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> Why do so many developers and sysadmins think they're not competent for hosting services. It is a lot easier than you think, and its also fun to solve technical issues you may have.

It is a different skillset. SRE is also an under-valued/paid (unless one is in FAANGO).


It’s all downside. If nothing goes wrong, then the company feels like they’re wasting money on a salary. If things go wrong they’re all your fault.

Correct

SRE has also lost nearly all meaning at this point, and more or less is equivalent to "I run observability" (but that's a SaaS solution too).

Look the bottom of that page:

An error occurred: API rate limit already exceeded for installation ID 73591946.

Error from https://giscus.app/

Fellow says one thing and uses another.


You do prove the extreme polarized politics. For you it is AfD vs others.

In reality it is not. It is a spectrum of parties. People vote often for smaller parties in the state and larger ones in the national.


Well summarised.

Another point is (often )the apps that banks makes are 3rd party developed by outsourcing (even if within the same developed country). If someone uses some MiTM or logcat to see some traffic and publishes it then banks get bad publicity. So to prevent this the banks, devs tell anything that is not normal (i.e) non-stock ROM is bad.

FOSS is also something many app-based software devs don't like on their products. While people in cloud, infra like it the app devs like these tools while developing or building a company but not when making end resulting apps.


It would but how and who to run it? Ideally some one like Linux Foundation sits on the White house meetings or EU meetings. But they don't. Govts don't understand. I was once participating in a Youth meeting with MEPs - most of them have only iPhones. Most (not all) lawmakers live on a different planet.

Also IIRC, linux foundation etc are not interested in doing such standardisations.


You could tell this sort of insinuation to anyone. Including you.

Argument should be technical.


Insinuation? As a sw dev they don't have any agency over whether or by whom they get acquired. Their decision will be whether to leave if it's changing to the worse, and that's very much understandable (and arguably the ethical thing to do).

Do you mean like IBM takeover of RedHat?

That's a perfectly valid objection to this proposal. You only have to look at what happened to Hashicorp to see the risk.

How can anyone promise that? Will you promise to your current employer that you will never leave the job?

No, but I can promise to my current employer that me leaving my job won’t be a critical problem.

It’s less of an issue in the case of a normal job than in an open source project where often the commitment of particular founding individuals to the long-term future of the project is a big part of people’s decision to use or not use that tech in their solutions. Here, given that “Trusted computing” can potentially lock you out of devices you have bought, it’s important for people to be able to judge the risk of getting “legal ransomware”d if the trusted computing base ends up depending on a proprietary component that they can’t back out of.

That said, there is absolutely zero chance that I use this (systemd is already enough Poettering software for me in this lifetime) so I’m not personally affected either way.


Again lots of doomsayers like you said it when systemd was introduced. Nothing happened. Same with RedHat IBM takeover.

Technical arguments pave the road to hell.

Well he is called faust…

> You could tell this sort of insinuation to anyone. Including you.

Yes. You correctly stated the important point.


> Argument should be technical.

Yes. Aleksa made no technical argument.


this. Especially USA may use all those gold to build a Gold White House.

1. google can arbitrarily revoke key. Countries can revoke key.

3. Like the amazing malicious crapware from PlayStore that they allow. They don't reject that.

4. Grandma installs crap mainly from PlayStore


> like what we do on OSX.

You are on macOS. Not others. You are following Apple. We don't.


Not in EU


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