Much more likely to get run over in a crosswalk in the us than in Europe. American drivers don’t stop. The amount of overengineered zebra crossings in the US are crazy.

https://youtu.be/d-5A2RxgvOc

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.

“Shell has a responsibility to reduce its emissions,” but everyone involved is abdicating their responsibility and handwaving away the idea of emissions reductions?? How else will Shell reduce emissions by 45% if Shell doesn’t reduce emissions by 45%?

Slavery is wrong, period.

I mean Putin’s soldiers, not Russian speakers.

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

No NATO country has expressed concern about being nuked. This is a question of geopolitics, not military strategy.

I understand why Democrats are falling back on arguments like this in the face of open facism, but it’s fitting that this week is the the 86th anniversary of the kristallnacht pogrom. Somebody tell Hitler and Goebbels not to dehumanize and attack all those jews, because it would be, like, totally bad for the economy or something.

The point of Trump’s rhetoric against immigrants is to dehumanize them and scapegoat them for all of the US’s problems. We do the same here in Sweden, when our politicans say we’re being “naiive”, and we call immigrants disloyal to Sweden, welfare frausters, and terrorists. We accuse their culture of being anti-democratic, sexist, and promoting child abuse. We scapegoat them for our crime issues, antisemitism issues, and impoverished neighborhoods.

Just the first step in dehumanizing an entire 1M+ group of people.

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.

Put up proof that you know this would happen, or stop fear-mongering.

My expectation, and something I think shared by most NATO countries, is that the Russian regime would interpret western troops on the front line as a ground invasion of Russia by those countries. Something that would win over the Russian people into supporting an invasion of the bordering countries of Finland, Norway, Poland, and the Baltics.

Not to say that any no-fly-zone or a tripwire force in Ukraine would lead to Russians running into Narva, but there is still these sorts of non-nuclear escalations that western troops in “annexed” oblasts would likely cause.

Who knows where the red line is, but a lot of people in the west think it’s located before the point of troops in Donetsk.

Some game theory about red lines in the Russia-Ukraine war: https://youtu.be/tM0ZTEz7Bzc

1. This is not true. Most NATO countries want to avoid fighting on their own soil.

2. Don’t say things that encourage nuclear proliferation

I’ll chip in, and buy a beer for myself.

Taiwan making their position clear to Trump

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

at least they will have no idea what they’re doing.

The unfortunate thing is that the EU may have to suck it up and build more bridges with the PRC if the US shuns us.

Europe may be bigger than the US, but even Europe is only about 20% of the world’s GDP. We can’t take on Russia, the US, and China at the same time.

Yeah, I don’t mean that this election was rigged or anything, I just mean that the US presidential election isn’t really the combined will of every single American. Other countries have more democratic systems. Even the house races are more democratic.