Welcome to All Cloud, No Cattle Weekly #4.
Tech
Parler has now been booted by Amazon, Apple and Google
Even without getting into the politics of it, there’s a lot to say about the situation with Parler. On reddit and twitter, I’ve seen a lot of scaremongering about how this makes the cloud “unsuitable” for hosting websites.
The whole concept of commerce is cooperating with outside parties to build value. Whether it’s AWS, Google Cloud, or your friendly neighborhood colo facility, you have to enter into agreements with other people in order to do business, and they will have conditions as to how you can use their facilities. If you build your own data center, you have to contend with your landlord or, at the very least, the companies that provide your business with power, water, and internet access.
“The cloud” is no different.
THREAD: Now that @Amazon @awscloud has announced they will no longer host @parler_app, many have speculated that they will just “find another host.”
Here is why that’s not so simple and what it will likely mean for the app’s future. First, let’s look at where things are…
Perhaps we’re all tired of dunking on parler, but just in case you’re not, I did some investigation this evening.
tl;dr: technical clown shoes.
A great thread about the amateurism behind Parler.
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi of The Pirate Bay:
The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.
Another great thread about the amateurism behind Parler.
Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived
This is what happens when you wear technical clown shoes.
Here’s an interesting visualization I put together of the DC insurrection based on video uploads to Parler.
This is also what happens when you wear technical clown shoes.
It’s not all Parler this week. I promise…
She says it a bit tongue in cheek, but Charity Majors highlights that testing in production is required. How code runs in production is the only Truth.
This is part of the zen of testing: Our tests can only predict but cannot guarantee how things will run in production. Given the choice and a low enough cost, we’ll happily make our test environment as similar to production as makes sense.
So I’m working in understanding the Apple Silicon boot/OS provisioning process. This is all subject to change, but here are some takeaways according to my current understanding.
It turns out that the Apple Silicon Macs aren’t nearly as “locked down” as they were initially believed to be. That’s great news.
Building On-Call Culture at GitHub:
As GitHub grows in size and our product offerings grow in number and complexity, we need to constantly evolve our on-call strategy so we can continue to be the trusted home for all developers.
Grab Bag
I doubt there are many outside of Norway that know that the Norwegian pop group A-ha was critical in the introduction of electric car incentives in Norway. I certainly didn’t. Read on…
Welcome to Brexit, Ham Sandwich Edition
Dutch TV news has aired footage of customs officers confiscating ham sandwiches from drivers arriving by ferry from the UK under post-Brexit rules banning personal imports of meat and dairy products into the EU.
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“you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe …” A bemused driver with several sandwiches wrapped in tin foil asked if he could surrender the meat and keep the bread. One customs officer replied: “No, everything will be confiscated. Welcome to Brexit, sir, I’m sorry.”
Woooooof…
What Do You Think of GM’s New Logo?
Personally, I don’t think it’s terrible, but it certainly feels like a medium budget App from 2013. Not exactly the look I’d be expecting for a multi-billion dollar automotive enterprise.
Peacock is literally pricing their service based on how much of the Office you can watch what is going on
People joke about some other services doing similar things, but I think Peacock is the first to make it this explicit.