Oh god, IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!!! Another incremental ad personalization, OH THE HUMANITY!!!

Holy shit this is rage bait. What a title.

Fuck you and supporters of this shit. Fascist.

Or, and I know this is hard for all of you, not everyone has a stick up their asses and try to make it through the day with some light-hearted fun and it’s an expected feature.

Right. And Alabama and Massachusetts are basically the same place.

It’s amazing to me how folks group states together.

You’ve never wanted to put a utensil down for later use and not mess up the counter?

To signal I’m mostly done with this conversation in any sort of productive way after hearing the absurd notion that I should reference sci-fi as some prediction or validation for at best, edge cases if not entirely made up scenarios while entirely ignoring recent backlashes and legal action over the past few years where manufacturers have been told that is explicitly not okay. Event the FTC got up off their asses and did something.

Just imagine thinking a few allegories over the years which have come true isn’t an absurd survivors bias and completely ignores the mounds of trash and shit that’s great and still got it wrong is absurd.

He does. And it hasn’t impacted me in the least bit. The worst thing that might have ever happened to me is my wife gets an ad for shit I’ve searched. So is certainly not without any downsides. But they are largely outweighed by the good for most people’s use case. Most people shouldn’t and don’t give a fuck about the data tech has on them. What they should be concerned about is the government having data and a sane legal process for obtaining that data.

Cars with integrated tech are safer (assuming folks are going to cell phone either way, of course it would be better to actually ticket those folks but I digress) and improve the experience on a daily basis. That’s what the average person wants.

Oh right, because that happened with your computer that’s already following you for the past 15 years. I’ve met hundreds of people losing health insurance from the secret apps installed on phones and computers.

Y’all have to invent edge cases to make this stuff sound scary. Google has had the vast majority of everyone’s movement for the past 15 years. Every day, every meter.

Sure there are downsides that people don’t like but the vast majority of users don’t care and aren’t highly impacted.

The reality is folks want tech in their vehicles. They want it to integrate with their phones natively.

You sound a lot like Gen x and boomers on the cell phone 🤷‍♂️

I’m sure you know more than AJ on this topic 🤷‍♂️.

So exactly what everyone has been saying in the open for 5 years now. Massive government subsidies.

Here ya go

Reusable straws are gross. Unless you are taking a brush to the inside every time you’re kidding yourself.

Nah. I haven’t had a service we use miss an SLA or cost more than it’s SLO budget in 2 years.

What specific services have they missed your SLA on and what incidents were they tied to? I understand that not every team has a guy on their team to monitor that that stuff and bitch for credits, but I do, and AWS is one of our most reliable vendors.

Look the fact that AWS, Azure, and more recently Google are the only choices sucks.

But the reality is most companies and projects don’t have the business case to justify multi region fail over much less vendor fail over. They are all built on single points of failures and will always have outages.

Everyone just notices it more when it’s AWS. And that’s a stupid reason to base decisions off of. Visa/mc was working. Reddit and Facebook were mostly working once they started routing through their multi cloud nodes. Maybe you couldn’t get to your banks web app, that’s on them using a single cloud with no way to route to alternate cloud nodes and services. And for them to double at best infrastructure costs, unless they are boa Chase Morgan etc, is dumb for 99.99% which is the SLA .

The world isn’t ending, emergency services are working, visa/mc failed over, I was still on Reddit and slack most of the day. It wasn’t the end of the world.

Anyway, I now realize I have summoned my frustrations with this entire thread and gone wildly off topic and ranted with full force at you.

I just don’t think it’s important that when there is a major outage on AWS/Azure/cloud flare. It was going to happen elsewhere, and you wouldn’t have an excuse to tell your pm not my problem, instead of digging into your app for 2 hours to find out x portion of you very distributed vendor list failed and you still have a single point of failure. I’d rather be able to point to AWS, say shit is fucked for everyone, and if you want multi cloud it’s going to cost at least 1.5x as much as we’re spending 🤷‍♂️.

Yeah rack space was killing it! Sites NEVER went down, especially under dynamic load. Never.

Yup, I’m sure your bank would never go down on another provider. Never.