I worked for a crypto startup for a year, mostly as a side hustle; not on there because ftx crashed and Alameda Research was an investor. 80% of us were laid off two weeks before christmas. they don't deserve a mention and i don't need the embarrassment.
for such an anti-customer change; the lack of depth in their announcement is terrifying. Perhaps their impacted customer base is so low they just don't care, but if this is all they're putting out about it shame on them. i have no horse in this race; happily existing in AWS w/o issues. :D
hope they sting him after they are done buzzing. he is not a candidate I could ever get behind. we are still dealing with the fallout of the last morally bankrupt president who is trying to run again.
i would add that this must include executives; 2 years ago we all got the same 3% while executives got 40% (while overseeing a stock drop of 65%).
one side effect though is w/o equity it's easy to feel a lack of motivation to work as hard if you get the same raise as everyone else who might not be doing great work.
keeping your servers on the public network is not a good idea for a variety of reasons such as security, cost, control, access and compliance.
AWS makes money, it's a trade off; you can just as well put up an ec2 as a nat that is able to auto scale if you need to give your servers access. or only attach one during updates, etc.
The amount of corporations and government agencies that scrape/pull/share our public data is greater than just OpenAI and M$; so get them all involved as defendants. In the US, the absent of strong data protections is a result of that dependency being influenced by business interests and will not allow such lawsuits to have a leg to stand on.
nice. I fight to keep any dev langs from being installed directly; docker keeps me from having to fight between versions. (exception: Terraform, using chtf for the win).
how nice; not liable for failures and at the same time, not subject to governments open records act. basically, can do whatever they want without any accountability or liability. just the way the framers wanted it. freedom? i think not.
I always default to "I work in IT". If that person is in the space I might go into specifics; but even then majority can't relate or understand the role i spend my days working in.
It also has the benefit of coming across as more blue collar and I catch less grief, as the disdaine for tech workers continues to grow.
