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1. valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:11:51 UTC valhalla

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   • Lars Wirzenius
   • Scott
   @scott @liw if they died suddenly there would be some disruptions, but I've already changed ISP and VPS provider a few times with minimal pain for price / quality issues, I don't think it would be a problem to do so because they've become suddenly evil.
   
   Admittedly, I don't have a lot of data on the VPSs, and I don't need to provide multiple 9s of uptime (but if I did, I would be paid enough for redundancy, I hope)
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   • Scott (scott@tams.tech)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:11:54 UTC Scott

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     • Lars Wirzenius

     @liw

     - my ISP
     - my VPS provider
     - github (sure, I could use gitea, but see previous two points)
     - Backblaze

   • Lars Wirzenius (liw@toot.liw.fi)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:11:56 UTC Lars Wirzenius

     The Docker corporation deleting open source organizations from their free-of-charge service, the Docker Hub, is an example of the maxim "centralized systems are evil or vulnerable".

     In this case, the vulnerability is relying on a centralized system's willingness to continue to provide a service for free. Building on top of that was always risky.

     What other centralized systems are you relying on, ones that might go away at any point?