card, built-in storage, or a local NVR/hard drive you control) and avoid any cloud connectivity or optional cloud features.
Local alternative to Google Nest : Reolink, Amcrest POE, Eufy with Home Base, TP-Link Tapo, Frigate + POE cams.
> Reolink, Amcrest POE, Eufy with Home Base, TP-Link Tapo, Frigate + POE cams.
Those aren’t really local and they still ping the cloud even if you choose not to use their cloud storage. If you want to truly have local setup, do so by having all the CCTV system on a separate vlan that can’t access the internet, but the NVR is connected to you through vpn, that way only you can access it. Note: thingino is an open source firmware for cameras too, that being said, it lacks many features that I won’t recommend it, better is just using stock but blocked from internet.
> ...there was no video footage because the camera wasn't connected to a paid subscription, and so the data was overwritten, he said.
I know Wyze and Tapo's security cameras will still cache event recordings onto the MicroSD without a paid subscription. The former will just continuously overwrite fifo style when storage exceeds the card's capacity; should be trivial to recover if they didn't implement CMD32, 33, 38 specifications correctly (or the SD is too old to support those commands).
As much as we need an alternative to YouTube, Rumble’s whole gimmick is basically “we don’t block nazis”. Insofar as supporting problematic businesses goes, that’s out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Whats the issue? Are you afraid of being swayed? Feels a bit like homophobia at times. Those being most vocal are likely trying to hide something about their own personality...
The common opposition to Nazis is bigger than freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is just the baseline talking point Nazis use to get you to listen to them. Not that you'll be swayed but disarmed.
When I turned my adblock off there for a second I couldn't stop laughing at the absolute crack-potness of their ads. If you like a creator, and they stream, you can dono to them.
I wish AMD did well in the Stable Diffusion front because AMD is never greedy on VRAM. The 4060Ti 16GB(minimum required for Stable Diffusion in 2024) starts at $450.
AMD with ROCm is decent on Linux but pretty bad on Windows.
I run A1111, ComfyUI and kohya-ss on an AMD (6900XT which has 16GB, the minimum required for Stable Diffusion in 2024 ;)), though on Linux. Is it a Windows specific Issue for you?
Edit to add: Though apparently I still don't run ollama on AMD since it seems to disagree with my setup.
Or rather Nvidia is purposefully restricting VRAM to avoid gaming cards canibalizing their supremely profitable professional/server cards. AMD has no relevant server cards, so they have no reason to hold back on VRAM in consumer cards
Nvidia released consumer RTX 3090 with 24GB VRAM in Sep 2020, AMDs flagship release in that same month was 6900 XT with 16GB VRAM. Who is being restrictive here exactly?
Exactly. My friend was telling me that I was making a mistake for getting a 7900 XTX to run language models, when the fact of the matter is the cheapest NVIDIA card with 24 GB of VRAM is over 50% more expensive than the 7900 XTX. Running a high quality model at like 80 tps is way more important to me than running a way lower quality model at like 120 tps.
I cannot parse this. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX also has 24GB of vram, so how does it help you run higher quality models? I would understand if it had more ram.
Only the RX 7900 XTX has 24 GB of VRAM at its price point. If I went with an NVIDIA card, I would either have to spend over 50% more on the card, or use much worse models to fit on their 16 GB cards.
According to Wikipedia astronauts that spent about 800 days in space have aged about 20 milliseconds less. But I'm not sure if that's the correct phrasing and usage of word "age".
I will always remember the automatic removal of the Christchurch shooting video from users' personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, with no prior warnings or explanations provided.
I use Bing for porn. For reverse image search, I use Yandex. And for researching psychedelics and conspiracy(censored) topics - I use Brave Search.
I use Google only for vanilla search that shows I am a good citizen(navigation, online shopping, general research on movies and sports...etc). I don't want my search Identity to be fully profiled by Google. Police(and other bad actors like a hostile government) are more likely to access my data on Google than on other lesser know search engine.
semi-related: I do get a jolly deep belly laugh when "a threat to national security" is loosely tossed out as doublespeak for "an augment to individual privacy".
Without a VPN or tor on at least some of those browsers, though, I imagine the metadata strewn about could get stitched back together on the data-broker (ad-tech) end of all those transactions.
this is why RMS ssh's into a pine server to read email, i reckon.
> ... what assurances do you have they would not comply ...
While compliance is certainly not optional, the value of your compliance is highly dependent on your technology. (The authors mention this in the article by writing that Apple does not collect the same kind of data as Google.)
I think it is like choosing VPN providers. You never know if they were involved in compromising their customers until they are caught compromising their customers.
So if you have a choice between two similar VPN providers, and one of them is known to be involved in compromising their customers, you use the other one.
I do not see how this would be any different with search.
I quit using DDG because when it ran out of answers based on what I searched for, it would spam results of 'random word in search query + city/area based on IP address'. Which was not only completely useless, but creepy as fuck.
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