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There is a bit more mature project that does the same: https://selfprivacy.org

I'd say it's similar but not the same. One thing I can see from a quick skim is that cloud in a bottle can be set up on local infrastructure, this requires a cloud hosted VPS.

selfprivacy appears to be limited to a handful of services. e.g. It is not clear to me if I can host postgresql with it. i.e. It is not a general purpose container hosting product.

Nice, and it's even supported by NLNet

Is there something like a balancer that redirects me to an instance that is not down?

xxcancel.com (just add an x to xcancel.com) will redirect you to a working instance!


The LibRedirect browser extensions lets you configure a list and quickly hot between, but it doesn't check whether they are up before redirecting you to one of them iirc

https://libredirect.manerakai.com/


There was a service I discovered that was set as a default in this app: https://github.com/circumspace/linkahest

Unfortunately it also shut down a few days before the nitter takedowns.



I mean, I was just thinking of writing one in a few lines, so there will be one in a few minutes.

My impression is that americans got only those types of corruption most people can't benefit from personally (like skipping fines, getting some minor government benefits, local permits, getting legal work processed faster, etc). For most of them it's just on the TV and on the social media.

M-x doctor

Haha, darn it, you threw me into a rabbit hole. I hooked M-x doctor to an LLM, and the funniest thing happened. The little piece of sh*t kept pretending to be emacs's own eliza / doctor. It took like 5-6 turns to convince it that I am okay and don't need the pretend psychotherapist "service" anymore.

It's sad that there are people who are creative enough to pull this off who choose to participate in petty scams instead of applying their ai and persuasion skills to something more useful.


No thats not a strange decision. self-hosted git servers disappear all the time, it's better to have everything unavailable at once when github is down than suffer whenever either of the sources goes unreachable. Non-developers view git availability as a simple utility, they don't attach a value judgement to git being usable with any remote.


> suffer whenever either of the sources goes unreachable

This is not the way Palomar works. From the About page (https://palomar-registry.org/about):

> Palomar does keep a public preservation fork of every registered source, solely as a backup for the registry in the event that the original repository disappears.

The decision to limit git sources to Github is likely in order to be able to use Github's fork mechanism. Palomar could still offer to take a copy of the relevant commit of non-Github repositories.


And since all they need is a particular folder structure, you don't really need anything Git at all. Any kind of blob would do, cf. e.g. how Zenodo works.


The main reason Github is in the news these days is due to its unreliability. If availability is your main concern, Github would be a very odd choice for your One Blessed Source.

Besides, it isn't "self-hosted basement Git server VS Github". There are plenty of other large and reliable forges out there, such as GitLab, Sourcehut, Bitbucket, or Codeberg. Considering how many people - from individual devs to major open-source projects - are abandoning Github, launching a new project in 2026 which only works with Github is a rather odd choice.

It doesn't even make sense from a technical perspective. Git has a standard protocol it uses for cloning repos. You have to go out of your way to make it not work with other forges. And if reliability is critical, surely you'd just mirror it locally? Heck, why not make use of Git's inherent distributed nature and allow defining multiple upstream sources? Integrity is already handled by the commit hash itself, so it doesn't matter if you fetch that commit from Github, GitLab, or some guy's basement server - just take whichever one happens to respond the fastest.


This is for mathematicians and not software engineers. You look for ease of use and familiarity with tooling.

If I was a mathematician looking for a simple solution, I would go for GitHub too. Software engineering concerns don’t really apply here.


> Considering how many people

That is a terrible metric to look into. Github being down is news, but on a long enough time horizon Gitlab or other provider isn't significantly better. It's just they are in news less often.


> on a long enough time horizon Gitlab or other provider isn't significantly better

I suspect the same. But do you have any evidence for this? The status pages of Github and Gitlab (more precisely their history pages) don't seem to be a good starting point for comparisons. Anything I find online are people reporting their own experiences, and it's difficult to tell how accurate they are, how many users were truely affected etc. The only thing I can vouch for is that Github has got more unreliable - adding to the hearsay myself...


I don't know if I'd consider GitLab, Bitbucket or any of the other git repo hosting services to be much worse than github in terms of availability or reliability.


What's the problem with connecting two devices together?


The splodge on the ground when one of them fails is generally the downside.


Same is true for 1


Can this stuff autorotate? You could also take emergency parachute with you (~5kg), would require flying at least at 500ft or something to be able to deploy it


Someone who flips cars serves the seller by closing the deal faster


No because they only buy the best deals that would have sold fast anyway


This happens with niche markets e.g. CRT TVs.

Because CRTs are no longer made they are becoming rare but at the same time the market for them is small so what ends up happening is that opportunists take advantage of this and hoard them to create artificial scarcity.

You could argue they are doing a service by saving them from ending up as e-waste but this isn't always the case. Sometimes sellers are just raising the floor price for their own benefit.


The model is finetuned to enter/leave its thinking mode using special token separators. there's no reason to assume the tool calls induce the same token distribution or produce the model's actual native reasoning trace


We have its actual reasoning traces, and we have these psudotraces, distribution / nativeness is testable now


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