A good essay on Le Chatelier's Principle (systems resist change), why we fail at building or modifying highly complex systems, and how starting over is a better path to success:
Decentralization shifts risk rather than removing it. Running your own services reduces dependency on platforms, but increases dependency on your own operational discipline. Backups, updates, monitoring, and recovery are no longer abstracted away.
What used to be handled by a provider becomes a set of explicit responsibilities. When something breaks, the cause is usually mundane. A missed update, an expired certificate, or a backup that was never tested. The tradeoff is autonomy for responsibility, and it is only obvious once you are operating the system yourself.
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A good essay on Le Chatelier's Principle (systems resist change), why we fail at building or modifying highly complex systems, and how starting over is a better path to success:
Open Media Network: A Manifesto for the Digital Commons
A cohesive manifesto is needed as the world we inherited is fractured. Wealth, power, and knowledge are concentrated in the hands of the #nastyfew: platform owners, data hoarders, and corporate monopolies who extract value from our work, our attention, and our trust. Democracy has been hollowed out, captured and controlled by algorithms that decide what is knowable, profitable, and even true. Ecology, community, and care are sacrificed on the #deathcult altar of growth and consumption.
In […]
Open Media Network: A Manifesto for the Digital Commons
A cohesive manifesto is needed as the world we inherited is fractured. Wealth, power, and knowledge are concentrated in the hands of the #nastyfew: platform owners, data hoarders, and corporate monopolies who extract value from our work, our attention, and our trust. Democracy has been hollowed out, captured and controlled by algorithms that decide what is knowable, profitable, and even true. Ecology, community, and care are sacrificed on the #deathcult altar of growth and consumption.
In […]
MIT's Computer Systems Security (2024)
https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2024/
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Architecture for Disposable Systems
https://tuananh.net/2026/01/15/architecture-for-disposable-systems/
#HackerNews #Architecture #Disposable #Systems #TechInnovation #CloudComputing #SystemDesign
Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
https://blog.drjoshcsimmons.com/p/how-neurodivergent-brains-build-better
#HackerNews #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #Systems #Innovation #MentalHealth #2025
Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition)
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Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02080
#HackerNews #Designing #Predictable #LLM-Verifier #Systems #for #Formal #Method #Guarantee #LLMVerifier #FormalMethods #AIResearch #Predictability #arXiv
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
https://devblog.qnx.com/qnx-self-hosted-developer-desktop-initial-release/
#HackerNews #QNX #Self-Hosted #Developer #Desktop #developer #tools #QNX #embedded #systems #technology #innovation
Linux kernel developers have officially approved Rust as a full programming language alongside C and assembler, ending its experimental phase and marking a shift toward safer, more modern code. 🦀
Key subsystems still need bindings, but work is progressing, including a Rust-based Nvidia graphics driver. 🛠️
🔗 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Support-Officially-Approved-11109808.html
#TechNews #Linux #Rust #OpenSource #Kernel #Security #Developers #Programming #Innovation #Systems #FOSS #Technology #Code #Engineering #Nvidia
Linux kernel developers have officially approved Rust as a full programming language alongside C and assembler, ending its experimental phase and marking a shift toward safer, more modern code. 🦀
Key subsystems still need bindings, but work is progressing, including a Rust-based Nvidia graphics driver. 🛠️
🔗 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Support-Officially-Approved-11109808.html
#TechNews #Linux #Rust #OpenSource #Kernel #Security #Developers #Programming #Innovation #Systems #FOSS #Technology #Code #Engineering #Nvidia
Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/
#HackerNews #Windows #Drive #Letters #A-Z #Tech #News #File #Systems #Microsoft
sit: Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit
#HackerNews #sit #StuffIt #archives #Unix #systems #open-source #GitHub
Backpressure in Distributed Systems
https://blog.pranshu-raj.me/posts/backpressure/
#HackerNews #Backpressure #Distributed #Systems #Scalability #Performance #Engineering #TechInsights
Just a few of the nice comments we got from Academy graduates.
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What tools do you use for your on-host #FreeBSD| #BSD system metrics collection and monitoring? #Sysadmin #DevOps #SRE #Monitoring #Systems #Observability #Metrics
What tools do you use for your on-host #FreeBSD| #BSD system metrics collection and monitoring? #Sysadmin #DevOps #SRE #Monitoring #Systems #Observability #Metrics
Back of envelope theories of complex systems, as always with my mostly relating to off-hand comments Winograd made in the first page of his Breaking The Complexity Barrier (Again) paper.
What do you think?
Main feature is bootstrapping making these graphs somewhat in terms of themselves metacircularly.
