Plus another 15 to read this.

I'm no expert in design, but it's really interesting to see the signs that a design "won". That is, when you see echoes and influnces of it everywhere.

Hijacking the topic: I don't use Wayland. But I have a lot of Mac hardware running Fedora with GNOME X11. What's the status of Wayland to configure input hardware, namely keyboards (ie xmodmap, xkbd)?

AI still has poor performance when "thinking outside the box".

When AI is able to think creative, novel thoughts then I admit progamming will be a thing of past.

But he should remember that, when AI can think creatively, so will CEOs be a thing of the past.

it is creative, and many of the images it produces are amazing.

it is not innovative and, at least right now, doesn't really "know" anything. That might change, and soon.

Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I had my personal site on Netlify and decided to move it. I don't need anything more than a dumping ground for HTML, and Netlify was "good enough" (I wasn't aware that this issue existed)

What brought it closer to home was the characteristics of the recently affect site (same number of daily visits, not popular (a bit niche), etc) where similar to mine.

Moving is easy enough, mostly requiring a DNS update, since I prefer to build the HTML locally and then just dumping it somewhere.

What struck me as odd, when looking for an alternative is that almost none of the popular solutions Netlify, Vercel, Cloudfare (AFAIK) actually implement a spend limit.

This seems like such a basic thing to do...

Cloudflare pages has unlimited free bandwidth so you dont need a limit because traffic is free.

(I work at Vercel) We do have DDoS protection, and spend limits. Working on releasing some further improvements to both of these imminently as well.

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtim...

Vercel is 2 out of the 4 issues in the article. Hard no, man, come on.

Based on the info in this thread, Vercel is the only company I'd leave for Netlify.

Cloudflare has DDOS protection which you can set to basically paranoid and once a DDOS starts then everyone will get a captcha. This limits your spend quite effectively.

And also stop me accessing the site entirely. I don't know why, but every site with CF DDoS protection set to paranoid gives me infinite captchas that I can never pass.

For me this happens because of some combination o|

- firefox - userAgent spoofing claiming I'm chrome - pihole

If I change enough of these, I get through the infinite loop. Does not make me happy.

Isn't this changing soon (or at least when the Renter's Reform Bill passes[1])?

Contracts will not have fixed terms anymore and "no-fault" evictions will be illegal. Those are two main ones I think.

[1] - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3462

Same for the UK, I guess: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/07/pay-rises-a...

This is very interesting and I can see how it can produce good results.

What I can't do is square this with my own observations of the current generation of parents. In my particular social and geographic circle, most parents tend to let the children do whatever they please. This almost produces "feral" children that can't even eat and sit properly (and I don't mean the Victorian Properly, I mean without dumping a full plate of food on their head or throwing cuttlery against the wall) or observe the basic rules of social interation.

If the "throw me the pebble" was applied to these children they would just think it would be OK to throw pebbles at strangers on the street.

What's the missing element in our society (honest question)?

Not OP, but I think it has to do with the reference to Niklaus Wirth's death.

Looks cool and and a clean site, but...

it actually changed my ethnicity from caucasian to asian...

You can upload multiple photos to get more accurate results