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How about we start creating well optimized software again that doesn't need ridiculous amounts of compute and money?

• crazygringo 8mo ago
  If your customers want features that require compute and money, and your competitor offers them, then you don't really have a choice if you want to stay in business.
  • Juliate 8mo ago
    That's up to you (and the customers) to understand that the location where the compute/data is happening is as important a criteria to consider. As it is today.
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    • crazygringo 8mo ago
      What if your customers disagree? Businesses generally shouldn't be trying to fight ideological battles, they should just be trying to meet their customers' needs. As long as they're not doing anything immoral/illegal like engaging in discrimination or dumping toxic waste.
      • Juliate 8mo ago
        Totally. Risk = (probability of it happening) x (cost when it happens) That a man/administration decides to cut off, or take hostage, or tax, online services because they are hosted on their premises, but benefits to/operates for "once good friends but now very unfriendly, bad, incompetent, the worst people", this is definitely not a law of nature. But, that he/they decide to trigger absurd actions with long-lasting damaging consequences, while not a law of nature, that happened more often than not in the past 12 months than in the whole century before. Or, granted, maybe not "absurd", but definitely "not in line with a century of rather predictable behaviour". So... you'd be rational to consider that the risk has moved from "low" to "med high" or "high" category in a lot of areas you do not control. If the customer disagrees, fine: their business, not mine. My duty stops at notifying and documenting the risk.