ubergeek

Yes, we've had outages in DCs. They are usually just a blip, because we have more than one.

And we don't pay broadcom anything. We migrated off of esx a long time ago.

And the skills needed? We use a floss stack, so you need to know stuff like nginx, puppet, mariadb, and php.

Not exactly cutting edge stuff there.

Operations engineers make sure the infrastructure is up, and ready for code. Devs own the code.

So, no, it's really not all that niche.

And I guess we need longer than 20 years to see if it works well?

Purposefully getting arrested does nothing except take you out of the fight, and discourages.others.

So, you want people to do things that demoralize the working class?

And frankly, you don't know what I'm doing.

Was it written on the phone of the people they called?

No, but if they weren't informed, frankly, that's on the SM for not doing so. And honestly, anyone taking a call from a deployed soldier should just understand that reality.

The claim was that with calls from foreign countries, if it was an American they spoke to, it would not be monitored. Only foreigners were.

I'm not going to speak to generalities of whose calls were monitored and shouldn't have been. Solely the item of "Americans stationed in Iraq were monitored", which is, frankly, obviously happening. And every SM was informed as such. And they were instructed to inform their families of that fact.

Every military spouse knew that, if they went to the pre-deployment briefings they were invited to. Every SM knew it. Every contractor knew it, and their families should have also been informed by the contractor.

Hell, even in my state, only one party legally has to know it's being monitored and/or recorded to be legal.

No, they just need to enforce PDFs for things that leave an office

Then, you'll get people whinging that they need Adobe Acrobat Professional in order to edit the PDFs!

Something something leading a horse to water

Open a document created in modern Word in Word 97. Then tell me the standards never change.

So for organizations that never embraced the cloud alternatives have had to maintain their own infrastructure or use commodity solutions, as you mentioned, to deliver their IT needs. How much more was spent using a general purpose approach with higher portability to deliver the same result vs a cloud providers proprietary version? Then include the time component.

So far, speaking from experience, we saved loads of money DIY'ing it, even when deploying to the cloud, and we saved loads of time, in the long run.

WE KNOW where the perf problem is. WE KNOW the cadence for how long a fix will take. WE KNOW the OS we're deploying. WE KNOW the apps we're deploying. WE KNOW how to squeak additional perf from the infrastructure, tuned to OUR NEEDS.

If you hire talented workers, you save money and time, by DIYing the approach, as long as it's done in a sane, and controlled manner.

Unfortunately, you can’t really do DNS in a decentralized manner as the concept is based on a hirarchy.

You very much can! As long as you understand that every . is a new level of hierarchy. And that hierarchy can be arranged, in any manner one desires. You can even have a different . as the root.

For example, you can be THE ROOT for all .stoy domains. You just have to get others to honor that, and ask you for addresses of anything in .stoy's inventory. Of course, they can all tell you to piss off, and instead trust someone else is the true owner of .stoy.

And, honestly? Nothing at all is wrong with that!

What is wrong is right now, EVERYONE agrees that a handful of never-changing owners of .com, .org, .net domains (And other TLDs) is THE ONE TRUE ANSWER FOR US ALL. I didn't agree to that. Did you? Do you enjoy Verisign being the one true keeper of .com?

AWS is the gold standard for product support and price at enterprise scale,

Jesus fucking christ. Do you love being screwed over in every way possible? AWS support is... bad. And their prices? Worse.

Up next is "Oracle is a really good Database server vendor, for support and price"?

and Americans stationed in for instance Iraq, were very much monitored.

Um... This was never a secret. Like, at all. All the phones in the phone bank I hit up in the desert there were clearly labeled "Communications on this line can and will be monitored for operational security reasons"

Well, there's many in the US Parks and Forest Service who are taking a stand. You should check in on what they are doing. Some of it is, opaque. But, they are vocal about things being done.

That said, for plain old non-civil servants, the news is covering what we are doing to resist, a little. But there's not much for the public to do, at this point. We don't really start being needed until the jackboots show up. And right now, when they are, people are doing things like building reporting systems to give location and activity info on federal operations, people are doing the Know Your Rights campaigns in immigrant communities, and people are funneling reproductive health meds to where they need to go.

Most civil servants are just rolling over, and quitting, or just doing what they are told.

A bonus?

Its impacts fertility. So, hopefully, the idiots don't reproduce, too much, or too often.

Asking the important questions!!