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[dead] 2 years ago

Is there any recording of this around? It sounds hilarious

Nah I better err on the side of caution with this - plenty of examples in history where life’s were utterly destroyed even though every sensible person was ok their side - snowden is just one extreme example but there are many others.

You assume the scammers want everyone to fall for this trick.

The reality is different - they leave these huge red flags so that people who aren’t very bright or careful will fall for it.

That is the same reason why scammers put spelling mistakes in emails - not because they don’t know how to use spellcheck, but because they want to filter out those who would spot these mistakes.

They want to scam careless, gullible, „stupid“ people, not someone who is careful enough to spot security red flags.

Reclaim the Stack 2 years ago

I mean this is what they recommend:

- Your current cloud / PaaS costs are north of $5,000/month - You have at least two developers who are into the idea of running Kubernetes and their own infrastructure and are willing to spend some time learning how to do so

So you will spend 150k+/year (2 senior full stake eng salaries in EU - can be much higher, esp for people up to the task) to save 60k+/y in infra costs?

Does not compute for me - is the lock-in that bad?

I understand it for very small/simple use cases - but then do you need k8s at all?

It feels like the ones who will benefit the most is orgs who spend much more on cloud costs - but they need SLAs, compliance and a dozen other enterprisy things.

So I struggle to understand who would benefit from this stack reclaim.

For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional. I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated. Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily.

I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences