so much desire for "efficiency" in capitalism prioritizes standardization and consolidation while completely ignoring the negative effects of monocultures, i.e.:

• the internet is really 3 cloud providers in a trenchcoat
• whatsapp is a single messaging service with 3 billion phone numbers collected to get stolen
• there are only two kinds of smart phones, iphones and androids

even when focusing on reasons other than preventing monopolies, standardization is good when it comes to interoperability but consolidation is disastrous when it comes to goods, services and choice

this is why a bunch of random mom & pop bakeries are better than paneras or starbucks everywhere. maybe one of those bakeries are low quality... they'll get weeded out eventually. but if the dominant chain restaurant source their ingredients from the same place to save costs or reduce complexity, they're creating a monoculture where any disaster is amplified. this happened to chipotle with e.coli but chipotle was doing nothing different than any other anticompetitive monopoly-seeking capitalist greed machine company

this is not an inevitable outcome

laws allow for this kind of ugly cancer of monocultures of choice to form and laws can prevent this too

but no politician who has not declared unfettered capitalism as the enemy will ever pass a law like this because consumer choice is antithetical to the highest profits possible, the same way that you can pay young children a lot less, or nothing at all except threats of force, to mine your coal.

#aws #cloudfail #monopoly #capitalism

Nov 18: Clouflare outage. But just a few hours before, folks @lunai.re were like...

#cloudflare #cloudfail #dns #cloudbrained

This would never have happened with X.25. The ARPA Internet was a mistake!

#CloudFail

Suche nach selhosted und mailserver.

Auf der eigenen SearXNG-Instanz.

Ersten Treffer angeklickt.

#Cloudfail

New cloud provider theme song: Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel.

> We said we'd all go down together

And the always applicable

> We left as inmates from an asylum

Ok maybe the whole song doesn't really fit. But those two lines though!

#AWS #azure #cloudfail

Your "smart" Neato robovac is about to get a lot dumber. Cloud services are ending in Q4 2025, pulling the plug on app control, schedules, and no-go zones.

Turns out, "cybersecurity standards" are a great excuse to sunset support faster than promised. A stark reminder: if it's in the cloud, you're just renting the features. What's your stance on buying cloud-dependent hardware?
#TechNews #SmartHome #IoT #CloudFail #ConsumerRights
Link: https://www.engadget.com/shuttered-robot-vacuum-maker-neato-is-ending-cloud-services-sooner-than-planned-171604823.html?src=rss