When you turn all the lights in your house on, there’s only so high your bill can go. If you get DDoS’d, it may almost be uncappped in terms of your cloud spend. It’s like being charged for every light in your city being on.

The website is not advocating against per-unit billing.

Spot an American at a hundred paces proposing that you either have the money to buy batteries yourself, or else you should just eat it and suffer

A Tesla powerwall won't help with trains and traffic lights. Those are important to me as well.

"Don't expect the government to do anything, give money to big corporations instead"

And then he chooses the one big corporation which has a guy in the government.

unlike americans, people in europe don't just huddle in their own fortresses afraid to even take a step outside without riding in tanks.

power cuts affect more than just your home.

Fun UK fact. only

>One in five civil servants are based in London (20.1%), down from 20.7% in 2022.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-stati...

True, but "civil servant" is a very broad term. A majority of civil servants - a very large majority outside of London - work in Operational Delivery. They work in JobCentres or prisons, they do clerical work in the DVLA or the Passport Office, but they have no actual involvement in or influence over policy. The centre of power is still overwhelmingly in London.

>>One in five civil servants are based in London (20.1%)

Depending on the jobs covered under "civil servants", this is probably normal and not interesting at all.

They're not at risk of going bankrupt. This is more about confidence in the company to go anywhere that would help the share price.

The company is being plundered and run for the benefit of the exec team printing shares for themselves. Nobody should be buying shares expecting the price to rise.

Morpheus Research should look at Fastly next.

It's notable that there's no real nodejs equivalent running on Mozilla tech. I'd love for someone closer to the tech to explain why there's not a rich ecosystem behind spidermonkey, etc.

I too would love to learn more about that.

I am not sure about the current state. But "back then" all the components in Firefox were tightly coupled and almost impossible to extract on their own.

"Back then" being, IIRC, 2012 or so, when I briefly worked on the web and CMS side of a project that used HTML + CSS (and a tiny bit of JS) to render the UI of a media-box. The OS was basically a thing that could boot a "browser" and handle network stuff. Firefox was not an option, as it was near impossible to even remove things like the address bar, tab handling and all that. But the hardware was so underpowered, that a full browser was not an option. Yet "yet another khtml" wrapped in the most basic "executable" did just fine.

But this is a while ago, and only one project that chose not to use Firefox/gecko.

Even AWS sells it. Pretty much a commodity.

The ANZ plug is pretty good but when China adopted it they found a way to improve it - they put it upside down so the ground is at the top for slightly improved safety.

That's quite insightful actually. Perhaps might explain the tailscale name a little better in that context also.

I would argue that POSIX is long dead. The real standard is Linux (GNU) compatibility and has been for a while now.

As an OpenBSD developer who frequently fixes portability issues in external software, this doesn’t match my experience. Upstream developers are typically happy to merge patches to improve POSIX compliance; often the result is simpler than their existing kludges attempting to support desired platforms like MacOS, Alpine/Musl, Android, Dash-as-sh, and various BSDs. It turns out a lot of people find value in relying on an agreed‐upon behavior that’s explicitly documented, rather than “this seems to work at the moment on the two or three distros I’ve tested.”