I think that’s sort of the trick. They do the plastic deformation “permanently” into one shape, then they “permanently” deform it back. I assume there’s some crystal lattice stuff going on that makes one of the deformations require more/less energy than the other deformation, and thus the heat created doesn’t quite balance, meaning you can now theoretically transfer heat energy with it.

Sounds like an opportunity to find it yourself and then be the first to upload it, right when a whole bunch of other people are about to suddenly decide they need it too.

Hell and SAP have already been working together for decades. Not sure what they intend to do with an Iceberg but I doubt it will last long.

One is fiction, the other is reality. I understand why, these days, it may be difficult to distinguish the two, but I can assure you that FNAF is fiction, and the AI bubble is reality, and underneath all the slop and the fiction and the scams there is still in fact an objective reality that still exists and will eventually outlast them all, FNAF and AI bubbles alike.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of disks doing 75 mph on the highway.

If I understand correctly, the OS isn’t the problem, the radio frequencies are.

Ark’s developers wanted it to be an extraction shooter, they tried like hell to make it one. Ark’s players had very different ideas, and to this day still refuse to participate in the extraction shooter mechanics. The two have never coexisted peacefully. Despite the developer’s best attempts, Ark is not an extraction shooter. It is a survival crafting dinosaur-pokemon, and nothing the developer does will ever change that. They have even tried to use Aquatica to destroy the modding community. It didn’t take. The game belongs to the players now. We will never give up. We want survival crafting dinosaur-pokemon, and we will continue along those lines whether the developer likes it or not (they do not like it, to be clear).

You get what you pay for. I’ve never met an offshored Indian developer who was paid what a western developer was paid. If I were them, I actively wouldn’t give a fuck either. I love my Indian colleagues, they are great people, and know how to have great parties. They’re way cooler when you realize they’re actual people and not code-bots.

Yes, it uses less than the public thinks, but it still uses too much. 1 ounce is too much. AI can fuck right off. It is not entitled to our world.

Well we live in a world literally run by pedophiles now, so sadly probably yes. I doubt that’s what the cameras are for though.

I believe you, and I feel for you. The saddest part about AI is how it has tainted all high-effort, carefully organized work to the point that it makes it hard to distinguish between the most trustworthy content and the least trustworthy. We need better tools for information provenance. Like I said, the first thing I did was look into your backgrounds to try to understand “is this some AI slop bot or a real person with a real brain” and everything I looked at suggested it being legit and that’s why I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt. But that doubt is everywhere nowadays. It’s rough out there.

The formatting, style, cadence and tone feel very AI to me. The authors seem like real people with real history and I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, the topic and status summarization is genuinely interesting whether it’s AI or not, but it’s hard not to feel a bit sus reading it.

That’s great for production AWS managed services, but that still sounds like the opposite of self-hosting to me, I don’t need scaling like that, I’m not lying when I admit I’m using sshfs (which was a slightly tongue-in-cheek counterpoint to s3) and despite everyone dunking on it, it is in fact working perfectly at my scale. I know I’ve been downvoted to purgatory but I still stand by my original comment. I don’t understand why you would need S3 or S3 compatibility in a self-hosting context. The closest someone has come to explaining it is the guy who said choice is good… like, yeah, it’s good to have the choice I guess, but… still doesn’t seem like a great choice for self-hosting. I appreciate you trying to explain it but I feel like everyone is missing the self-hosting context here. For a little home lab I simply don’t see the value. Why are people promoting AWS and AWS-adjacent services here?

Wholeheartedly agreed.

It’s supposed to be progressive in the sense that it (sort of) supports people better than is typical, but it’s also a nanny state where the supports and protections they offer are more about taking your freedom away than actual support and genuine progress. And vice versa, the conservative libertarian ideologies that are available on the other side of the ballot, emphasize personal freedoms but they are actually more about the rich getting richer while using personal freedoms as window dressing to distract you from the fact that they are making everyone else so much poorer that you won’t have the money to access those freedoms anyway.

Neither side is genuinely progressive. They just wear their freedom and generosity like superhero capes and then use them like a matador does to distract the charging bull of public opinion and make you blame the cape for it while they poke even more sharp things into your sides.

Meanwhile we are bleeding to death.

So enlighten me then, save me from my terrible hack that is working fine for me and tell me what it DOES have to do with. I thought S3 was a remote filesystem you can use, essentially Amazon’s proprietary version of webdav where you get a http bucket you can only access with aws proprietary tools. What’s the attraction? Clearly it seems like people love it, and I am getting dunked on for asking an honest question, which feels a bit unhealthy and unpleasant for the self-hosting community.

Am I supposed to be familiar with AWS infrastructure as a prerequisite for being here?

Yes that’s exactly what he said, all the worst of humanity. (partial sarcasm. maybe.)

S3 compatibility is nice I guess if you need S3 compatibility but also… why would you need that?

sshfs does everything I need and compatibility is almost native.

i took over monochrome on December 17th, 2025. at that time, monochrome was sent to hiatus by edideaur, but i loved monochrome and i was looking for a real, full-fledged app as i was still learning web development at the time.

me & the other devs have been extremely tired & burnt out from monochrome for months now.

well that escalated quickly.

to the people who have donated: your support to monochrome and us personally is so much more appreciated then you can ever imagine. you helped monochrome stay alive for when it needed expenses, and you helped us personally when we urgently needed the money (rent these days…). i genuinely hope you make your money back 100x, to anyone who donated

wat? how are donators supposed to make their money back? this sound super sketchy.

It doesn’t sound like you really have any understanding of, or concern for, what happened to the other 77 women, nor what happened to the other 79+ men your girlfriend “swiped left” on in your scenario.

And you’re accusing me of using boomer logic? That’s some classic boomer logic if I’ve ever heard it: “I got mine, fuck the rest of you, it’s obvious why you all failed, you just need to work harder or lower your standards, even though I didn’t, because everything just worked out flawlessly for me and I don’t want to be too introspective about why in case I accidentally develop some empathy about it”

Yeah, dating apps are just fine the way they are. Nothing wrong with them at all.