June 18. 2024. I’m going to start putting dates on these posts, because I don’t know who’s hoovering them up, but you can be sure someobody is, because nothing ever disappears once it’s on the internet. There are hard drives all over the planet bulging with every piece of digital flotsam and jetsam that’s ever been posted online. In the future it won’t be possible to even look at all this stuff, you’d need several life times to go through it all, and when you were done there would be 1,000 years worth of digital garbage left. This human electronic landfill is almost as vast as the galaxy. People think stuff is going into a “cloud” in the sky somewhere but no, it’s sitting in a hard or solid state drive in a huge warehouse somewhere on earth.
It’s in the sky…..don’t ask.
If you look up “how big are cloud servers and where are they located”, you’ll get a couple of articles from two of the biggest cloud server companies Microsoft and Amazon. They won’t answer your question, instead telling you all sorts of techno babble about how they work. For example from Amazon..
“A bare-metal server (or physical server) is a box-like machine with circuits and chips, memory, storage, and CPU. It takes up physical space and requires electricity to run.
Computer talk is so dull that this page needs something interesting to look at.
In contrast, a cloud server, virtual server, cloud instance, or virtual machine (VM) is just software. But it behaves the same way as the physical machine. The cloud server also appears to any other device or connection as a physical server.”
It’s not a physical machine, it’s just software. (and it doesn’t require electricity to run? ) Really? Where does this software live? In a cloud in the sky? Microsoft says, “Cloud servers are created by using virtualization software (known as a hypervisor) to divide physical servers into multiple virtual servers. A hypervisor abstracts the server’s processing power and pools them together, creating virtual servers.” That’s not what I asked though. It’s almost as if you say that a cloud server relies on a physical piece of hardware to function is a rude question or something.
The first hard drive came into existence in 1956. It was a whopping 5 megabytes
We don’t want people to get the idea that their data and personal information is beholden to a metal box. It’s in a cloud after all. It’s like it died and went to heaven to live there for eternity. Don’t worry, it’s safe in the arms of Jesus. I’ve given up trying to establish what the hardware reqirements are, because I just keep getting the same gobbledygook about virtual this and virtual that. I’m probably stupidly asking the wrong question.
Chuck some cheese on that uncooked meat for us, will ya mate?
Speaking of which, what does Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer know about cooking? Apparently nothing. On Father’s Day he tweeted a picture of himself standing by an outdoor grill with caption, “Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years, but my daughter and her wife* just bought a house with a backyard and for the first time we’re having a barbeque with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill! Father’s Day Heaven!”
The only problem with this was that the burgers weren’t cooked, and the grill didn’t even appear to be on. The fact that there was a slice of cheese sitting on top of a raw, uncooked meat patty only compounded the failure of this message. It is worth noting that these are the same people who are deciding US and world policy that will directly affect all of us.
*it’s all starting to make sense now