Will there be a point where hand crafted does end you somewhere like the Toaster Project [1]

[1]https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

Wr are already there, in a sense: the amount of basic software in a box that is required to produce more software is already huge. And so is the supply chains behind it.

The idea of having all of those steps generated so unreliably is haunting.

It's central vs decentralisation.

The electricy is consumed in the houses and not on the empty land.

Parking lots become a win-win with electric cars. They also keep the cars cleen and sun protected.

And it increases installation costs by a pretty huge amount. Installing solar panels in a field is MUCH cheaper than bolting them to a roof or building a structure to hold them above a car park.

Plus, most solar installs are grid connected so a significant portion of the electricity tends not to be consumed where it is produced. It’s not as if installing solar is an alternative to grid connections for most practical reasons.

It is very methodical. Starting out on why you shouldn't kill yourself, as a real debate. And yes all the arguments have been made before. He tries to build up from first principals. I think he tried to walk a fine line between the physical suicide and the philosophical suicide.

There is the kritis (critical infrastructure law) law, which trys to enforce some standards to make things not as brittle.

shamless self plug: https://emdashmanifesto.org/

Thank you (and I support you).

At least it is the plot of a lot of movies of this era: Dr. stragelove, wargames, colossus.

Reminds me of "the front fell off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Maybe the data disappeared because BunnyCDN towed it out of the environment.

Obviously it it no longer in the environment

Ten more years and our tricks become the ancient practices and rituals of the olden hack0rs; stuff like apt update and apt upgrade on a fresh server. Some of the most ancient even use apt-get, while the really old ones will scold you for using Ubuntu

Hey! I resemble that comment :-P (I still tend to use apt-get out of habit...)

This is also my first impulse. The second was, if this happened to me, I would not be able to recover it. All the custom c tool talk... If you ask Claude Code it will code something up.

Well that he recovered the disks is amazing in itself. I would have given up and just pulled a backup.

However, I would like to see a Dev saying: why didn't you use the --<flag> which we created for this Usecase

Es gibt den auch als Film. Der ist auch nicht für schwache Gemüter