Yeah let's block port 80, too many people expose unprotected api.

This is what several cellular ISP to (block ports <1024 and 5555) to protect the users on IPv6.

You can unlock it with additional free option.

Also the results given it the article are still worse than redis with zero work and no risk of breaking later, both in nb of req and latency.

And you can move redis to another server next later if needed to split the db and notification load.

I don't know, I tried kagi but it doesn't seem to have superior results to even ddg. It's even worse for non english content.

ChatGPT is better than their agent at everything, firefox extensions can filter domains and ads out of the search results while preventing tracking nand I don't even have to create an account for any of those.

Not to mention I actually mostly use search engines to for stuff that are not fuzzy anymore (since discovery with them are now terrible anyway), so I don't get that much value.

I really want to like kagi, it ticks all the boxes, but it misses a killer feature that would make me use it instead of alternatives that just do what I need.

I downvoted up out of reflex, then read till the and went back to upvote.

Courageous game you are playing here.

We spent 20 years talking about agile precisely because of this, and people took it, turned it into a checklist based processed, forgot about the short feedback loop it's precisely supposed to bring to the table to figure our your unknown unknown quickly, and declared it useless.

And now we are back to square one, where we argue again "but just make good specs".

The world is a silly place.

No, it's incentive. Always has been. Always will be.

Awareness may (or may not) help with incentive, but by itself it does jack all, as any nerds that have been actively showing their relatives how they are tracked will tell you.

Snowden's revelations did diddlely jack for the common person, nor wikileak's. Knowing smoking is bad never prevented smokers to smoke, knowing exercice is good is not enough to make somebody do it.

You need more: social pressure, conformism, dopamine, lower friction, etc.

Safety belt didn't become common because the average person were aware of the benefits. People screamed about it, complained, refused to use them.

It's the push from insurances to get them into law that turned into car manufacturer making it a feature, cops giving away fines, and social contracts pressuring you into using them that made them ubiquitous.

The myth that awareness is what is missing is one of the reasons so many topic never move because it's talking on the internet about it is easier than doing something about it. So people choose awareness as the virtue signaling easy way out of their guilt.

You may do. And I may do.

But most people won't.

See how they react to terrorism, despite the fact they amount to almost nothing compared to any other cause of death.

People are NOT rational.

I'm not sure we know what people want though. After terrorist attacks politicians seem to decide what people want, tell people what they want, but rarely, if ever, offer a referendum on the subject. And on this alone they also get bipartisian support because nobody dares look weak on terrorism, so there's no possible vote against it.

All the answers are smart sounding and completely avoid to address your main point. Same with most doctors I asked it to.

Common python strings are interned to speed things up as well. Maybe this way of interning could benefit cpython.

I always wondered how telegram could afford being free. A chat is expensive to run, a chat with gigantic media quotas even more, and they don't have ads.

There is no way their premium plan cover their cost, espacially with their extensive bot API that multiplies their traffic tenfold.

And now they add free hosting of bots on top?

How the hell are they doing that?

> A chat is expensive to run

Is it? A mid-size server can support couple of million of users. Storage of large files may cost something but not the chat service is super simple and cheap to run.

They got 1 billion monthly active users in 2025. This is a write intensive workload with signaling accross all of them, including in rooms with hundreds of users, who can upload huge videos in an unlimited searchable history.

Then you got misbehaved scripts, ddos attempts, authentication for every message, encryption...

Yeah, it's expensive as hell, even with an optimised erlang backend.

In fact, if they manage to get all that down to one cent per user per month, which is very cheap for such a service, it's still 10 millions to run just in hosting.

A sustainable patronage from the Russian intelligence community? /j

Apparently advertisement and premium membership.