Agreed. See also: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, etc.

We have a bad habit of gliding down the slippery slope.

And there it is. The one thing on the Internet that made me laugh audibly today. Bravo 👏

They don't sell data. They sell ads. Selling data would directly erode their ability to sell ads.

Well that certainly doesn't sound very Heisenberg-compensatory.

Don't give those Very Short Treks writers any more ideas

It's a Trek name. Hopefully that doesn't spoil it too much, but I thought it was relevant since Wordle doesn't have names.

Another gem of the Internet: YouTube video IDs with actual dashes in them!

Wtf was that thing? It looked familiar.

Hardware-backed RAID, with error monitoring and patrol read. iSCSI or similar to present that to a virtualization layer. VMFS or similar atop that. Files atop that to represent virtual drives. Virtual machines atop that.

Patrol read starts catching errors long before SMART will. Those drives get replicated to (and replaced by) hot spares, online. Failing drives then get replaced with new hot spares.

But all of that is irrelevant, because at the enterprise level, they are scaling their applications horizontally, with distributed containers. So even if they needed to do fsck at the guest filesystem level (or even if they weren't using virtualization) they would just redeploy the containers to a different node and then direct traffic away from the one that needs the maintenance.

Things intended for local use, like Pihole also don't work on cloud servers without getting banned for DNS abuse.

Are you talking about running a public DNS resolver?

That's a very different topic that wasn't part of the original post as far as I can tell.

There have always been (and there always will be) countless solutions for hosting a website for free. Even ignoring the security implications, mobile networks are not designed to do what you want to do. Full stop. If you can't find a cloud provider in 2023 that will host a free website that will meet your needs, you aren't looking hard enough.

Mobile providers spend billions in CAPEX every single year to keep up with ever-increasing demand (spectrum, base stations, radios, antennas, etc.) and even then they can barely keep up in some areas.

Every device attached to a given cell shares the resources of that cell. And uplink bandwidth is specifically scarce. Don't be a bad neighbor.

In season 1 they used a lot of practical effects (i.e. puppets) for the Gorn babies and then layered CG atop. They may have done the same here.