I think the power consumption of your property and its thermal signature would be dead giveaways?

They are not. The thermal signature show you are using power. You can be running ASICs in order to train LLMs. Or you could be switching the ASICs over in your spare time to start cryptomining. And the thermal signatures don't indicate your own activity. The point is those are your own private and activities, and while they should be interested you are powering industrial-scale computing gear.. the actual Output you are getting from crunching the numbers should be irrelevent and not be a legitimate matter for government inquiry.

That would be akin to trying to permit an Industrial facility to manufacture plastic kids toys but not plastic adult toys. I.E. Massive government overreach.

On the other hand; It is understandable if the power infrrastructure cannot handle industry, and therefore All new private industrial facilities will be prohibited; based on how they are operating, and not what the data they produce is going to be used for.

What was actually damaged/destroyed

The damage was Additional revenue-generating opportunities normally enabled by AWS were lost.

For example: If because of an outage your Ecommerce website is down for an hour -- there is a certain volume of sales: Revenue opportunity: which you lose.
You calculate that loss by using past data to estimate your expected revenue during the particular hours of the day times the number of hours that you were down leading to an estimated number and dollar sales volume lost.

Given that the outage was claimed to be in Eastern US, why did I suffer multiple service outages in Idaho?

Clearly bc you used services that dependent on the affected network.

US-EAST-1 outages also have a way of cascading to the other sites, because it's the most populated region with the largest amoutn of resources.
When East-1 has issues.. the other regions will receive a huge volume of additional load. They had EC2 launch issues, and throttled ---- slowed down new launches deliberately; likely because every other customer in the US-East-1 region attempting to deploy instances into other regions due to the outage impacting their east-1 resources. This surge in activity in other regions caused by customers attempting to shift traffic around to get past East-1 outage has a chance of causing major network degradation across all regions.

the correct accusation is: "you shouldn't outsource your critical business infrastructure to a huge megacorp that can survive without you."

Perhaps you should not, but most businesses DID NOT and Will not build a resilient in-house infrastructure that provides nearly the average uptime as AWS.

For example.. 99% of companies' -- even large corporations' internal Email the whole company relies on would typically be on a single MS Exchange 2016 server. You would have a hard drive crash, and the server would be down for days while the backup restores.

Before you start complaining that companies shouldn't outsource critical business Infrastructure... I think you should take a study on what exactly that infrastructure looks like Not outsourced.

The in-house schlop is in general more susceptible to outages, but of course it has the advantrage that your outage will typically not happen at the exact same time as a thousand other corporations' outages.

The thing is it cost billions In revenue Amazon created opportunity to earn in the first place

It is not as if AWS centralization is this critical threat that caused billions in damage. They caused many billions in revenue generation which was slightly reduced during a short outage -- which is extremely minor compared to the value AWS provides. I mean a 24-hour outage is not even a concern.. come back when they have a real catastrophe and it's a major 7-day outage. Even that, quite honestly, may not be enough for projects to justify picking a different provider in the long term, however.

Then you would be wrong. Probably best to recuse yourself from weighing in on this dicsussion.

lol uh you think backup companies only have your data only in one place? This would be like you thinking your favorite pizza place doesn't know what a tomato is

Go learn about raid or something

That's not what's happening. That's never what happens. Any time someone uses an ai chat bot as part of their work, they immediately turn into drooling idiots.

Yeah, who needs a chatbot when you can make unqualified claims as statements of fact. You don't even need citations, such as the ones you're claiming (without citation) they make up. (Which just to be clear, they do, a certain amount, although a casual interpretation of your words suggests you're implying "always".)

Look, there are lots of problems with LLMs, but I find it amusing to watch people launch into "what I say is true, because I said it, and it sounds true to me" when talking about LLMs being sources of inaccurate information.

Do I think 20% of 7% of their trade surplus is a massive blow to their economy? No, I don't, because I can do basic math. The rest of your post is full of the same dumb shit you cusco of, although nobody can accuse you of not being a team player. Enjoy the ride, I guess.

"This is Chinese propaganda"

Do a quick self-learn. The amount of solar panels China was selling to the US before exports was only around 20% of their total solar module exports. Their total solar exports are only about 7% of their total intl trade surplus. They sell as much capacity to Europe in a year as the US has installed *total, nationally*.

I'm not arguing they don't care about loss of business to the US, obviously it impacts them.

But watching the US self-elect to fall farther behind, checking of boxes down a veritable "how to" list of losing US hegemony is far more valuable to them.

In that sense - maybe it is propaganda, but reverse psychology style, because you're doing the lord's work for them.

Yeah, I think they need to answer some basic questions first, like what do they see people using these phones for? If its goal is just to be able to play youtube, spotfy, etc, then whats the real point? Those are free either. Their approach with free operating systems made more sense, by focusing on free applications to replace the proprietary unix ones and someone came along and gave them a great kernel. Thats a thousand times more difficult now with phones. but ultimately phones or computers are a means to an end for most people. What is the end here?

They guy is a racist tool that is responsible for this anti pattern as much as anyone.

Its trying to implement secure storage of passwords, but in an obnoxious way. I don't want to store my passwords in kdewallet. but by default it wants to. You can disable that somehow, but the next time you update your pc it will forget it and you'll have to do it again. Worse of all, depending on your set up it can lock you out of your pc and domain controller if you don't disable it.

Sorry posted the answer in my comment, but you have to make an easy way for developers who don't care about selinux to do the easiest thing possible to support it. Only once devs care about it will it be possible to use by most end users who care about security and don't have endless free time to reconfigure their security posture at each update.

Because it was designed by NSA for use by people of similar intelligence, rather than Joe ubuntu user. That makes it awesomely powerful and kind of a pain for someone without the time and resources to properly configure it. Its been a while but I had it super locked down then I really really needed a stupid utility that was only available for snap and tried to lock it down. That was a huge pain in the ass, I did it and thought myself very smart, then an update came in and... whoosh I had another round of absolute bullshit to deal with because some devs can't freaking stick to a pattern. I saw what caused the reconfigure and just opted instead for a dedicated ubuntu pc that would deal with that bullshit on a pc I didn't give a crap about and had nothing of value in it.

So in summary Selinux is great, but not enough people care about it to keep everything working well with it. No nice utilities have been written to help app developers understand the impact of their changes.