Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/25/25 5:41 PM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

On 2025-01-25, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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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.

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

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It's great for distribution, but not storage.
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As the T-shirt says:
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   There is no Cloud.
   It's just someone else's computer.

 This is the truth!
 I had my class of students repeat that sentence 5 times two weeks ago! =D

   Very good !  :-)
   Of course STRICTLY it's a bunch of redundant connected
   distributed other people's computers - which SEEMS more
   safe. Of course if Vlad's boyz have an in ... and
   they do .......
   Did they tell you those multiple M$ cloud blackouts
   late last year were due to "updates" or something ?
   I highly HIGHLY doubt that ... more like Vlad's boyz
   just practicing. Xi's boyz were practicing on the
   US phone systems just this month.
   Trump has the "Diet Coke" button on his desk. Vlad
   and Xi probably have the big red "Internet Doom"
   button on theirs. We created this situation and
   eventually it's gonna BITE.
   I figure only 30 days of no/crap net/cell and all
   western economies would implode. The olde-tyme
   backups no longer exist and the people who would
   know how to use them - better raid the rest homes
   and bring a crate of whatever drugs they used
   to pep-up Biden for speeches ......