20 year old load-bearing m4 tends to be less of a technical debt than 20 year old load-bearing Java - because it keeps working and doesn’t need constant maintenance.
Security: with cloud nobody cares, things leak all the time w/o much consequences
Reliability: unless you’re multi-bilion customer nobody cares, Google can simply ban your account and they won’t assign a human intern to perhaps reconsider dropping all your data because the effort would never pay
With local storage there is at least one person who cares about those problems. With cloud there is none.
>Reliability: unless you’re multi-bilion customer nobody cares, Google can simply ban your account and they won’t assign a human intern to perhaps reconsider dropping all your data because the effort would never pay
Because of course it just has to be Google that you use for your cloud storage? We can't consider any of the dozens and dozens of cloud alternatives also available with much better customer service involving real humans?
People just tout "lol every cloud provider only has AI support with no humans" - when it's just Google - a trillion dollar company - skimping on user support.
Meanwhile there are dozens of alternatives, small, medium and large where you can contact an actual human and get help. No algorithm will ban your account automatically without the right to object.
TBH, lately I don't see any posts on this conflict, of whatever bias or perspective, lasting long enough on here for people to discuss.
Maybe it's a deliberate policy of HN mods, maybe it's because most users on here are just tired of hearing about it/want one place on the internet at least where they can escape from it. Either way, many people would argue the outcome is good.
Apart from that he was a warmonger and presumably a shit person overall.
“In his book, Body of Secrets, James Bamford, who spent three years in the United States Navy as an intelligence analyst, writes that the primary purpose of the Maddox "was to act as a seagoing provocateur”
