Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@terminaltilt
f Bezos.
NOT ONE PERSON NEEDS AMAZON.
Divest

[simplicator@federate.social]

@terminaltilt So… terminals

[shoveltrouble@pone.social]

@terminaltilt This is possibly the worst form of censorship I can see. The chilling effect could lead to permanent enslavement. Literally creating scenarios like 1984.

[hairylarry@gamerplus.org]

@terminaltilt

The cloud is like a ministorage. You fill it up. You don't have time to take care of the stuff. You pay forever.

Any given month you might lose everything because of the vagaries of corporate assholes.

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@terminaltilt I'd sooner pay over $1,000 for RAM than rely on cloud and AI crap for my work. Ad supported corporations are NOT WELCOME to scan my raw video files that have to be redacted before publication for one thing.

I rely on a zero-rental/zero subscription model in all things electronic and would sooner edit on film and tape than use rental software. You still have to have some RAM to use that shit anyway, and a big swapfile on a fast NVME drive (which can also be your boot drive) really helps get by with small RAM.

One of my machines is a laptop with 8G RAM soldered to the board and no expansion of it but a decent AMD proc. With a swapfile it runs Kdenlive just fine for video editing. It did all my video editing on both of my last protest/direct action deployments to my old home town of Washington DC and worked fine.

Note that it would not even be POSSIBLE for me to use rental space on a server farm for video editing anyway: I don't have a landline because it is too easy to prove who owns one. Therefore I could not export that 2-10 GB of senstive raw files to Amazon or Google for editing anyway, even if I trusted those motherfuckers with files that have to be kept from cops and ICE.

They can stick "software as a service" and "cloud computing" up their ass dry with no lube! It's local or nothing for me.

I already own two good machines that are NOT overclocked to extend their lives plus a circa 2011 AMD Phenom II X4 that is entirely capable of editing 1080p video. I can outlast this AI crap on hardware I already have.

Then there's all that still-good Intel Core2 stuff probably still in offices, and THAT is more than enough computer for most people's needs and can edit video though rendering will be slow. Does Bezos have a plan to round up all of these too?

[dariozanette@mastodon.uno]

@grumble209 @terminaltilt

Yep!

https://youtu.be/rqR7z2eHOBE?si=wwZJX6SP3b5UH6rT

[subm3rge@infosec.exchange]

@terminaltilt There was an RPG game, Paranoia, that sadly is eminently quotable here:

“The Computer is your friend.”
“Trust the Computer.”
”The Computer wants you to be happy.”
”If you’re not happy, you might be used as reactor shielding.”

And some good advice, as well:
“Stay alert. Trust no one. Keep your laser handy.”

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@terminaltilt to be frank, this is nothing new. Microsoft tried to make remote software subbing for years till landing for zombie that is Office 365.

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@terminaltilt well good luck 👍🏾 no one trusts any of the vendors

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@terminaltilt
Reminds me of the old time-share computing models of the 1960s.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@terminaltilt this has been my thought for some time. The jacking up of prices being not just a market effect byproduct, but an intentional strategy to kill personal computing.

[filobus@sociale.network]

@terminaltilt and if you really have to go cloud, don't go to them, don't surrender and become their captive