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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m not sure why you’re so dismissive of this? It’s kind of asinine.

    Does everyone everywhere only ever use computers in an enclosed room? Is everyone with something value to exfiltrate easily accessible to kidnap and beat with a wrench?

    This is valuable for corporate espionage, political purposes, or for nation states. If miniaturized, even easier for targeted attacks where it might be difficult to inject malware, or for broad attacks on office workers.

    And the best part is that it doesn’t leave a trace which beating someone with a wrench and malware would do…



  • They could, but as it currently stands media hosting on the fediverse… Sucks.

    It’s obscenely expensive for everyone involved, and scales poorly. It’s just not ready to operate at scale at this point.

    I’m sure it will get better, but large storage costs are better off being handled by a distributed file-system where a minimal level of duplication is baked in, but the storage load is reasonably spread out instead of fully duplicated on each peer.

    There are technologies for this, but they all have their own issues. And tomorrow there will be n+1 distributed filesystems, fragmenting it further.