Re:Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
by Calavar on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:54PM
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It's not an insightful statement right now, but it was at the peak of cloud hype ca. 2010, when "the cloud" often used in a metaphorical sense. You'd hear things like "it's scalable because it's in the cloud" or "our clients want a cloud based solution." Replacing "the cloud" in those sorts of claims with "another person's computer" showed just how inane those claims were.
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Re:Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
by some_random on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:41AM
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No, it doesn't at all. "it's scalable because it's in the cloud" may be reductive nonsense or it could be true. It's scalable because it's on someone elses computer and in a matter of minutes it can be on one of their computers with twice the ram and vCPUs. That is a meaningful thing to say when the alternative is CAPEX heavy investment in your own infrastructure. Same with "our clients want a cloud based solution" in contrast with on-prem installs. They don't want your shitty pizza box in their closet, they want someone else to be doing the hosting.