All Of Your Eggs
SLACK IS DOWN, REDECENTRALIZE THE WEB QUICK!!1
This is actually a valid point. Far, far too much of what we do on-line depends on one large corporation or similar point of failure.
SLACKOUT
Marginally productive employees and journalists around the world have been plunged into crisis today as the Slack chat service has gone down. The Slack status page has confirmed what everyone feared: both the Slack API and the website itself have been hit with an outage. "We're very sorry for the interruption to your days and …
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Saturday 11th June 2016 21:17 GMT Voland's right hand
Re: The Cloud...
On the other hand, not many people complain that they don't have control over the gas works
The gas works do not try to upgrade their f*** API every 2 weeks. It is 75 mbar over 28mm pipe this week same as it was 75 mbar over 28mm pipe last week same as it will be 75 mbar over a 28mm pipe next week. It is not in perpetual beta and it will not be withdrawn the week after next because the company offering it feels like it has played enough and wants to switch a newer and shinier toys like delivering pumped sewerage instead of gas.
I suggest you actually try to grok the concepts of utility, universal service obligation and service guarantee next time before you try comparing anything offered by a Silly Valley Unicorn with a proper utility service. Regardless of the valuation of said unicorn and the amount of sparkles it has in its mane.
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Monday 13th June 2016 07:08 GMT Paul Crawford
Re: The Cloud...
Yes and those utilities are "fungible" (a nice word that AO sometimes uses on El Reg) where they are interchangeable. Gas is gas from any utility to certain defined standards and to me they just burn and heat things.
My data is unique which is why it is valuable to me, and if some cloud provide vanishes or deletes my account due to incompetence or a dispute over billing then I am stuffed unless i have my own copy. Or have two cloud provides that don't share the same points of failure. And that is even before we get in to data sovereignty and who can use a legal warrant (secret or otherwise) to access it.
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Saturday 11th June 2016 21:11 GMT Voland's right hand
Re: The Cloud...
Lesser of two evils.
If you are in an typical large company and you have to choose between a cloud service and a service provided by your own IT department you are guaranteed to chose the lesser of two evils. Now which one is the "lesser" I am going to leave as an "exercise to the reader".
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Monday 13th June 2016 08:33 GMT jake
Re: getting old...
PV & co. are getting close to releasing Slackware 14.2 ...
ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt
From my perspective, -current seems pretty stable, should be a good release.
Oh, and only one comment on the totally useless systemd:
"ap/lxc-2.0.0-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Applied "[PATCH] cgfsng: don't require that systemd subsystem be mounted"."
;-)
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