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monday | february 9

i think i have interview burnout – i've spent so much time trying to convince grad schools i'm a good candidate that i'm not sure i believe it myself anymore. the grad application version of saying a word so many times it loses all meaning, i guess.

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inbetweencoffees

pulling a nightshift, definitely running out of time & only staying sane because I’ll be in Croatia in 95 days

guncodez

https://linktr.ee/guncodez

acadarnia

hi everyone!

my plastic surgery exam went great, the lock-in was very successful hahah i got a 90/100

i also had a MCQ exam on urology that was pretty hard, but i'll pass it for sure

only one more exam to go, orthopedics, and then a week-long break

i don't know what to expect from the second semester when we'll start the rotations on cardiology, pulmonology, radiology and nephro, but i'm really curious about it, hopefully the doctors will be happy to teach us everything they can during our time on the wards (:

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olderthannetfic

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

zz9pzza

Warming up a new database server….

elfwreck

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

crowns-of-violets-and-roses

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

lierdumoa

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

jenroses

Please note that buying new servers and storage just became a shit load more expensive.

Because AI.

To paraphrase a comment on a Gamers Nexus video, the reason computer parts are getting so expensive is that a huge amount of RAM and storage that have not been produced yet were purchased with non-existent money to put in gpus and computers that have also not yet been produced to put in data centers that have not yet been built, to be powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist, to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

So that’s fun. But it means that already owning computers that actually do the thing is SO MUCH BETTER than hiring other people to build more capacity to buy more computers to do the thing.

How bad is the RAM crisis? The price of ddr3, which is like 10-15yo tech, is going up. The price of DDR5 is now stupid expensive, 4+ times as expensive as it was a few months ago.

Mostly because there’s only one company in the world that is capable of generating the kind of chips needed and everyone uses that company because the modern world is a very precarious house of cards held together by tissue and string and we have a 50 foot toddler playing Godzilla with international trade.

Anyway AO3 is a goddamn miracle people need to respect.

rabbitindisguise

I think this is especially worth pointing out now because if they start fundraising more then this is most probably why they need money. If anyone’s mad that AO3 needs extra dollars then, remember to blame AI.

starss-and-moons

Study blog: 23/01/2026

I didn’t get loads done today because I went to a friend’s birthday party after school and so had to get ready etc. I did do some further maths though.

Studied:

- began further maths statistics exercise 6A

- began further maths core pure maths exercise 7A

Other/organisation:

- worked on my ballet (did my morning exercises and a little pointe work)

Forest: 2 hours 46 minutes

lost-rxverie

sunday | january 11

physics-ed a little too hard and now every sentence feels like technobabble from an old sci-fi show.

"we can reconcile drude theory and sommerfeld theory by drawing a displacement vector for the fermi sphere to represent electron scattering" like yeah sure why not. make me calculate the conductivity tensor while you're at it i don't care anymore.