this also concerns the Parler/AWS saga. the hypermodernist dream of an infinitely scalable cloud is contingent on political alignment; an invisible constraint, keenly felt by those outside the lines
the future is already here, just unevenly distributed
https://thenewstack.io/why-parler-cant-rebuild-a-scalable-cloud-service-from-scratch/
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RT @pee_zombie
from a state-actor perspective private blue-teamers are arms dealers, public re…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1351778921352728576
when you do not own the physical machines you depend on for your livelihood, your lifestyle is contingent on your obedience, at the whims of a more powerful class
blinded by the sparkle of the hypermodernist promise, we eagerly disarm ourselves; it's more efficient, after all!
this power imbalance can be redressed by a resurgence of direct ownership of physical machines, colo'd in facilities which rise to meet this demand for control of one's own digital destiny. Amazon is not required to service us; let the market decide. let us go back to the metal.
@pee_zombie today I googled cybermarxism and learnt that it's actually kinda a thing.
with the mainstream able to obtain timeshares to Amazon's massive datacenters, we become easily deluded into mistaking this access for a universal utility
the unassuming term "vendor lock-in" obscures the nature of the relevant power relations, & who owns the means of production