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Cloud is not going anywhere anytime soon. Everyone screaming for self hosting is rarely people who actually run large scale infrastructure.

Cloud infrastructure is a force multiplier for any individual, team or business. Of course it has privacy, 3rd party risk and tons of other implications but waving of cloud like some self hosted devices solve everything is beyond naive.

What we need is to make cloud better, not trying to convince people that they need to become part time sysadmins herding their pet raspis at home.

The amount of cloud infrastructure and rented servers I have deployed would be insanely capex prohibitive. Also it kills half of the startups before they even start if the first thing you do is you need to buy 50k worth of hardware.

Confidential computing, ecash and removing the need for ipv4 space addressing can improve hosted compute by orders of magnitude while still providing much of the same services. The solution is forward, not backwards.
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Matt 1y ago

For the record, I happen to agree that improving cloud computing is a good idea. It can serve some people very well who might not otherwise have access to it.

But I also think we should improve self-hosting and sovereign computing for those who, like me, benefit more from computing we can fully control where possible.

It's crazy to imagine, but maybe more than one thing can be true. It could be that many will benefit from cloud computing AND many will go back to local for different benefits (they already are). My goal was to highlight my experience and thoughts on what some people may do in the future.

I'd like to make ownership of computing easier. You seem to make cloud computing easier in the current landscape. Awesome. It really isn't one or the other and that wasn't what I was trying to say.

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