[21:19] AWS was partially down yesterday. This influenced not only sites like imgur and, of course, the Amazon cloud, but also messed, as I read, with Razer mice. Turns out they use cloud based drivers, which clearly does not only sound like a stupid idea. The outage also rendered "smart" lightbulbs, thermostats and the like. (Plus, which might be the funniest part of it, it even crashed the cloud dashboard.)
Sure all this tech is awesome and stuff, but apparently everyone just trusts it for good. This is dangerous. Of course, Dropbox is a great service, and Google Docs are awesome for collab, but I wouldn't rely on these apps alone. Way too careless.
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