Not aimed at you, but the other commenters on your comment.
There is no such thing as unskilled labor. Put a fucking normie from the street into any of these 'unskilled' jobs and find out just how many skills are needed just to do something like customer service.
Looking down on those people is what will lead to another internal conflict. They'll be the ones you depend on when society goes to shit.
A lot of restaurants place a limit on the size of the container you're allowed to use, and there's a cultural expectation that you won't loiter just to fill more soda. Assuming you bought food and are continuing to buy food, the unlimited soda is more of a hook to keep you there and has clearly outlined terms. Your bladder will also give way before your stomach does.
You're right, and it's paradoxical. Companies with poor customer service should be taking hits in the stock market and in the public eye, but Comcast is still around...
The guy in TFA should be a warning to others: you cannot trust other machines to handle your data responsibly. They'll turn on you and demand a ransom when it's convenient. Self-host, and own your infrastructure.
I make it a point to downvote people who think they are tone moderators. You could have submitted it yourself if you found it first.
I don't see how it's less of a concern that he has 200+ TB of video. Perhaps don't advertise a limited resource as unlimited; then you won't get people like this guy.
He deserves the ability to get the data off his account. Google acting like their hands are tied are simply being malicious.
Interestingly, were it trademarked you wouldn't have this snarky attitude about how a name doesn't matter unless people care about it. I'm not talking on other forums right now either, so who cares about outside of HN while talking on HN?
I don't work in the field so I can't say for certain, but AWS and friends really strike me as the type of tech you need to deploy at scale in order for their complexity to be worth the initial up-front learning cost.
Try to think of a project that either needs infra like that to get started, or another one you can deploy in a homelab or a few VPSes or something.
Maybe VMs are a good idea, to give yourself a good place to test things without committing bare metal to anything.
What software system architecture interests you? The scale you're interested in may matter, too. For me, system architecture means which distro (and which set of packages), configs, and other settings that create a cohesive server/client or groupware system. I think a lot of those challenges lay mostly in understanding how computers are being used within a given organization, and designing things in ways that make adapting easier and workflows smoother.
What that looks like, I would imagine is different for every organization.
> I think if your prior includes "trusting others is a moral and character weakness" then I don't think it's useful for us to discuss this topic further.
I agree, if you can't justify trust with reason then it's hard to trust your argument that relies on trust. Trust can be broken, and your stance doesn't address that concern.
I attempted to delete my posts and my account for you but there does not appear to be such facilities.