You don't have to accept the arguments of capitalism's defenders to take those arguments seriously. When Adam Smith railed against rentiers and elevated profit to a means of converting the intrinsic selfishness of the wealthy into an engine of production, he had a point:
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Aha, I get it now: the GenAI enshittification of cloud services like Slack, StackOverflow, Google, Discord, MSFT, and all the rest is a conspiracy by lonely SysAdmins who miss the old days of running IT equipment in-house and are pushing a return to on-prem 🖥️💽⌨️
I've been working in #CyberSecurity for a couple years now, and have the opportunity to transition to a #Cloud Engineer role.
Security's my passion, but I've always been interested in working with Cloud technologies too (and currently do a bit in my job).
Does going from Security to Cloud kinda box you in? Or is it possible / normal to return to Security after a few years in Cloud?
My concern is applying to higher level security jobs in the future, and then lacking the required years of experience in security since I had instead spent it in Cloud.
"Optimaler Standort für einen optimalen Betrieb: Aufgrund seiner Nähe zum Autobahnkreuz Weinsberg bietet das Rechenzentrum Ellhofen DC08 beste Bedingungen für Ihre individuellen Ansprüche."
Wenn die #Werbung für #Cloud - Dienste halt vom #lidl ist... (Oder bin ich nur zu doof, den Vorteil zu sehen?)
Over the past decade, there's been a big push to put everything on "the Cloud"; essentially outsourcing your IT infrastructure to someone else, and accessing your data and applications remotely. But with data breaches and outages on the rise, is that really the best policy for you? https://jaykayenn.com/posts/why-on-premises-vs-cloud #hosting#cloud#onprem#privacy#ITsecurity
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For leftists property rights can be a means to human rights (like revolutionary land reformers who give peasants title to the lands they work), but where property rights interfere with human rights, they are set aside.
In his 2023 book Technofeudalism, Yanis Varoufakis claims that capitalism has given way to a new feudalism - that capitalism was a transitional phase between feudalism...and feudalism:
Amazon soll über eine halbe Milliarde Dollar zahlen
Weil der Konzern offenbar Patentrechte verletzt hat, schuldet Amazon einem US-Unternehmen mehr als eine halbe Milliarde Dollar. Konkret geht es um eine Datenspeicher-Technologie beim weltgrößten Cloud-Anbieter AWS.
I run my #Apple devices in lockdown mode, have completely disabled Siri, and only use "Find My" from #iCloud functionality. I run my own local fileserver for sensitive backups, my own #cloud / #filesharing on a dedicated server and don't have any #IoT devices at home. Backups and storage is tiered by sensitivity. Paranoid? Not really, just prudent #privacy and #security hardening when working in #infosec field. Running all this also means that I get to eat my own #cybersecurity dogfood.
Digitalisierung: Bund lässt sichere Cloud von Ionos aufbauen
Das Flensburger KfZ-Punkteregister oder die Daten von BAföG-Empfängern - sie könnten künftig in einer besonders sicheren Cloud des Bundes gespeichert werden. Die soll der deutsche Anbieter Ionos aufbauen.
Freeeeeeeeedoooom!!! 🖕 to Google! Another product/data harvesting "service" you cannot cancel on me.
Immich running on my unRAID server is killer. Open source, faster than Google Photos, supported on all platforms, cannot be cancelled out from under me. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Everyone tells me about „infinity“ scaling and resources in the #cloud. What if I tell you that I can scale pretty well #onprem? I think 1,72TB RAM / Memory is pretty cool…
Guess, I can finally run a single Java app without running oom (hopefully) 😉
Kubernetes is a household name in the cloud native world. OKD is a community distribution of Kubernetes, and you can run it locally with CRC! Great for playing with a more rounded out container platform than what Kubernetes does on its own.
Gerade einen Growatt SHINE WiFi X (USB-Stick mit WiFi zum Auslesen eines Growatt Wechselrichter) von der China-Cloud befreit. Alle Daten lassen sich jetzt lokal im Netzwerk auslesen. Besteht Interesse an einem HowTo? Aufgespielt habe ich. 👇
So we had FANG, and now I've seen GAMM ( #Google#Apple#Microsoft#Meta ). If we're taking about rent seeking #cloud focused quasi-monopolies couldn't we add #Oracle and #Netflix and refer to them as GAMMON?
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines