Not a gamer and only recently diving into mobile, I don't know the history of either #PSvita or #FirefoxOS
But I like open platforms and it seemed that FirefoxOS webapps offered the most open app environment possible. It seemed to me at the time that Mozilla lost their nerve and decided to pitch to India and not US or EU.
Mozilla has such a long and forked history that I felt like I was riding a roller coaster. I remember Mozilla and Mosaic since NCSA Mosaic at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1993.
Mozilla has a several decade history of in-fighting, forking, and self-sabotage.
NCSA Mosaic on a DEC Alpha running Windows NT 3.5 was my first experience in the early 90s, followed by Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Firefox, ...
And now it's dozens of Chromium as the masters of the universe, already suffering from the same history, feature creep, and bloat as the browsers that came before.
Do we need 1.2GB updates to Windows or Mac OS? Do we need annual updates to Google Docs or Word?
#Enshittification keeps people employed, even if it means your 4Ghz new hotness with RTX 4080 runs like a lukewarm turd in 5 years so it can boot Windows 2028 or Mac OS X 18.
Modern datacenters, Virtual Machines, and Kubernetes are just as much to blame.
From Sun Microsystems and Oracle insisting "The Network is the Computer" three decades ago to turning all of northern Virginia into datacenters so we can host Kubernetes and AI/ML.
#Enshittification isn't limited to consumer electronics, it also applies to macro-scale computing and datacenters.
Because if one has an accident with no withnesses or other traffic coming for minutes if not hours, chances are it's some rural road with no #GSM (or #3G / #4G / #5G reception at all...
@tayledras@noiq And yes, I think a lot of that stuff is extremely #bloated because if we need #Virtualization for seperation, there are many other options ranging from #BSD#jails to user privilegues usually [#Apache2 / #httpd runs as daemon/service under it's own user with near-zero privilegues!] and even #VMs can be done with #QEMU / #KVM more elegantly...
Seperating #Compute and #Storage does make sense - but only for medium to big businesses with their own Systems.
@tayledras@noiq Also I think that a lot of these have diminshing returns because once you can snapshot instanty, backup, restore, transfer and duplicate a VM you basically abstracted everything that's worth abstracting.
And I seriously doubt that things like #OSv really bring any advantage to the table, as they are a #VM-only OS and not like a #Linux distro with solid #LongTermSupport or something else that makes it worth the effort...
Decent video by The Hated One, but a little dated.
Hated One argues that Microsoft Azure is the only real competition to Amazon Web Services (AWS). I'd disagree. Google is holding their own with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) which I'd contend is equal in size and internet share to Azure.
All else was true. Amazon does used third-party sellers for data analysis, trends, and to poach product sales of high-demand items. Amazon also did undercut Lasership and last-mile shippers.
That doesn't mean others are less bad - I'd also not trust #AlibabaCloud for that matter and I'd even be wary about #OVH tho not because they're bad but because France has some legal issues that I want to avoid entirely.
Given how poorly PII is protected in the US, I'd rather see OVH than AWS or GCP.
GDPR is still an excellent testament and protection of privacy rights than what the US will ever agree to. Some American companies still avoid EU expansion because they want to avoid GDPR compliance.
I'm still curious about AlibabaCloud and how in-bed they are with the Chinese government. Any more or less so than AWS, Microsoft, and Google with the US government?
@tayledras@noiq As a matter of fact, I did help a fmr. client/employer to move their #Servers and #VMs inhouse again amidst escalating costs...
Turns our it's cheaper to invest 8 digits once to reduce the hosting bills from 6 to 4 digits espechally since they ain't having short-term & highly fluctuating loads that justify the cost.
I mean, I know cases where that does apply and in these cases it's worth paying €€€€ to do #livestreaming on a #CDN like #dacast / #Akamai, but that's an exception.
@noiq Personally, I think that #FirefoxOS was good per very concept.
It just so happened that @mozilla really #kneecapped it for no good reason.
People like @fuchsiii would've loved to #develop for it, but since she - and everyone else I alredy knew back then - couldn't get one officially ( or only through #scalpers and #importers that at best overcharged for the device and most likely shoved some #malware on it like it's commonplace with #ChinaImports of #Android-Devices [ask me how I know]).
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