I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.

As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.

Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).

The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.

NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15

Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.

How many R’s in strawberry?

That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)

Can you name a more reliable alternative?

Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.

How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though?

WAAAAAY more than you’re giving credit for

I’ve decided people need to learn the hard way

Bold of you to assume people will learn. Didn’t you hear about that couple whose kids died from measles and they said afterwards that they still feel their decision to not vaccinate the kid was right.

Then it’ll only be available on enterprise editions pretty soon. Home and Professional will have it removed.

Here come the flat earthers again.

Ever since they went full digital with CT money, you barely earn anything.

Back in the day you could actually buy stuff with only CT money, and you didn’t have to spend crazy amounts to get it.

In the past 4 years I’ve earned about $4 worth, and I shop there all the time. It’s a joke.

But it’s still Windows.

Doesn’t matter how much hot sauce and cinnamon you dunno on to a turd, it’s still a turd.

They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.

There’s an actual prayer at the end of that article.

Edit: nm, it was quoting a prayer from one of the farmers at the meeting

Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.

I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.

they’re cheap fucks.

This is also the issue with most tech job postings. I got this one job offer, entirely unsolicited from my end, to move across the country to Manitoba to a small town. They were going to offer up to $5000 moving costs. And the job was for a full stack developer. The salary? $42k Canadian.

I emailed them back telling them in blunt terms that their offer is insulting and far too low for any developer role.

so it’s not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.

Nice try, Jessica

Where did I show any hatred for China? Are you confusing criticism of the “Dear Leader” with hatred towards the country and its people? Maybe that implication was deliberate on your part.

Xi doesn’t hold a monopoly on corruption

Oh really? I have Bazzite on my TV laptop. Perfect way to try it. Thanks!