Escape From New York: Louis Rossmann Edition - Hopefully he does not make Texas a bughive

[Slav Power]

Ross' response under the video.

 

[regginknurd]

Stop Killing Games part 1 vid is out
(PreserveTube)

I like how this entire video is just trying to convince someone to start grifting.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

I understand that Louis is american so it probably works different to him, but i cant blame him for seeing himself and relating so much to Ross in what Ross could've done from the get go, Ross himself said that he shouldnt have been as passive as he was with Mald, and its somewhat true that to a point, he was LARPing a bit instead of doing the groundwork to work with the system to do his goal.

But i dont think Louis shat on him, it felt like he was partially venting to a kindred spirit out of a place of passion, and i dont entirely disagree with most of the advice, or even how he worded it.
I hope that if SKG succeeds, Ross can take some of these words to heart, recuperate and rest for a bit, and get more assistance from people and the community to keep on truckin
It was also gold how he politely told Mald he wasnt a real dev and that his word didnt matter in this, honestly really fucking BTFOed the ferret fucker

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Part 2

 

[ResearcherCairoKF]

I like how this entire video is just trying to convince someone to start grifting.

Trying to support your efforts and have enough to eat at the end of the day is grifting.

I totally understand Louis point here, I have been involved in advocacy efforts for vets and some of the biggest problems to solve were people's apathy and people who like to be seen as a leader but don't care about doing the leadership duties.

Not saying that's what Ross is doing but more that if you want to be in the ring you have to keep boxing not get cold and want to give up. You can't get all these people together for this event then put on the gloves then just decide now you want to give up. You have to keep trying, keeping improving and seek help. Otherwise your more of a hindrance than any help.

Granted Ross doing this from just some comedy YouTuber is pretty amazing, the strides one guy is making with just an idea you should own what you buy is amazing.

 

[Lard Shart]

The protruding complaint from the software architect is in my understanding that "modern live service games are so heavily dependent on external micro-services and cloud infrastructure like AWS that it's impossible for a consumer to get a server running". And I completely agree that it's an impossible feat, but I'd like to bring forward the idea that such vendor lock-in cloud services should not exist in the first place. Not that cloud services shouldn't exist, but vendor lock-in.

Services are great, I like having power and an Internet connection, and have no issue with offloading that to a proprietary service. The difference with "the cloud" is that I can run a power generator or starlink or whatever else as backup and as a replacement. That's not possible with AWS, although there has been work on getting open source alternatives like MinIO for S3. Once you use AWS, you are fully locked in.

It goes even further, when a game server is dependent on so many micro-services, not only the game company can "kill" the game, also all the cloud companies can. Both intentionally and accidentally (outage).

There are two solutions: either all micro-services are forced to publicize their protocols and/or backend code; or game companies stop depending on those closed-off services.
The petition hopefully has a chance of enabling the latter solution. In the worst case only the network protocols get opened up, which is enough for desperate autists to get something running I guess.

There's also something ironic going on here. It's a software architect being interviewed here, he is fully in the micro-services game. I think he subconsciously doesn't want to imagine a world where software architecture radically changes. It's like a climate-change researcher not giving any thought to research that disproves climate-change, as it would collapse the entire field.

TLDR; software sux, we can do better and this petition might force us to.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

If your video game infrastructure relies entirely on shit like AWS then you are a fucking moron.

 

[volatile puar]

Even then, AWS is not some secret Krabby Patty formula that plebians can't access, and there's no reason why Amazon would refuse business with a normal person unless they've been paid-off by someone who wants to restrict access.

 

[WatterBottle]

Services are great, I like having power and an Internet connection, and have no issue with offloading that to a proprietary service. The difference with "the cloud" is that I can run a power generator or starlink or whatever else as backup and as a replacement. That's not possible with AWS, although there has been work on getting open source alternatives like MinIO for S3. Once you use AWS, you are fully locked in.

I'd say S3 is a bad example as you said MinIO is out there and other vendors(google/oracle/cloudflare/ceph/etc) and software/turnkey hardware support this locally.

But there's a lot more specific vendor locking like Microsoft is pushing Azure object storage where the only offline "test" is impossible and they don't have an s3 compatible api. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-emulator At points even Microsoft was advocating using Minio as a gateway service to object storage https://azure.github.io/Storage/docs/storage-partners/partners/MultiProtocol/Minio-Azure.pdf

Microsoft also has a vicious vendor lock-in trojan in the name of "security" managed identities. You assign the managed identity access to a database then assign the identity to a vm/container service. The background the credentials for the database is stored in the key vault and auto rotated. When the app fires up it's looking for a specific environment variable that will use this "id" to talk to Microsofts key vault service to pull the database credentials out of. But in order to do this every language has to use a Microsoft library https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-...ty/azure/identity/_credentials/app_service.py So they are pushing to use a managed identity to do the keyvault auto rotation with a bunch of recommendations/best practices/security alerts. This only works for Azure, and where the only technical feature is auto rotating secrets while introducing a new product failure point of key vault. And of course the libraries introduce its own security risks https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35255

You can still stay very portable sticking with open source databases/containers/vm's but there's very much things a-foot to lock you in.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Microsoft also has a vicious vendor lock-in trojan in the name of "security" managed identities. You assign the managed identity access to a database then assign the identity to a vm/container service. The background the credentials for the database is stored in the key vault and auto rotated. When the app fires up it's looking for a specific environment variable that will use this "id" to talk to Microsofts key vault service to pull the database credentials out of. But in order to do this every language has to use a Microsoft library https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-...ty/azure/identity/_credentials/app_service.py So they are pushing to use a managed identity to do the keyvault auto rotation with a bunch of recommendations/best practices/security alerts. This only works for Azure, and where the only technical feature is auto rotating secrets while introducing a new product failure point of key vault. And of course the libraries introduce its own security risks https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35255

I see Microsoft is still embracing, extending, and extinguishing. Some corporations never change.

 

[Sam Losco]

Live right now

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Good, I needed something to listen to while preparing for the fourth.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Live right now

Ross vs. Ross(mann) has finally happened. Two of my long-time favorite youtubers talking and having multiple brain-farts together. I commented in both their livestreams multiple times in the past requesting this livestream and now it's here.

Perfection.

BTW @larossmann , give a greenie to Mr. Clinton mentioning @Hey Johnny Bravo or just us "weirdos on the internet". Love ya!

 

[StacticShock]

another rossie stream on SKG

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Terrorist organization.
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Let's be real here, China will grow larger.

Nationalism will bring us victory!

Anyways. Did you know that if you buy a watch (mechanical, sometimes quartz) it's John Deere levels of anti-repair? They have been trying their damnest to kill the independent watchmaker. To repair a SWATCH (or most watch groups nowdays), you need a special "license" to buy these parts from them, and you are inventoried the broken part which you must return. Currently, most of the watch brands are made by ETA SA (a Swatch subsidiary) actively blacklist horologists who do make "unauthorized/unlicensed" repairs, don't return broken parts, etc. ETA got broken up but the Europeans all conspire to have service done at their technicians (and then pay jack shit). They usually don't bother fixing it anymore and just toss the movement and put a new one in lmao.

The other independent watchmakers that don't clone off ETA are Liaoning (Chinese, so still a bit of ip theft), Mitoya/Citizen (Japan), Seiko (Japan), Orient (Japan), Casio (Japan), Ronda (Swiss), VMF (Swiss), Stella (Ex-ETA). Most don't supply parts either.

The Chinese ones do supply parts, Mitoya does, Seiko might.

 

[Pee Cola]

Anyways. Did you know that if you buy a watch (mechanical, sometimes quartz) it's John Deere levels of anti-repair?

The Chinese ones do supply parts, Mitoya does, Seiko might.

With Seiko, their lower-end mechanical movements (such as the NH35) are so cheap to buy that you might as well just run it until it stops working, and then replace the entire movement.

 

[i440BX]

With Seiko, their lower-end mechanical movements (such as the NH35) are so cheap to buy that you might as well just run it until it stops working, and then replace the entire movement.

What do you know about Citizen watches? Like the Eco-Drive line.

 

[Pee Cola]

What do you know about Citizen watches? Like the Eco-Drive line.

Very little. I just know a bit about the NH35 and similar Seiko movements because often found in AliExpress watches (and I have a couple of those).

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

What do you know about Citizen watches? Like the Eco-Drive line.

It is a quartz movement. They use solar cells underneath the dial that power a rechargable Li-on battery. There was a really expensive high end movement that was a mixed automatic-solar powered one but it's unobtanium (I've never even seen a movement on the net). Seiko has something similar in the Seiko Solar (and also the kinetic quarz movement). The Japanese goverment did/does a manditory tech sharing program for the large conglomerates.

I don't deal with Quartz repairs because usually it's impossible to find parts. Hell I don't even change quartz watch batteries unless it's for a friend or family lmao.

Citizen (Miyota) mechanical movements are good. Some of the movements can be a bit noisy but thati is if you're a snob, nothing you'll hear if you use it in daily life. They don't have anything extremely fancy like a co-axial escapment (George Daniels / Omega) or a dual-impulse movement (Seiko) though.

 

[i440BX]

Let's be real here, China will grow larger.

Nationalism will bring us victory!

Anyways. Did you know that if you buy a watch (mechanical, sometimes quartz) it's John Deere levels of anti-repair? They have been trying their damnest to kill the independent watchmaker. To repair a SWATCH (or most watch groups nowdays), you need a special "license" to buy these parts from them, and you are inventoried the broken part which you must return. Currently, most of the watch brands are made by ETA SA (a Swatch subsidiary) actively blacklist horologists who do make "unauthorized/unlicensed" repairs, don't return broken parts, etc. ETA got broken up but the Europeans all conspire to have service done at their technicians (and then pay jack shit). They usually don't bother fixing it anymore and just toss the movement and put a new one in lmao.

The other independent watchmakers that don't clone off ETA are Liaoning (Chinese, so still a bit of ip theft), Mitoya/Citizen (Japan), Seiko (Japan), Orient (Japan), Casio (Japan), Ronda (Swiss), VMF (Swiss), Stella (Ex-ETA). Most don't supply parts either.

The Chinese ones do supply parts, Mitoya does, Seiko might.

Swiss watchmakers seem to have deserved being BTFO by Seiko. I am apalled at how can Swatch keep a straight face selling junk disposable wristwatches. Chinese watches from Ali Express might be better.