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DudeImMacGyver

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  • A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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  • There are still self hosted places today, not everything is cloud based.

    Also, there isn't more competition largely because of Amazon so, while I agree with the sentiment that it could improve things, in practice it's a moot point.

  • A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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  • The problem is far more pervasive than any single incident, allowing a single megacorporation to control most of the Internet is a bad idea for many reasons. The Internet is supposed to be decentralized, it was even designed to withstand a nuclear war with that principal in mind. Even with a robust, distributed network with redundant backups, if it's still all controlled by one company, that is still a very precarious situation.

  • A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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  • If we want a truly robust system, yeah, we kinda do. This sort of event is only one of the issues with allowing a single entity to control pretty much everything.

    There are plenty of potential issues from a corrupt rogue corporation hijacking everything to attacks to internal fuck-ups like we just experienced. Sure, they can design a better cloud, but at the end of the day, it's still their cloud. The Internet needs to be less centralized, not more (and I don't just mean that purely in terms of infrastructure, though that is included of course).

  • A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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  • We need to ditch cloud entirety and go in house again.

  • New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports

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  • I feel like AI would just fuck it up with hallucinations or something. Faking a receipt would be trivial even for an idiot.

  • TIL one of the world’s oldest active websites lets you virtually attack Barney the Dinosaur

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  • I remember altering the original DOOM to let me fight Barney

  • Say your partner is gone for around a week, and you're home alone. What are you going to do that you wouldn't normally with someone around?

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  • Catch up on video games, reading, and maybe some shows they don't care for.

  • How am I supposed to decimate this fucker when it isn't even physical

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  • Get the degausser!

  • This is called an oopsi

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  • It's BOOMERTIME!

  • Krafton (PUBG, Subnautica, inZOI) becoming an "AI-First" company

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  • Gross.

  • I-is that LeBron James??

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  • Wow, I didn't know there were action figures for Black Jesus. Is there one for Vic too?

    Fun show.

  • Apparently, Rocket League and Fall Guys are being ported to Fortnite. Both games currently work on Linux, but in the future, they may require playing through Fortnite

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  • RIP in peace Rocket League.

  • In hindsight, how much did you like your younger self? If present-you met your younger self (say, age 10) from an alternate timeline, do you think you could be friends?

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  • No, kids annoy me most of the time.

  • Removed

    Can you name me an underrated adult swim show?

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  • Frisky Dingo

    If you like it, you'll like Archer and Sealab 2021 too.

  • Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications.

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  • He keeps it on vibrate and mostly ignores it?

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • I figured it was a game

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • Google itself has tons of malware in the play store, I don't buy the security argument.

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • No, those little dice things nobody can figure out at all. They're octagonal with a little ball on each corner.

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • Those little Roman devices nobody can figure out.