I am the author. The article is not speculation. I know from sources inside Facebook that the cable will head Southeast from the US East Coast directly to South Africa. From there it heads directly to India. From India to Australia. From Australia to the US West.
What is speculation are the branching units. It is natural to add branching units to aggregate traffic to more countries. But I have no confirmation.
We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS)
Right. But even ignoring all that NFT stuff that others are commenting on, isn't your offering with Papyrus just somebody else's playground not owned by the content creator? Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily. There are a ton of options for hosting a jekyll blog.
No disrespect to what you've built with Papyrus, because it does look good, but you've completely missed the point. Isn't this post more about taking back personal ownership and control of content than ceding to yet another "platform"? Here's the third paragraph:
Because I want that my content is my content and not my content on the “Medium’s hands”, plus Medium is not what was in the beginning.
Some of us don't want a "Medium alternative": we want ownership and control. Papyrus might be great now but, guaranteed, if it becomes as successful as Medium, I seriously doubt it will avoid devolving into a similar mess. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Again, with no disrespect to the quality of what you've built, in this context screw yet another company that wants to line its founders' pockets off the back of other peoples' content. I wish you well, but I don't believe what you're offering is what the author of the post is talking about (though it will no doubt suit some, and that's OK).
Congratulations. A big win for Internet decentralization! (It's not sarcasm, I'm all in for having your own space on the Internet).
I invite you to try Grav CMS[0], it's what I use for my personal blog[1].
Grav is a flat-file CMS, it doesn't use RDBMS. It's highly performant. I also have CloudFlare in front of it, but it was already faster than the typical WordPress you see elsewhere.
Grav also adheres to the latest PHP version, so you don't have to carry along legacy syntax around like other CMSes. Its error pages are comprehensive and the stack traces are actually readable.
I personally think it's the best out there technically speaking, the best of both worlds (Flat-file and at the same time, dynamic instead of compiling the build every new post), the only drawback is that its plugin ecosystem it's still in the early stages, so if you're to create marketing landing pages or similar, you'll still fall short there.
That "bricks" your Mac, and you have to do a DFU restore with Apple Configurator 2 to recover from it.
The SSD on these Macs contains system firmware, including the boot picker and recovery mode. Do not wipe the entire top-level block device. They cannot boot from external media, by design.
M1 Macs are not PCs, and you shouldn't blindly apply whatever you think you know from the PC world. Their low-level design is much closer to an embedded device like a Raspberry Pi, minus the SD card slot. https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot
It's hard to truly brick these things (you need to wipe NOR flash for that, and even then Apple can fix it without taking them apart, but you can't, because if you wipe NOR flash calibration data is gone and it has to go back through part of the manufacturing test process), but wiping the entire SSD isn't going to help you. If you start messing at that level, you'd better be prepared with another Mac and Apple Configurator 2 to get a proper clean start.
I am the author. The article is not speculation. I know from sources inside Facebook that the cable will head Southeast from the US East Coast directly to South Africa. From there it heads directly to India. From India to Australia. From Australia to the US West.
What is speculation are the branching units. It is natural to add branching units to aggregate traffic to more countries. But I have no confirmation.
Regards,
Roderick.