I really dislike the term hyperscaler. Comes off very insincere. They came up with it themselves, didn't they? What's the official definition supposed to be now? Companies that are setting up as many GPU/TPU server clusters as possible for a demand that's yet to exist?
Hyperscale exists as a term pre-LLM-hype. It mainly exists to describe the kind of datacenteres that companies like google and amazon have been building for at least a decade now: very large, very highly integrated and customised hardware, with a focus on cloud deployment and management strategies. This is to distinguish from just a large datacenter built with commodity server parts from a set of vendors (i.e. the kinds of servers 99% of people will be able to lay their hands on. Another way to put it is that if you're not writing your own BIOS/BMC/etc, you're probably not hyperscaling).
>The term “hyperscale” first emerged in the late 1990s, heralding a paradigm shift in the world of computing. It was primarily used to describe the awe-inspiring scale and capabilities of data centers...
Except it didn't fail. You just looked at the left engine and said what if I fed it mashed potatoes instead of fuel. And then dropped the mic and left the room.
It's more like finding a way to shut down the engine but only if there was a movie in the entertainment system than was longer than 5 hours. You can't exploit it now, and probably never will, but it's a risk that's sitting there that I'm sure you agree should be fixed
You keep saying you don't mind timing and volume information known by Tailscale but much more concerningly compared to that is that they can add peers to your tailnet. In fact that's how their optional open-port scanner service discovery feature works. And even if you trust Tailscale, which I generally do, then there is the concern that they only support login through SSO via identity providers. You have to trust them as well.
I have an iPhone. I pretty much have to trust Apple. If you took that over then yes, you could screw me over pretty hard.
And yes, they could add peers to my tailnet. That’s why every time I have talked about TS I say it’s about your threat model. I’m a home user, and while I wouldn’t just open up my network, there’s nothing here that will get me in prison or dead. If I had that kind of info it would never, ever meet the internet in any form.
I would be more cautious if I ran a large multinational corporation. I don’t. I think I can trust Tailscale not to be the operators of an enormous “residential IP VPN” botnet.
In the past, Microsoft named everything ".NET" [1] or "Windows Live" [2]. And before naming everything "Copilot", Microsoft named everything "Microsoft 365" [3].
Yes and you're in a unique position to influence the internal culture. Not saying send emails to executives but talk about things during lunch with coworkers?
Microsoft Commodepilot 365 for Copilot Copilot Copilot Edition now with Copilot 365.
How incompetent must they be not to realize the Copilot brand is now beyond toxic. I wonder who came up with the Copilot name internally that they continue to triple own on that name despite really strong signals indicating it has failed.
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