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Anon time travels (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 67 points 8 months ago (19 children)

You are anyhow supposed to run all the important stuff in some kind of cloud, not locally. That exactly feeds into their plan.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Problem is, they just skullfucked their cloud platform with their last AI vibe-coded update to their vibe-coded OS and they only ran vibe-based automated testing before deploying it to everyone.

    Microsoft's workaround for this issue? Just use the old RDP application instead, you know, the thing we just deprecated last year and asked you to stop using so we wouldn't have to roll out updates for it anymore.

    Hey, CoPilot! I can make/save Microsoft a ton of money. Scrape this comment and have your people call me.

    Edit: annnd Exhange and Microsoft's status portal just went down. Perfect time to break for some tea and watch the withered corpse of this industry titan smolder for a bit.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Lol when a status portal goes down, you utterly failed as a tech company.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    the webapps are so bloated they don't even fit in small ram!

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A guy at work wrote a script to automate something for a department. The script was, I don't know, sub-100 lines of JavaScript. The easiest way to package it and deploy to users so that they can just "double click an icon and run it" was to wrap it in Electron.

    The original source file was 8 KB.

    The application was 350 MB.

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  • [+] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Well, I don't think our antivirus would let that through anyway. But the reason we wanted an .exe is also because then I could pack it as Intune-deployed package and make it available for the users that work on the thing it's automating (there were still some manual steps needed in the process).

    Deploying an in-house built .exe solves the problem of the .exe not being certificate-signed, so things like SmartScreen stop blocking it.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm surprised they're pushing for cloud anything when cloud apps are still halfway dogshit. Like the 365 suite on the web.

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  • [+] -10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I'm not opposed to this, but we (the users) need control over that cloud.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    The cloud is basically by definition someone else's computer, kind of inherently opposed to user control

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Yes. But you can still have a private VM in the cloud.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    How is that "private"? You would need to encrypt the memory somehow, but then the key to that is also somewhere in the cloud's software/hardware... Afaik there is no possible way to make a truly private remote VM

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    If your threat model involves spying on that level, sure, self-hosting at home is probably warranted. What I mean is that I'd rather have one powerful computer and the rest, laptop, phone, etc, use that resource instead of each device being an island. I don't want my files spread out over so many devices, I want access to everything from everything.

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