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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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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Sadly, there are some who don't even know it, because they're buying services from someone else that buys them from someone else that buys them from Amazon. So they're currently wondering what the fuck is even going on, since they thought they weren't using AWS.
Well those people are fucking idiots.
That's not really fair, I think. Smaller organizations are especially dispositioned here. Think small businesses, charities, local municipal services, etc. Small IT budgets, low staff (if any) and just enough to pad out a subscription cost to a service provider that fits their needs.
AWS is an incredibly low cost solution, and it's probably where most of these low cost services point themselves at when building platforms at scale. Not everyone can build and maintain a datacentre or home server for their every need.
This isn't to say that there are definitely idiots who pad their resume by chanting a prayer to SaaS and boasting about having moved their company to the "cloud" via a cheap and unreliable AWS rehoster, before failing upwards though.
Fine, most of them are fucking idiots. Know where your infrastructure is people! Whois your IP.
Do you know what power stations feed your electrical circuit? Do you know which transformers are most critical to keep you in service? Do you know who manufactured them?
Do you know where your water comes from? Which facilities treat it? How it's treated?
Can you name your senators, house rep, state senators, state rep, and local officials?
Everyone can't know everything. I doubt you do, but I wouldn't call you a fucking idiot for that. I would call you a fucking idiot for being such a small-minded asshole though. You're not the smartest person in the room, and even if you were, you still wouldn't understand how 99% of human technology works. We're in this together and we lean on each other. That's the beauty and curse of being human
Sounds like you've taken offense. Don't know who your host is huh? If you work in IT doing websites you gotta know same basics. Sorry if my statements don't align with your world view.
Did we not read the same comment? Not every service that was taken down was a website, like OP's school. Plenty of small businesses, charities or local municipal services don't have IT staff, commissioned their sites (including initialisation) and don't necessarily know that 𝑥 company they pay, pays Amazon. Or how to do a whois search. You clearly don't have a firm grasp on the realities of the world, nor work in IT "doing websites".
Holy fuck. Look people if you don't like it then fuck off. My point isnt that OP or rando schools with down services are fucking idiots. it's the people responsible to secure hosting for services - if they dont know what the fuck they are doing then they shouldnt be doing it.
Very clever and smart, clearly you have good takes on the world.
Deflecting harder than a politician.
You need to look up the word deflection. I work in cloud. None of my stuff was affected because I'm not an idiot and properly multi cloud and utilize availability zones for redundancy.