Anecdotal, but I never had an Arch install fail after updating (maybe the one time my EFI partition was full, but not specific to Arch). While I have a laptop running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed that failed to start after the third update I did on it.
> While I have a laptop running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed that failed to start after the third update
Very possible, Tumbleweed has had some embarrassing failures.
But when it comes to rolling release on servers I'd still prefer OpenSUSE.
OpenSUSE has whole distributions (MicroOS & Aeon) dedicated to performing automatic updates. ArchLinux is not really made with automatic updates in mind.
Big part of that is possible because OpenSUSE releases Tumbleweed in "snapshots". This means that updated packages are basically staged and tested together before release. This happens a few times a week. If you then experience a failure you can always use an older tumbleweed snapshot. In theory that should provide more stability, but there has recently been a lot of instability especially with SELinux being enabled by default.
The backwards compatibility guarantees are for the language and not the standard library. They won't make breaking changes nilly willy but it can and has happened for the std.
I fail to see what is gained to flash ESP32 from the browser vs from a small software gui you can run on your computer (and offline as well).
Saving the 1 minute setup time needed to install the software ? The rest is basically the same procedure.
You are not losing functionality if it was never implemented in the first place.
WebUSB and WebSerial are not standards, so your rage is misdirected. Keep using your security cheese of a browser if you need that feature. Otherwise others (like myself) are okay with having fewer security risks in their browsers.
> The reality, I believe, is that this is largely driven by idealistic west coast gen-z and younger millenials who feel certain that their world-view is righteous, to the extent that they feel they are only helping by implementing these tools.
Not sure about that. Most likely these companies decided they don't want to get sued if their AI is found liable to have helped a terrorist commit illegal acts.
It's not even that. It's because they pumped AI as actual intelligence. So when it says to glue pepperoni to your pizza the companies (rightly) look like fools.
In a similar vein they just don't want the negative press around serving "harmful" answers. They don't have the balls to just say "well, it's all public knowledge".
This all all about optics with investors (with public opinion as the intermediate step).
This is what patently false because all of these companies already deploy moderation layers and none of their moderation layers are designed to catch things like "glue the pepperoni on".
The SOTA providers don't share much their research on factuality because they don't actually care if the LLM says that, and they view building LLMs that don't say that as a competitive advantage, not some moral obligation like bioweapon development.
> If a week long outage is enough to make or break your business, your business isn't gonna work out anyway.
If your business has an SLA with its customers, having a week long outage is going to break your business.
Some contracts I saw had a 15 minute reaction time where you had to acknowledge the issue, and after 1 hour of downtime there are penalties. The same contract also required redundancy (of hardware, internet lines as well as ___location for the DCs). We could not have hosted that on a Raspi, or a single machine.
I don't think reducing the scale issue to "you ain't gonna need it" is right. Obviously to most projects it's not gonna be needed. But when it does and you need to grow, you'll be happy you have a redundant infrastructure that you can spin up/down easily instead of having to call your DC to ask for more hardware to be installed.
"If your business has an SLA with its customers" then you also need a paid SLA with Amazon and now we're talking about the 100k annually cost range where you can also afford to hire freelancers to babysit your sever while you're gone.
Maybe for the author of the blog post, about his personal projects. But the user I replied to seemed to indicate even "100-employee e-commerce sites" don't need any redundancy for their website, which I disagree with.
