nonchip @nonchip@octodon.social

Should everyone manage their own local physical infrastructure?
(and everyone includes corporations and gov agencies)

I honestly don't think that's currently a good solution.
- it costs much more
- it requires much more skills and fails much harder with the lack of it

I really prefer to see my gov/corps to finance The Cloud than pay an incompetent idiot to cluelessly manage bare metal servers or a huge opportunistic service provider that will take 50k$ and provide a 50$/month-worth thing.

I see that as some cloud fearmongering that went wrong.

It's okay to say free public cloud "as in Google Drive" has issues. It does.

But enterprise cloud "as in AWS"? It's just rented servers space, people. Not any different that what was happening before we called everything "cloud". Not less secure than a bunch of badly managed hardware.

Leaks? Oh don't worry some incompetent admins were throwing away unencrypted disks long before the cloud was a thing.

"there is no cloud, only somebody else’s computer"

i don't like this saying

because cooperation is inconceivable, legally binding contracts are a thing from the future, and if you wanna go that way nothing is ever yours anyway.

It is any more yours if you employ sysadmins directly? Why would <company> in between break it?

Is it only yours if it's stored in your garage on ADSL without UPS and you have no practical control or understanding of it?
Is your garage even yours? What if it's rented?

„Stell dir vor, das sei eine esoterische Programmierspache, bei der die Aussprache wichtig ist. Mit der kansnt du deinen Sub programmieren zu tun wasauchimmer du willst.“

Competitive Pokemon is one of the strangest things to exist as a concept. The player has a huge incentive to beat the game otherwise they're missing out on many useful in-game items and accessibility to speed-up the process. The player then essentially spends more hours on eugenics to make their ideal battle Pokemon. THEN the player has to level up their Pokemon by fighting specific other Pokemon to properly influence growth. And none of this actually makes the player a better battler.

#gameing