Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

  I think the new guys trust it all to Bill's Cloud.
 They're gonna get a rude surprise someday ...

 I got an article published in a smaller newspaper the other day on this theme. What happens when Trump turns off the cloud for your country because he doesn't like your politicians? Will the public sector and 99% of the companies continue to work?

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 I don't THINK he'd do that - Musk would likely talk
 him out of it - but he MIGHT. Of course Vlad/Xi can

All is fair in the love and marketing! ;) It needs a bit of exaggeration to make
it interesting and generate engagement. =)
Another theory I have is that Trump could create a tax on all cloud services
sold _to_ europe in order to rake back money europe is stealing with their GDPR
fines.
I think this will be a topic for another marketing article. =)

 produce the same effect for imperialist reasons, but
 even worse - nothing left to 'turn on' again, at
 least in a usefully timely fashion.
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 IMHO, 'cloud' is just too vulnerable to too many
 hostile interests. Should NEVER be your main
 backup, or working, repository. Can all go bye-bye
 tomorrow. A local NAS is far safer.

You are a wise man! I agree! It can be used as a complement, but never your only
one.

 But the people lobbying yer pointy-haired bosses
 will say the exact opposite ....

Sadly not only pointy-haired bosses, but the young and modern IT-generation who
have been taught since childhood that "ze cloud" solves all problems magically.
=( I try to rectify that when I teach. In every class there are about 5-9 people
who "see the light" in Hank Williams words. They go on to become really skilled
and passionate technologists!

This generated a small storm on my linkedin. I've been harping on it for years, but now that Trump is in power, it seems like the public was finally ready for my message. ;)

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 Even if he'd never do it - the potential THREAT is
 enough to Change Thinking ... hopefully towards
 the smarter.

This is the truth! Trump plays european socialist politicians masterfully! It is
quite beautiful to watch. =)