I will be here, don't you cry

this blog is literally just a repository for all the things I want to show my girlfriend so that I don't constantly spam our messenger conversations

[jerzwriter]

[jane-inferno]

we are the daughters of the Sauls you couldn’t call

[yellew]

[blackhole-ntp]

I'm starting to feel like some of you guys don't actually have that good a grasp of what a data center is or what it does

[blackhole-ntp]

"We need to get rid of data centers" says the tumblr user who has a career doing gig work via cloud apps

[jv]

Well, I know pretty well what a data center is, and you are wrong.

You don't need data centers to serve Tumblr. Or your gps maps. And for sure not to use a gig jobs app.

You need a server, indeed. That server is basically a computer that needs to be somewhere with a good internet connection. If the site or app has a lot of usage, you may need several of them, rarely more than the lower two figures. That's it.

"the internet we know" doesn't rely on data centers. Data centers, as we know nowadays, basically were invented by Amazon, who started selling them "as a service" maybe 15 years ago. Before that, companies used to, well, have their own servers. Often in their own office buildings. Sometimes in MUCH smaller facilities dedicated to host servers.

But the modern concept of data server? That is needed mostly for data mining and selling processing power as a service, so shitty startups can try to invent the next torment Nexus without needing to hire people who actually know how to work with physical servers nor spending big money on hardware.

But most of the apps and websites you use everyday? Any shitty laptop could very well be used as their server and support a couple of hundred concurrent users without breaking a sweat.

Honestly, they are just needed for the worst parts of the internet.

[blackhole-ntp]

Favourite parts of this post:

Read "gig jobs using cloud apps" and thought I meant Uber Eats

Unironic Torment Nexus reference in a serious discourse post in 2026

Implication that companies running their own data servers locally is a more energy efficient model than renting cloud VMs

"The Internet you know could run off of your laptop"; ??? 80+% of all user Internet traffic is HD video streaming via YouTube, Netflix and Tiktok etc - no, you don't get to dismiss that in the tags! The average Internet user watches almost two hours of such footage per day. Each of these services is shifting anywhere up to an exabyte of data daily, and literally all of this traffic is processed via data centers and routed over services hosted on the cloud. Like buddy, what the actual fuck are you talking about

[blackhole-ntp]

At this point the primary function of the Internet is to serve streamed video and to a lesser extent other multimedia content. Like, that is just what the system is now.

Sure you can say it's a blight on society and we should dismantle the internet as experienced by its six billion strong global userbase, but if you think that you should say that outright instead of pretending you could swap that out for a Dell laptop running bulletin board software in the basement and that nobody would notice

[luxuretits]

[wayfire-official]

Sex should have a secondary gameplay loop where you build bases, manage resources, and expand your territory

[treecitysessions]

Where’s that photo with the autistic bride wearing the procase noise reduction earmuffs over her veil... Me someday 🧘🏼‍♀️

[lieutenantbabe]

i gotchu

[treecitysessions]

My queen

[astraldemise]

looks at you

[astraldemise]

looks at you

[syn4k]

@bettsplendens i'd just like you to know that this is my favorite comment on this post and i'd like it to be memorialized

[peoplegettingkindamadatfood]

[galaxywarp]

[collapsedsquid]

[collapsedsquid]

[thatbowserguy]

Heating him up in the micheal wave

[everythingfox]

Baby otter first time in the water

[blackpyrefly]

kity

[mite75]

[kaijudick]

honestly i think it's so funny when doctors are like. know the RISKS of taking T. you will have MOOD SWINGS and become a VIOLENT and UNCONTROLLABLE creature who HOWLS at the MOON. it will turn you GAY. like i hate to say it guys but youve just invented male hysteria

[emil]

HISteria ♂️💯

[theonion]

Hopping online to quickly do, well we don’t quite remember, before ending up here, a new report from Stanford University showed Monday that you were supposed to be looking something up right now. The minutes-long study released today claims that there is definitely a reason you are online right now, but you saw a headline about a YouTube controversy, and then you saw this, and now you have kinda lost your train of thought.

Full Story

[commanderclearly]

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.