@sun this ignores "good" agencies whose missions are directly in service of the public, such as NOAA, NIST, CISA, USGS, NPS, formerly the CFPB, etc. Those are the types of agencies that nobody in their right mind should ever support cutting.
And no, I don't want to hear about privatization. Imagine a world where you had to pay $3 to get today's fucking weather.
@mischievoustomato they were doing their job before according to the numbers, the core issue was the previous administration's non-chalant approach to discouraging crossings and being permissive with overstayed visas or asylum.
I bet crossings have slowed quite a bit with the hostility in force now which is fine, but now they're fucking up even worse than before by deporting the wrong people, making baseless accusations to construct pretext for deportation, or kicking out people for parking tickets instead of focusing on violent offenders.
I wanted to give you charts for this year but it looks like they fired the guy whose job it was to compile numbers for ICE's webiste, because the data stops at Nov 2024. so yeah.
@pwm@Tony@dsm@mint@Hoss pretty much how my shit works. redundant points of presence and caching at the edge, VPN tunnels back to the core router in my rack for cache misses/noncached data, and then routed to each virtual machine via NAT as required.
@Hoss@Tony@pwm@dsm@mint If josh came to me for hosting (lain.la or otherwise) I'd have to turn him down not even on principle but simply because the juice ain't worth the squeeze. That site is too damn hot to deal with, what with the fanbases it attracts both for and against. You pretty much need to angle yourself and your engineering exclusively for that market. It's a step beyond even just "bulletproof".
@dsm@Tony@pwm@Hoss i have so many projects in flight right now that providing services to others for free (or at-cost) off my personal racks is completely off the table for at least the remainder of the year. example: i bought a log cabin in a corn field and i'm trenching fiber to it.
if you're serious though, if you wanted to purchase some from nulled instead (which i'm helping to kickstart so it can carry lain.la traffic), let me know. i'd be your point of contact and would rack your shit with my bare hands in a real DC. i'm handling another nulled customer this weekend actually.