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[-] weegee90@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago
[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 26 points 6 months ago

"The elders of the Internet...know my name?!"

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I remember one Christmas dinner one of my aunties asked about iCloud and how are they "storing pictures n stuff inside clouds now?" (physical clouds!)

Everyone immediately looks at me and most of them probably didn't believe me when I said it's just a marketing term for storing your data on a companies "computer"/server.

My family is mostly tech illiterate, but still call me paranoid when I tell them the actual truth behind the tech they're putting their trust in.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 55 points 6 months ago

The cloud is just someone else’s computer that you neither own nor control.

[-] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 63 points 6 months ago

Or - hear me out - or it is a bit of cotton on the end of an Ethernet cable.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

That's the stuff the elites don't want you to know

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Jokes on them, the Covenant have broken long ago

[-] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly should've replaced the fluff with quite literally someone else's computer.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago

That patch panel is a thing of beauty from the front, I'll bet it looks even better ~~walking away~~ from the back

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Not bad work, I'd use Velcro.

[-] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago

Hell no, even the servers are vaping now 😭

[-] jecht360@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Why are those patch cables so long?!

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well when you have to release a patch to a customer and they are quite far away...

(e: also I have my house networked with patch cables to every room via the attic, some are 100')

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago
[-] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago
[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

This explains a lot

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 months ago

Don't those blue cables go to various locations in the office for equipment to connect to? You don't have 20 cables leading out to the internet. The purple cables connect to the switch/router/firewall and then one (or maybe a few) connection leads out to the internet.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not the Internet, it's The Cloud.

[-] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago

Purple cables go in, blue cables go to the cloud as you can see.

this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2024
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