Fuck the cloud (2009)
by downbad_ on 4/14/2026, 10:00:11 PM
https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
Comments
by: h4kunamata
Up to early 2000s, people would go to the internet to have fun, everything was new, it was the mass migration from analog to digital era.<p>2020s, people are going offline to have fun.<p>Homelab is becoming a thing even for people who never had experience with computer, people hosting their own documents, movies, music, backups in case things go bad.<p>Even some companies have realised the price of going cloud, some are moving back to on-prem hardware with full control.
4/14/2026, 11:51:38 PM
by: MinimalAction
I echo similar sentiments. It is high time to choose self-hosting over handing over essentials to the cloud. You don't know when it could be inaccessible due to plethora of reasons. It is just that, every time I looked into setting up a home lab, it feels cost prohibitively expensive.
4/15/2026, 12:43:50 AM
by: 440bx
As it appears to be hugged to death, archive link: <a href="https://archive.ph/qsdc3" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/qsdc3</a>
4/14/2026, 10:12:43 PM
by: philipnee
The reliability, speed and internet connectivity makes local first more appealing. Honestly - i host my own webpage, file server, and some compute locally.
4/15/2026, 12:43:27 AM
by: uriegas
The idea of offshoring computing is good. However, the cloud developed as a centralized computing platform instead of a distributed one. This has created power dynamics that harm customers. The same happened with social media, and has happened to other industries. I think it would be better for customers if there were many small cloud providers and they could easily switch between them. But even migrating from one cloud provider to another is a huge endeavor these days.
4/15/2026, 12:08:03 AM
by: rhet0rica
The title is an erroneous translation of the Japanese original; it is actually: テキストファイル好きで奇妙な帽子をかぶった男が、天気とセックスをするという計画を発表する。
4/14/2026, 11:31:05 PM
by: downbad_
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10771539">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10771539</a>
4/14/2026, 10:00:32 PM
by: josefritzishere
Resource Limit Is Reached - Hug of death
4/14/2026, 10:57:45 PM
by: furyofantares
The sequel to Kiss the sky<p>Anyway, I love how well GDPR demonstrated this:<p>> Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. They will burble about technology issues. They are fucking lying. They might go off further about business models. They are fucking stupid.
4/14/2026, 11:28:20 PM
by: markus_zhang
I think very soon we will read “Fuck AI”.
4/14/2026, 11:18:17 PM
by: ajross
Counter-take: this was almost entirely wrong, and the author should be embarassed looking back after 17 years.<p>I mean, it was 2009. How much of your personal data from then is still around on non-archival media you still control? Even among the geek set here, the answer is likely to be "almost none of it". At best it's "backed up" on media you haven't validated.<p>Or more likely, copied somewhere else to keep it secured. Like... Dropbox or Backblaze or S3 one of those, you guessed it, <i>CLOUD</i> services.<p>Likewise, do you still have your email from 2009 online in a useful form? Gmail users, many of them in this very thread, still do.
4/15/2026, 12:03:19 AM