@lily @terminaltilt Not today Bozo.
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@lily @terminaltilt I am so quoting that at work.
@lily @terminaltilt No commercial cloud or SaaS for me, not on my watch. Anything I upload to a coimmercial cloud first goes through local strong encryption. A reciepient has to bear with decrypting, then, but that is also for their protection.
If I have to share data w/ anyone, I have a NextCloud at hand, controlled by myself.
Not buying from and doing business with Jeff Bezos, I am exercising my free (as in Freedom) will. There are many local businesses, also manufacturers, available to buy from online, which I clearly prefer over greedy Jeff.
Anyone CAN buy elsewhere, but that's up to you, also the choice not to do business w/ the cheapest bidder. E. g., you may intend to establish a customer relationship that also considers service and support.
@lily @terminaltilt I think the shame is: a central computer we all rent off of could be very efficient. A lot of waste could be prevented. How often am I actually utilizing all of my local CPU or GPU?
That said, I do not trust these landlords one bit. You are giving up power when you rent your hardware or software, and you know these people will abuse you once they have the power because they have done that every time they have gained any power.
@lily @terminaltilt it's so convenient, people don't bother to think about it from enough angles to talk themselves out of it. Whenever I see aaS anything, I think, "We own your aaS". And now, they've collectively accumulated enough of the Earth's resources, that they own its technological future. They'll get a piece of it from here on out. No wonder they're building end of days happy tanks for themselves. Once enough people figure it out, they're going to be ticked. How many billions of years do we have before the sun sets for good? Where are people so in a hurry to go that they want to be the only ones going there?
@lily I feel exactly like that already with VPS and domain providers
Attention @mhoye , I think this is something you've been saying for years, specifically wrt to Linux system design choices.
@lily @terminaltilt Cory Doctorow has written about this a lot. And his recent talk at 39C3 gave a lot of history on this war against general purpose computing.
Whenever I CAN NOT buy from Amazon, I WILL NOT buy from Amazon!
Jeff is a bad employer and the little antrophomorphic rocketman is so spooky.
@lily @terminaltilt
And when we watch analogy of electricity and computation, we can ask if I have solar panels, own my own utility, would I be better of? And answer now is yes. Similarly, you are financially better in a long run with computation capability you own.
It is cute, how continuation of analogy gonna bring to opposit conclusion, opposit to one pushed by monopolist. 🫢
@lily @terminaltilt The thing is...i remember something VERY similar predicted in the fiction work of Isaac Asimov.
Huge computers controlling all the robots..that doesn't have a computer brain of its own.
@lily @terminaltilt The next step is you are just a tenant farmer for the landlord's data.
This feudalism sound in the word landlord makes this hard to translate into German. The English term sounds so much more true.
