Dear "Just pipe this script to bash" application installer developers,

Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it.
You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep everything installed the way I want it.
It's really not helpful to only supply said script, and since you've already written the bash, writing detailed documentation should be a piece of cake.

Signed,
Everyone that prefers to install things their own way and not your way.

So when these big outages happen, the only thing I think about is how these background services have destroyed the resilience of the network. The internet is incredible in its ability to deal with small faults. But when a third of the web apps live in a central place, you're not talking "small" faults anymore.

The large cloud providers are rent seeking while raising the risk of a full internet collapse. And that's horrifying.

Google Cloud outage in progress apparently.

#hugops

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase “The innocent have nothing to fear,” believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like “The innocent have nothing to fear”.

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Pratchett, Terry, Sir