Absolutely. People really sleep on just how much traffic a simple low end server running a PHP framework can handle. I’ve ran systems with a million users (combined across multiple domains and clients but still) and it was just fine with a single database server and a few web servers. They would have needed to hit the tens of millions of users before serious refactoring or rewriting would have ever been necessary to consider.
I’m sure ‘serverless’ has a good time and place to be used, but in my experience it has just always been the worse choice.
“But we need to be able to scale!”
Sure, but we’re not in a place where we’re getting anywhere near early mySpace / Facebook / Google style growth. Just get a regular ass cheap VPS and stick your service on it; if you need to expand upgrade the VPS. If it’s starts getting serious then let’s look at compartmentalizing and distributing it if we need to.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
I suspect the big problem is that IAM (AWS authentication system) is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide to fail because the internal authentication is broken.
I can’t login to the AWS console to check on my stuff in the European zone, because the login goes through IAM in us-east-1 where all the authentication does.
It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
I suspect the big problem is that IAM is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide (even outside of AWS’ us-east-1 location) which rely on IAM in us-east-1 to also fail. I’m having trouble even logging into the AWS console to check on my European servers.
Edit: IAM is the main authentication method. So AWS may still be up and running fine in other locations around the world; but if you can’t connect to them because AWS’ internal authentication is all fucked up…
Oof, you’re probably as out of luck in Drenthe as I am in Nijmegen. In Amsterdam I can recommend La Condesa and Tacoteca as pretty good. I’ve heard rumors of places in Den Hague but I haven’t gotten there yet.
The only places without a housing crisis at the moment are places where nobody wants to live.
There is, nationwide.
But also everywhere else in Europe, and everywhere in the US that I would be willing to live. What can you do eh?
Good food does exist, it just takes some time and effort to find out where to go and where should be blacklisted. And there’s like three good Mexican restaurants in the whole country.
Haha sorry, I managed to submit that comment waaay too early.
Moved from the US to the Netherlands in 2023 and regret nothing. The opportunity came in the form of the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It makes it ridiculously easy for Americans to move to the Netherlands, if you are self employed. It worked for me to move, and when my business went sideways due to my main client screwing me over, I got a normal Dutch job as a highly-skilled migrant.
Downsides:
Benefits:
There’s probably more benefits, but those are the highlights for me. All around though, the biggest advantage is that I can easily see a much better future for myself and my wife in the Netherlands than I can in the US.
Medicine is full of specialization, and pharmacists are more well trained in how drugs work and their interactions. Doctors may default to “blood needs thinned, take blood thinners” without considering how all of the patients other prescriptions may interact with blood thinners.
They also act as another layer of oversight, preventing issues caused by typos and verifying the dosage is correct for the patient.
If you’re playing Pathfinder then Foundry is hands down the best option in my opinion.
If you’re running D&D 5e then Foundry with an addon named plutonium followed by the word that may or may not be import is the best option (you may have to dive into Discord to get it downloaded, but I promise it’s the best VTT for D&D 5e… yarrr).
After those, Roll20 is okay. It works, it’s alright.
“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
There’s a certain level of childish contrarianism going on. “I was going to do this, but now I have learned you want me to do it and so I’m going to refuse”
My brother and I tried to convince our father to install solar panels when he was considering replacing our parents’ entire roof due to age. The house was perfect for it: it wasn’t shaded by trees, the roof was a 35 degree angle facing mostly to the south, the whole roof needed to be replaced, and there where still some really good tax advantages at the time.
We ran all the numbers for him, showed how it would pay for itself in something like 5 years and actually generate money for him after that, how the tax breaks would save so much money, how a large home battery could be used to power the home when the electricity is out due to Indiana’s frequent tornadoes and storms…
Nope. Saving tens of thousands of dollars wasn’t enough to overcome the dangers of Critical Race Theory powered panels generating a woke communist DEI field that is going to transgender the tan suit wearing raccoons of the Southern Indiana AntiFa Brigade.
I’m glad he died before COVID hit. He would absolutely have been the sort to say that wearing a mask is something only blue haired lesbian socialists do and gotten our mother killed.
Or how about this for a title: getting people to use smaller vehicles in general is the better environmental choice.
Okay but why is Ikea monitoring Iran’s nuclear program?
… oh, I need to new glasses.
San Luis Obispo
Omg thank you! I was just starting to look for alternatives
I’m running a PF2 campaign where the party are outlaws running around Alkenstar, robbing banks and seeking vengeance.
Every day begins with some newspaper headlines. One will be about them if they did something substantial or noticeable, but I have a ton of fluff ready to insert. Some is story related foreshadowing, some is just stuff like “Prices of apples are up 2% after news of heavy rain in Geb’s south has washed away too many skeleton fruit pickers”