Comment by liampulles
3 hours 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
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.
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?