JustEnoughDucks

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I love just straight up lying. I wish it was 1¢ per GB. Maybe the most dirt cheap Chinese off-brand that only has 1/2 of its listed capacity usable because it is a refurb labelled as new. 100€ for a 10TB is insane.

    Even going higher capacity to get a lower price per GB, 10TB drives are around 300€. That is 0.03€ per GB. 20TB drives are around 525€. (These are just consumer drives too, enterprise is significantly more expensive for the MTBF ratings) Still 0.026€ per GB. Once you get into ultra high capacity, it starts going up again because of tech limitations.







  • Instead, america gives multiple massive subsidies to industrial farmers growing corn for oil additives and cow feed and gives next to nothing to small famers growing food for human consumption.

    And they give business relief and tax breaks to multi billion dollar mega corporations and proportionally much much less to small businesses.






  • Yeah it is a many decades long issue of Israel literally pushing over Palestinians houses with bulldozers to expand their territory, beating and sometimes killing the owners of the houses, then calling it “settling”. Then Palestinians being radicalized and carrying out attacks (and terror attacks) against Israel. Then Israel responding with complete ethnic cleansing genocide and teaching their entire country that the Palestinians aren’t human and kidnapping torturing them in Nazi-ways.

    It is pretty much exactly the US vs Native Americans of the modern day. Down to the difference in funding, available technology differences, starvation tactics, and genocide. I think the torture tactics have gotten worse though




  • I don’t really get the idea of decentralized internet.

    The internet is already decentralized. There are millions of websites hosted on thousands of separately-owned machines.

    “Decentralized” services like the fediverse use thus exact same structure and bind them together by a search/aggregation API.

    The “centralized” part of the internet is DNS/IP Assignments, Service providers, and search.

    You are perfectly allowed to go your whole life without using search, or by self-hosting searX.

    If we go back to the age of webrings, that is essentially decentralized internet. It seems like every decentralized internet idea is just a rehash of this with some Tor ideas sprinkled in.

    You are never going to be able to pull a “Silicon Valley” and make every device into a mini server. The ping and uptime would be horrific.