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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by bbarnett on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:35PM (#30304303)
In terms of this discussion, stored doesn't mean on an end user device, nor in ram on servers, or temp caching, while serving content.

You guys are just playing with semantics.

In terms of this context, easiest way would be to shard db infrastructure. Not even a remotely big deal for Facebook, with their size.

Hell, they should already want this, to avoid costly, and high ping time, intercontinental links.

But oh nooos, so hard to do. Absurd.

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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by endisneigh on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:36PM (#30304328)
It’s not semantics, though. If I saved everything I ever read onto a database, indexed uniquely by website schema, how does anything change? The point is the same.
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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by bbarnett on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:44PM (#30304458)
I don't get what you are saying. DB schema is irrelevant in terms of where the database backend is stored.
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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by endisneigh on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:45PM (#30304470)
My point is I could just as well have a local database and permanently persist everything I see on the web, no? The same point applies.

Think about internet archive, BitTorrent dumps of Facebook, etc.

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