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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • in the health sector specifically, IT is a mess because you can’t stop people from working or there will be deaths. one thing you should take away from this is that their jobs are important and it is crucial that they can do them. it is your job to support them; anything that stops them doing their job or makes it take longer, even once, is dangerous. improving infra for its own sake is not a good idea because it comes at the risk of peoples lives. the details don’t matter in the face of that.

    if this stresses you out, you can absolutely change jobs. i did.

    if you think you can work within those parameters, and you think you can find ways to improve the system in-place while mitigating the risks, then you will be highly respected.










  • i’m completely unmotivated at work and my tasks are time-sensitive. also my employer is collapsing around me so i’m trying to see if anyone else needs people.

    also i’m halfway through a move, and there’s no internet in the new place until december so i’m sitting here in a room without curtains and full of boxes, the only thing still unpacked being my remote work setup.


  • if I’m reading this right, it’s a bit like ipfs+dht. is this a content-addressable system?

    anyway, you should probably have demos of

    • large files (like a Linux disk image), to demonstrate consistency in transfer.
    • Video stream, to demonstrate performance and low latency.
    • multiple files shared with many peers at once, to demonstrate scalability
    • sharing with low bandwidth and high latency, to demonstrate possible mobile use cases.

    thoughts:

    • the logo is very close to wireguard’s.
    • if the data is stored on peers, that means there must always be people with free storage online for it to work? how much storage is needed? is that data in plaintext? could a bad actor push illegal content to peers without them knowing?

    also, please convert the whitepaper to a format that is actually readable. rtf? really?




  • interesting perspective, because while i completed subnautica i got tired of pacific drive. mainly because subnautica is open and static. you can make your way around a problem area meaning you get by with less time scavenging, while pacific drive is relentless and random, and will absolutely fuck you up if you don’t have the right ingredients. it sells itself on its driving aesthetic, but you spend so little time actually in the car that it seems pointless. it’s all just digging through trash and crafting.