I can’t speak to the moral side, but it’s worth noting that from a privacy perspective the major cloud providers basically don’t want to be able to interact with your data.
I work as a cloud engineer and regularly engage with support from Google and Amazon and in general they can only see stuff like metadata and resource configuration, as well as the raw hardware health for your resources. For anything further generally you’re going to have to explicitly provide information, share your screen, etc.
Just wanted to clear up that tidbit. Again, doesn’t help with any moral objections you may have though.
I have half an answer for it, which is that those people who are uploaded could by working just as they do today. There are plenty of pitfalls for that though, like what if someone gets laid off. Or what if that person did manual labor like construction? Kind of hard to do that if you only have a digital presence.
You’re not entirely wrong, there. That being said, such a thing kind of exists now, in that if you can’t pay your rent or mortgage you lose your home. Obviously not the same thing as one denies your right to existence, but it’s not too dissimilar.
It’s a complex topic though and I think eventually we’re going to need to tackle it.
That would be such a cool prospect, but we’re going to need to accelerate our space program quite a bit if we’re going to want to turn people into von Neumann probes.
I have several TB of borg backups. Uploaded them on backblaze b2. I could immediately see how much resources i was using, how many api calls, and so on. Very easy to see and predict the next bill. I can see exactly which bucket uses more resource, and which is growing over time....
You should be able to punch this info into the AWS cost calculator and see this info, right? I work with AWS on a daily basis for my day job and regularly have to pull these estimates for upcoming projects. Granted, these would be estimates.
As for current costs, generally AWS lags by a couple hours to a day before costs show up in cost explorer, so not seeing them immediately isn’t too surprising.
You got any tutorials for that? I’ve been interested in setting something like that up for my own media library but just haven’t gotten around to it. Might make for a fun weekend project.
I haven’t seen or spoken with my siblings in several years. I was always the black sheep among my sibling group and when my parents divorced, it basically just made it that much more concrete.
Personally I don’t regret it, though every now and then I wonder how they’re getting on with life.
Honestly, I’m okay with this at least until they fix the fact that all shared files are accessible without authentication. Granted, you still had to get the link before downloading an uploaded file, but the fact that there was no authentication required to download a file uploaded to Discord was pretty surprising.
I’ve used Mint for many years. It has never worked well, its budgeting tools are inaccurate, and the UI is garbage. I guess you can say I’m not too broken up about this. I do very well with an Apple Numbers spreadsheet every month. That said, if there are other better options out there, I would consider them.
What bums me out is that there was another web app called Financier, which actually happened to have been developed by the same guy that made Voyager for Lemmy. He stopped developing it a while back though. It was pretty nice and I think he even open sourced it, though I can’t recall for sure.
If it’s still around, it may be an option, and I remember it did have some sync capabilities between devices.
Fed Up with DigitalOcean
So I selfhost a number of servers in various locations and utilize a DigitalOcean VPS as a hub/gateway to transmit data between these nodes....
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)
These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.
There's a way to know how much i am spending/going to spend with Amazon S3?
I have several TB of borg backups. Uploaded them on backblaze b2. I could immediately see how much resources i was using, how many api calls, and so on. Very easy to see and predict the next bill. I can see exactly which bucket uses more resource, and which is growing over time....
Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)
Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.
Paramount+ unskipabble ads
Just rage canceled Paramount+ after seeing the 1 minute of unstoppable ads before each episode....
Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?
If you don’t use Spotify, what’s your favorite artist and song right now?
What is the most terryifying siren noise?
There’s an emergency at the Facility down the road, and everyone in a six-mile radius is very likely fucked....
The Moon (lemmy.world)
The Moon just now in the UK. No idea what is creating the halo
What’s your relationship with your sibling(s) like?
What skill did you learn during lockdown that is still helpful to you now?
This is my favorite song I've ever completed, called "Dreams of Loss" (soundcloud.com)
I finished this song early this year, and this community seemed like a good place to share it with. I hope you enjoy it!
Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware (www.theverge.com)
“Attackers, Trellix wrote, use the platform’s webhooks to pull data from victims’ computers and drop it into Discord channels run by the attackers.”
Mint, One of the First Budgeting Apps, Is Shutting Down (archive.ph)
I’ve used Mint for many years. It has never worked well, its budgeting tools are inaccurate, and the UI is garbage. I guess you can say I’m not too broken up about this. I do very well with an Apple Numbers spreadsheet every month. That said, if there are other better options out there, I would consider them.