Thankfully, my family understands that stuff on the internet is “someone else’s computer”, so it’s easy to explain why something is down - “It’s their fault”
Of course many don’t know what AWS is but honestly it isn’t that hard to explain/grasp.
I don’t repair my peers’ Windows computers, but I feel a bit of responsibility in being the one who tries to explain shit like that in understandable terms.
what’s a server?
it’s a computer in a building somewhere else.
why can’t they click around and fix it?
because there are other servers that are talking in a group and they all need to get fixed.
why would they need more? can’t they just run it all in one building?
it is in one building but the building is 20k sqft.
that’s ridiculous! how many computers do they need to run this crap. they’re just wasting taxpayers dollars. Fox news told me…
and that’s why I just say, “the internet is broken.”
I have to admit I presumed I’d be starting from a point where people know that web sites are not actually inside their devices.
Also not talking to a fox news nutjob
“Part of the internet broke. They’re working on it.”
Its amazing how little they want to know why and just want to vent their frustration at you. Laughter doesn’t calm them down but it sure makes me feel better after I’ve explained it ten times.
Really makes me try and catch myself complaining and just to stop it.
A lot of conversations revolve around ‘dont you just hate this one process, or people like x, or y never works’ and it’s always weary and exhausting, but much more so since I became the tech guy and realize how much people default to stories like that when they have nothing else to say about your profession.
If you want to say ‘ive noticed that x never seems to work properly and I’m wondering why it couldn’t be fixed with z’ and are genuinely curious I’m more than happy to problem solve and/or explain complexities, but most people never want to hear a complicated answer about systemic forces.
Imagine trying to explain this 20 or 30 years ago.
“Yeah you know that website that sells books? One of their computers crashed and took half the Internet out.”
It’s so light! https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg
Of course @ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de, the Internet doesn’t weigh anything.
AW Shit not again
I was talking with someone not particularly computer literate about AI. He was quite dismayed at how factually inaccurate it is about so many things. He asked me, as a much more computer literate person, if I could build him a different better AI system. I was like “Dude, I build websites. No.”
Sometimes I wonder how people can be so naive. Even if they don’t know just how much money is thrown at AI, just the fact that it is now in literally anything and on the news every day should be a clue that it is a huge industry. You wouldn’t expect the guy that changes your cars tires to be able to single handedly build a car that is better, faster, cheaper and more efficient than all car companies together.
AWS is that cloud everyone kept going on about before AI was the big buzzword see this is actually your fault tech
literateilliterate (Oops, auto correct) audience for putting faith in powers you couldn’t hope to understand and much less control.Hey man, the tech literate people were saying this:
It’s the VCs and the marketing people who were pushing cloud services as the next big thing.
My phone has literally the worst auto correct in the world I will blame that on the technical people but reread my comment.
Oh, yes that does change the meaning.
Me trying to figure out what goog leapis is.
Is it like Lapis lazuli?
I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?
“A Weird Symptom”
“Aliens With Shutguns”
"Aliens With Shutguns”
So thaaaaats what is in area 51… This whole time it was aliens with shotguns threatening web developers in order to keep the Internet running.
“Human! Asafum is attempting to connect to the human butt website, make it happen!”
The cloud done burst.
