Post AwthcwR33s62ia2Wki by publicvoit@graz.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwqvRlhnQkGk8eYn1E by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-05T07:33:14Z
       
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       "The #cloud isn’t your friend. It’s a business. And when their business needs conflict with your data’s existence, guess which one wins?""I wasn’t alone in being targeted by AWS—especially #MENA. Hundreds of Reddit threads, websites, forums, all telling similar stories.""#AWS didn’t just delete their data; they deleted their careers."https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/Just added to my cloud collection on https://karl-voit.at/cloud/#publicvoit #Amazon
       
 (DIR) Post #AwrDYKyb0NDORShST2 by roskakori@graz.social
       2025-08-05T10:56:06Z
       
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       @publicvoit According to the AWS insider mentioned in the update to the article, the data accidentally got deleted because they tested an internal tool as dry run using the command line option `--dry` (double hyphen). Because the tool was written in Java, it expected `-dry` (single hyphen. So far, so good.But instead of failing with  an error like unknown option: --dry", the tool just ignored the option and ran in "real mode", actually deleting files instead of just reporting which files it would delete.For me, the most depressing part of the updated article is:"The developer did everything right. Java’s 1995-era parameter parsing turned a simulation into an extinction event."No, they didn't. The tool should have failed because of the unknown option.I suspect the developer chose a simplistic command line parsing because in2025, the Java standard libraries still do not include such a parser, and they did not want to complicate the build process.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwthcwR33s62ia2Wki by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-06T15:42:29Z
       
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       @ferricoxide I guess.However, my personal gut feeling is that maybe 99% of the people who think they neeeeeed to use cloud, actually don't need to use a cloud.YMMV
       
 (DIR) Post #AwtpCxjkOn7srJuRBQ by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-06T17:07:23Z
       
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       @ferricoxide Most people don't need the public cloud.The only valid reason would be a very high flexibility in scaling up and down fast and often.For anything else, a large chunk of hardware server is enough until many transactions per second. Furthermore, it simplifies the architecture big time. Meanwhile, it's cheaper as well.YMMV