| ▲ | b1temy 9 hours ago |
| Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent? Seems to me that the problem is the NAS's web interface using sentry for logging/monitoring, and part of what was logged were internal hostnames (which might be named in a way that has sensitive info, e.g, the corp-and-other-corp-merger example they gave. So it wouldn't matter that it's inaccessible in a private network, the name itself is sensitive information.). In that case, I would personally replace the operating system of the NAS with one that is free/open source that I trust and does not phone home. I suppose some form of adblocking ala PiHole or some other DNS configuration that blocks sentry calls would work too, but I would just go with using an operating system I trust. |
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| ▲ | jraph 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent? Clown is Rachel's word for (Big Tech's) cloud. |
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| ▲ | dehrmann 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | She was (or is) at Facebook, and "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there. | | |
| ▲ | jraph 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > She was (or is) at Facebook was (and she worked at Google too) > "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there. Didn't know this, interesting! | |
| ▲ | mintplant 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "Clownshoes" is common as an adjective at Mozilla. | |
| ▲ | iwontberude 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Im interested in the provenance, is it because their pasty white, red headed CEO resembles and behaves like a clown? | | |
| ▲ | Anon1096 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | No it's because lots of stuff is duct taped together and then you have tons of scripts or tooling that was someone's weekend project (to make their oncall burden easier) that they shared around. Usually there'll be a flag like --clowntown or --clowny-xyz when it's obvious to all parties involved that it's destined to destroy everything one day but YOLO (also a common one). |
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| ▲ | zombot 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good to know, I thought at first she meant the current occupant of the President's chair. |
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| ▲ | baxtr 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Anyone know how she come up with the word or why she chose it? | | | |
| ▲ | senectus1 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | amusingly its a term used by my co-workers to describe anyone thats not them. | | |
| ▲ | jraph 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh well... I suppose humility is your coworker's defining quality? :-) | | | |
| ▲ | jrflowers 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Your coworkers call you a clown? | | |
| ▲ | senectus1 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I didnt call them workmates. | | |
| ▲ | jrflowers 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Hire somebody to make balloon animals in the office for a couple hours, pay in cash, tell the balloonist that your name is [coworker’s name] |
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| ▲ | rausr 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent? The term has been in use for quite some time; It is voicing sarcastic discontent with the hyperscaler platforms _and_ their users (the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" or - more up to date - "a landlord for your data"). I'm not sure if she coined it, but if she did then good on her! Not everyone believes using "the cloud" is a good idea, and for those of us who have run their own infrastructure "on-premises" or co-located, the clown is considered suitably patronising. Just saying ;) |
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| ▲ | b1temy 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" I have a vague memory of once having a userscript or browser extension that replaced every instance of the word "cloud" with "other peoples' computers". (iirc while funny, it was not practical, and I removed it). fwiw I agree and I do not believe using "the cloud" for everything is a good idea either, I've just never heard of the word "clown" being used in this way before now. | | |
| ▲ | masto 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | “Cloud to butt” was popular in the early cloud days. It went around Google internally, and caused some… interesting issues. |
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| ▲ | user_of_the_wek an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The circus left town, but the clowns are still here. |
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| ▲ | seethishat 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Also, sometimes, we use the term 'weenie' rather than 'clown'. They are interchangeable. |
