@CobaltVelvet another thought about "Why would <company> break it?" one might also consider: "If they do, it's their fault and their responsibility for your losses."
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?
@CobaltVelvet ok, after half an hour it filled with content. i just seem to be too impatient (or some process too slow)
@CobaltVelvet by the way, the "home timeline being empty" issue happened again, this time on the host that worked fine before. it says "If you have been inactive for a while, it will be regenerated for you soon." for quite a while now.
@CobaltVelvet why care though? :D
@CobaltVelvet and on my phone with a 3rd party app it also works fine. looks like an issue with the web frontend
@CobaltVelvet well it works for all toots since the one i wrote you earlier on the new host, but shows all on the old host.
@CobaltVelvet it was, but on a new computer, maybe it doesn't get old toots because it expects them to be in cache/localstorage/etc?
@CobaltVelvet is the Home timeline supposed to tell me i'm not following anyone while i actually am? don't see obvious errors in js console/network, looks like the bug might be server side
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.
@CobaltVelvet oookay in times of cheap endless supply of email addresses that's rather strange :P
@CobaltVelvet why did i just have to confirm my email, it's 2017 0.o :P
