• hpca01@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Funny thing I had a paranoid freakout too before I got hacked on AWS, I had bought a visa gift card and that’s what I put in as a payment card on AWS. Of course they know where I live and could still screw me, but they would have to do it on their own dime.

    They make it really hard to leave or just use a specific service only. I use them for DNS, objectively it’s supposed to be cheap AF pay yearly, but now I have to pay $2 a month just to do all the auxiliary stuff to notify me that I got hacked.

    I’m buying a server rack soon and just got a full symmetric fiber line put in so I can do my own hosting.

    • Dave.@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Everything is so intertwined, and that’s the way they like it. Do I trust some random support bot/person in Google to unhook and delete my compute account from my google identity and not accidentally trash the rest of my 15 year identity with Google/Gmail? Hell no. So my compute account still sits there idle.

      I guess it bolsters their metrics, that’s nice for them I suppose.