Comment by liampulles
2 months ago
The lesson presented by the last few big outages is that entropy is, in fact, inescapable. The comprehensibility of a system cannot keep up with its growing and aging complexity forever. The rate of unknown unknowns will increase.
The good news is that a more decentralized internet with human brain scoped components is better for innovation, progress, and freedom anyway.
yet my dedicated server has been up since 2015 with zero downtimes
i dont think this is an entropy issue its human error bubbling up and cloudflare charges a premium for it
my faith in cloudflare is shoook for sure two major outages weeks apart ad this wont be the last
Which 2015 kernel are you running?
Why is the stability of your dedicated server a counterpoint that cloud behemoths can't keep up with their increasing entropy? Seems more like a supporting argument of OP at best, a non sequitur at worst.
Yeah, because it's not complex. It's 1 server. Get back to us when your 100k servers homelab data center that does a million different things has 10 years of uptime.
With all due respect, your dedicated server is not quite as complex as Cloudflare...
Eppur si muove. A random server serving things is exactly what the internet was supposed to be: a decentralized network of nodes.
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I'm not sure how decentralization helps though. People in a bazzar are going to care even less about sharing shadow knowledge. Linux IMO succeeds not because of the bazaar but because of Linus.
Decentralization is resilience; that's why the internet even works at all. That was the entire point of it, in fact.
You don't keep a bazaar running with shadow knowledge. Either the important things are published or it doesn't run.
What is the shadow knowledge in this case?
Also curious, since the bazaar seems to be where one acquires shadow knowledge (grey market items, support structures for unregistered people etc.). See Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong for a practical example.