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              • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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                4 years ago

                It was completely integrated and build around cloud services, instead of being built on the lowest common denominator.

                If you build things from an open source ground base on bare metal, you're not reliant on AWS. You can use either of literally thousands of VPS hosts, and if THAT isn't possible for some obscure reason, you can get someone to put it on their computer at home - roll your own servers.

                Whereas if you use things like Twilio, S3, Lambda and so on, you have no option outside major tech companies. But if push comes to shove, we could pay bitcoin to some shady Ukrainian or Eritrean server host to have our website hosted.

                  • read_freire [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    jokes on you the ancaps put their shit on aws

                    they save that opsec for the cp

                    that last bit started as a joke but I just realized it's not and now I'm irrationally angryrationally furious

                • MerryChristmas [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  My leftover BTC from when I used to buy semi-legal drugs on the internet has grown to a couple of hundred dollars and I am happy to contribute.

                  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    How did you buy drugs with such few bitcoin if now it's a few hundred worth?

              • read_freire [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                The cloud is just someone else's computer, but Jeff Bezos's computer is going to serve the interests of capitol on a hair-trigger when compared w/ some rando vps* provider.

                The OP link gets into how they've been dropped by everyone (including Twilio & their lawyers most likely), and that's shit opsec/using us-based services because you know that the empire tolerates fash.

                • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I'm aware, I don't really see how else you're supposed to run something like this without building your own servers. Even those other hosting platforms probably use AWS as some point. Amazon basically owns the internet at this point.

                  • read_freire [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    EC2 wasn't the first game in VPSes, and they haven't put everyone out of business.