Considerations on the loss of the old ways, from FOSS to OSS to "Subscription as a Service"
https://prose.winterschon.com/on-foss-oss-and-give-me-money/
#linux #freebsd #thecloud #foss #oss #surveillanceCapitalism
Considerations on the loss of the old ways, from FOSS to OSS to "Subscription as a Service"
https://prose.winterschon.com/on-foss-oss-and-give-me-money/
#linux #freebsd #thecloud #foss #oss #surveillanceCapitalism
A fan poster for tomorrow night's Star Trek: Voyager episode The Cloud on H&I All Star Trek.
Artist: #JamesRobertRye
Source: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/voyager-episode-posters.308580/
#StarTrek #StarTrekPoster #AllStarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #TheCloud #StarTrekVoyagerPoster
5️⃣ 6️⃣ 7️⃣ & 8️⃣ Multiple antitrust cases in search, ad tech, cloud services and more could reshape Big Tech significantly.
#Antitrust #Search #AdTech #Advertising #TheCloud #Smartphones #OnlineShopping #BigTech
WTF else happen this week:
The National Folk Festival wraps up a good year, more universities have announced job cuts and Apple has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in the past decade.
#Universities #JobCuts #Apple #Climate
THE CLOUD now underpins nearly everything agencies do from improving customer experience to using artificial intelligence to analyzing data to drive decision making.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/how-the-cloud-now-underpins-every-federal-mission/
#thecloud #federalagencies
The Staggering #Ecological Impacts of Computation and the #Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse #environmental impacts of data storage.
by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
Excerpt: "#TheCloud now has a greater #CarbonFootprint than the airline industry. A single #DataCenter can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall #CarbonEmissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.
"Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForDatacenters #AI #LMs #Datacenters #WaterIsLife #AISucks
Fantastic things are coming along! Had a great chat with my friend #RobertRivenbark about #TheCloud, video up soon, reviewed #TheTowpath and will be giving away a free horror short story next week before the April 1st release of #TheSunAlsoRisesonCthulhu!
jorahkai.com/the-towpath-...
The Towpath Review & March Upd...
Smart cities...
... consciousness uploaded to the cloud...
transhumanism...
.... truth forever erased from history...
It is not just possible...
...it is happening right under our noses.
Everything that ever made us human, being stripped, piece by piece.
Oh, how "cue" and "Q" sound so, so very much alike. 😅
If Tom Paris was named Tim Berlin, would his holodeck program have been set in Germany instead of France?
Also, one should never blindly going into the cloud without considering the costs and consequences.
"Natural born idiots" is a sentiment that I seem to be having more and more given how things have been going over the past decade or so (and amplified in the past couple of years).
#otd #startrek #themotionpicture #45thanniversary #kirk #spock #mccoy #ilia #MainTitle #KlingonBattle #LeavingDrydock #TheCloud #TheEnterprise #IliasTheme #VgerFlyover #TheMeld #SpockWalk #EndCredits #startrek58 #soundtrack #vinyl #vinilo #cd #specialedition #lalalandrecords #actionfigures #playmatestoys @trekcore
Everyone's got a widget. How much for the widget, in the window?
SaaS / cloud-based / some such...
SaaS is not necessarily equal to Paid-service, IMO, though I often feel like people reference SaaS as mostly existing as money-making opportunities.
https://www.dropbox.com/replay
Have you any such services, web sites, whatever you wish to call it... software, basically, that you feel like you can't live without it, now that you've integrated it into your productivity workflow? Such as in the flavour of Dropbox, Imgur (sp?), microsoft Office Online 365 for MS outlook live hotmail, Slack (i guess?). But I'm thinking more of something that's an extension of your desktop routine. E.g. Photopia / Figma (graphic design).
Now I'm embarrassed. I can't think of any!
#SaaS #Cloudbased #thecloud #cloudstorage #GoogleCloud #Kubernetes #Containers #GIThub
“By technological standards, #RDBM design is quite old, much older than Hadoop, originating in the ‘70s & ‘80s. The #RDBMS predates the #Internet. It comes from a time before widespread #networking before cheap #storage, before the ability to spread workloads across multiple #machines before widespread use of #VirtualMachines & before #TheCloud.”
“The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Database Designs? #SQL / #data <https://nextplatform.com/2021/03/25/the-world-has-changed-why-havent-database-designs/>
Not sure I'll be able to watch this. Still traumatised by "When the Wind Blows" and "The Cloud" when I was a kid.
Having said that, with all the sabre-rattling and wars going on, maybe it'd be good if everyone in power watched it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kgkkg
#Threads #ThreadsBBC #WhenTheWindBlows #TheCloud #Nuclear #Films #BBC #Politics
Our voices, silhouettes, thoughts right or wrong
The Cloud
Angela France
#Poetry #AngelaFrance #InkSweatAndTears #TheCloud #Cloud #Literature
Please, please just tell me Lennart Poettering had something to do with it ...
#crowdstrike #windows #thecloud #theclown #clowncomputing #linux #poettering #systemdmustdie