AFAIK all the info is from leaks, and there’s no guarantee that leaked stuff ends up being actually launched.

Interesting. I’ll take a closer look and read the article you linked to. I haven’t used Kagi much, but I did try the trial and their search results are definitely better than Google.

Their mission has always been about making the web better for humans, though. Their AI stuff is all opt-in and they have a decent philosophy about it: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/ai-philosophy.html

Kagi are trying to do something similar with their smallweb project, where they’re building a list of personal sites/blogs. These types of sites usually don’t rank highly in search engines, but Kagi does rank them above other results since they’re almost always better than the SEO slop that ranks highly in other search engines.

They have a site to randomly browse them too, kinda like StumbleUpon if you ever used that. https://kagi.com/smallweb/

The list is in this repo: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

LLMs are a subset of AI though. They’re a use case of generative AI, which is a subset of deep learning, which is a subset of machine learning, which is a subset of AI.

Meanwhile there’s rumours of Apple working on airpods with built-in cameras 👀

Now that’s a throwback. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables taking forever, kinda like the migration to nftables now.

I don’t usually get involved in internet drama so I wasn’t aware of this.

I started with Conduit. I hit some bugs though, and development was very slow. I looked at all the forks. Conduwuit was the most active, and all the issues I had were solved, so I used it. It got archived because of some other internet drama, and the readme said to use Tuwunel instead, which is what I’m using now.

Should I use something else?

I dunno. Use whatever I guess, as long as it’s not Synapse.

In my area, they removed the data caps last year, when they also rolled out the higher upload speeds (eg the gigabit plan now has 350Mbps upload speed instead of 25Mbps). I don’t think they’ve rolled that out everywhere though.

They also have a habit of keeping people on old plans that are either slower or more expensive. If you’re still using Comcast/Xfinity, check their site and see what they offer to new customers at your address. (you may need to use an internet connection other than your Comcast one, otherwise they may detect that you’re an existing customer)

Their pricing can differ by region. Not every region got the data caps back when they rolled them out.

It also depends on competition - if there’s a lot of competition in your area, Comcast will have better deals compared to if you live somewhere where Comcast is the only option.

I used to live in an apartment that had an exclusivity deal with Comcast (residents were only allowed to use Comcast for internet service). Now I live somewhere in the same county where there’s three different fiber providers in addition to Comcast, and their prices here are noticeably cheaper vs the old apartment.

They used to charge you more for unlimited data if you didn’t use their modem. Renting their modem plus getting unlimited data was $30/month, but just getting unlimited data with your own modem was $50/month.

Not relevant any more though, as (at least in my area) they completely removed the data caps.

I’m so glad I have a local ISP that provides 10Gbps for cheaper than Comcast’s 1Gbps.

rcrypt can handle encryption transparently: https://rclone.org/crypt/. You can use rclone mount to mount storage from practically any provider.

This is going to happen with every large centralized service, especially if they let you use it for free. These services end up being expensive to run.

The only real solution is to use something decentralized. You’re already on Lemmy so I assume you already know this. Matrix is decent (not perfect, but it’s pretty good) and it’s easily self-hostable using Tuwunel.

At work, I use AI for some things. Right now I’m rewriting some legacy spaghetti code that’s had a bunch of things hacked into it over the years. I spoke to the person most familiar with the expected behaviour and used AI to combine his info plus the existing code and unit/integration tests into a list of requirements.

I wrote the new code and tests based on the requirements rather than based on the old code. After each commit, I used AI to check for parity between the old and new code, and it keeps a Google Sheet up to date with the progress (which features were fully implemented, and which ones were missing or had gaps). I had AI write some tests cases too - given the list of requirements, write integration tests for them based on the style of a few tests I wrote by hand.

It has some quirks (eg for tests it loves over-mocking even though our skills tell it to mock as little as possible) but it definitely speeds things up.

I use AI for small side projects at work too. Tweaking and adding features I want to shared libraries, internal tools to help our team debug stuff and automate triaging of bug reports (they’re all still reviewed by a human), etc.

The entire reason I can trust its code is because I can read it and tweak it myself. I sometimes need to go through a few iterations to get AI code into an acceptable state. AI writing machine code directly, like what’s been talked about recently and what this post is referencing, is such a dumb idea.

There’s other people at work that use AI for absolutely everything. Writing code, reading code, writing posts in our internal groups, etc. That’s something I don’t understand. Some people that are all-in on AI produce so much low-quality AI slop.

Infinite scroll is used in so many UIs that I can’t imagine it being wholly banned.

I’d like to see that too, but R&D costs for a product like this are enormous so I doubt it’d happen any time soon.

The title of the page I linked to is “Websites using Cloudflare in the Top 100k Sites by Traffic” so I think my interpretation was correct.

Also, one domain can use multiple CDNs (eg one subdomain uses Cloudflare while another uses Bunny) so I’m not sure how their percentages work.

I’m also not sure how they count sites that use Cloudflare but not the CDN product (for example, if they disable caching and only use the WAF). That looks identical from a client side so there’s probably no way to tell.

Maybe I shouldn’t trust their data.

AWS(just 8% seems sus),

The chart wouldn’t be showing all of AWS, just Cloudfront (their CDN). There’s plenty of services that use AWS EC2 or Lightsail but front it with Cloudflare.

If you’re considering hosting Github Enterprise on-prem then it might be worth considering Forgejo too. It’s the system that powers Codeberg.

Codeberg doesn’t allow proprietary code, only open-source. You’d have to self-host Forgejo if you want to use it for private projects.

Something like 40% of the top 100k sites use Cloudflare. Builtwith says 44%: https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Cloudflare/High-Traffic-Volume

The pricing on their paid plans is very competitive. For small to medium sites, it’s orders of magnitude cheaper than Akamai. The WAF and DDoS protection is pretty good too.

The largest sites like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc have their own CDNs, including servers they provide to large ISPs for free since it significantly reduces upstream bandwidth usage (Netflix call this Open Connect; Meta’s is Facebook/Meta Network Appliance). Outside of the largest sites, you’d be surprised how many companies rely on Cloudflare. It’s kinda scary.

Pricing is weird in the US.

One of the main reasons the list price is so high is because they know the insurance companies will negotiate and reduce the price. It’s like if you’re listing something on eBay or Marketplace and want $500 for it, you might list it for $600 or $650, because you know buyers will negotiate down to $500.

However, they can’t charge the insurance one amount while charging out-of-pocket customers a lower amount, because they’ll be sued by the insurance companies for insurance fraud.

Because of that, hospitals, ambulances, etc. need to initially charge everyone the same inflated prices, but they’ll basically always offer a discount if you say you’re paying out of pocket.

more than double Australia’s $622 average.

I’m from Melbourne in Australia (but living in the US now). In Melbourne, we pay around $60/year for an ambulance membership, and every ambulance ride (both road and air) is 100% covered.

It’s also included in most private insurance plans. We have a hybrid system where there’s both a public health care system (Medicare) that all citizens and permanent residents are eligible for, as well as a private one. For whatever reason, ambulances aren’t included as part of the public system.