What are these random fucking websites though
Which is random? I’ve only not heard of three: Instructure, fanduel, and chime.
All the ones I’ve heard of are quite massive companies and I would assume the others are too.
FanDuel is sports betting
Well I can’t be sad that that predatory industry took a hit. Thanks for letting me know who they were. Seems betting has gotten crazy in America when I thought it wasn’t a thing outside of certain places like Atlantic city or Vegas.
Yeah, sports betting is getting legalized in more and more US states. It’s pretty crazy. During most live sports broadcasts there are tons of commercials for it and even on the stadiums there are ads on the walls.
I mean those are giant websites and organizations that exist in the mainstream, instructure is used by most schools nowadays
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Are any lemmy instances run on aws? Been getting a lot less articles last couple days
I’d be surprised if none are run in AWS.
Maybe the bots are run by AWS
Hey! Great idea! Let’s make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?
I think evil is too strong a word for Amazon, I think benzos is one of the nicer billionaires but I have heard the horror stories from Amazon warehouses.
Nice billionaire is an oxymoron.
If you are going to hate someone at least hate them for a good reason. I’m not saying he is an angel or anything, just that he is nice and has less shitty views than many of the billionaires now.
He isn’t nice! He wants to replace all staff with robots, set targets so high that people have to piss in bottles and pays minimum wage which helps him get so rich.
A nice person would have stopped longer before getting this large. He’s a monster. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but he contributes to a monstrous system.
I don’t believe that he would make people piss in bottles. I think that was probably a hit piece or something. Also replacing laborers with robots is good although capitalism and pseudo feudalism isn’t going to survive it but that’s also a good thing.
A hit piece? It’s been covered by numerous independent journalists and there is even video evidence of the crazy targets. And I know people that work for them.
I’m sorry that you have Stockholm syndrome bro, but let’s face it, you’re never going to be one of them so stop defending them.
Amazon has been known to lower prices to drive away competition and then raise prices. They’ve been shown to stock products and if that product does well they’ll make their own cheap version, undercut the original seller and when they can’t compete and the competition is gone they’ll increase the prices. They’re a predatory business at best and evil at worst. I’m happy to say I’ve not given Amazon a penny in about a decade. That’s before we even cover how they destroyed bookstores, and the shit show that is AWS.
Hmm maybe idk, I still think they are probably one of the better American companies but that’s not really saying much.
Amazon essentially killed local bookstores and then used the proceeds to become a massive megaconglomerate only challangeable by alphabet, apple, and meta in their sheer capability to control media flow.
They have spies in the form of Alexa enabled IOT devices basically everywhere. They also have the Ring camera. Recently they have stayed they will share data from Ring cameras with Palantir.
Amazon is insidious. Its evil is quiet in its spread.
The sheer size of Amazon, along with their business model, means they must employ vast swaths of people. In the US alone, over 1M people are employed by Amazon. Amazon plans to lay off half of them in the next 8 years while they shift to a robotic workforce.
These “too big to fail” companies are not evil out of some malaise for humanity. They are evil out of a cavalier disinterest in anything other than increasing the size of their hoards.
I don’t think they killed local bookstores. I think your average person is just lazy, and publishers were too greedy to allow the audiobook to be included with the purchase of a book.
The fact that they employ a million people is insane, I didn’t realize they were that large. I think laying off half the workforce to replace with robotics is not in acceptable but good. I have been working my entire life and it’s a huge waste of my life, and I look forward to robotic automation.
The thing is, you can’t stop progress just because you miss the way things were. Things are always going to progress. The future can be cool as well.
As far as benzos and stuff, maybe the Democrats shouldn’t be so shitty to everyone who is slightly different from they are. Running a business is something most people just don’t understand. The standard isn’t what you wish were true so much as it’s what you have to do in order to compete. Capitalism is a race to the bottom, the victory of the ruthless, it’s a bad game. Until we get a better economic system, we are kind of stuck with mega corporations. It’s not a choice. It’s what people vote for along with mass surveillance, and many other terrible laws. If you want to hate someone, go hate groups like focus on the family because they are the ones who ruin your society more than anyone and distract people from economic issues by getting these assholes elected who despise the idea of a social culture.
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Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on “the cloud” anyways.
Maybe it was a bad idea for society to put 90% of the internet on one company’s infrastructure.
Why does Amazon use AWS?
I thought they had an in-house solution.
A lot of AWS are wrappers over said in house solutions
And there’s a push to move off of those to proper AWS
I am grateful that my past me (from few months ago) decided to study Slavic philology, instead of getting stupid tech job. I hate modern tech, including anything from big corporations.
I am also glad that I’ve switched to Linux (Debian ftw) to escape software enshittification.
It’s not a full escape, just a path to escape.
I’d argue you cna never fully escape the problem of enshittification, unless you produce and maintain everything you use by yourself. Given how much of what we need today requires specialist labour and how impossible it is to be a specialist in everything, chances are you’d be trading enshittification for plain shit.
But using Debian at least shuts down one source of enshittification. Just because perfection can’t ever fully be attained is no reason not to try and get as close as you can.
Blah blah blah blah blah. And nothing is going to be done about it. Keep yapping. In a week no one is going to remember. By eow no one is going to remember.
Are you okay?
No.
Yes. Thank u. Totally fine
Okay friend good to hear
I’m okay to blame bozos.
Let’s take a decentralized network and centalize it! Nothing will surely go wrong.
The cloud was a scam for people with more money than sense.
Most people hosting things on the cloud, like Fediverse services, would be better off selfhosting and buying the hardware themselves.
Self hosting requires an immense amount of specialized knowledge and time…
It really doesn’t, and certainly not more than running something on AWS.
In fact, hosting on cloud infrastructure adds another layer of complexity.
I stand by my original assertion.
You’re just wrong…
I got started self-hosting last week when I got a hold of a smal Lenovo ThinkCentre. I installed Proxmox on it and if I want to self-host something I just spin up a container or virtual machine on the Proxmox system. It’s so much easier than installing self-hosted projects on bare metal. And if you want to change things around then just disable or delete the container/vm and let Proxmox stay clean. If one container breaks the rest of the system will still function.
I could easily host Lemmy from home with Proxmox and a reverse proxy with my current setup. I am not going to because I am not interested in moderating a platform and all the responsibility that comes with it, but it’s very possible to do.
Edit: the Proxmox community helper scripts makes installing most things a breeze! I use them every opportunity I get.
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
This is the first script to start with on a fresh install
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=post-pve-install
Cool?
The point was that self-hosting is not hard if you do it the right way. You claim it’s very hard and requires specialized knowledge. I don’t think it’s much different than hosting in the cloud.
I didn’t say it was “hard”. I said it requires specialized knowledge. Which it does. And which you’ve not disproven in any way.
Once could say it requires special knowledge to host a service in the cloud too. The extra step I had to take was to open port 80 and 433 on my server and install nginx to forward the traffic to the right container on my local network since I only have one public IP. It took me minimal research to figure it out.
You realize hosting on a VPS is still selfhosting? And my comment was about selfhosting?
Time for open source Amazon app alternatives to be made. Made a post on OpenSource with suggestions on how to do it and how it can help open source communities: KDE, GNU/Linux, etc can each make their own and use their profits for their own and other open source projects. A passive income if you will from making, and managing the app that displays products from various partnered stores and websites
For some context, the issue was affecting AWS or Amazon Web Services, which is hosting for those other services (or parts of them), not an amazon app issue cascading to other services.
And I don’t think an open source amazon app would work. Amazon is a lot more than just a webstore. They’ve got a massive logistics network plus warehouses and packing plants. I feel like an open source version of amazon’s store would end up avoiding the corporate shit but would have all the negatives of amazon store without many of the positives.
Not my ancestors!
Heh. Say what you will about Roblox (plenty of stuff), but seems like their infrastructure is on lock.
OOWHUUH
Diversity is a strength when things go bad.
