That's the real joke...

Let's hope you're right, but you might be underestimating the "$200 per month (robo)engineer can only do it like this, therefore this is the way to do it" factor.

If you often find yourself saying "but you didn't specify humanity must survive this!" maybe you're part of the problem ;)

I believe originally it was a name for PTSD, that's an even more curious association. In case it wasn't obvious, tortoise-related puns can be taken too far :)

Yes: shell-shock is never good, which makes "shell-shockingly good" a poor turn of phrase even in the context of terrapins.

Patrick Boyle explains: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QkuAXOMYwA4

Pick your poison, as usual, but Patrick Boyle's "How The Japanese Economic Miracle Led to Lost Decades" suggests the fall was entirely of their (Japan's) own making: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=12ddOpt7Hio

He's got plenty of videos on China too.

I recently concocted a (conspiracy) theory that relicensing of HC projects is a ploy to get IBM (or some other company happy to rain on IBM's parade) to finally make an offer. Mitchell leaving the company features in the theory as well. Basically it seems like since at least 2021 HC leadership and/or investors are exploring exit strategies that will bring in the beeeelions.

Hashicorp is a public company so the theory doesn't make much sense to me. The execs and early investors already made their money.

They've been for sale since pre-IPO. Cisco almost bought them.

That tracks. IBM acquiring Hashicorp was a persistent rumor I heard during my last year at IBM (timing was not long after the Red Hat acquisition).

When cloud was a young buzzword there was a popular test: replace "in the cloud" with "on the internet" and see if you want to continue.

- We store pictures of our kids [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all our proprietary code [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all our secrets [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all the sensitive customer information that we could be fined millions for losing [in the cloud|on the internet].

It still is a good test, but I guess this ship has sailed...

Disclaimer: Senior Cloud Engineer for a $billion+ SaaS company here

I think this argument is only valid if you would use cloud services without private networking set up. The #1 skill a company needs if it wants to leverage the cloud is network engineering/security. There are things like Azure ExpressRoute and AWS DirectConnect that give you private access to the cloud providers own backbone network infrastructure to avoid sending traffic over the public internet. And if you are worried about securing the data at rest, you have everything available to encrypt and protect it. In my experience the problem is not that "the cloud" is insecure but companies trying to avoid the extra mile to properly set up their infrastructure for the sake of saving money and efforts. Sure, the hardware is not owned by you. But why should it be? Running this stuff at hyperscale is the more efficient and ultimately secure and reliable way.

The article lists decades of breaches, leaks and neglected security.

What are you going to say, when the next breach happens, might be at AWS?

Or the Government bans private encryption?

For some reason people find it rude to take the next logical inference from evidence... I hope you're not one of them.

Fool me once, shame on .. Fool me for a decade... !

I might just move a few things to Resilio Sync and/or Cryptomator where possible, altho I wonder if you feel similarly about such quasi-replacements. I definitely need something that preserves something somewhere dynamically so I don't have the worry about data loss which would absolutely be catastrophic. Some things are impractical to constantly have to manually and consciously version control to preserve, is the way I would phrase my sentiments.

Another test I like is replacing that phrase with "someone else's laptop/computer"

Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's freudian, but email existed before Google, so did calendar. Youtube was an acquisition. Maps, well, there are great alternatives now that do not require anal-probe-level surveillance to find an address or a route.

Just publicly fund the services that are useful to people. If "government" (i.e. us) can pay for a square for people to meet at, why not "digital spaces"?

And if someone's thinking "but government will use this data to surveil people!" - this ship has sailed, they have access to everything that's not e2ee, and even that's not guaranteed.

Government is practically the only body that can be expected to follow laws and act with people's best interest in mind. Some governments even do, just need a non-dystopian one...

And yes, there's commercial space in government/local authority-operated places. That's fine, just make sure to boot those that decide to install the equivalent of cameras and microphones on their storefront.

> Youtube was an acquisition

And the relied on VC money before that. It wasn't self-sustaining financially.