It's gross, but of course we think many ISPs are abusive in similar ways? I haven't ever used a Starlink connection, I wonder if their latency a problem for VPNs or tunneling.
I've recently spent a few hundred hours playing Arc Raiders on Starlink from a small island in the Pacific. ~80ms ping to Australian servers is pretty mindblowing. Jitter and packet loss also tend to be insignificant in the absence of obstructions.
My home server back in New Zealand is behind CGNAT and I had issues with high birate (>25Mbps) HTTPS streaming over Tailscale. I suspect MTU size causing packet fragmentation combined with DERP relay fallback under CGNAT was the culprit, but that's outside my expertise to diagnose fully.
Reverse proxying to a VPS in Sydney with Pangolin achieved much better performance, almost 100Mbps over WebDAV. Somewhere inbetween I tried SMB over Cloudflare WARP (~70Mbps), but allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else.
Indeed that is the case - all the other major consumer ISPs have ties with media companies and have much more incentive to collect and abuse user data than Starlink does.
Consistent 25-35ms to 1.1.1.1. You won't see >60ms unless you're deprioritized, and that's about your choice of plan not about what the network can do.
i have my starlink plugged directly into a gl.inet router that runs a wireguard client. all of the clients connect to the gl.inet wifi. absolutely nothing unencrypted goes out the starlink wan.
it works fine.
i have the exact same setup at home with cox cable, because they will data mine the shit out of your traffic (and they have your phone number and home address to link it to). most terrestrial residential isps do this shit. vpn everything.
I agree they want the face data, but I think it's less clear they want to "hand it" (presumably that's really "sell it"?) to third parties. My sense is Google and Apple and Meta are amassing data for their own uses, but I haven't gotten the impression they're very interested in sharing it?
Sharing it is bad for business; selling insights derived from it for ad placement is the game. Faces definitely contain some useful information for that purpose.
also, even you think about using it "their own uses" - much of that is scrutinizing you to make you better susceptible to ads and other solicitations by their paying clients. I mean, people are not the clients of Google and Meta - they're the raw material.
your links don't disprove OP's main point at all. being forced to share data to the government is different than actively collecting data to sell to other third parties. these companies have tons of incentive to collect user data, but very little to sell it. i think that nuance is important to understand. if you think i'm wrong, try going to facebook or google and asking to buy some user data. you cannot.
you are correct. having that data is one of their competitive advantages, it makes no sense to sell it. they will collect as much as possible and monetize it through better ads, but they don't sell it
I'm not a fan of Tailwind, but I can see that it's probably reasonable for code gen to be able to write / extend projects that use Tailwind, since it's in pretty widespread use. For a new project, maybe it could ask if you want to use Tailwind or just keep things vanilla?
I was nodding along until your last paragraph - SSGs encourage letting other people own parts of your personal site, really? Sure, people bolt on Disqus or something, but otherwise I am not sure I follow the argument. Isn't part of the appeal of SSGs that all you have is a bunch of html/css/js that you can drop on any server anywhere (even a solar-powered RPi can serve a lot of requests[1])?
> Isn't part of the appeal of SSGs that all you have is a bunch of html/css/js that you can drop on any server anywhere (even a solar-powered RPi can serve a lot of requests[1])?
This is the part I'm struggling with. That's the view I held from 2016 - 2024. Practically though, it's only true if you want a leaflet website with 0 interactivity.
If you want _any_ interactivity at all (like, _any_ written data of any kind, even server or visitor logs) then you need a server or a 3rd party.
This means for 99% of personal websites with an SSG, you need a real server or a 3rd party service.
When SSGs first came around (2010 - 2015) compute was getting expensive, server sides were getting big and complex, bot traffic solutions were lame, and all the big tech companies started offering free static hosting because it was an easy free thing to offer.
Compare this to now, 2026, it's apparently nothing special to handle hackernews front page on free or cheap compute. Things like Deno, Bun, even Go and Python make writing quick, small, modern server sides so much quicker, easier and safer. Cloudflare and or crowdsec can cover 99% of bot and traffic issues. It's possible to get multiple free multiple GB compute instances now.
I didn't mean to imply there's some sinister plot of people maliciously encouraging people to use SSGs to steal their stuff, but that's the reality that modern personal webdev has sleepwalked into. SSGs were first sold to make things better performing and easier than things were at the time. Pretty much any "server anywhere" you own now will be able to run a handwritten server doing SSR markdown -> HTML now.
So why force yourself to have to start entertaining ideas like making your visitors download multiple megabyte client side index files to implement search, or embedded iframes and massive JS external libraries for things like comment sections? Easier looking SSG patterns like that typically break all the stuff required to keep the web open and equal, like screen readers, low bandwidth connections and privacy. (Obviously SSR doesn't implicity solve these, but many of these things were originally conceived with SSR in mind and so are naturally more compatible).
Ask anyone who's been in and out of web dev for more than 15 years to really critically think about SSGs in depth, and I think they'll conclude they offer a complete solution for maybe 1% of websites, but seem to be recommended in 99% of places as the only worthy way to do websites now. But when you pick it apart and try it, you end up in Jeff's position: statically rendered pages (the easy bit) and a TODO with a list of compromising options for basic interactivity. In 5 years time, he'll have complex SSG pipelines that's running almost 24/7, or a complex mesh of dependencies on external services that are constantly changing or trying to start charging him more to deal with his own creations.
Ah, that makes more sense. I would agree that for sites that need more than the bare minimum server-side still makes a lot of sense (I was just confused here in the context of little personal sites / blogs).
Yes, your calculus is exactly like mine - there are things to like about the Round (personally I just find round watches more aesthetically pleasing, we've had a couple hundred years of mostly round cases...), but I want longer battery and a shorter wait to get my watch.
Is UTM buggy on Apple Si? I have been running an aarch64 Ubuntu VM on my M4 Mini for a while without any problems. Haven't tried macOS or Win guests though.
They often seem to go out of stock over the holidays - sometimes it's worth checking other countries to see what's normally available.
Generally, it's the Precision workstation and laptop lines, the Pro Max desktops & laptops, and the XPS laptops. They've recently started to offer RHEL on the Precisions, too.
Sarcasm? 150-200M oz of silver are recycled annually[1]. Oil obviously is mostly burned and won't be recoverable, and clearly finite (even if we managed to squeeze out more with fracking etc.)
"Algorithm" is derived from Al-Khwarizmi, but only because he translated the ancient Indian/Hindu "Sulba Sutras" texts into Persian, especially in his "Al Jabr" text.
"Sulba Sutra" literally means "method of problem solving". So the Sukna Sutras were all basically Algorithms - different ways to solve mathematical and scientific problems.
In fact, Al Khwarizmi himself borrowed the title of the original Indian/Hindu texts for his translations and he even acknowledged their Indian/Hindu origin. That's why the meaning of the full title of the Al Jabr book is "The Concise Book of Calculation by Restoration and Balancing" (because that's how algebraic equations are understood and solved).
This Al Jabr book (based on Hindu methods of problem solving and algebraic equations) got translated and understood by British and Europeans, so they simply named this new (new to them) branch of Mathematics as Algebra (derived from "Al Jabr").
SOURCE: the British scholar "Robert of Chester" who translated the Al Jabr book to Latin (during 1876-2956, published in 1915, under book title "Algebra of al-Khowarizmi") documented that the ancient Indians knew the algebraic equations BEFORE Al Khwarizmi. Not only that, Robert also confirmed the ancient Indians knew and used the Pythagorean triangle theorem before the time of Pythagoras.
You can check and read these evidences for yourself please. Sources are linked below.
Trivia: in 1974, IBM released an advertisement, in which it gave the credit of Algebra to most ancient Indian mathematicians.
In the advertisement, IBM had explained 'How India gave the world the logic of indeterminate equations' by naming three prominent historic mathematicians: Aryabhata, Bhaskara and Brahmagupta, who developed the concept of Algebra and gave meaning to something (Zero) which was termed to be meaningless before.
The IBm ad proclaimed:
"History owes a debt to three Indian mathematicians of 1500 years ago who developed Algebra to give meaning to the meaningless. Bhaskara, who originated the radical signs. Brahmagupta, who created the symbols. Aryabhata, who worked out the first equations. A search that continues today in new directions with newer tools, among them, a machine that helps man in more ways than any other inventions in history: the computer. We are proud that IBM introduced the manufacturing of computers and other data processing equipment in India, which are helping the nation meet the challenge of building a new tomorrow," reads the IBM advertisement.
IBM's advertisement also features an excerpt 'The Poetry of Algebra' from the book Indian Wisdom by Sir Monier Monier-Williams.
* Among the several contributions made by Aryabhata, he discovered the nine planets and found out the correct number of days in a year i.e. 365.
* Brahmagupta made one of the most significant contributions to mathematics when he introduced zero(0), which once stood for “nothing”.
* Bhāskara declared that any number divided by zero is infinity and that the sum of any number and infinity is also infinity.
* 2000 years before Fibinacci, the Indian scholar Pingala discovered and documented by 200 BC the series we today call as Fibonacci series. Pingala wrote the Chandahśāstra, a treatise on prosody — poetic meter. To study Sanskrit meters, he analyzed long and short syllables, generating combinations using what we would now call binary patterns and recursive enumeration.
And in doing so, he uncovered (and documented) the interesting series we today call as Fibonacci series.
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