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Professionally, we are starting to see organizations becoming aware
that turning over 100% of their computing to one of the tech giants may
not be the greatest idea. They are either repatriating key workloads
or at least spreading them out across multiple providers. I'm helping
one out right now whose management basically told them "get the f**k
out of Amazon" and because the whole thing was Kubernetes based they
were able to just shuffle it around everywhere.
I am happy because the boss in my main job wanted to keep control of the main infrastructure in-house from the get go.
But then that was easy because we serve so few concurrent users.
Our company "merged" with another company, but the other company got 51% of the merge weight, then they proceeded to destroy our corporate culture and forced us to use sucky Google tools.
at least its not Microsoft tools.
Fri May 20 2022 09:50:03 PM EDT from WoodpusherOur company "merged" with another company, but the other company got 51% of the merge weight, then they proceeded to destroy our corporate culture and forced us to use sucky Google tools.
Often it has more to do with the personalities involved and how much power grabbing and empire building they're able to get away with.
Thankfully, most of those people were canned after the NEXT acquisition.
:)
Similar, and sort of hard to explain..
I was part of agency X. It did more than IT but we were the IT department.
Governor decided he didnt like that, 'centralize' IT. So the current central IT, agency Y had to absorb everyone else with a new legal charter. They basically did nothing and everyone hated to deal with them. ( they mostly did mainframe stuff, and inter-agency network and things )
Our team was the first in line to be consolidated, and we were to be the 'model' as we won awards and stuff. Within a year all our management was pushed out, the old guard pretty much took back over and made the place suck again. Never did really recover from that, and the 'old ways' still rule even 15 years later.
Google Meet does work ok, it is perhaps the least sucky Google tool. Our local office was a pit, with only one rest room per sex, there was ALWAYS somebody at the urinal next to u and frequently others waiting, so i was glad they closed that office building and declared us permanently remote, so that was a benefit of the merger. There was a time where we had themed Google Meet meetings, like 'wear purple' day, but it quickly got to the point where everybody turned off their cameras.
a time where we had themed Google Meet meetings, like 'wear purple'
day, but it quickly got to the point where everybody turned off their
"Oh, and next Friday ... is Hawaiian shirt day ... so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans."
I'm really not sure how companies that go on and on about security just blindly trust Google and Microsoft and Webex(Cisco) and the others with their communications.
You can pretty much count on the fact that both the American and Chinese governments are, absolutely, listening in.
To back up what Kitty posted earlier ... word is starting to get out that Google has begun informing small business owners that they are looking to discontinue the free tier of G Suite.
[ https://tinyurl.com/5n6ex2em ]
Can't say I'
m surprised at all, of course ... hopefully more people will return to the time-honored tradition of having your own mail server.
Nothing is really free in the long run.
Surprised they allowed it at all.
To back up what Kitty posted earlier ... word is starting to get out that Google has begun informing small business owners that they are looking to discontinue the free tier of G Suite.
[ https://tinyurl.com/5n6ex2em ]
Can't say I'
m surprised at all, of course ... hopefully more people will return to the time-honored tradition of having your own mail server.
They've also started another "anti-misinformation" campaign, suggesting that there are some actual truths on the way which they want to suppress.
Got to get ahead of the facts. Dont want the masses seeing the truth.
Tue Feb 07 2023 09:44:09 AM EST from IGnatius T FoobarThey've also started another "anti-misinformation" campaign, suggesting that there are some actual truths on the way which they want to suppress.
2023-01-02 15:40 from Nurb432
Lol Never seen this one before.
Google freaking out and doing damage control for their puppeteers?
What is going on this time? I must be missing something important.
I forget now. that was a month ago.
Tue Feb 07 2023 05:51:13 PM EST from darknetuserWhat is going on this time? I must be missing something important.
2023-02-07 23:28 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
I forget now. that was a month ago.Tue Feb 07 2023 05:51:13 PM EST from darknetuser
What is going on this time? I must be missing something important.
It's a screencap of a warning at the top of a Google search result that says "It looks like the results below are changing quickly. If this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for reliable sources to publish information." and then it suggests you either check whether sources are trusted or come back later.
I had to view the thread with the Tor browser to see the image. It might be nice if the text client would put a <image here> type note in the message so that those of us still pretending it's 1992 at least know we've missed part of the post.