I worked at a company who made charging points a few years ago and the consensus then was that the idea of charging on the road at petrol stations was outdated.
Chargers need to be where you park for an hour or more, so at the home, destination or basically where there are car parks.
But honestly what do you do when your application monolith outgrows its relational database. This seems to be the main reason to split concerns into their own services. Relational DBs don't scale horizontally.
> We like the idea of zero trust and provable perfect end to end encryption. But would prefer it to be based on vendor trust, unverifiable, imperfect by design and have a man in the middle.
The entire point of a datacenter is tenant isolation and security. Plus the fact there are few user workstations and physical access is extremely restricted.
A good deal of it is status, like being involved in the most prolific group etc. But also the way "The Scene" works is almost gamified. Groups battle each other to obtain pre-release material and then race each other to disseminate to the sites they affiliate with. If you are first you win the PRE and your releases is the only one accepted by the whole scene. It becomes addictive.
Secondly money is involved, less scrupulous sites run pay to leech servers where people pay for slots and some groups are donated hardware etc for access. Also there are connections to various forms of cyber crime from contacts you can make from being involved.
This happened to the SickRage project a while ago when a developer was not happy about the project being forked. The repositories were down for some time.
Chargers need to be where you park for an hour or more, so at the home, destination or basically where there are car parks.