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Iran is doing a lot of talking and not enough acting.
What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I'm not against that...
What a time to be alive!
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I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this
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Hold on! Stop! I can only get so wet!
American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.
Iran just might save humanity.
Americans sure as hell aren't
we need to be saved from Americans. Very difficult for Americans to understand that they are now the baddies.
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stop dont come back
I would fuck things up so bad out of spite if I was Iran.
incredible how iran is more of an opposition party than the democrats. and i'm supposed to hate them?
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Oh nooo this is horrible you guys! Not Palantir!
oh no, that's so horrible... 🤣
No one I care about. Its hard to feel sorry for them since they helped make it happen.
Well...we're waiting!
I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?
They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.
I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.
It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.
The reality is that these multi region "clouds" are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.
Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I'm using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.
Everything runs on us-east-1 lol
There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)
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I'm far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.
Correct. Plus it may not be as resilient as we think. Just because they're billion dollar companies doesn't mean they don't follow the tradition of building systems with duct tape and a prayer.
In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because "they're doing nothing" is the norm.
Nowadays Engineering stuff isn't done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.
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They've already done damage to a us company. Check out Stryker and the stock price. 2 days of no production worldwide.
I hadn't heard about this
Good?
Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?
Not them, four other C-suites: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025
But I haven't heard anything else about it. They wouldn't need it for any access, either, civilians are granted access for various things all the time.
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Why bother with microslop, they just gave to be a bit patient and wait for the weekly ground zero updates 😄
Blow 'em all up
Go for it!
I think I too wanna side with iran now 🤣
Can they can start with Microslop?
“President Trump is not worried”
Welp, I’m satisfied, how about you? /s