EffortlessGrace

And what we have foremost in common is that enemy: the <redacted>. He’s an enemy to all of us. I know some you all think that some of them aren’t enemies.

Time will tell.

Disclaimer: the following is just my opinion and not to be taken as gospel. This is not financial advice.

The hope for them is that one day, after proving their ability to suffer a boot upon their neck, they will have proved themselves as worthy to put their boot on someone’s neck.

How does one perpetuate slavery?

Turn some of the slaves into masters.

Is everyone in commercial software development finally saying, “Fuck it, we’ll run the shit ourselves”?

I’m an infrastructure and devops noob here; take my words with a grain of salt.

I need GPU clusters with ECC VRAM for research and found it’s cheaper to just have my own high-ish performance compute in my own office I paid for once than pay AWS/Azure/GCS/etc forever or at least everytime I want to train a custom DNN model. Sometimes I use Linode but it’s for monitoring. But I can run shit at will and I have data sovereignty.

Has the paradigm shifted back to developing and serving things in-house now that big tech vendor-lock/tie-ins have so many dark patterns that scalability isn’t cost-effective with them? Or is it just my own pipe dream?