The sentence you quoted says “the common opinion”, and for some reason you think you’re being singled out. I was making a generic, societal argument with another poster.

I do not get why you disagree with such hostility, and take it personally.

It is fine to disagree, you know. It would be better to debate the opposing opinion instead of getting so defensive, but alas. This is getting tiring. Good day to you.

It’s not even education. Many people operate on the belief that being able to use Google and following a couple “experts” on Twitter, of both sides, automatically qualifies their opinion.

At best everyone is repeating the same propaganda talking points, whether US or Iranian (though most of us are from Western countries, so it skews heavily on one side). The Internet is an echo chamber of ill-informed opinions.

> It very much is an issue of philosophy towards wellbeing.

Exactly, it is a philosophical issue, whereas the person I was replying to was debating on the grounds of “knowledge is good”. I grew up with computers, saw the spread of the Internet but lately I cannot wonder if what we as a society, as tech workers have achieved over the past 20 years to be a net negative for humanity. I very much subscribe to the thesis that the effect of any form of technology, however small, has a radical effect on society; it profoundly changes the world in ways no one can predict, and I wonder whether the common place belief that technological research and innovation, often driven by pure greed, is not at utterly reckless and destructive philosophy.

Yet this is still a fringe position. People are starting to get disillusioned, but the common opinion is that this is good, progress is good, and the solution to the ills of society is more technology, more Internet, more data and more algorithms.

Humanity doesn’t need more knowledge, nor does it need more data and more information. In fact, I would claim this hunger for data, to know more, to measure more, to be a primary cause of the ills of modern society. We have become machines, operant and dependent on information, we forgot the human and biological dimension of our lives.

I feel there is a lot of FUD spread whenever someone moves off the cloud, with the inane comparison to the annual wage of a dedicated sysadmin, trying to discourage you from doing a “reckless” migration which will bite you in the ass, your servers will catch fire every day and that it is better to stay within the golden handcuffs of AWS and GCP.

I wonder if it’s both stockholm syndrome and learned helplessness of developers that cannot imagine having to spend a little more effort and save, like OP, 90% off their monthly bill.

Yeah sure for some use cases AWS is the market leader, but let’s not kid ourselves, 9/10 companies on AWS don’t require more than a few servers and a database.

I should go sell to an intelligence agency a malicious PDF editor that covertly shares the plain text version any time someone uses the block out tool.

There are billions of PDF files out there, but the ones are being redacted are the most valuable of the lot.