Fastmail is hosted in Australia which has some iffy privacy laws thst may affect fadtmail (although fastmail won’t sell your data at least) https://www.e4237161d240bc6333d6834ce-19834.sites.k-hosting.co.uk/showthread.php?s=23fc90acb4f52ac90ee43d800bb66a77&t=74082

I have moved to mailbox.org which has been great too. Just offering an alternative in case you are interested in a European host

I can’t comment as I’ve not used scheme but looking at scheme’s syntax, elixir is much nicer. It’s supposed to take some of its inspiration from Ruby.

The big seller is that it runs on the Erlang VM so you get all the goodies for free: supervisor trees, OTP, processes, even able to call Erlang directly. It is both scriptable and compiled. Not so much suited for high performance computing though as benchmarls will show, but it is interesting to learn and I have gained a lot from exposing myself to functional programming paradigms.

https://elixir-lang.org/

Elixir. Especially with OTP to write distributed systems. Or with phoenix and liveview for web apps

It’s a functional language based on Erlang with a nicer syntax

Functional programming

It was some dodgy accounting accusations/reveals https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk/

For me it was an excuse to try something new and cover my ass just in case this didn’t pan out. But overall it looks to have blown over

I used to use B2 before the whole CEO financial issues came out (not another one accused of something unsavoury) and wasn’t sure how it’s going to pan out. I switched to a cheaper (per GB) Hetzner storage box and am super happy with it

I use restic, specifically https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest for making backups and uploading them via rclone.

A lot of good stuff here. Especially realising how useful an LLM actually is for coding. It’s a tool and like most tools has a purpose and a limit. I don’t use a screwdriver to put in nails (well sometimes I do at a pinch, but the results suck) or cut wood in half. Spicy autocomplete is probably a good use case, but even then “use with care” should be employed.

The whole “prompt it correctly” stuff is pn point. People have written books on how to correctly and effectively prompt the LLM. If I need to read a book to learn something, why not just read the book on how to do the thing? Or use the LLM to summarise the book, then at least you’re going to get somewhat accurate information. We had someone create an AGENTS.md at work and I read it and it just sounds like a joke “You are expert in this and the human known everything. If unsure ask the human” etc. If the main gain is that I don’t need to type so much I might as well use voice dictation.

That is aside the financial, environmental, health, and safety issues and damages that are all bundled in for free. If people just saw it for what it is, instead of glamourising them as the panacea for all their problems.

https://forum.torproject.org/t/are-there-any-risks-to-running-standalone-snowflake-on-home-network-if-so-how-significant-are-they/16710

I was also wondering this. There’s some info here specifically https://forum.torproject.org/t/are-there-any-risks-to-running-standalone-snowflake-on-home-network-if-so-how-significant-are-they/16710/5

I was just being snarky that it’s a shit and pointless exercise. It’s a delaying or hurdle rather than any real “security” (or "stop the user futzing with your stuff). And I agree with you, most people won’t buy it, and being available isn’t changing much. It’s just the same as all the other “security” screw heads out there. It’s just a hurdle.

The easiest way to get around all this is just to not buy BMW (or any other manufacturer that pulls this shit)

EDIT: nice username too :D

How long are we guessing it will take until we can find the tools on aliexpress?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/ubuntu_unity_child_maintainer/

From the article

The actual original map with contributor and sources is here https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

I will update original

There’s a map of how VPN companies are connected which may influence your decision too Link with sources and contributor details

https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

Old link https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

Even if we would get and be able to use any hardwareit would have been ridden hard. Expected remaining lifespan may be low

Why is the cat wearing a mask on its head?

True. Eggs and one basket spring to mind. Unfortunately the internet as it is has become so hostile that things like cloudflare are needed and not many competitors have the same level of infrastructure to offer equivalent services.

I’ve managed to migrate all my self hosted stuff off of CF but I can see how larger services benefit strongly from CF without any similar alternatives available.

Especially the whole free tier getting people hooked is also a reason they’ve managed to gain such popularity.

What is the point here? Thinkpads are decent laptops. They say as much. Is their issue that we hold IBM or Lenovo in high regard because we think they are doing something good? Granted, their engineers seem yo know what they are doing, but I don’t think that the company ever did anything beyond making laptops for profit.

You mean it’s not a coffee bean button that makes a cup of coffee for you?

It just reads like “look we basically run and own most of the internet so you can’t just boss us around. Because if you do everything breaks because everything is us.”

I hate it.

It’d be like Schitt’s Creek if that happened :)