MinIO is not actually open source, their source code is just public.
The company I work at spun up a MinIO instance, and we got hounded by MinIO lawyers claiming we had to pay because "hosting MinIO alters the source because of injecting configuration" and therefore violates their open source license.
There have been multiple hacker news threads about this:
The hypothesis I have is that China has way more compute resources than they are willing to share.
Compute resources they officially should not access to given export bans, where mentioning them might lead to their export ban bypass getting rolled up.
Maybe. They're under no obligation to tell the truth about this.
Hypothetical: Take a large short position on NVDA, announce the market that you trained a massive model without using 10s of millions of rare-as-hen's-teeth NVDA-sentsitive resources. Settle postition then quietly settle giant compute bill. Difficult to know either way, but the market seems have taken the team at face value. I guess we'll know if and only if this reduced training cost methodology is replicated.
It was emissions [0]. In fact, it's still being sold as a "Light Commercial Vehicle", having less strict emissions needs, under the names Jimny Pro (at least on Spain), Jimny Mata (Italy, starting to sell in the end of this month IIRC) or Jimny Horizon (Germany).
The electric model seems to be confirmed for the future, and there are rumors of a hybrid model.
I mean, after all, if you don't have your own copy of the MS Access database then when your team scales beyond about 5 people that database is going to get harder to access. So really everyone should have a copy of all important PII. :P
Only if you're willing to stake your company's digital existence on the reliability of another company's cloud service.
If anything, it increases the need for 3-2-1 backups: the original copy of all of your files are on somebody else's computer that you have no control over. Hopefully they're keeping it backed up, and hopefully they don't go belly up and pull the plug all of a sudden. So you can use a primary backup in another cloud service from another company that hopefully won't kill their product at the same time as the other one (again, you have very little knowledge or control of the way they run their data center). Ultimately, it's a good idea to have a copy of your data that you have control over, maybe in a big drive (or set of drives, tapes, etc) in the safe, rotated daily/weekly/however long your company can cope with losing in a major SHTF situation.
Excessive? Maybe. For what it's worth my shop is locally hosted with both local and cloud backups. I have never regretted having at least one backup of anything and it's saved my bacon (or my coworkers', boss', etc.) a number of times. I've been fortunate to never need to rely on a secondary backup, but I sure wouldn't bet the company on it.
I would also like to know the answer. Would it be a good idea for the company to keep _encrypted_ backups on their machines/HDDs? Not a laptop somewhere, but something just a bit more involved.
It would make sense to keep backup on hard drive stored in safe in office. Doing it weekly would be reasonable but would have to accept that going to lose a week's worth of data.
The main problem is that would outgrow single hard drive so would need NAS. Also, the transfer speed could be an issue as database gets bigger. Even if don't store all customer data, it does make sense to store all the configuration, keys, and secrets.
i think for company-critical databases, the best you can do without invoking a terrible headache for your security officer is going multi-cloud: one big tech cloud, and one smaller firm that is completely disconnected from the other one
maybe they could even use a relatively inexpensive colo/baremetal provider to simply mirror the bigtech deployment on a smaller scale (would need to be quite flexible/vendor-agnostic to make that work...)
Ah that makes more sense, I can't read. I thought that the project stopped working all together, hence the startup was finished. I didn't realize it meant that they simply lost enough customers to go under.
A company's source code is mostly valueless. A company's customer data is priceless.
As Fred Brooks said in Mythical Man-Month: Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.
The album cover for the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack has Snoopy sitting on top of a Christmas tree. I was playing the album from YouTube through the stereo and the album cover was showing on the TV to which the computer was connected.
The company I work at spun up a MinIO instance, and we got hounded by MinIO lawyers claiming we had to pay because "hosting MinIO alters the source because of injecting configuration" and therefore violates their open source license.
There have been multiple hacker news threads about this:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35328316
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148007