tired_of_sinophobia

I don’t think revolutionary suicide is useful

They still operate on a “true believer/heretic” model

the integrations between their products are so seamless

You’re joking, right?

The actual reasons why orgs choose cloud is usually 1. Decision maker got sweet talked (interpret that however you want) by a cloud sales rep 2. Shift capex to opex and/or 3. Shift liability risk. (Bonus pt: decisionmaker needed cloud in his resume before jumping ship and moving on to their next bigger gig)

If you think third party services are being chosen for tech reasons alone you clearly don’t have experience in the sector.

I hate people exploiting the open source community but this is not the battle we need to be fighting when it comes to cloud. (Privacy and security would be a better angle.)

Source: IT worker for almost 2 decades now

I was hoping you were gonna share something every comrade can do in their day to day life. Like not buying trinkets we don’t need.

It’s always the little details you forget that getcha!

Got a source for that or just ad hominem today?

They only support democracy and self determination when they can use it to attack other countries.

It’s giving Rapunzel

Considering how many gamers would smash their pc with a hammer before installing anything that was rumored to have “cHiNeSe SpYwArE” I find it hard to think that you unironically believe what you wrote.

Could you tell what those ways are?

I lowkey look to Chinese foreign policy to improve my personal social skills. Win-win collaboration = key imho.

“settling bilateral trades in your own currencies instead of an unrelated third party’s currency is asymmetric warfare” 🙄