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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

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  1. aenis · · focus · HN ↗
    Huh? I am using cloud compute for 15 years now, I haven't noticed anything being 'ruined' about it. You pay some people money and they run your workloads, it mostly works, same as with local compute.

    Not sure why they dramatise it so much. Want a corporate rebrand, have at it. The like changing things, I get that.

    1. hamburglar · · focus · HN ↗
      They’re talking about consumer products that are cloud-based. You buy a security camera, for example, and you find out all functionality relies on the cloud and all your data is in the cloud. When the cloud isn’t available, your product doesn’t work. When the cloud is available, it’s spying on you.

      We are talking about what the cloud means to an entirely different segment of the population to you and me.

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