Tax should be something that must be standard, simple, educated from a young age. But somehow miraculously it still becomes full of pressure in any country.
One of the most regrettable things. Humans should have had the most popular private chat application. But the figure of 19 billion USD in 2014 blinded Brian Acton. What he does with Signal now can never compensate for the trust of billions of users being sold to Mark Zuckerberg.
The EU had one job, and it was to block this deal. It was obvious that a company with no income and no real monetization model is not worth 19 Billion, and that Facebook is after the users. But no, they let it go through with some bs conditions. But hey, at least they forced apple to use usb-c, that made a real difference
We handle ~2M requests per second and CF eliminates about ⅔ of those. We need CF or something like it. Multi edge is harder than it sounds at very large scale.
There are still alternatives like Bunny https://status.bunny.net/history (may not be for everyone, but I like to post the CF alternatives so it becomes ever so slightly less of a default)
Sadly, I can report that this has brought down 2 of the major Mastodon nodes in the United Kingdom.
Happily, the small ones that I also use are still going without anyone apparently even noticing. At least, the subject has yet to reach their local timelines at the time that I write this.
2 of the other major U.K. nodes are still up, too.
> However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020.
Like everywhere it is mostly bots.
Look at HN frontpage, there used to be 1-2 Twitter post per day. Now it is barely per week. End even those are usually just from two accounts (Karpathy and Carmack).
Searching in general is difficult. It is really a difficult thing.
If you haven't felt it, look at companies like Apple, Microsoft, or "The most important AI research lab in the world" OpenAI, for example, their products have terrible search features even though their resources - money - technology can be considered top-notch.
I think the reason most companies can't implement a working search box is the sort of work needed to make it perform adequately clashes catastrophically with the software development culture that has emerged in the corporate world (anything to do with sprints, jira, and daily standups).
Getting search to work well requires a lot of fiddling with ranking parameters, work that is difficult bordering on impossible to plan or track. The work requires a degree of trust that developers are rarely afforded these days.
idk if that argument really makes sense. A lot of AI chatbot companies have terrible or broken webapps and backend servers because it's not what they really care about. They put billions into their AI models, not their search features. I think the shittiness of their search features is symptomatic of the company's incentives, not necessarily the difficulty of the problem.
