Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux
by riskable on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:14AM
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> I suspect our $2.5M annual cloud bill could be replaced with a Mac mini.
Ahahaha! I laughed so hard at this because at work I regularly say something like, "why do we have a 32GB VM assigned to this system which runs a microservice that would run just as fast and reliably if we used Raspberry Pi instead?"
The amount of waste in big enterprises is unreal! The reason why we use a 32GB instance is because that's the minimum we're allowed to order for the reliability category of the app!
Oh my sweet summer child. Corporations waste so much compute it’s insane. At a recent engagement I asked Claude to analyse and optimise our cloud spend. It took about a day to learn that we spend about $2.5M annually, and 95% of that is complete waste that happens because of some bad architecture decisions. Then I took the computationally expensive parts that remain and asked Claude to rewrite in rust from first principles and optimise and it made a version that runs 40x faster and uses many times less ram. I suspect our $2.5M annual cloud bill could be replaced with a Mac mini.
But the company hasn’t implemented my suggestions because it’s not my department and they told me to stop. They don’t care. I suspect most corporates are like this. A 10% performance drop is nothing to these people.