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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] SwallowsDick@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's negligent if a major company does host their own servers at this point. Big cloud server companies specialize in that and can do it better than others, with better guarantees of stability and maintenance. Pretty much the reason people specialize in everything else.

[–] AnObscureTenet@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What you're saying here is literally a punchline in infosec because of how many breaches are down to incompetent cloud service providers, because said cloud service providers take security about as seriously as the aforementioned c-suite does.

*EDIT No, the c-suite thing doesn't make sense. Shut up. I recast this post and removed a bit. I don't need your approval. I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS

[–] SwallowsDick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol what? Every server has down time. But the big cloud companies have actual liability for theirs

[–] AnObscureTenet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You are entirely ignorant of how anything works. There's no "liability" unless they seriously fuck a goat. Downtime is expected and, in fact, built into contracts. X amount of downtime for service, Y amount for unforeseen circumstances, Z amount for shiggles. There may be some prorating built into it, but even that will be after a certain amount of downtime.

No matter how you slice it the only reason anyone uses cloud services is to cut costs. There actual facts simply do not pan out when you're talking about security.

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

No matter how you slice it the only reason anyone uses cloud services is to cut costs.

Businesses chose cloud providers because they think that it will cut costs.

[–] SwallowsDick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those contracts are exactly what I mean. A certain, small amount of downtime is allowed for, and it's expected to be fixed shortly. If either of those things aren't true, then the business is in breach of that agreement.

Anyway no u r ignorant. Peace out

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

You will pay, sweetly, for that added uptime, however.