I read this as: a group of professional engineers dedicated to hosting/scaling a platform designed for hosting blogs will perform better than a single random person managing a personal blog in their spare time. I generally think that's accurate.
For anyone who is curious about this line of thinking, I'd recommend reading a little bit of Neil Gorsuch's "A Republic, If You Can Keep It." The book covers these ideas very well.
On the other hand it's dry, repetitive, and has really poor flow, so I'm struggling to finish it myself.
> removing a 'create file' clause does not cause that file to be removed on subsequent runs, as the tool has no concept of ownership
Terraform on the other hand does have a concept of ownership, diff-ing, and applying changes. It takes some work as you now need to track state, but I've been very happy with Terraform.
I think it's worth recognizing that this is a good first step in a hard problem. Hosting many TB of data for free isn't easy. Building an index on top of that data isn't easy either, and it looks like no such index exists today, but if someone decided to build that index they wouldn't need to worry about the hosting portion of the problem. That's a great starting point.
Using RSS to allow mirrors to host different subjects is really clever, although some of the categories seem quite large (>5TB). It may be worth breaking up each category (sharding) to keep each to 100GB or less so a volunteer can pick a couple and not worry about running out of disk when a category grows.
Then it would be good to track how many seeds each category-shard has so volunteers can help where it's most needed.
Is Samsung Internet better than Chrome? I've always assumed it was bloatware since it's preinstalled and I haven't heard of people using it. I personally use the Firefox mobile browser, which I think works great.
I tested about a bunch of browsers on my Samsung phone (including Chrome, Firefox, Maxthon, Dolphin, Cheetah, Brave, Puffin, Opera, and Yandex), and eventually decided that the "Samsung Internet Browser Beta" was the best of them for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.androi...
My main demands were a browser that had a reliable "reader mode", a black background "night mode", allowed reasonable ad blocking, and had a full screen mode with minimal clutter. The Samsung browser isn't perfect, still occasionally makes me mad, but definitely is worth trying if aren't fully satisfied with what you are using.
Dolphin!
Man, I haven't heard someone talk about that browser in YEARS.
I used that ten years ago back when the play store was called Android Market because it had addons and I thought it was the bee's knees. I still rotate through chrome, chrome canary, Firefox, Firefox focus, opera, and sometimes nightly builds of Firefox just to see what's getting tinkered with lately. Firefox still my daily driver though.
samsung internet is an outdated chrome so most browser stats reports don't break it out seperately - it just shows up as an oddly large number of people using chrome 71. but it has a few extra usability features that people like and definitely a big userbase.
I just tried Samsung Internet Beta on my old One Plus 3+ based on this thread. In terms of performance, it's much zippier than either FF or Chrome. Give it a go.
