Mastodawn

Dailyish note today posted: https://divisionbyzero.net/notes/2026-05-29/

Most of the content is a lesson I learned at Booking.com: Own your differentiators. I'm _SO_ fucking sick and tired of cloud and SaaS for everything. Owning and running your own infrastructure is not that complicated and is _FAR_ cheaper than leasing it from hyperscalers.

Maybe this is why I'm so opposed to AI? On premise, self-hosted, owned infrastructure companies I worked for kept their OpEx's below 40%. The SaaS/Cloud heavy infrastructure companies I worked for had 80-100% OpEx costs. This is not a coincidence!

#selfhosted #onprem #fuck_cloud #fuck_ai

Urban Wilderness 1d ago

sjvn 1d ago

Looks about right to me.

Urban Wilderness 1d ago

I've been building something.

It's called Urban Wilderness. Real documentation for people trying to opt out of systems that weren't built for them. Self-hosted infrastructure, skill bartering, solar in a rented apartment.

There are also logs. And a story unfolding in public.

First post is up. Free, no account required.

urbild.org

#urbanwilderness #selfhosted #privacytech #indieweb

Urban Wilderness Apr 22

Mark Hurst Apr 22

From "What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat" by Noah Hawley:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/

Urban Wilderness Apr 22

Todd Battistelli Apr 22

Happy Earth Day!

"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot