Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

  • 0x0@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Weird i haven’t seen this one yet: the cloud is just someone else’s computers.

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      9 hours ago

      It is, but I’m ready to officially throw in the towel and embrace the fact that running your own hardware is not much more than a hobby these days. I’ve preached and preached the value of multi or hybrid cloud, only for the people with money to pour it down the same hole time and time again.

      I’ve always said IT is essentially an entirely CYA driven industry. Having someone to blame is more valuable for them than uptime, and if they can show their outages, even if the numbers suck, was not their fault (easy to do when all your competitors are down at the same time), it’s all good…

      Update- lol, YouTube is currently down.

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        Geopolitics is kind of coming to the rescue, since it’s bad if your server is subject to a hostile power’s laws. Although it remains to be seen if there’s fundamental change, or just what we call in Canada “maplewashing”.

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          It was kind of implied, though.

          How do you die on a hill if nobody’s fighting you? Is it just a hill suicide? That wasn’t in any war I’ve read about. I guess Life of Brian had something a bit like that.

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            Dying on the hill doesn’t mean it has to be controversial or a “hot take” IMO, but whatever.