Why not just buy trial or cheap VM? Are devs that lazy now? Or is this aimed on vibe "devs"? :D

To some people (students, people in low income countries) there are no cheap hosted VMs.

Agreed and even devs who have the money, most of the times don't have the time.

It's not my target audience. Also as a dev I hate spending more than a couple of seconds to do this. This service exists mainly to scratch my own itch.

...", Russian FSB manager, 2025

If AI bubble bursts -> global market crash. Ehm, with what you will be scalping, with bottle caps fallout money? :D

"Coding is done", Adam Wolff, Anthropic

the post office has utility even if the messages have very high latency.

also if this probe network reduces the transmission costs to normal terrestrial levels (and not requiring , say, a 400kw tx dish..) it could drastically increases the utility of the link -- and all of this without discussing how much bandwidth a link network across the stars might possess compared to our current link to Voyager..

(this is all said with the presumption of a reason to have such distance communications channels.. )

Seems like the problem OP is trying to solve for here is not latency, it's signal power and redundancy.

You're exactly right and thank you for carefully reading! I very explicitly said that there was a multi year round trip for information even in the best case (e.g. Alpha Centauri), to get out ahead of the well-actually's.

As you noted, some of the gains could be signal power, redundancy, the ability to maintain a quality signal over arbitrary distance; but most importantly, seeing the universe from the perspective of the lead probe in the relay, some arbitrary distance away.

The lesson: Don't use AWS

Oh my god, we are forbidden from reverse engineering Arduino SW. That's it, forbidden, we cannot literally do it, because some C-suit buffoon said so.

See, open their SW in Ghidra or IDA and see for yourself, big pop-up and blank PE decompilation.

"By Qualcomm CEO buffoon, you cannot reverse engineer my software, muhahaha."

Qualcomm should sell this idea, VMProtect and others will go broke over night.

Not Sharepoint? What a bummer.

I hope they will do that, yes really.

Because this will mean major shift to open-source and community solution, where creators will be paid directly by their viewers.

I have NO problem, what so ever, to pay content creators directly.

But I have HUGE problem to pay big corpos. It's ridiculous that we pay for Netflix same price as US people and for you it's cheaper than coffee and for us, if you compare median-salary, it's 5-10x MORE expensive. (cancelled every streaming platform year before as all of my friends, cloud seedbox here we go) And I don't even wanna mention Netflix's agenda they want to push (eg.: Witcher)

That's why piracy is so frequent here in small country in EU :) Also it's legal or in grey-area, because nobody enforce it or copyright companies are unable to enforce it if you don't make money from sharing. (yes, you don't even need to use VPN with torrents)

> Because this will mean major shift to open-source and community solution, where creators will be paid directly by their viewers.

That’s an unrealistic nerd dream. People haven’t moved off of closed social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, and haven’t flocked to creator-owned platforms such as Nebula. The general public, i.e. the majority of people, will eat whatever Google, Meta, et al feed them. No matter how bad things get, too few people abandon those platforms in favour of something more open.

I'm sorry but this sounds hollow. Creators are specifically choosing to upload their content to YouTube. They have elected "big corpos" to handle payment for them.

You are not standing up for them by pirating their stuff from YouTube.

If you have a problem with it, it is on you to stop using YouTube to view their content. You did not gain a moral right to pirate their stuff just because you don't like the deal.