AMD gpus are just as good as Nvidia CPUs. Intel ones suck, but they’re in the market, too. Gaming market is irrelevant to Nvidia and AMD’s market cap and profits.

Nvidia’s main advantage is their proprietary CUDA software, which makes it so the majority of AI software only runs on Nvidia CPUs, and is incompatible with AMD or Intel CPUs.

no one’s forcing you to be here talking about reddit

25°, but I have direct ventilation that causes drafts, and I have district heating so heating is cheap.

FBI has definitely always been anti-encryption

tbf lemmy is a very good news source, and sharing and discussing news articles is why reddit was created.

Most people confuse the actions of a head of state and that country itself.

“America is self centered and capitalist”, no that’s just Trump.

“Russia is bloodthirsty and imperialistic”, no that’s just Putin.

“China is totalitarian and hostile”, no that’s just Xi Jinping.

Obviously you can blame democratic countries for electing their heads of state, but it’s unfortunately too common that people generalize about entire countries.

I think the habit of attributing state actions to their capital makes more sense. eg “Washington denounces Moscow’s recent escalation”, etc.

When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I’m not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won’t let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.

Don’t get me started on Skype for Business. It’s still around.

IT folk got so annoyed about being asked about what happens if you got run over by a bus, they decided to go out and show everyone.

Go for it!

Hetzner currently doesn’t have a managed kubernetes option, so you have to set it up manually with Terraform, but there are a few terraform modules out there that have everything you need. The rumor is that they are working on a managed kubernetes offering, so that will be something simpler in the future.

Their api is compatible with all the Kubernetes automation, so all the autoscaling stuff is all automatic once you have it set up, and bullet-proof. Just use the k8s HPA to start and stop new containers based on cpu, or prometheus metrics if youre feeling fancy, and then kubernetes node autoscaler will create and delete nodes automatically for you based on your containers’ cpu/ram reservations.

Let me know if you need documentation links for something.

For the firewall issue, could you keep the cluster on its own vpc, and then use load balancer annotations to do per-service firewalls?

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/configure-load-balancers/#firewall-rules

Their Terraform support is top notch too, better than AWS.

If your scale is right, both Hetzner and Digital Ocean support the Kubernetes autoscaler.

https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/autoscale/

Digital Ocean is super easy for beginners, Hetzner is a bit more technical but like half the cost.

This only outweighs the per-node overhead though if you’re scaling up/down entire 4vcpu/8gib nodes and/or running multiple applications that can borrow cpu/ram from each other.

If you’re small scale, microVMs like Lambda or fly.io are the only way to go for meaningful scaling under 4vcpu/8gib of daily variation. Also, at that scale, you can ask yourself if you really need autoscaling, since you can get servers that big from Hetzner for like $20/month. Simple static scaling is better at that scale unless you have more dev time than money.

Taiwan making their position clear to Trump

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

It’s not confirmed publicly, but Sweden likely ended their nuclear weapons program in the 60s or 70s after pressure from the US. They finally decommissioned Ågestaverket in 2020, though they kept the facility open until then, presumably as a fallback option. Sweden has uranium deposits, so it would have been possible to build nuclear weapons during the Cold War if needed.

Now with NATO membership, they have instead imported American nuclear weapons to keep on Swedish soil. Not sure what will happen with their Swedish-American SOFA with Trump, it’s possible that Sweden will fall back on British and French nukes.

But yeah, I mentioned Ågestaverket, since its an example of a civilian reactor that was used for nuclear weapons, something that Ukraine could potentially do as well if the decision came to proliferate.

Good detail in that article. With regard to plutonium, Sweden had a plutonium breeding reactor disguised as a civilian power plant called Ågestaverket. I think that Ukraine would be able to use an existing reactor for this, or retrofit it. But yeah, any Ukrainian nuclear program would obviously become a huge target by the Russian military, and potentially other nuclear states. Ideally these installations would be underground like Ågestaverket was. Even more ideal would be military guarantees from NATO.

or just let them join nato instead of proliferating?

It would take them only a few months. Ukraine is filled with Soviet nuclear technology and Soviet nuclear engineers. They have nuclear reactors. Ukraine is richer than North Korea, and they have their own uranium mines. North Korea spent a couple billion on their nukes, but Ukraine’s military budget is $82B a year, so they could easily surpass North Korea.

Geopolitics experts agree that Ukraine could build a nuke if they wanted to. The issue is that the west definitely would not want to see a world where countries threatened by Russia turn to nuclear proliferation.

Here’s a video from a Danish military analyst talking about the decisions that have to be made on how to secure Ukraine after the war:

https://youtu.be/aTiunvocl5c

It’s important to note, Ukraine is willing to freeze the front line now in return for security guarantees. But If the US or the EU don’t step up to end the war soon, Ukrainian nuclear engineers will.

The USSR blurred the line. There was decentralized industry and multiculturalism, but also Russian supremacy, genocide, and military conquest.

There was very much the threat of violence in 1990 and 1991, even if the original USSR framework was very liberal. Not to mention the USSR-led coups in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

It’s also important to note that the Russian SFSR itself was an empire ruled from Moscow before the revolution. That did not change much after the revolution.

https://youtu.be/tVRUBs3T4ic