Yeah. We told them that at the time and were told to shut up.
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The cloud is just somebody else’s computer.
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Funny enough, that website uses the illegal "consent or pay" dark pattern:
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They're lucky GDPR is only enforced against large US companies - almost as if they're specifically designed as a tarrif against them :D
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No shit, exactly what I said in the late 90's about SaaS and everyone ignored me as paranoid.
I'm not paranoid, this is how people operate.
But finance wankers drive management decisions, and they see it as offloading costs (or opposite of investment) as it reduces tax obligations, and arguably shifts risks to the cloud provider.
What those dipshit bean-counters didn't understand is it actually increases engineering and maintenance costs rather than reducing engineering headcount, because each cloud provider uses it's own convoluted management and cost system.
I can't say it better than this blog: https://loudwhisper.me/blog/hating-clouds/
No shit. My last company was moving to become a cloud offering and actively worked to discourage the on prem as the cloud stood up yet at the same time was going nuts trying to not get locked in to the cloud vendors they were using.
I have a garage for my car. My car is dear to me. Why the hell would I pay money to park it in someone else's garage? We are all easily manipulated because everyone bought into the idea of the "cloud" when all it is, is someone else's disk space. Is this why most people in the world are wearing Blundstone boots? This is scary.
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A. Yes. The enforcement issue with the GDPR is huge. We just did the statistics for data protection. If you look at all the complaints in Europe, we have on average 1.3% — I think it may be 1.4%, something in that ballpark — of complaints where you have a penalty, which sometimes is just a €500 fine ($575). The reality is that, even in cases where you do find that there’s a violation, there’s just no consequence.
Well… yeah
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