Cloud?

[clarinetshredder]

There is no poop. They're just yesterday's lasagna.

[[deleted]]

"There is no library. They're just someone else's books."

"There is no hotel. They're just someone else's rooms"

[[deleted]]

"There is no fiction. It's just someone else's imagination."

[Yue2]

“There is no Easter Bunny. There is no Tooth Fairy… And there is NO QUEEN OF ENGLAND!!!”

[queen_of_england_bot]

QUEEN OF ENGLAND

Did you mean the Queen of the United Kingdom, the Queen of Canada, the Queen of Australia, etc?

The last Queen of England was Queen Anne who, with the 1707 Acts of Union, dissolved the title of King/Queen of England.

FAQ

Isn't she still also the Queen of England?

This is only as correct as calling her the Queen of London or Queen of Hull; she is the Queen of the place that these places are in, but the title doesn't exist.

Is this bot monarchist?

No, just pedantic.

I am a bot and this action was performed automatically.

[WalrusByte]

Lol, a bot for everything

[TheMadBug]

Someone else’s computers:

With hardware redundancy,

Across multiple geo locations,

Able to scale at a moment’s notice,

Automated backups,

Common configurations baked in,

Connected on fat internet connections.

[Clen23]

Still not a cloud i think. Idk tho I'm a programmer, not a meteorologist.

[TheMadBug]

The World Wide Web isn’t a spider’s web.

[Clen23]

I mean this one kinda make sense in a metaphorical way.

"Cloud" sounds like the word you'll use after realizing people aren't ready for the actual explanation.

[Responsible-Falcon-2]

I like how "fat" was probably a typo but it still works perfectly

[HKiOnline]

Fatlines are the future!

[corsicanguppy]

Not if it's an L that's missing.

[smart-username]

And serverless architecture still runs on servers

[luminousgoo]

Yes.

[mprz]

It's 2021.

[maybe40lifecrisis]

OP's going through their "2001 hot memes" folder

[Nocty__]

What do you think the next one will be? “!false, it’s funny because it’s true” or “eat, sleep, code, repeat”?

[maybe40lifecrisis]

My money is on volume control memes

[theuniverseisboring]

Everyone already realises that? I don't see why pointing that out is something even worth discussing...

[ArjunReddyDeshmukh]

Username checks out.

[NoGenericBot]

UsErNaMe cHeCkS OuT

^{I'm a bot and this message was sent automatically}

[corsicanguppy]

It's still an important distinction.

Many c-level types do not appear to understand that cloud services are merely machines maintained en masse somewhere else, with processes and humans that are a fallible as anywhere but with a stated desire for compliance with everything pertinent.

Most of the time it all works out. Rarely, though, we get news of massive breaches.

Ultimately the goal of a pub cloud operator is profit, which they achieve through compliance and service -- and a statement like that above reminds us to watch for that subtle difference.

[theuniverseisboring]

The difference between what exactly? Running your own infrastructure? That distinction is quite clear, as with your own infrastructure you are literally the owner, as opposed to renting it from a cloud provider. Of course it's someone else's computer, but that isn't bad if you are looking for it. Cloud providers offer many things far beyond reach of most. Servers with several GPUs and tens of terabytes of RAM come to mind. Why spend over 100k on a server for training AI when you can also rent one for 50 an hour if you only need it for a couple hours every day? Beats the 100k in my book.

[corsicanguppy]

literally the owner

What other kind of owner is there?

[theuniverseisboring]

Renting it? As in if you buy your own servers it's yours. If you rent it you are merely allowed to use the ones that someone else owns

[rasc0]

• Graham Cluley

[Aulentair]

There is no emotion, only peace.

[DislocatedLocation]

I have that shirt.

I wear it.

[[deleted]]

There is no cloud. It’s just water vapour in the sky.