Azure don’t give a shit what it runs. Windows is on its own these days; if they succeed, good for them, but honestly I think the days of Microsoft just pretending to give a shit about Linux are long gone; it’s an important OS to them too.

I’ve worked for Microsoft for 12 years, still have lots of friends there so I get some of the vibe from that.

Never really have gone full Linux.

I run MacOS, Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora and BSD depending on the need of the box.

The one thing that lead me onto Linux, however, was the full hardware access in Docker.

I doubt it’s ever peaked at more than 3 GB usage, even with 18 containers running.

If it ran an Electron app it would need an upgrade.

Kinda similar to my self-hosted server; 24 core, 32GB - peak number of concurrent users ever hosted is 3.

You can milk anything with nipples!

Well you’ll soon be able to subscribe to the big accounts on Threads, even from Mastodon, provided your server allows it.

I personally wonder if the time for this kind of microblogging hasn’t come and gone now. A lot of media on Instagram but my teenage kids don’t use Twitter, don’t want to use Twitter and don’t care about what happens to Twitter. Pry TikTok out of their hands, though…

Mac?! Christ no, that’s doing the opposite of liberating yourself and it has less gaming than Linux I’d say.

Wholeheartedly agree with TFA. People who claim Firefox should go all in and block everything and return no data to advertisers need to explain how Firefox should continue to fund development.

Yes I get your point. Some software can run without a large income stream, on a volunteer basis.

You’re using that fact to say that Firefox also can. And if you care to look at my profile you’ll see I’ve argued time and time again that Mozilla is an overblown organisation and should be slimmed down to a couple of hundred, working solely on the browser.

I doubt, however, that you can build a modern, up-to-date browser on a volunteer basis.

How many full-time people do you think it takes?

Each to their own; may I suggest our friend and saviour Google Chrome? 🤣

What do you want? A Mozilla with no income? Because then there is no libre browser.

Which should tell you a lot; if Mozilla wasn’t confident about their anonymisation efforts their lawyers would not have allowed checked-by-default.

Ask yourself this: Would you rather trust this data with Google or with Mozilla? Because if Mozilla needs income to maintain a libre alternative, they need to have a measured audience. Doing it in an anonymous way we can verify is better than letting Google and ad agencies do their level best to deanonymize you.

Be careful what you wish for. Firefox needs income and without audience for Firefox, Firefox is no more and then LibreWolf is no more.

Lol. If you replace “with” with “wish” it should make more sense.

How I wish Firefox forked and ran like this rather than be beholden to the ad money of Google.

I love how the article seems to express surprise that Russia could do such a thing. Did they sleep during the polonium attacks across Europe?

I pay about £2.50 for 700+ GB storage, with about 2-10 GB of ingress every month. Storage alone is only £1.40. That’s using OVH’s “Cloud Archive” product; they also have a product called Cold Storage which is a smidge cheaper but doesn’t offer updating of existing data, so according to my projections based on the class of data I am archiving it wouldn’t be cheaper in the long term.

I know - it’s unreal how much people confuse Swiss banking privacy with Swiss privacy laws in general. FADP is weaker than GDPR IMHO.

I just have a smaller dataset using the same settings, which I try to recover a couple of times/year.

It’s not perfect as recovery exercises go … but it feels safe enough for me.