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minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days ago…What forces defend these datacenters? Could a platoon of motivated civilians armed with pump action shotguns carry all the RAM out of one?
minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoThey use a different kind of RAM. It’s the capacity to make RAM and the materials required to make RAM that is going to datacenters.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 days agoSo we should just straight-up vandalize them? As much property damage as possible, forget the shotguns, bring bulldozers, gasoline and road flares?
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoLemmy.world runs from a data center, and virtually all other instances
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 days agoOh no!
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoSo we would not be able to have this conversation unless something more decentralized appears
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoIt is my understanding that sh.itjust.works is hosted on hardware that is in The_Dude’s physical possession, so I think we could manage.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoExcept you would have only your server to talk with
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoOnce again I say, “Oh no!”
…What forces defend these datacenters? Could a platoon of motivated civilians armed with pump action shotguns carry all the RAM out of one?
They use a different kind of RAM.
It’s the capacity to make RAM and the materials required to make RAM that is going to datacenters.
So we should just straight-up vandalize them? As much property damage as possible, forget the shotguns, bring bulldozers, gasoline and road flares?
Lemmy.world runs from a data center, and virtually all other instances
Oh no!
Anyway…
So we would not be able to have this conversation unless something more decentralized appears
It is my understanding that sh.itjust.works is hosted on hardware that is in The_Dude’s physical possession, so I think we could manage.
Except you would have only your server to talk with
Once again I say, “Oh no!”