ByteJunk @ ByteJunk @lemmy.world

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Optical illusion. Plutocrats sharing power among themselves is not democracy, friend.

As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways... Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we'd need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down...

"Just in-house it" is definitely not the answer, there's a reason AWS makes so much money.

Thanks for the straight answer, brother.

Brother. I work in a company with 10k workers. The company loses thousands of dollars per second of downtime, if it's something that affects the availability of the main page or the checkout process.

If that happens during the peak season, it could be hundreds of thousands per second.

With those kinds of stakes, you don't just jerry rig your hosting, and very frequently, you don't take your chances with in-housing.

You put it in one of the big 3, because they don't fail, and if they do fail you, you sue their ass.

This is surprisingly myopic from someone who supposedly works in the field.

Where do your full stack applications run, my friend?

Because unless you're in China or Russia, the answer is either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Nobody is looking to reinvent the wheel. The call is for the EU to invest heavily in infrastructure, like building its own chips, creating its own data centres, and yes, developing its software industry to provide alternatives to all the proprietary/closed stuff.

Unlikely.

Both Butch and Suni are seasoned astronauts, and they were certainly aware of the risks of flying a new Boeing craft.

Their return now is something that has been planned ever since NASA decided to bring the capsule back empty, way back in September.

They have, and the results of their soul searching are as clear as the last time they lost to trump: nothing.

If anything, they're more likely to double down and compete with the republicans on the corporate dick sucking, making it even more apparent to the working class that, with how bad the republicans are, they're just not an alternative...

Instead of splitting into a multi-party democracy, the US is just devolving into a single party state

Could you enlighten us uncultured people?

In the meantime, related:

Isn't Martyr Paste the stuff that brought down the WTC? If they keep making more and more of it, it's inevitably going to end up on their faces.

Someone posted an article here today that China is suggesting that anything AI generated must be watermarked, visually and digitally, somehow.

I don't know how technically feasible that would be, but sounds like something that needs to happen.

Expecting the courts to save US democracy? How's that been working so far?

Laws are useless.

I mean, of course they aren't useless, but relying on the courts to uphold them when the citizens fail to clearly express that breaking these laws is totally unacceptable, then the courts too will fail to uphold them.

Proof: just look at the US.

Thankfully the EU has some strong unions and people who are willing to rise up for their rights, so maybe there's still hope.

It's not laws or institutions that uphold democracy. It's the people, who must overwhelmingly reject any attacks.

I don't know... The fascists are much better at controlling the narrative, the most likely and by far the scariest scenario is that they find a scapegoat somewhere and unleash the unruly mobs on them.

Anytime I've seen this error is because I'm messing about with partitions, the last time was a few months ago when migrating to a larger disk, so I'm not too sure about those 90%.

In any case, sounds like a very helpful tip if the error just shows up out of the blue.

12 weeks paternity leave at 85% salary? Damn, that's sweet, even by many EU standards.

I wouldn't think twice about taking it.

I'm really happy about that one. They haven't announced what the alternative is going to be, probably either Rafales or Typhoons.

A puppet is as strong as the hand controlling it.

From you, and from anyone who says we don't need defenses.

I'm a firm believer that hardware must never be linked to any sort of subscription to function. If it does, then it's because the hardware only serves as a way to access the content, but in that case, it must allow competition between providers for that content.

If I buy something, it's mine. No one should be allowed to dictate how I use it, I want to be free to do what I want with it.