Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

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

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:
 

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

 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.

 It's great for distribution, but not storage.
 As the T-shirt says:
    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

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 Very good !  :-)

Someone needs to take responsibility for the next generation! ;)

 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 .......
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 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.

Wouldn't surprise me at all.

 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.

Don't forget the sleeper agents in the form of contributors to popular open source projects. Last year, someone almost successfully managed to sneak some naughty code into a compression library. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

 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 ......

Let us study deeply together! Has there been, in recent history, any examples of 30 days of power outage in the US? If so, how long until everything descendet into chaos and anarchy?