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And each use case required an own alternative to be found, set up, evaluated and decided. That was just tedious because each alternative came with its own challenges.
but there were the KeePass database, OneNotes and share links.
The "cloud" is really some else's computer. By contrast, local doesn't just mean the laptop you're holding. It includes anything you own and control: PC, server, NAS.
I love the diagram :smile:
Not because I want to avoid cloud-like features, but because local gives me the same benefits without giving away control.
The costs of the cloud are big and this author relates how the HackerNews community got confrontational with him.
He switched to Hetzner, because their costs are low:
80 cores @ 3 Ghz, 128 GB of RAM and 2TB of data for 170€ a month.
In comparison, AWS costs between 2 500$ to 3 500$.
The point here is that there’s value in managing your own servers VS just accepting the cloud as a given truth.
and people trying to convince you that "the cloud" is the solution never tried alternatives.
How did we get there?
The majority of devs are clueless or have forgotten. AWS started to give credits specifically for startups only. The entry is cheap, but the costs become expensive as they grow. They are locked-in so they will struggle to migrate to another architecture.
The cloud is only an option between others. "Most businesses are and will always be small, by a simple rule of power law."
Here’s a reference point: my current two-server setup serves millions of requests a day for millions of monthly visitors.
Managing your own server is fine because there has never been a better time to get good at servers. AI are very knowledgeable on Linux.
This seems to be a new version.
Loading a ressource can deanonymise a user:
- Cloudflare CDN shares the nearest airport in its HTTP header Cf-Ray
- A favicon cache works: "Since everytime you load their site, your browser automatically downloads this favicon, this means a user from each one of this locations has visited the Namecheap.com site within the 5 minutes with the last visit from Tokyo, Japan.". So if you lead a specific content created only to target one user, you can know from which data center the content is loaded (and its nearest airport).
- As Signal uses Cloudflare caching for the attachments, the same attack can be exploited.
With an innocent-looking attachment, an attacker can deanonymize users and find their location within an approximate radius (tens of miles, depending of the datacenters).
It works only if the user clicks to download the attachment in this case.
- Push notification of Signal with an image can trigger the cache... So a 0-click exploit can exist.
If the target has push notifications enabled (which it is by default), they don't even have to open the Signal conversation for their device to download the attachment. [...]
An attacker can run this deanonymization attack any time and grab a user's current location without a single interaction.
A similar exploit can be used on Discord with custom emojis: the custom emoji is a custom content downloaded by one user.
Conclusion:
his attack can be used to track Signal accounts, correlate identities, find employees meeting with journalists and much more.
Any app using a CDN for content delivery and caching can still be vulnerable if the proper precautions aren’t taken.
AI needs power consumption to run. As there are already Google, Microsoft and Amazon conmfortably installed as cloud provider, they are waiting users to buy cloud resources for these AIs.
15 Go storage / 20 Go mail
Nua.ge serais donc une alternative à AWS pour les PME, startup, etc... ok :)
it seems that money is wasted by companies into unused cloud resources. 48% of these expenses could be useless !