"But at what price?" is probably the right question here, and that'd be a case by case basis thing. ;)

I am on the mind that every organization should eventually die before it becomes a monster. I am also not a huge fan of inheritance for the same reason.

All FAANG/MAGMA dying is a bonus. The cherry on top. Net positive for humanity. A best case scenario.

I've found "Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking)" to be pretty good at moderately complex code bases, after going through the effort to get it to be thorough.

Without that effort it's a useless sycophant and is functionally extremely lazy (ie takes short cuts all the time).

Don't suppose you've tried that particular model, after getting it to be thorough?

As a data point, the archive.is link is working for me.

I'm usig Orion (browser) on macOS (Apple Silicon) presently if that helps. With UBlock Origin installed in it.

Quite a lot of examples come to mind. It's pretty much anything that would take significant time to upload (then download), if the space even exists.

Don't cafe's tell people to move on if they up space for large amounts of time when the place is busy?

Any idea why the founder stepped away?

Sounds like he just decided it was time. He wrote a pretty gracious post about it.

https://hindenburgresearch.com/gratitude/

Funny, I wrote this without seeing what the full URL was (I’m on my phone) so the use of the word “gracious” preceded me knowing the path was /gratitude

To me, the Hindenburg Research announcement seemed to suggest that they were being threatened by the subjects of their research.

Name of the novel?

It was one of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee series, I believe it was Ring.

Cool, yeah those are pretty good. :)

I kind of wonder how much of that money being reported is really research vs gamed numbers? eg for taxation claim purposes and things along those lines.

Especially interested in data from Alphabet (e.g., from ongoing legal battles?)

(I'd assume Amazon & Microsoft are too clever, too well-run for their own good/our eptification)

I have a homelab with a bunch of old HP Gen 8 Microservers. They hold 4x 3.5" hdds and also an ssd (internally, replacing the optical slot):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156749631079

These are reasonably low power, and can take up to 16GB of ECC ram which is fine for small local NAS applications. The cpu is socketed, so I've upgraded most of mine to 4 core / 8 thread Xeons. From rough memory of the last time I measured the power usage at idle, it was around 12w with the drives auto-spun down.

They also have a PCIe slot in the back, though it's older gen, but you'll be able to put a 10GbE card in it if that's your thing.

Software wise, TrueNAS works pretty well. Proxmox works "ok" too, but this isn't a good platform for virtualisation due to the maximum of 16GB ram.

If you just need to read all of the sectors, then couldn't you just dd or cat the source drive instead?