you guys need to understand that these are the first signs of impending technological collapse.
none of the decay will be sudden, but it starts like this. issues crop up, take a bit to fix, and then they move on.
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RT @worldwise001
I’m almost certain the images on the McDonald’s kiosk are hosted in an S3 bucket in us-east
https://twitter.com/worldwise001/status/1468314462704869387
then it happens again, takes a little bit longer to fix, and a little bit longer, and so on until major internet infrastructure like AWS is down for weeks or months on end and their engineers can’t fix it in any time frame.
i have definitely argued this degenerative reality.
this eventually becomes a bronze-age style collapse, where a domino effect happens after an extended period of warning signs and everything suddenly stops.
the catalyst will coincide with loss of confidence in the efficacy of these services.
another important essay is called Our Own Tyrell Corporation. rather than plainly discussing collapse, it details the structures that concentrate the Web into the exclusive hands of few Corporations, including the pernicious ownage of the Academy: https://nicholatian.com/tyrell
my best article on this subject is called A Snapshot of Software Decline. please give it a read: https://nicholatian.com/decline