heres the second paragraph in full:

"Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the "virtual" world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3"

can you help my small brain by pointing out where in this paragraph they talk about deduplication?

>10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k

10 hours x 10 developers x $70 per hour = $7000, not $70000.

Thank you for the correction! This indeed completely changes the picture :-\

but you can be smug when theres a github incident, and thats hard to put a price on

You can do that with gitlab.

like most rap videos do with cars/jets/mansions, just rent the ram sticks for a few hours!

And the cinema equipment to make the video itself.

having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels

> seeing no azure incidents on the status page

… in all seriousness, that is hardly proof that Azure isn't having an outage.

if i thought it alone was proof enough, i wouldnt have also included the bit about how i was actively using azure.

its one signal, among others. and in any case, i wasn't trying to prove the parent commenter wrong. i was offering my own signal to the crowd.

I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.

this attitude is exactly why and how those "deranged redditor activists" (we're from the superior hacker news, of course, where there is no controversy or activists or differences in opinion) took and maintain control.

what features does vMix have, which OBS doesnt, that would be worth switching to a proprietary and paid program instead of a free, open source one?

I'd be interested to know as well. I may be in the minority, but I'll take a FOSS project with 80% of the features over a proprietary one with 100% of the features, almost every time. The philosophy of freedom is usually more important to me than squeezing out every last drop of functionality in exchange for a black box that I have to pay for and rely on some company that may or may not exist in a few years to develop it.

I’m pretty sure this has changed now, but when I first looked at OBS versus vmix, OBS did not have good NDI Support. Since the twice a year video production I put on is kind of like a hobby although I get paid, I just went with VMix and haven’t looked back. (Video is not my main job)

vMix is Windows-only, so I'd imagine the people it targets don't think about licensing much.

>vMix is Windows-only, so I'd imagine the people it targets don't think about licensing much.

they probably think about money, though. and whether there's a significant difference in features or not.

>it is ridiculous to advocate that the solution to a broken system is circumventing the laws

can you explain precisely why this is a ridiculous concept?

it seems like an extremely reasonable course of action in some situations.

vpn, piracy sites, government-level blocking, etc. is all pretty damn on-topic for hacker news.

the "wrong" types of political content, for this site, are the ones that have nothing to do with technology of any kind, and spark no curiosity otherwise.

The fine was issued in the Netherlands, by a Netherlands government body, regarding kids from the Netherlands.

The predominately spoken language in the Netherlands is not English.