Notices by Domobert Dak :ubuntu: :ducc: (domodak@miniwa.moe)

@SuperSnekFriend

I "love" how the people in the comments of that tweet fall for the same fallacy with Cloudflare as they did before with U.S. presidents ( #unplugtrump - the call for digital sovereignty from the U.S. should have started after Snowden’s revelations, but instead God and his uncle just returned to "business as usual") and with Twitter, which was already a toxic place long before Musk bought it.

Edit: Let's not forget Visa, Mastercard and Paypal, which already sucked more than a decade ago and act more like mafia clans with bank licenses.

:picardfacepalm:

@p @charlie_root @mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato

I wonder if it was joke-stealin' or if it was derived independently.

I can't exclude it but I could imagine that it was derived independently.

:akko_shrug:

In German, the connection between clown and cloud even works as a pun.

"Cloud" => "geklaut" ("stolen")

"clown" => "klauen" ("to steal")

leading to puns like "Die Daten wurden gecloud."

I think there was a browser plugin at some point.

Yeah, and some Greasemonkey script(s). Leading to things like ""Other people's computers" Strife".

@mischievoustomato @charlie_root @p @mangeurdenuage

It's not stupid but the truth.

On the other hand, the term “cloud computing” is also (in a twisted way) a weird kind of IT humor when you realize that "raining down" could also be used as an analogy for the moment when the “cloud server” does eventually get hacked.

(Fun fact: On a German equivalent of bash.org was a quote where somebody quipped - roughly translated - "I love to mentally replace the word 'cloud' in texts about IT by the word 'clown'. "We are a clown-based businesss", "We store our data in the clown.")