This is a really interesting read, but this dude missed a major component of best practices, which is that your architecture needs to be able to respond to a proper disaster, which includes Amazon just dropping out of the sky and nuking your entire account.

Frankly, it’s shocking that he didn’t have local copies or a home server that he kept backups too. I’ve seen some people mention that a multi-cloud architecture is hard to set up, which is true, it’s also expensive, but I don’t think it would be super hard to set up, like, a blob storage in Azure, or a Google Cloud Storage, to just keep backups of whatever you’re working on. We should always keep in mind that our accounts getting locked is always a possibility.

It’s kinda weird, normally when you hear about things like this, it’s the other way around where somebody was running a major production component on personal infrastructure and couldn’t handle the bare metal.

Archive Link: https://archive.is/vj1Xe

It took them long enough, but I suppose better late than never.

Yeah someone will host that for the right price

Do it do it do it do it

Unintentionally revolutionary, I like it.

Yeah but those services tend to care a lot less then the payment processors but the I do see your point.

For instance, it’s not as easy as you think to get a website pulled down, or to get a domain name restricted, mostly because they’re not paid for on a monthly basis, they’re paid for on a yearly basis, and sometimes they even have contracts for multi years.

Different clouds support different things, that’s why sites like Parlour still exist despite the massive amount of animosity the administrators of that site face.

Getting a hold of a global register to get them to do something about a domain name on their register, while possible, is not nearly as easy as getting hold of the payment processor.

It seems to me that if payment processing was made to be less effective by this tactic, they would have to choose less effective tactics that sites could choose to ignore. You’re right that they don’t own the hardware, but for big companies like Valve, it would be a pretty trivial setup for them especially with companies out there like open cloud.

Personally, I think these sites should do a thing with cryptocurrency so that you buy crypto with your card and then use that to buy the games. So that way the payment processor can’t get mad at you.

There are studies recently released that show that the people who are buying houses 20 years ago are the same people buying houses today. It is a zero-sum game because nobody else is able to buy a house, especially not if they’re younger.

Honestly, I can see this slapping.

Basically my journey

Bummer. Will have to go read the links

Hahah pifed wants none of that smoke. Man that’s hilarious

I went and browsed that community and it’s just full of gold.

He could be figuring stuff out but man they are abrasive.

He gonna grind through a ton of people before he figures anything out

This whole conversation is turning very stupid

Yes it is.

Unfortunately for me your about what I expected. Still fun to talk though.

Jesus fucking Christ

Holy fucking shit

There’s those catchphrases.

Fun for me to poke though

Human rights law professor and former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Juan E. Méndez, commented in April 2022: “I think this deserves an investigation. Of course, it would be a serious mistake to ignore the fact that many of the victims so far were clearly civilians, perhaps because they were Ukrainians – this is a national origin, a condition that fits into the partial definition of genocide … But that the fact that civilians are killed is not necessarily genocide”

Way to link a source that confirms that these claims have not been confirmed. It says that NGOs suspect there may be a genocide ongoing. And it’s linked to one NGO that I haven’t heard of.

You know what’s really interesting is that, when this went to the ICJ for Israel-Palestine, they almost immediately made Israel take a step back on Palestine because they were worried about their protection, but they haven’t done the same thing for Ukraine and Russia, even though they’re engaged in court in the same way, even though Russia is also accusing Ukraine of committing a Russian genocide in the Donbas region.

Right, and I said prove to me that it’s not an ISIS group.