Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:19AM
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"Less than 100% reliability is essential for the sustainability of an off-the-grid solar system"
100% reliability is a terrible, dangerous lie.
People make mistakes.This is well and good when we are talking about entertainment and Instagram.
However we are now adding fragile Internet-connected code in critical infrastructure: cashless society means that if your bank is down, you can't get food.
All cycling stands in London need to talk to their server, and when it's down, you lost ability to get transport.
Same for public transport and Uber - if they fail in during a winter night, someone somewhere will freeze to death.
The door dialing in my house needs the internet to do IP-calling to your phone. They were digging up my street and cut the cable, and I was stuck in the cold for an hour.
This is going to spread - imagine a failure of the system managing running water, or god forbid the suer?
100% reliability is a terrible, dangerous lie.
People make mistakes.This is well and good when we are talking about entertainment and Instagram.
However we are now adding fragile Internet-connected code in critical infrastructure: cashless society means that if your bank is down, you can't get food.
All cycling stands in London need to talk to their server, and when it's down, you lost ability to get transport.
Same for public transport and Uber - if they fail in during a winter night, someone somewhere will freeze to death.
The door dialing in my house needs the internet to do IP-calling to your phone. They were digging up my street and cut the cable, and I was stuck in the cold for an hour.
This is going to spread - imagine a failure of the system managing running water, or god forbid the suer?