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   lolcat (lolcat@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 16:22:36 JST lolcat

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   To me, this all amounts to en-masse institutional self lobotomization. The talent that created the collection of technologies we call the Internet were replaced by service contracts with monopolists - contracts negotiated by incompetent poseurs. The result is the complete loss of self-determination - you get what they let you have.

   The old team isn't getting back together, but efforts like Othernets might help us field the team we need now.

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     lolcat (lolcat@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 16:22:37 JST lolcat

     For at least a decade, US higher ed has been all-in on outsourcing as much IT to Google and MS as possible. It's been years since the last major US university replaced internally-operated email with one of those two.

     One of the few computer-related services not yet completely surrendered to "the cloud" is HPC, but that's not for lack of trying. Years of literally screaming lies into the faces of researchers and IT people has taken its toll - a generation quit/retired/laid off.

     alcinnz repeated this.