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> the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" I have a vague memory of once having a userscript or browser extension that replaced every inst
by b1temy 8mo ago
> the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer"
I have a vague memory of once having a userscript or browser extension that replaced every instance of the word "cloud" with "other peoples' computers". (iirc while funny, it was not practical, and I removed it).
fwiw I agree and I do not believe using "the cloud" for everything is a good idea either, I've just never heard of the word "clown" being used in this way before now.
- masto 8mo ago“Cloud to butt” was popular in the early cloud days. It went around Google internally, and caused some… interesting issues.
- ryandrake 8mo agoI remember ridiculing "cloud computing" by calling it "clown computing" decades ago. It's pretty old and well established snark-jargon, like spelling Micro$oft with a dollar sign.