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Emily Higgs Kopin@ehkopin.bsky.social |
"The cloud" was such an incredible marketing move. Just fully leaning into the rhetoric that cloud computing is this magical thing that happens up in the sky and doesn't have impact on our environment or the sustainability of our labor. It's depressing how well that rhetoric worked.
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J.Kenny
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and using environmental terms, too! The nerve!
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Barbara Roseman
@broseman.bsky.social
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It's like trash. Trash collection takes it away from "here" and put's it over "there." Trash does not disappear, it's just not "here" anymore. Thus, "the cloud" manages data by putting it on servers "over there" but it's still on someone's server, somewhere eating energy.
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🔞 Mitokandria 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (She/Her) 🔞
@mitokandria.bsky.social
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Pretty much. I hate using the term and avoid it whenever possible. NFTs had real promise, but was ruined by people looking at them as investments. It has a real opportunity for VR where a digital item can actually have use and value within a standardized VR framework.
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@boredompeejeterson.bsky.social
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It's literally just someone else's computer. It's so crazy how "save it on our (or a third party's) computers" became this "your data is floating around in the ether and you can acces it everywhere" thing
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Alex Merz
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The cloud as such is just the old client/server model.
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just matt.
@mattyangles.bsky.social
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Even just thinking about how we fell for it. If they had said “allow us to hold all YOUR personal data on OUR servers” no one would’ve signed up. Calling it “the cloud” makes it sound whimsical and free and innocent. Genius level marketing
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Skrrt Russell
@cidmcdp.bsky.social
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Being someone who lives in flyover country, you'd be amazed the number of companies around here located in these tiny, backwoodsy towns with horrible internet using stuff like cloud backups, remote support contracts, office365, etc. It's a friggin' nightmare.
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MikeyT00
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There was still plenty of magical shit promised from "the cloud" that was just as farcical as the claims about "AI". Mainly that cloud computing would be able to automagically make your computer a beast. That you could buy some cheap box, pay a sub and "the cloud" would give you the compute.
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Toast
@dauntingtoaster.bsky.social
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the number of people at my job who say something along the lines of 'the cloud just works!' drives me insane
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Saul Shapiro
@sauldk.bsky.social
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The cloud is just someone else's hard drive.
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War Hater
@rainbowbody.bsky.social
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The Cloud
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Mutty
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It's working so well, you can't buy a cat right now. Yet, we revere tech dudes and because they got rich exploiting us, we are just going to hand our country over to them. Yay us
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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social
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Alan Borning, Batya Friedman and Nick Logler wrote a great piece on this:
cacm.acm.org/research/the...
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🍂🍠 Seth🌙✨
@phantasmaplumes.bsky.social
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Believe the argument can be continued on for every big tech move in the past few years. Crypto was advertised as a way to diversify investments while cutting out the middle man; NFTs were the next big improvement on security, and currently AI is like having a second brain! Yet look how it goes.
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Max T 🇦🇺🦘 🏳️🌈
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It was great until it was forced upon us and we can't trust them not to rifle through our days and training AI's with it
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swirlOsquirrel
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Cloud = Other people’s computers Which is inherently sketchier. On a number of levels.
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