rastafarigpu

Re:Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:39PM (#38944453)

Irony of the millenium! Wasn't Bitcoin supposed to "free" us from the banks, "speculative" finanacial institutions and centralised control? Guess human greed trumps everything!

Re:Open Source, Cooperative/Non Profit Cloud Services on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:00AM (#37899246)

Thanks for the link! I see there are some organisations already in my area - I'll read up and research a bit more. It would be great to say in touch. I'd love to connect and keep in touch - is there a secure and private way to share email or IMs?

Re:Open Source, Cooperative/Non Profit Cloud Services on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:58AM (#37899216)

Could you please elaborate?

Re:Open Source, Cooperative/Non Profit Cloud Services on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:23AM (#37871644)

My initial thoughts are that it will be a free entity. As per local regulations in Europe, this can't be a tax exempted enterprise either. So basically a cooperative or a private business with a non profit charter. You make an interesting point - I never thought about advocacy groups and the PR risks they might carry. I was more thinking about end users/consumers and private businesses. I suppose that is a risk you carry irrespective I guess - even if you were a private, for profit business.

Where was your non profit ISP based if I may ask?

Open Source, Cooperative/Non Profit Cloud Services

Posted by rastafarigpu on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:06AM
from the self-post dept.

I have been contemplating the idea of starting a cooperative/non profit cloud services "business" - think of it as AWS/Azure/Digital Ocean with a non profit or cooperative model.The idea is to start small with simple services like hosting mastadon, wordpress or other stuff like nextcloud to test the waters and then slowly evovle into other services like containers, object storage, etc.The...

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Re:SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:58AM (#37858993)

What? Democracy? When was the last time you saw it working for realsies?

Re:SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:57AM (#37858973)

And the award for the smartest smart ass answer goes to @mensetmanusman

Re:SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:17AM (#37858402)

This makes me sick to the gut. Every creature and person shares this space and as Illogical or logical this may sound, I don't my "share" of the sky and universe to be polluted. I refuse to allow a company to bombard me with radio frequencies most of which is probably going to be used for nonsensical you/tube/porn, movies etc. I don't want anyone to pollute/do anything to my share of the planet/universe without me having a say in it.

Re:Ravynos: BSD-based OS with an experience like and some compatibilit... on Thursday August 31, 2023 @06:10AM (#37334844)

What are the licensing terms if I want to contribute?

Is it prudent to use Scala for anything new?

Posted by rastafarigpu on Sunday June 11, 2023 @06:37AM
from the self-post dept.

Is it worth using Scala for new projects that don't use Spark? There seems to be a trend to not use Scala for anything new and either use Kotlin for functional programming or use Go where parallaisation is required. PySpark is popular among Spark folks. So, is it worth building anything new in Scala?

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