Cursed SiliconWeird raccoon. Computer antiquarian, runs a small youtube channel that desperately needs more videos
Cursed SiliconHello! I'm Cursed Silicon. I make youtube videos about weird goofy things I like doing with old computers
Birdsite went down in flames and @ncommander@social.restless.systems thankfully let me set up shop here
Follow me to see my ramblings about weird computer junk and youtube videos that I make
Cursed Silicon
Cursed SiliconSometimes I wonder about how much compute power is wasted on building a static blog or whatever as a multi-zone, multi-cloud docker image running on Kubernetes with automatic scaling and redundant load balancing. Because that's what "modern DevOps" looks like
When it could just be a fucking VPS
Cursed SiliconYes I'm sure your Grafana chart with live IP geolocation of web traffic as you get hit by HackerNews is very, very impressive
But is it worth the six figure cloud provider bill and SRE team running it?
Cursed SiliconSometimes I wonder about how much compute power is wasted on building a static blog or whatever as a multi-zone, multi-cloud docker image running on Kubernetes with automatic scaling and redundant load balancing. Because that's what "modern DevOps" looks like
When it could just be a fucking VPS
Cursed SiliconHEY, #retrocomputing youtube folk. I made a new video!
I resurrected Google's "Search Appliance". The software that ran on those bright yellow Google servers they used to sell!
Go check it out and stuff!
https://youtu.be/bjrmH7hVBOo
Cursed SiliconFine, AOL. I'll run my own Dial-Up ISP then. God
Cursed SiliconHello! I'm Cursed Silicon. I make youtube videos about weird goofy things I like doing with old computers
Birdsite went down in flames and @ncommander@social.restless.systems thankfully let me set up shop here
Follow me to see my ramblings about weird computer junk and youtube videos that I make