#thecloud — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thecloud, aggregated by home.social.
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Nueva edición de Internet Tour, turismo de infraestructuras en Barcelona
prox 6 Junio :pacmanblinky:
Entradas disponibles en:
internetour.com#internetinfrastructure #internettour #bcntourism #thecloud #infrastructour #infrastructures
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Nueva edición de Internet Tour, turismo de infraestructuras en Barcelona
prox 6 Junio :pacmanblinky:
Entradas disponibles en:
internetour.com#internetinfrastructure #internettour #bcntourism #thecloud #infrastructour #infrastructures
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Wondering whoever dreamed up calling other peoples computer servers connected to the internet "the cloud". When I think of clouds I think of light fluffy things that when they get full and heavy start to leak all over the place. Hardly the metaphor I would want to use for computer storage.
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Wondering whoever dreamed up calling other peoples computer servers connected to the internet "the cloud". When I think of clouds I think of light fluffy things that when they get full and heavy start to leak all over the place. Hardly the metaphor I would want to use for computer storage.
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The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221101-the-cloud-the-nuclear-novel-that-shaped-germany
#HackerNews #TheCloud #DystopianLiterature #Germany #NuclearNovel #CulturalImpact
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The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221101-the-cloud-the-nuclear-novel-that-shaped-germany
#HackerNews #TheCloud #DystopianLiterature #Germany #NuclearNovel #CulturalImpact
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"20 yrs ago, it was common for companies to buy servers and run them in their own data centers. These days, everyone just uses #thecloud.
In #Carney's framing, #hegemons and #hyperscalers are linked because the dominant hyperscalers today are Amazon, Google and Microsoft, all US companies, and Tencent, Huawei and Alibaba, all Chinese companies. The hegemons are home to the hyperscalers.
There just aren't any Canadian or European or Japanese or Australian hyperscalers." -
"20 yrs ago, it was common for companies to buy servers and run them in their own data centers. These days, everyone just uses #thecloud.
In #Carney's framing, #hegemons and #hyperscalers are linked because the dominant hyperscalers today are Amazon, Google and Microsoft, all US companies, and Tencent, Huawei and Alibaba, all Chinese companies. The hegemons are home to the hyperscalers.
There just aren't any Canadian or European or Japanese or Australian hyperscalers." -
On the Chez Sandrine set: This season 1-3 set was used in 9 episodes during the first 3 seasons of the show. It first appears during season 1's "The Swarm" and last appears in season 3's "The Cloud." Parts of the set were briefly brought back for the season 5 outing entitled "Someone to Watch Over Me." According to Brannon Braga, the "pool hall" location was supposed to be an environment similar to the "poker table" set on The Next Generation.
@startrek #AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #Twisted #TheSwarm #TheCloud
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On the Chez Sandrine set: This season 1-3 set was used in 9 episodes during the first 3 seasons of the show. It first appears during season 1's "The Swarm" and last appears in season 2's "The Cloud." Parts of the set were briefly brought back for the season 5 outing entitled "Someone to Watch Over Me." According to Brannon Braga, the "pool hall" location was supposed to be an environment similar to the "poker table" set on The Next Generation.
@startrek #AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #Twisted #TheSwarm #TheCloud
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Sorry for your plight & I hope that you can retrieve your data but this is a prime example why I'll never buy another #Apple product & why I never store anything that I care about on a proprietary site in #TheCloud.
I've owned a couple of iPhones (3&4), still own an iPad 1 that works & owned a Classic iPod that died with 1k or so tracks still on it, most of which were free.
I assume that I still have an Apple account but I haven't used it in over 5 yrs since my iPod died. So, it's probably been closed for dormancy.
I "invested" less than $1k in these Apple things. So, my "loss" was minimal but I never liked how Apple tries (very successfully) to suck ppl into buying ONLY their products & thereby forcing them to become hostage to its hardware & software systems.
This is why I'll NEVER buy another Apple product again & why, if asked, that I'll recommend against anyone buying any Apple product, as well. 🤷♂️
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Sorry for your plight & I hope that you can retrieve your data but this is a prime example why I'll never buy another #Apple product & why I never store anything that I care about on a proprietary site in #TheCloud.
I've owned a couple of iPhones (3&4), still own an iPad 1 that works & owned a Classic iPod that died with 1k or so tracks still on it, most of which were free.
I assume that I still have an Apple account but I haven't used it in over 5 yrs since my iPod died. So, it's probably been closed for dormancy.
I "invested" less than $1k in these Apple things. So, my "loss" was minimal but I never liked how Apple tries (very successfully) to suck ppl into buying ONLY their products & thereby forcing them to become hostage to its hardware & software systems.
This is why I'll NEVER buy another Apple product again & why, if asked, that I'll recommend against anyone buying any Apple product, as well. 🤷♂️
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The only way #FOSS, #Indies, #Small, or #DownToEarth to beat #TheCloud and/or #LLM #FauxAI is by getting amazingly at designing & implementing useful #LocalFirst, #OfflineFirst, #PrivacyFirst tools
With proper multi-client zero-conf peer-to-peer capabilities (when it makes sense)
With ideally mathematically proven correctly BASE, with CDRT fit for purpose
Tools which are absolutely *nothing* like any commercial products
Tools which don't do blockchain, LLM, etc…
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The only way #FOSS, #Indies, #Small, or #DownToEarth to beat #TheCloud and/or #LLM #FauxAI is by getting amazingly at designing & implementing useful #LocalFirst, #OfflineFirst tools
With proper multi-client zero-conf peer-to-peer capabilities (when it makes sense)
With ideally mathematically proven correctly BASE, with CDRT fit for purpose
Tools which are absolutely *nothing* like any commercial products
Tools which don't do web3, nor use LLM, blockchain cancers
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We can either have sustainability, or we can have a world in which everything is electronic and digital and connected to everything and "intelligent" and so on, where everybody drives around in an electric car, but which suddenly collapses, maybe next Thursday, maybe 25 years from now.
The real problem is growth, which has become virtually impossible. We can't grow the economy anymore, the economy is already far too big for the planet, and whatever some marketing bastards tell you about #TheCloud or how digital devices are so bloody efficient, don't believe them.
People only look at how much electricity devices use. They don't look at how much of which raw material goes into the production, what kind of dangerous chemicals are used in the process, where the energy for processing the materials comes from (a lot of it is heat, not electricity), and which ecosystems get damaged by which partial process in what kind of manner.
We won't solve anything if we just replace internal combustion engines with electric motors and tanks with batteries, we'll just continue in our rape of Mother Earth, only on a slightly different path.Our entire way of life is unsustainable. There is no magical technology that can fix this; in fact, every tiny bit of technological complexity we add to the mix makes everything just more fragile, more likely to collapse. I don't believe there is any way we can avoid the upcoming End of the Industrial Age. However, there are still pathways on which our civilisation ends in a slow decline over the next two or three centuries, and there are others in which we just drop off a cliff and civilisation is over within a few decades, peaking in some kind of cataclysm.
And we won't avoid the apocalypse if we continue to tell ourselves we can just consume our way out of the #Polycrisis by making "sustainable" consumer choices. You can't buy a better tomorrow, tomorrow will be bleak and ugly no matter what we do because today is already bleak and ugly, we just choose to hide it behind the curtain. Industrial civilisation is an attempt to build an entirely man-made world and keep the real world out. It has been fuelled by fossil carbon, beginning with coal, then adding oil and gas to the mix. It has been destroying the real world, the living world, all the fucking time. We didn't want to see the land around us suffer, so we created nature reserves and planted entire new "forests" (as if a hundred year old tree plantation could replace an ecosystem that had grown for a thousand years or many), stopped dumping toxic chemicals in the rivers, and just let that kind of shit happen where only poor people live because nobody cares about the poor, anyway, especially when they're not even White.
We're living on the last scraps. We're dependent on huge masses of very rare elements and gigantic masses of more common ones, we're digging up entire landscapes to get all those sweet, sweet metals, and people keep dreaming about asteroid mining to avoid facing the fact we're running out. And at the same time, we let economists run our world. People who believe that the economy can exist even if the ecology collapses, because they totally ignore the simple fact that we are just monkey, we are upright walking storytelling naked apes, we have the same needs and wants and drives and emotions and instincts as bonobos and chimpanzees, and we're living on the same fucking planet where non-human primates are dying, their numbers are dwindling. Why isn't anybody worried about that? A planet that is bad for primates is bad for us because we are bloody primates.
If you look closely at all the technology which is marketed as "sustainable", you will notice that if yu look at the entire production process, it is everything but. Using things that are a lot less bad than what we're doing today is a huge improvement, of course, but it means that we're still following the wrong road, just at a slower speed. The entire concepts around which our civilisation has organised itself are unsustainable, that's the bitter truth. This civilisation must inevitably end, one way or another. If we want it to end by slowly petering out while new civilisations grow from the widening cracks, we need a revolution which ends #Capitalism on a global scale ASAP, and which rapidly dismantles nation-states, replacing them with a federation of small collectives of humans that share the same landscape, collectives which will then figure out ways of repairing and restoring the ecosystem of which they are an essential part. Industrial design must change significantly, putting the longevity and repairability of complex artifacts at a very high priority in order to reduce overall production.
Sorry for the long rant. #climatechaos #ecocide #extinction #biodiversitycollapse #collapse #mining #asteroidmining
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We can either have sustainability, or we can have a world in which everything is electronic and digital and connected to everything and "intelligent" and so on, where everybody drives around in an electric car, but which suddenly collapses, maybe next Thursday, maybe 25 years from now.
The real problem is growth, which has become virtually impossible. We can't grow the economy anymore, the economy is already far too big for the planet, and whatever some marketing bastards tell you about #TheCloud or how digital devices are so bloody efficient, don't believe them.
People only look at how much electricity devices use. They don't look at how much of which raw material goes into the production, what kind of dangerous chemicals are used in the process, where the energy for processing the materials comes from (a lot of it is heat, not electricity), and which ecosystems get damaged by which partial process in what kind of manner.
We won't solve anything if we just replace internal combustion engines with electric motors and tanks with batteries, we'll just continue in our rape of Mother Earth, only on a slightly different path.Our entire way of life is unsustainable. There is no magical technology that can fix this; in fact, every tiny bit of technological complexity we add to the mix makes everything just more fragile, more likely to collapse. I don't believe there is any way we can avoid the upcoming End of the Industrial Age. However, there are still pathways on which our civilisation ends in a slow decline over the next two or three centuries, and there are others in which we just drop off a cliff and civilisation is over within a few decades, peaking in some kind of cataclysm.
And we won't avoid the apocalypse if we continue to tell ourselves we can just consume our way out of the #Polycrisis by making "sustainable" consumer choices. You can't buy a better tomorrow, tomorrow will be bleak and ugly no matter what we do because today is already bleak and ugly, we just choose to hide it behind the curtain. Industrial civilisation is an attempt to build an entirely man-made world and keep the real world out. It has been fuelled by fossil carbon, beginning with coal, then adding oil and gas to the mix. It has been destroying the real world, the living world, all the fucking time. We didn't want to see the land around us suffer, so we created nature reserves and planted entire new "forests" (as if a hundred year old tree plantation could replace an ecosystem that had grown for a thousand years or many), stopped dumping toxic chemicals in the rivers, and just let that kind of shit happen where only poor people live because nobody cares about the poor, anyway, especially when they're not even White.
We're living on the last scraps. We're dependent on huge masses of very rare elements and gigantic masses of more common ones, we're digging up entire landscapes to get all those sweet, sweet metals, and people keep dreaming about asteroid mining to avoid facing the fact we're running out. And at the same time, we let economists run our world. People who believe that the economy can exist even if the ecology collapses, because they totally ignore the simple fact that we are just monkey, we are upright walking storytelling naked apes, we have the same needs and wants and drives and emotions and instincts as bonobos and chimpanzees, and we're living on the same fucking planet where non-human primates are dying, their numbers are dwindling. Why isn't anybody worried about that? A planet that is bad for primates is bad for us because we are bloody primates.
If you look closely at all the technology which is marketed as "sustainable", you will notice that if yu look at the entire production process, it is everything but. Using things that are a lot less bad than what we're doing today is a huge improvement, of course, but it means that we're still following the wrong road, just at a slower speed. The entire concepts around which our civilisation has organised itself are unsustainable, that's the bitter truth. This civilisation must inevitably end, one way or another. If we want it to end by slowly petering out while new civilisations grow from the widening cracks, we need a revolution which ends #Capitalism on a global scale ASAP, and which rapidly dismantles nation-states, replacing them with a federation of small collectives of humans that share the same landscape, collectives which will then figure out ways of repairing and restoring the ecosystem of which they are an essential part. Industrial design must change significantly, putting the longevity and repairability of complex artifacts at a very high priority in order to reduce overall production.
Sorry for the long rant. #climatechaos #ecocide #extinction #biodiversitycollapse #collapse #mining #asteroidmining
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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel
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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel
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Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_365_na_outage/
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Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_365_na_outage/
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THE CLOUD now underpins nearly everything agencies do from improving customer experience to using artificial intelligence to analyzing data to drive decision making.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/how-the-cloud-now-underpins-every-federal-mission/
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THE CLOUD now underpins nearly everything agencies do from improving customer experience to using artificial intelligence to analyzing data to drive decision making.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/how-the-cloud-now-underpins-every-federal-mission/
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The Staggering #Ecological Impacts of Computation and the #Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse #environmental impacts of data storage.
by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
Excerpt: "#TheCloud now has a greater #CarbonFootprint than the airline industry. A single #DataCenter can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall #CarbonEmissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.
"Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForDatacenters #AI #LMs #Datacenters #WaterIsLife #AISucks -
The Staggering #Ecological Impacts of Computation and the #Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse #environmental impacts of data storage.
by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
Excerpt: "#TheCloud now has a greater #CarbonFootprint than the airline industry. A single #DataCenter can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall #CarbonEmissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.
"Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForDatacenters #AI #LMs #Datacenters #WaterIsLife #AISucks -
Oh, how "cue" and "Q" sound so, so very much alike. 😅
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Oh, how "cue" and "Q" sound so, so very much alike. 😅
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If Tom Paris was named Tim Berlin, would his holodeck program have been set in Germany instead of France?
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If Tom Paris was named Tim Berlin, would his holodeck program have been set in Germany instead of France?
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Also, one should never blindly going into the cloud without considering the costs and consequences.
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Also, one should never blindly going into the cloud without considering the costs and consequences.
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"Natural born idiots" is a sentiment that I seem to be having more and more given how things have been going over the past decade or so (and amplified in the past couple of years).
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"Natural born idiots" is a sentiment that I seem to be having more and more given how things have been going over the past decade or so (and amplified in the past couple of years).
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Everyone's got a widget. How much for the widget, in the window?
SaaS / cloud-based / some such...
SaaS is not necessarily equal to Paid-service, IMO, though I often feel like people reference SaaS as mostly existing as money-making opportunities.
https://www.dropbox.com/replay
Have you any such services, web sites, whatever you wish to call it... software, basically, that you feel like you can't live without it, now that you've integrated it into your productivity workflow? Such as in the flavour of Dropbox, Imgur (sp?), microsoft Office Online 365 for MS outlook live hotmail, Slack (i guess?). But I'm thinking more of something that's an extension of your desktop routine. E.g. Photopia / Figma (graphic design).
Now I'm embarrassed. I can't think of any!
#SaaS #Cloudbased #thecloud #cloudstorage #GoogleCloud #Kubernetes #Containers #GIThub
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Everyone's got a widget. How much for the widget, in the window?
SaaS / cloud-based / some such...
SaaS is not necessarily equal to Paid-service, IMO, though I often feel like people reference SaaS as mostly existing as money-making opportunities.
https://www.dropbox.com/replay
Have you any such services, web sites, whatever you wish to call it... software, basically, that you feel like you can't live without it, now that you've integrated it into your productivity workflow? Such as in the flavour of Dropbox, Imgur (sp?), microsoft Office Online 365 for MS outlook live hotmail, Slack (i guess?). But I'm thinking more of something that's an extension of your desktop routine. E.g. Photopia / Figma (graphic design).
Now I'm embarrassed. I can't think of any!
#SaaS #Cloudbased #thecloud #cloudstorage #GoogleCloud #Kubernetes #Containers #GIThub
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BLANK#AsAServiceModel, and with everything moving TO #TheCloud, it's going to get much worse.
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BLANK#AsAServiceModel, and with everything moving TO #TheCloud, it's going to get much worse.
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Before the storm #nikon #thecloud #photography #nikonz6
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Before the storm #nikon #thecloud #photography #nikonz6
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As Leslie Lamport said in 1987 - and it applies perfectly today, to "the cloud" and current web design - "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."
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#hottake While "the cloud" is someone else's computer*s* (plural), each of the providers (azure/gcloud/amazon/etc) can be considered to be "one computer" (singular)
Which means putting a workload "in the cloud" can be compared to logging in to a public computer(for example in the library) and doing work.
Which is totally safe as we solved the issue of mixing secure and insecure code many years ago. The soft limits imposed from the OS keeps things secure.
Or not.
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The mystery of the disappearing #GoogleDrive files • The Register
#Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some posters on the company's support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished.
The issue has been rumbling for a few days, with one user logging into Google Drive and finding things as they were in May 2023.
#oops #thecloudhttps://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/
