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How The Amazon Web Hosting Crackdown Threatens Platforms like Patreon, Substack, And You: AWS threatens the economic independence of anyone who dares to have different ideas than their speech monitors.
The Federalist ^
| 09/07/2021
| Joy Pullman
Posted on 09/07/2021 9:26:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/07/2021 9:31:44 PM PDT
by
algore
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To: SeekAndFind
Every IT maven who is honest will tell you to avoid “the cloud” like the plague. It is not safe, not secure, and not reliable.
To: SeekAndFind
We are so steeped in 1984 it boggles the mind. And what ever hasn’t been assimilated in this process is going there by the hour. Wow. Didn’t really think this would happen to the mighty U.S.A in my lifetime.
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posted on
09/07/2021 9:42:38 PM PDT
by
bluejean
(Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
To: Chad C. Mulligan
When the cloud breaks and the bit flood destroys large enterprise cashflow there will be much sorrow.
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posted on
09/07/2021 9:44:44 PM PDT
by
algore
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To: SeekAndFind
I didn’t realize Substack was hosted on AWS - if so, it’s really unfortunate. Undoubtedly Amazon will attempt to impose “guidelines” restricting what heretics like Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss are allowed to say.
Oracle prolly wouldn’t mind having the business.
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posted on
09/07/2021 9:51:12 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/07/2021 10:03:39 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: SeekAndFind
I just closed my AWS account. It had been costing me $1 a month for a micro EC2 instance with RHEL. I hadn't used the VM for well over a year. My account got hijacked and I suddenly had $1200 in charges for June, $2200 for July and $718 for August. Six extra large instances of Window with SQL Server databases. I filed a complaint with AWS. It took 5 weeks to clean it up. I deleted all of the hijacker's instances, credentials and keys as well as the snapshots. That put a stop to service theft charges against my account. The final resolution was "forgiveness" of the service used in June and refunds to my credit card for July and August billing. Once resolved, I decided that closing the account was the best approach to prevent another hijack. My employer can provide secured instances on AWS if they was stuff up there. I don't want my credit on the line with the security exposure.
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posted on
09/07/2021 10:26:35 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/07/2021 10:58:53 PM PDT
by
jroehl
To: Myrddin
I've got a fully loaded Dell micro-tower that I'm installing Proxmox on. AWS-in-a-very-small-box. :)
I have to get my "fix", but I don't have to pay AWS to get it.
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posted on
09/07/2021 11:34:14 PM PDT
by
The Duke
(Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
To: SeekAndFind
Those who want to publish freely should move their pages to Russian servers - at least they still have more respect for Freedom of Speech than do the Democrats.
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posted on
09/08/2021 12:21:27 AM PDT
by
jhastey
To: SeekAndFind
Monopolies should be destroyed.
To: SeekAndFind
Needed: an a antitrust remedy.
To: algore
To: SeekAndFind
I have said since the cloud was branded: The cloud owns your data, not you. Never use the cloud as it places your business at risk. Some businesses need the cloud for good reasons but they need to leave it as soon as they can.
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posted on
09/08/2021 4:23:41 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/08/2021 4:54:49 AM PDT
by
jimjohn
(...like Donkey Kong.)
To: SeekAndFind
The left will continue to do this until someone pushes back.
Want to see the beginning of mass incarceration and population control. Look around.
Maybe the plumbers, electricians, ground crews, landscapers and domestic help of the billionaires might decide that they work for the enemy and ……nah. Never mind.
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posted on
09/08/2021 5:56:45 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes)
To: The Duke
I wanted a bit more than Dell could offer, so I built my latest from parts. The last build from 2013 was an MSI motherboard, i7-2600k, 32 GB RAM, 650 W PS, 4 TB SATAIII SSD. The new build is another MSI motherboard. This one has an i9-10850K, 64 GB RAM, 2 x 1 TB NVMe SSD, 850 W PS and a 360mm water cooler for the CPU. Plenty of horsepower. I put up a wide screen monitor that oddly caused the old i7 system to fail POST. I didn't understand the problem. Replaced the CPU with a cheap i5. Same problem. Put an old 1080P HDMI monitor on it...boots fine. Arrggg! The old BIOS has resolution limits. That even occurs through a 3rd party video card on the PCIe bus. That machine just has to live on a lower resolution monitor.
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posted on
09/08/2021 8:11:24 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: SeekAndFind
“Has no plans” is the mark of certainty that it is coming.
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