it is extremely funny to me that a literal trillion dollars funnelled into a cloud provider results in more sev0 / sev1 outages per year than you'd get with a hosting provider run by a polycule out of an apartment block in rural Germany.

@gsuberland That's why you just host at the big german hosters, where the catgirls are also in charge of operations and things work :P

@gsuberland but the important thing is we can blame someone else, right?

@nigel that and put our feet up for the day when everything breaks.

@gsuberland I mean *sure* but also most tiny providers rather balk at requests like "I would like to replicate 3pb of data to you tomorrow would that be ok kthx". Nobody running tiny easily movable things is in us-east-1 anymore.

@jonty I know, I know, apples to oranges :P

@gsuberland More like grapes to moons

@jonty also yes

although on this note I recently priced up a 100PiB rack (complete with redundant head nodes) and it wasn't as ridiculous as I was expecting. within "handful of friends deciding to set up a backup provider" distance. drive density per £ has been skyrocketing.

@jonty although I suspect the real wallet-stinger would be peering somewhere that can meaningfully support such large transfers

@gsuberland Ooooh nice!

I am still a bit sad that I had to turn down the COLOSSAL TAPE ROBOT not because I didn't have a place to put it, but because they refused to give us the tapes and replacing them would have been eyewatering.

@jonty please tell me that it looked something like that scene from Hackers where they're fighting over the TV station

@gsuberland @cstross Rural Germany has maybe DSL 16000, if you’re lucky 😭

@schrotthaufen @cstross the catgirl polycule will find that one place in Meck-Pom that happens to have a fiber trunk running past it

@gsuberland @jonty truck full of disks has the highest bandwidth. Always has, always will. At that amount of data, you'd likely drive over at least the initial sync

@gsuberland Puppygirl Hacker Polycule FTW!

@m *digs through recent posts* ah, here we go

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115373068658859264

@gsuberland @jonty ehh -- at least in Europe there are some good locations. apart from some edgecases like Deutsche Telekom, it's managable.

@gsuberland I will neither confirm or deny that the main reason I wanted a tape robot was to re-enact that scene

@jonty would've been incredible

@gsuberland You say that like I've stopped trying to acquire a tape robot

@gsuberland This is your fault: https://chaos.social/@jonty/115408579704684143

@jonty someone in the extended EMF crew *must* have an in with Craig Charles, surely

@gsuberland Not that I've discovered. Robert yes, but he keeps turning us down.

@jonty ah damnit. isn't Dara Ó Briain doing the new series of Robot Wars? he's a major nerd, I'd bet he'd be an easier sell on the concept.

@gsuberland Graham how could you give me more projects like this

@jonty @gsuberland

for jonty now
one question gnaws

who knows craig charles?
(from robot wars)

@tef @gsuberland a fedi post
a reference called
you all know
it's about robot wars

@jonty @gsuberland

it might not rhyme,
the scansion's flawed

but we don't mind
on robot wars

@gsuberland that's an unfair comparison

@katzenschiff no shit lol